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Have you ever noticed that sometimes the longer you sit working on a project on your computer, the harder it becomes to stay focused? Your mind slowly but surely gets fuzzier as the hours click by. Sure, part of it is fatigue, but it is more than that. Your brain’s fuel reserves are running low. That’s what this article is about… How to fill up the tank.
The Single Most Important Ingredient
To keep your brain healthy you need to keep it active and expose it to all kinds of wondrous things. New ideas, culture, problems, games, stimulating conversations. Give it things that make you laugh, things that make you cry, things that scare the crap out of you, and things that make you stretch your mind. There are an unlimited number of things that you can do to keep the old grey matter from turning into a dried up old prune. But we’re missing something here.
None of that will mean squat without one simple ingredient. It’s a simple thing. It’s easy to get. It costs you nothing. Yet, without it you literally cannot survive. What is it?
Oxygen!
To be able to function on any level, you, and your brain, needs oxygen. Now, if you just sit on your big fat hairy butt all day long, yes, your brain is getting oxygen. But only enough to keep you out of the morgue. Those headaches you have? Your inability to focus on something for any length of time? That fuzziness? Difficulty in making decisions? Do you know what all that really is? It is your brain telling you that it needs more of it’s primary fuel… It is craving oxygen and you are not listening!
Filling Up The Tank
So how do you go about giving your brain more oxygen? Take a deep breath in? Well, yeah, that will work, but only until you next breathe out. No, to increase the oxygen getting to your brain you need to get more oxygen into your blood stream. You do that through exercise. Specifically, aerobic exercise.
Aerobic exercise is all about getting your heart rate up for extended periods of time. At its core it is exercising your ticker. Of course other parts of you benefit as well, but it is your heart that will get stronger and more efficient at pumping that red stuff around your body. And that red stuff is doing what? It is delivering oxygen to all parts of your body. And… Your brain gets a good dose of it too.
That oxygen is coming from your lungs, of course. So it, too, needs to be strong and healthy to keep up with demand. Luckily that same aerobic exercise you’ve been doing for your heart is also helping your lungs. It becomes healthier, stronger, and a lot better at what it does.
Aerobic exercise is so good for your entire circulatory system that it will even go so far as to create new blood vessels so more oxygen can get to more parts of your body. Not only are you filling up the tank, you are making the tank bigger!
How Much
Part of aerobic exercise is endurance, so the benefits only come into play if you do enough of it. And what is enough, you ask? 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days per week (I’ll let you have weekends off). You can’t fit 30 minutes of exercise into your day? Well, ignoring for a moment that I don’t believe you and you shouldn’t believe you either, how about 15 minutes, twice a day, 5 days a week? That’s easy. I wouldn’t chop it down any further than that though, otherwise you’d not be getting the endurance side of things happening.
That’s how much aerobic exercise you should be doing each week. Lets now look at how hard you should be pushing yourself.
How Hard
You’re not exercising aerobically until you get your heart rate up to about 70% to 80% of its maximum (and keep it there for an extended time). So it varies greatly depending on your current fitness levels and age. The following infographic (Tristan! Look, ma! I’m using an infographic) shows the heart rates you should be hitting.
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So, a 20 year old, for example would be looking to get their heart rate up to 140 to 160 beats per minute. A 40 year old… 126 to 144 bpm, and a 65 year old should strive for 109 to 124 bpm.
In case you’re not very good at taking your own pulse, or if you don’t have a sexy little gadget to tell you how fast your heart is beating, then a general rule of thumb is: Aerobic exercise should make you sweat, but you should still be able to carry on with a conversation (not that anyone will want to talk to you because you’re all sweaty and smell).
See Your Doctor And Start Small
If you are just starting out and it has been a while since you last did any sort of exercise you absolutely must see your doctor first. Tell your doc what you want to work up to (30 minutes a day, 5 days a week) and have him (or her) give you a thorough check up. Make sure that they test your heart under stress.
Your doctor is also a good person to ask about what sort of exercises you could do (and how to do them), they’d probably even help you put together a complete exercise programme, or at least introduce you to someone that can.
For now, forget about heart rates and the 30 minutes a day hoohar. Go for a 10 minute walk at a comfortable pace. Try to do that a couple of times per week. Increase that to 20 minutes and then 30 minutes as soon as you can, but keep the pace comfortable. Increase the frequency to 5 days per week, and gradually bring the pace up. By now your walk is a jog, and before you know it, you’re starting to sweat. 
It Doesn’t Happen Over Night
You won’t notice any results or benefits from your exercising for a little while, so you have to hang in there and keep at it. This is a life time thing after all. But I promise that you will start feeling improvement after only a few short weeks. You’ll also be amazed at how exercising your body has nice affects on things like your emotions and stress levels.
