Fish Oil Fast Fact #6: Maximize Your Workout With Fish Oil

Most people work out to get in shape, refine their muscles or to improve their overall appearance. However, working out, when done correctly, also improves your cardiovascular health and your body’s resistance to disease and time-related decay.

Fortify your body’s defenses and dramatically increase the effectiveness of your personal workout habits with a daily dose of fish oil. This substance, which has a bad reputation from the days when children were compelled to take cod liver oil for colds, can now be neatly swallowed in the form of a dietary supplement that does not taste funny or make you “burp fish” later.

What it does do is significantly increase your body’s resistance to muscle pain, which can help you work out more effectively, and can even increase the body’s rate of development of smooth muscle cells, which is good for overall body function (Biomedecine & Pharmacotherapy, Oct. 2002, Vol 56, no 8: 365-379).

Furthermore, many serious fitness enthusiasts eat diets that are high in omega 6 fatty acid, an essential fatty acid that must be balanced by the omega 3 in fish oil in order to prevent susceptibility to everything from diabetes to clinical depression.
Make sure that your workout works out for the best by getting your daily dose of fish oil, then go hit the weights hard, knowing your muscles will respond with a “Thank you, may I have another!”

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