About every 3 months there is a new health trend in being promoted and spoken about. I hear clients, friends, and family talk about the newest latest health theme. Sometimes it’s intermittent fasting. It can be The Whole 30 Diet. Or doing the P90X or Insanity workout package. These are all great! However, what I see is there is a lot of drop off. Why? Simple answer, the 30th day hits in the Whole 30. People get hungry during intermittent fasting, so they eat when they’re supposed to fast. And, there are only 10 episodes to your exercise DVD, and then you have to repeat the same thing over again watch the same Trainer leading the exercises bounce around on the TV and tell you what to do. I’ve even heard people say they can rehearse the same lines on the Exercise DVD.
What we need is a consistent schedule in which we can exercise. I make sure I exercise at least ONCE a week. That’s 52 times a year. Unfortunately, that’s more than what half of the nation is doing currently.
A critically important component of maintaining Health and Wellness is adhering to a weekly exercise Routine. This means participating at least once per week in a form of physical actively involving stressing the body through a mode of exercise.
We’ve heard repeatedly that exercise is the key to longevity in life. The fountain of youth. While it’s true that a body in motion stays in motion, what is the most important is ensuring that we perform some form of resistance training or strength training throughout the week. Strength training and resistance training can take many different forms. A lot of the times when I speak with clients, I hear that resistance training and strength training revolve strictly around going to the gym and utilizing either weight machines, dumbbells, or barbells. While this is true to some degree, resistance training and strength training come in various forms. Exercise modes such as Yoga, Pilates, Isometrics, Group Fitness Classes, Spinning Classes, running, and other recreational activities will fall within the category of resistance training and strength training.
Every day physical activities such as yard work, housework, or some other projects such as painting that leaves your muscles feeling sore is a form of physical activity. At the same time, this is not a form of “training” to enhance the body. Chores are work are “work”, not “training.” Focusing on a form of training that enhances the musculature of the body is what will elicit critically important benefits in helping the body stay stronger and healthier for a longer period of time. For instance, when going to a one-hour yoga class, you are putting the body in positions that you normally don’t find yourself in your everyday life. Holding a Downward Dog or Pigeon pose stresses the muscles of the triceps, shoulders, hips and core muscles. Looking at another common exercise technique such as the Push-Up, we don’t find ourselves belly down on the ground posting up with straight arms and fully extended legs. The position of the Push Up will put stress on the Triceps, Shoulder, Hips and core as well. Sounds familiar to those Yoga exercises, right? While these are not common positions we find ourselves in our everyday lives, these positions will train us to be stronger so we can perform chores without feeling beat up by the end our tasks because our muscles can endure more and our body is more durable! It is the productive stress that we are putting on our muscles throughout exercise training that will cause an adaptation in strength to our bodies when we perform a form of Resistance Training. Doing this once a week will make us stronger!
The important take-home message here is that it’s important to refine our physical well-being by challenging the muscles in a different form of resistance and strength training. A challenging the body in these different forms of resistance training, we will Alyssa and adaptation that will improve our strength, hormone concentration, and overall emotional well-being as well. They structured and standardized exercise routine will help to act not only as a Improvement for our overall well-being, but as a enhancer for our physical, emotional, and mental well-being!
If you have any questions about what an easy method of Resistance Training might be and how it could help you, please don’t hesitate to reach out and ask us at napatenacious@gmail.com or call us at 707-287-2727.