Keep your body healthy and exercise it regularly. Your brain will love you for it and will show its appreciation by working better for you.
Till next time…
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I love this topic Steve. Personally, every night, about 930pm, I get on my elliptical and then hop in the sauna. After this is done, my mind and body are alive and well, and that’s when I usually write my blogs(as I will be doing tonight).
When it comes down to it, exercise is an absolute imperative to anything my mind is able to produce.
Thanks for the read Steve!
Marcus
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Hey Marcus!
Excellent! Glad you enjoyed this article, mate. Oh, and I’m soooo jealous of your sauna. Closing the bathroom window and running the hot water for a while is the best I can do.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Marcus. Much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Steve
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Yo Steve,
Great post, I love it. My offline business is personal training so this is right down my street. I love how you included Oxygen as the basic ingredient, I cant believe how few people see the benefits of breathing properly. Its for free and its great for you. Suck it in!!!!!
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Hey Ryan!
I think those people don’t see the benefits because it is such a basic and primal thing. They simply never think about it. Maybe we should take it away from them for a few seconds and see if they can find some new-found appreciation?
Thanks for commenting, mate. Glad you enjoyed this one.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hey Steve,
I admit that it makes a lot of sense, the way that you put it, that bloggers can benefit greatly from aerobic exercise. Maybe I’ll make it a point to try to fit in 30 minutes of it before I sit down to write.
There’s dancing, jogging, and speedwalking for beginners. After that, there’s jump rope, bicying, and swimming. Maybe I should look for a place to swim, and take my laptop with me after I leave.
Things to consider. Thanks!
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Hi Trey!
Welcome to one of my little patches of this Internet thingy. It’s really great to have you here, mate.
You’ve mentioned some great things that you can do for exercise there. Swimming is especially good for 2 reasons. First you have to breathe correctly, and secondly because it is a zero impact activity which means that your joints and feet hold up a lot better.
Thanks so much for taking the time to swing by and leave a comment, Trey. I really appreciate that and I hope you’ll visit again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Funny you mentioned exercise cause I actually just finished doing a workout. Thanks for the tips!
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haha, cool! I guess I’m preachin’ to the choir then for you, mate.
Thanks for stopping by, Edwin. Always a pleasure!
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hi Steve
I’ve noticed since I have been blogging seriously (about 6 months now) I am doing a lot of sitting around!
Sure, my fingers are getting plenty of exercise with all the commenting I do lol But other things have gone by the way of the Swannie. I am wanting to get a bike when finances permit.
I walk each day but there is still not the impetus to get out there for longer…especially while this hot weather persists. We are even getting the humidity at the moment. It’s like being in the tropics lol
Love the graphics Steve…..very impressive. And a good reminder of what we should be doing….even if we are not
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Patricia!
Hey, how about a spin bike (exercise bike that goes nowhere while you pedal like mad). Just think about it for a minute… you could park it in front of your computer, strap your keyboard to the handlebars and do your commenting while you are getting a great workout.
We’re actually having a fairly mild summer over on my side of Oz. I just wish it’d stop raining, I’m really bad at building arks.
Glad you liked the infographic, but I hope you don’t think I made it. Found that on wikipedia.
Thanks for taking the time to visit, Patricia. That means so much to me.
Kind regards,
Steve
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And there I was thinking you were being like Tristan lol Still you had the good sense to find the appropriate infographics so I’m still impressed lol
Between you and Alex Whalley I do have a good laugh
Us Aussies do have a unique sense of humour eh?!
The floods are terrible aren’t they. We are having hot & humid here! Still better than northern Queensland. And now up north of WA is having storms too.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Haha! Maybe I should have shut-up about the graphic, you could have gone on thinking I was awesome.
There’s no flooding where I am, but I’ve heard that the area of land in Queensland currently flooded is larger than all of NSW. That’s a LOT of wet stuff!
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Good one, Steve.
I am happy to report that I do exercise 5 days a week to ensure my butt isn’t “big fat and hairy”.
I never thought about the oxygen to the brain part of it though, so that was nice to read about.
Thanks,
Peggy
P.S. Nice graph! Tristan will be proud…
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Hi Peggy!
You’ll be very happy to hear that I was NOT thinking of you when I wrote of fat hairy butts
Thanks for taking the time to swing by and comment, Peggy. Very much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Steve
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LMBFHAO!
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This is now my new favourite acronym.
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Wow Steve, I thought you had lost your head for a moment when I saw that image.
Oxygen, eh? Is that the reason we yarn, so that we take in gulps of oxygen?
Now in all seriousness, this is very interesting and helpful. Quite timely too, since lots of folks, including me, are stepping up their games now to get off to a healthier start in 2011.
You really raise a great point about folks like us who sit at keyboards for long periods of time. I do get up, stretch and all of that but that’s not enough to get that additional burst of oxygen.
