If you are stuck in a low-energy, low-vitality rut, start with the five key daily health habits I call "The NEWSS" - Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep, and Supplements. Eat real food, not junk, and take at least one good daily multi-nutrient supplement. Get at least two liters of water every day, and at least eight hours of sleep every night. And get your butt to the gym.
Yes, you have to exercise, and all that running around you do at work doesn't count (at least, not enough). Make sure you get at least three good workouts a week, and one each on six days a week is best. Give your body one day a week to rest and recover, but in the meantime, get three good cardio workouts (getting your heart-rate up to the age-appropriate aerobic level and keeping it there for 15-20 minutes) alternating with three good strength-training (weight lifting) workouts every week. It will take extra effort and energy from you at the beginning, but after a few days, you'll see that you have more energy at the end of the day than you used to have.
A few years ago, the many benefits of regular exercise were listed in the "Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health." You know you need to work out, but you might not realize all the things exercise does for you. Here are just a few: exercises lowers the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis (are you hearing your joints "creak" more than they used to?), it lowers your resting heart rate, and it reduces the circulation of triglycerides (bad stuff) in your blood.
Exercise helps boost your creativity (that's not helpful in your business, is it?), helps you resist upper respiratory tract infections, and helps preserve your lean body tissue. When you exercise, you build a higher anaerobic threshold, which means you can work out longer at a higher level before building up a significant amount of lactic acid (which makes you sore). And you know this is true: when you exercise regularly, you recover more easily from other kinds of physical exertion. There are dozens of other good reasons you can think of for applying your considerable entrepreneurial initiative to a personal exercise regimen. Do it for those reasons, and for all the reasons you can't think of. Your family, your business, and your brain will thank you.
Yes, you have to exercise, and all that running around you do at work doesn't count (at least, not enough). Make sure you get at least three good workouts a week, and one each on six days a week is best. Give your body one day a week to rest and recover, but in the meantime, get three good cardio workouts (getting your heart-rate up to the age-appropriate aerobic level and keeping it there for 15-20 minutes) alternating with three good strength-training (weight lifting) workouts every week. It will take extra effort and energy from you at the beginning, but after a few days, you'll see that you have more energy at the end of the day than you used to have.
A few years ago, the many benefits of regular exercise were listed in the "Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health." You know you need to work out, but you might not realize all the things exercise does for you. Here are just a few: exercises lowers the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis (are you hearing your joints "creak" more than they used to?), it lowers your resting heart rate, and it reduces the circulation of triglycerides (bad stuff) in your blood.
Exercise helps boost your creativity (that's not helpful in your business, is it?), helps you resist upper respiratory tract infections, and helps preserve your lean body tissue. When you exercise, you build a higher anaerobic threshold, which means you can work out longer at a higher level before building up a significant amount of lactic acid (which makes you sore). And you know this is true: when you exercise regularly, you recover more easily from other kinds of physical exertion. There are dozens of other good reasons you can think of for applying your considerable entrepreneurial initiative to a personal exercise regimen. Do it for those reasons, and for all the reasons you can't think of. Your family, your business, and your brain will thank you.
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