Posted by Andy
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:41:00 GMT
I won’t get too deep and spiritual on you but this is really important.
Try not to judge your health by the size of your biceps or how skinny your waist is. Body builders and cat walk models are amongst the unhealthiest groups of people in the world and are not what you should aspire towards. Instead try to become more aware of your physiological indicators.
How well do you sleep at night? As a general rule, people who exercise regularly and eat well sleep a lot better then sedentary junk food eaters.
How laboured is your breathing when you walk up stairs? It is not normal/healthy to be gasping for air after 2 flights of stairs. It might be time to get more active if this is you.
Do you find you are often tired during the day? If so this could be due to lack of sleep at night, poor diet, poor fitness, or most likely a combination of the three.
It is fine to keep track of external measurements such as your weight and waist measurement but remember that these are not the most important indicators of health. A quick fact to drive the message home – fit, active, overweight people have a lower incidence of heart disease then sedentary, unfit, thin people. Your inner health and fitness is more important then your outer appearance.
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Posted by Andy
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:42:00 GMT
The title of this blog is not, or at least should not be regarded as oxymoronic.
We have unfortunately created an image of exercise as something that we all dread and herin lies one of the biggest contibutors to our highly sedentary lifestyles. About two years ago, having been exercising formally 5-6 days a week for over 20 years, I decided that I was no longer going to dread each exercise session, and count every second until the session was over. I decided instead, that I actually enjoyed the feeling of getting my heart and muscles working and that exercise was my favourite part of the day. Just like when I decided to give up my childhood belief that I didnt like fish the switch was instant.
There are millions of people out there who enjoy exercise, and through feeling guilty that we are not one of them, we sadly label them ‘health freaks’. Everyone knows the phrase "the power of positive thinking". It’s about time we aplied it to exercise and joined the millions who already enjoy exercise. If everyone was more positive about exercise then a lot of our health issues would be instantly resolved.
As I will continue to harp on about, the easiest way to start enjoying exercise is to create meaningful Goals and a clear Exercise Plan.
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Posted by Andy
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:24:00 GMT
The Naked Trainer has recieved a super positive write up in the NZ Herald Online talking about the positive goals that we are trying to achieve, and the potential of the site. The writer also gets pretty amped about the ’Gimme20’ group. Check it out on the following link, under the article titled ‘Drop and Gimme20’.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/index.cfm?c_id=363
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