It’s really important to practice sports and work out on a regular basis. However, there’re a few smart steps that can help you boost your metabolism and make your exercise even more effective.

1. Start your morning with two glasses of ice water 

Wake your body up by drinking water in the morning before you take shower and breakfast. Drink a one or two glasses of ice-cold water if you want to jump-start your whole organism. If you drink water in the morning, you’ll help your body shunt liquids from internal organs to the peripheral muscles. Your blood will start flowing and pumping – this is the process that boosts your metabolism. Water is equal to life and without it we cannot survive. Why should you drink cold water? Well, as a matter of fact, cold water makes your body burn more calories to warm it to normal body temperature. On average, you’ll increase your metabolism by around fifty calories a day even when you’re at rest.

2. Practice “contrast” showers

A contrast shower starts with warm water. You let yourself enjoy the warm water for 2 or 3 minutes and then switch the water to cooler water for half a minute. A contrast shower relaxes blood vessels when the water is warm. When the water is cool, they contract. That’s how you ‘train’ your blood vessels and body’s circulatory system in general. After a contrast shower you will sleep much better and, if taken in the morning, charge you with energy plus increase your metabolism.