Smoking and Exercise

Smoking has a harmful effect on the performance level of fitness professionals. The prejudicial cigarette chemicals cause various organs to breakdown.The effects of smoking are:

• Damage to your respiratory system, which reduces your fitness level and decrease the amount of oxygen absorbed by the blood
• The heart of a smoker beats 30% faster, due to the stimulating effect of nicotine
• It takes away from that extra rep or extra time on the treadmill
• Smoking causes chronic swelling in the mucous membrane
• Cigarettes contains tar which adds on to the airways and also interferes with the cleansing of the lungs
• Smoking also kills cells which produces testosterone (Men be careful, we need testosterone

 Tip: If your trying to get fit, then the cigarettes you must quit. It"s a big contradiction