Level Above Health and Fitness

Vietnam shenanigans.

35 hours spent on planes, buses and cars within 8 days and as someone who moves often you really feel the difference it makes in terms of pain symptoms, fatigue and tightness. Walking, stretching and purposeful resistance training makes such a difference.

We also take for granted our clean air, water and access to quality health care and gym facilities. We really should make no excuses to look after ourselves.

In saying that we are a product of our consistent habits. It takes a minimum of 3 weeks of sedentary living (basically lying/sitting all day) before you even start to loose any muscle mass. You can deviate from your training/nutrition/sleep habits for a period of time and be sweet. If you grow a tree and it’s matured it can weather a storm pretty well.

Back to work and keen for it!

A perspective you can take is that injuries and pain are just feedback. It’s determining what’s the best response to that feedback in order to illicit the change you want that’s important to learn.

Some people have the same ongoing injury. They don’t change their environment. They don’t change their habits or their beliefs around their injury and are surprised when their pain/strength doesn’t change. This is especially the case with chronic pain and conditions.

Injuries and pain could just be your body trying to show you some love and lead you in the right direction to better manage it. Sometimes we just have to be open to listening and change. The injury/pain could just be contributing to your personal journey aimed at finding out more about yourself. That’s where pain can become exciting and not just doom and gloom.

Consistent effort will lead to massive results. Just trust the process. You’ll learn more along the way and you WILL improve but you have to give it some!

Always be able to partake. That’s longevity.

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Exercise enhances sleep. Sleep will improve your workouts. Continue cycle for a better quality of life.

High blood pressure is a major risk factor and is largely preventable through lifestyle changes. This includes regular exercise.

At higher levels of high blood pressure there are more signs and symptoms to watch out for to ensure exercise is safe. Medication is usually the first call to action in this case.

This doesn’t mean exercise doesn’t still work wonders but early prevention is key. Just another reason to stay active!

As trainers and health professionals we often focus on optimising client workouts to help them progress. As essential as it is there are another 23+ hours of the day.

Increasing your activity levels outside of intentional workouts is so important for reducing weight gain, improving cardiovascular health, reducing stiffness and pain and even improving mental health.

Some strategies to up your daily step count:

- Walk with friends (socialise while being active).
- Walk with pets.
- Walk while taking phone calls.
- Listen to podcasts while walking.
- Walk 10 minutes after eating (assists with digestion as well).
- Walk in nature/off road to make it more interesting.
- Plan your upcoming week in your head while going for a walk.
- Practice meditation.
- Implement a walking desk.
- Study/watch tv while on a treadmill.

Walking can seem like a low return and time consuming activity but it’s the consistency of movement that serves us so well. Be smart with it and multitask while you walk. Your body will thank you for it!

Diabetes is on the rise and you can use exercise as prevention and to better manage diabetes.

We need to move more. It’s a forgotten way of life.