28th Nov 2024
The definition of Adrenalin
Adrenaline makes your heart beat faster and your lungs breathe more efficiently. It causes your blood vessels to send more blood to your brain and muscles, increases your blood pressure, makes your brain more alert, and raises blood sugar levels to give you energy.
Sound familiar?
All of those benefits come through exercising, the great news too is that there is no crash like after alcohol or fast food/high sugar foods. No hangovers, no depressing thoughts the next day, no energy levels on the floor.
Most of you will think much more clearly after exercise, you will make better decisions, take more ambitious projects on in life and live life with optimism, hope and a strong sense of wellbeing every day.
Adrenaline is something we all need in our lives and when we do it through exercise, you have all the positives with none of the negatives associated with doing it all the wrong way.
28th Nov 2024
We are right in the deep freeze, the deep darkness, the deepest wet period of the year. It’s much easier to stay in bed an hour later, it’s much easier to stay in the warm, it’s much easier to put things off until after Christmas.
Having one week off is easy, extending that to one off is very easy, after all “you deserve it”! Easier to start eating mince pies early, drink a little bit a little bit more often. Wear baggy jumpers and clothes, after all, they will cover everything well “until I start back and eat right again”.
After many years of doing this, I see the pattern on the aftermath.
Lots of colds etc around at the moment due to the time of year, but the less you exercise, the less you eat well and the less fresh air you get, the more likely you are to catch the cold as your immune system will naturally dip as you aren’t protecting it so much anymore, ask your doctor if that’s true?
When you don’t move as much, you don’t get out as much, your mental health will naturally dip as we need human contact and to see people, we need stimulation and we need to laugh regularly.
Then we arrive at Christmas feeling a little worse off, cold’s lingering and we don’t do much to boost our immune systems.
27th December Beechams powders, Anadin and all the cold/flu tablet companies are in full force, they often take full page ads out and plaster the shops with their banners, they KNOW you will be struggling.
Then the New year you are dying to feel better, shed the weight and lift your energy levels, but you lack motivation because you don’t feel well, you have zero energy and your immune system is so low, everything is “too much of an effort”.
Those who have lost their health have told me over the years they would give all their money away just to get their health BACK, to feel better and feel “like they used to” again.
This time of year tricks you into feeling worse, into doing less, and without knowing, letting your immune system go downhill fast, so far you struggle to get back going at all, which is only the beginning of a slippery stone that leads to more pain in your body, zero energy and poor mental health.
There is an alternative, you keep on moving every day, you keep getting fresh air every day, you keep eating health 80% of the time and still have the occasional treat, and you keep having human contact daily to keep your mind active and your spirits up-the true formula to feeling better, having fun and living a much higher quality of life.