In previous two sections of this article you have 6 tips related to what women who train need to do to keep their skin in fine form. Here are 6 more, the last. 13. Washing your face isn't enough, use the 3Step action. You have to cleanse, hydrate and exfoliate. Only by removing the dead surface cells, properly cleansing the remaining layers of skin and hydrating them with a good moisturizer and/or spray mister will you be doing the job necessary. 14. Cleanse before workouts. Always go to the gym with squeaky clean skin. That way, you will have "clean" sweat after a workout and if you can't get to a sink or clean the face for a few hours, the residue will be less damaging. 15. Start now. Begin a skincare plan now. No matter how young you are or how great your skin looks this minute, aging and damage is inevitable and you can start now to head it off as much as possible. 16. Water. Drink 8-10 glasses a day. When you train hard you lose even more of it through sweating and exertion than the average person. If you don't put enough into your body, your skin can't find enough to fill out and plump the cells. 17. No picking! Frequent breakouts are not uncommon in people who train regularly. We often spend a lot of time with sweat and bacteria on our face. This causes pimples. The temptation is to pick them away, but what we often get instead is scarring. So hands off. Have a series of deep cleansing facials or treatment for the problem. 18. Forget what you think you know. Many ideas of skin care are about of a glob of cream being rubbed around on the face and then wiped off. That might have been true years ago, but we're no longer in the epidermal dark ages. The technology is there just as it is in liposuction, brain surgery and other medical disciplines. We can do so much now with the super new products and techniques available. If you haven't had a facial in the past few years, get one. You'll be surprised. |
