How Important Is A Regular Exercise Schedule?
If you want to be successful and finally stick with your exercise regimen, one technique that can help is a regular exercise schedule. How many times have you had a busy day and decided you’d go workout later, only to end the day without ever making it to the gym? That’s what happens when you decide you’ll find the time later, rather than putting it on your schedule and making your workout a specific time. It makes working out a low priority, when it should be at the top of your list.
You schedule a visit to the doctor.
There’s a lot of reasons for scheduling. Just like any doctor’s visit, you work around that appointment when you’re adding other things to your schedule. Exercising on a regular basis can actually reduce the number of doctor visits later and keep you healthier. It can help regulate your blood pressure, reduce the potential for insulin resistance and ultimately for diabetes, reduce stress and boost your immune system. Those are some pretty impressive health benefits and that’s just a few of the many.
When you schedule your workout, you tend to increase your commitment.
Scheduling your workout and consistently following through makes it a routine part of the day. Imagine how you’d feel if you left the house without brushing your teeth, washing your face or putting on your make-up. It gives you that nagging feeling something is amiss, since it’s ingrained in your daily routine. That provides a routine and most people function better with a routine.
You’ll develop a more balanced routine and include rest days.
When you have a workout scheduled regularly, you’ll be more likely to create a schedule that either includes alternating days for various muscle groups, such as leg day or upper body day, or varying the type of exercise, such as strength building one day, with endurance training another. You’ll also ensure you have a balance of physical activity, taking a day to rest between workouts. You might exercise daily, but alternate between a tough workout at the gym and walking.
- When you go to the gym at a specific time, you’re more apt to workout with the same people each time. That can give it a social aspect that not only makes it more fun, improves your potential for going.
- Scheduling your workout leads to tracking your workout. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just noting the number of reps and sets you did or the amount of weight lifted gives you a better idea of your progress.
- When you schedule your workouts, you’ll make it even easier to go. If you pack a lunch for work the night before, you’ll pack your gym clothes for the next day. It helps you prepare better for the day.
- Adding your workout to your schedule makes it important to you. Just the act of scheduling places a certain amount of importance to any act.
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Food journaling is nothing more than writing down information about what you eat and when you eat. It can reveal a lot of information that might otherwise be missed. How often do you mindlessly eat something, barely being aware that you put it in your mouth or felt sick or bloated frequently? Food journaling can not only help you count calories, but also tell you when you eat the most and based on how you do it, the stimulus that made you overeat.
Do you want to eat healthier, but also want to save money? Consider opting for in-season fruits and vegetables. In fact, you can probably get many of these from local farmers and benefit yourself, but also your local economy. No matter what season you choose, there’s something delicious and healthy being grown in Irvine, CA. Some food, like beets and cabbage, are in season in all months. Beets are especially good for you and some people call them superfood, because of all the nutrients. Both are inexpensive and provide a great start to many tasty dishes.
Do you grab some carryout at noon or rush to the local food vendor? That can get expensive for both your health and your pocketbook. There’s a lot of reasons to eat healthier, but often people think that’s too expensive. They’re wrong, you can save money by packing a lunch and making that food healthy. When you pack a lunch, you have control over the food you take and the ingredients in it. Whether you’re creating a sack lunch for children or taking your lunch to work, there are healthy options.
Whether you have your own personal crisis in Irvine, CA, or a nationwide crisis like the pandemic, one thing is certain, staying healthy will help you navigate the pitfalls more successfully. Some common effects on stress include chest pain, stomach problems, headache, fatigue and a lowered immune system. It can cause lack of motivation, restlessness, anxiety or depression and lead to heavy alcohol or drug misuse, social isolation or even overeating. You can see why avoiding stress is part of staying healthy.
You may know that a healthy breakfast will get you off to a good start, but taking the time to make it doesn’t quite fit in your schedule. Well here’s a great idea. Make those breakfasts ahead and even eat them on the run. It’s time to bypass that donut and get some healthy meals to start the day, without taking a lot of time for preparation. Here are some easy breakfast sandwiches you can freeze and eat later. Just prep them on the weekend and enjoy them the entire week.
What is your BMI—body mass index? It’s just one measure of your health. It uses both height and weight to calculate a number that is used with a chart to predict your overall health and whether you’re underweight or overweight. It replaced those charts that used to show the ideal weight and gave a better picture of your overall health that’s expressed with just one number. For example, if you’re a woman who is 5’6″ and you weighed 120 pounds, you’d be on the low end of normal. If you lost six pounds, you’d be underweight. You’d have to gain 35 pounds to inch your way into overweight. There are several online BMI calculators that you can use.
What does the food you put in your mouth have to do with your brain and mood? It seems there are nutrition and mental health connections that scientists are now starting to investigate. These studies are deemed nutritional psychiatry. It only makes sense that if a chemical can alter behavior, via a pill, then why wouldn’t the chemicals in some foods do the same? Just like any other organ of the body, the brain needs fuel and it’s now more apparent that the right fuel can help improve your overall health.
When you hear about people eating beans, do you envision a lone cowpoke, sitting by the campfire, a destitute person, scraping the bottom of the can for just a little more to eat or a grand dinner with beans as its main entry. Most people don’t envision the last one. That’s because beans are so inexpensive and also a good reason to add them to your diet, particularly if you’re suffering from diabetes. Not only are they packed with protein, they also contain many other nutrients necessary for good health.
I get confessions from a lot of clients in Irvine, CA, about their addiction to chocolate. Some hide it in secret places in their home, like the freezer or the sock drawer. If you’re a secret chocolate chomper, there’s good news. Dark chocolate is actually healthy. There are limitations. Don’t get a share size dark chocolate candy bar and eat it all yourself…or any large candy bar, for that matter. There are also only certain types of chocolate that are healthy. The serving size should be between 30 and 60 grams a day. Since each dark chocolate Hershey’s mini bar weighs about 8.6 grams, that’s about 5 a day.