Move Your Body, FEel Alive
If you’re not doing some form of stress management, you will sabotage all of your best efforts with diet, exercise, and supplements.
If your physician or other healthcare provider says you must reduce your stress, ask what methods they recommend. Perhaps they’ve heard of heart rate variability, Valerie is certified in Heart Math and has an active practice particularly with referrals from doctors. Christopher’s holistic life coach training mentorship is a natural for stress relief, be it situational or life stress.
The benefits of exercise
We all know we should— why don’t we? Or we do, but without a plan or guidance, or do too much.
Exercise
When it comes to exercise, listen to your body.
Exercise is a form of stress. In appropriate amounts, it’s a positive stressor: it promotes healthy adaptations that make the body stronger and more resilient. In inappropriate amounts, it is maladaptive: it breaks the body down and increases the risk of disease.
Exercise and Overdoing It/Overtraining
Overtraining is common amongst people trying to lose weight or get fit fast, to their detriment. It’s also an issue for high-level athletes and CrossFit enthusiasts.
Signs of overdoing it/overtraining include difficulty recovering from workouts, a plateau or decrease in performance, fat gain despite regular exercise, insomnia, restlessness, anxiety, fatigue, muscle or joint pain, frequent illness and depression.