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6 Foundations of Optimal Health
Have you had a great summer? Too good perhaps? Well, here is the perfect starting point to get back in shape;
1. Positive Thoughts
Thoughts travel to every cell in the body. Thoughts create you, so have positive ones!
2. Breathing
When you are relaxing take long, slow, deep breaths. Short shallow breaths stimulate the sympathetic nervous system which triggers the release of stress hormones increasing your heart rate and blood pressure while decreasing your digestion and repair processes.
3. Drink water
1% dehydration will negatively affect your performance at work, in the home and at the gym. Your target should be to drink your body weight in kg x 0.033 in litres. Example: (70kg x 0.033) = 2.3litres of water
4. Exercise, Movement
We spend on average 80’000 hours sitting during our working life. Humans are not designed to sit. You don’t have to go to the gym 5 nights a week, just move more. Take the stairs, park your car at the furthest point from the door of your work or the shops, take a 10 minute walk at lunch – Move!
5. Eat
Whatever you eat is what your body has to rebuild, energise, repair and make you function. If your builder used poor quality cement to build your house it is not going to last long. Your body needs quality building blocks
6. Sleep
Our bodies are linked into the circadian cycle. Between 10pm and 2pm your body is repairing and recovering physically and from 2am until 6am it is repairing and regenerating psychologically. Give your body a chance . . . . get to bed.
Posted on: 2009-08-251. Positive Thoughts
Thoughts travel to every cell in the body. Thoughts create you, so have positive ones!
2. Breathing
When you are relaxing take long, slow, deep breaths. Short shallow breaths stimulate the sympathetic nervous system which triggers the release of stress hormones increasing your heart rate and blood pressure while decreasing your digestion and repair processes.
3. Drink water
1% dehydration will negatively affect your performance at work, in the home and at the gym. Your target should be to drink your body weight in kg x 0.033 in litres. Example: (70kg x 0.033) = 2.3litres of water
4. Exercise, Movement
We spend on average 80’000 hours sitting during our working life. Humans are not designed to sit. You don’t have to go to the gym 5 nights a week, just move more. Take the stairs, park your car at the furthest point from the door of your work or the shops, take a 10 minute walk at lunch – Move!
5. Eat
Whatever you eat is what your body has to rebuild, energise, repair and make you function. If your builder used poor quality cement to build your house it is not going to last long. Your body needs quality building blocks
6. Sleep
Our bodies are linked into the circadian cycle. Between 10pm and 2pm your body is repairing and recovering physically and from 2am until 6am it is repairing and regenerating psychologically. Give your body a chance . . . . get to bed.
