How to get fit for your next adventure
Want to get fit for your next adventure holiday?
Susan Papazian shares 6 ways to get build your body towards peak fitness - mentally, emotionally and physically.
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Change your mind! What you see in the mirror begins as decisions you make, right in your own mind. Just as you choose to eat chips and packaged foods that wouldn’t keep a rat alive, you must choose to be healthy. In order for all or any of the following methods to work, you have to decide to do it correctly and then do it!
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Drink Plenty of Water! To keep your biochemistry working correctly, your systems of detoxification working optimally, and the rest of your body’s cells to be healthy, you need to drink at least 3% of your bodyweight in water. For example, a 100kg person (100 x 0.33) will need to drink 3.3 litres of water daily. Coffee, beer, store-bought juices, tea, milk or soda do not count toward your daily water requirements. Oh, and neither does wine!
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Eat Organic food! Did you know that you replace 2,000,000 red blood cells every second!The question is, what are you making them out of? Chemicals, pesticides, animal fats injected with growth hormones? Your liver is the main organ to process all toxins bought into your body through your food. If your liver cannot keep up with the task, these toxins are stored in your fat cells to protect your internal organs. When your fat cells are full, your body simply makes more fat! Eat as much fresh, organic and locally farmed produce as possible.
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Work hard, rest hard! Many people beat themselves to death in the gym. And of course, many people don’t do anything at all. Remember that exercise, too much and even too little is a negative stress on the body. To have a great body, to be fit and strong, means you be equally disciplined about resting as you are about exercising. Exercise is a breakdown stimulus and breakdown + breakdown = BREAKDOWN!
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Manage your stressors! As theold saying goes, don’t sweat the small stuff! Today, many people have being accustomed to being rushed, financially strapped, and maintaining destructive relationships, it becomes habitual for them. If your body shape isn’t what you want it to be, it is very important to realize that being over weight or under weight alone are stressors on the body and are indicative of a stressor the body can’t effectively handle. Avoid stressors you don’t need. Look at your relationships, look at your bills, look at your time commitments and commit yourself to eliminating anything that is not improving your quality of life. The common reason why too many people are too tired to exercise is because they are carrying their houses and cards they don’t need on their back!
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Go to bed on time! The human body is designed to rise and fall with the sun. If you stay up past 10.30 at night with any regularity, you are destined to have imbalances between your stress hormones (they will be high) and your growth and repair hormones (they will be low). To have a favourable body shape, your repair and growth hormones should be high.