Great tips, thanks for the post!
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Hi Jimi!
That’s OK, mate, some days I certainly feel like that guy in the image.
It’s really important to get regular exercise that gets your heart pumping. Nobody wants to turn into a computer potato (the blogging equivalent of a couch potato).
I’m really happy you enjoyed this article, Jimi, thanks so much for stopping by.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hey Steve,
I had a laugh at the beginning with the “hairy…” and oxygen. I had an image in my head and it wasn’t a nice one, lol.
Then I saw the image with exercise zones and had a bad flashback (graduated from Sports University so you can imagine how much of that thing I had to learn).
You scare me, man! Next time I read a post of yours I am going to do it after an hour or exercise, followed by a long walk and oxygen refill.
Just jokin’, I loved the post, wish more people exercised.
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Hi Brankica!
What can I say? I like to draw multiple and varied emotions out of my readers…
Hmm, not sure if exercise just before reading my articles would make them any easier to read, but perhaps a good stiff drink… lol
Glad you enjoyed this article, Brankica, and I’m sorry about digging up bad university memories.
Thanks ever so much for taking the time to swing by and comment, Brankica. It’s always a pleasure to have you here.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I use to love Aerobic exercise . Sadly due to some health problems I won’t be doing any Aerobic exercise.
Heck I’m tired just reading this post Steve.
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Hi Rose!
Great to see you back again. Wow, it’s been so long since you were last here that I had to dig you out of my Akismet spam folder.
See your doctor and make him/her tell you what exercises you can do. Short of being confined to an iron lung, anyone can, and should, do aerobic exercise. You just might need to take some care with it. Be sensible with it, seek professional advice and instruction, and you’ll be fine.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I would bet people will start feeling the effects not in a few weeks but rather a few days. Aerobic exercise (any exercise really) will really help dust out the cob webs and help get you thinking more clearly. Of course, that isn’t the only benefit of exercise! And aerobic exercise isn’t the only form that can help – you can use resistance training and do it aerobically too. It’s called bodyweight cardio or metabolic resistance training. Gives people other options in case aerobic exercise isn’t possible for whatever reasons. Cool Steve!
As for specific exercises, there are so many! For actual aerobics, I love treadmill intervals, riding the bike, swimming, and even walking the dog.
I also love burpees and kettlebell swings for metabolic resistance training.
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Hi Susan!
Welcome to one of my little pieces of the Internet. It is wonderful to have you here!
Yeah, you’re right, the benefits would be felt sooner than a few weeks, but for someone who hasn’t exercised at all in 20 or 30 years, it might take a little while before you saw them as benefits, lol
One of the great things about aerobics is that, as you mentioned, pretty much any exercise can be done aerobically. Get your heart rate up, keep it up, and bam! You’re doing aerobics, baby! What I had hoped to show in this article is that there are more benefits to exercise than a thinner waistline, stronger muscles, more endurance. That it even helps your thought processes and concentration. Dare I say it… exercise makes you smarter. Hmm, wonder why that doesn’t include footballers?
Love your ideas for aerobic exercises, Susan. I’m right with you on the biking, dog walking, and swimming (swimming is one of the best cardio workouts you can do), but you can keep the treadmill. I find that the scenery gets a bit boring after about 5 minutes.
Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and leave a great comment, Susan. I really appreciate that. Hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Great article Steve, but you are preaching to the converted. I’ve been addicted to running for 23 years now.
I love it. Makes me feel good, keeps me fit and thin, I can eat and drink as much as I like without putting on weight…….There’s no downside! Why doesn’t everyone do it?
Anyone can find time. I run at 6.3am Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays with a friend. We go for a 7 mile run through the countryside see the morning stars, dawn and quite a few animals who weren’t expecting us.
I run 6 days a week, sometimes twice a day, always having one day a week to rest. I’m ‘resting’ now. I only ran 30 miles this week. I am running the Gloucester Marathon Sunday 23rd April and aiming for a time of 3 hours 4 minutes. Not bad for a 56 year old.
Sorry, I got carried away. But as you can guess I DO Love running.
John
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Hang on, lemme do the math here… addicted to running for 23 years, and 56 years old now. So you only started running when you were in your thirties? That’s awesome! Usually when you find somebody so into running that they say they’re addicted, they’ve been doing it for their entire life, since childhood.
Thanks so much for popping in again, mate. It’s always a pleasure.
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Hi Steve, This post is very timely. It’s just what I need. For four nights in a row I’m having middle insomnia and I felt like a zombie. I know that feeling of headache that tells me my brain lacks oxygen. Your post is spot on. I have not been doing any exercise lately (because of the weather, work, and the woman thing) Well, of course I could have taken control of them but instead I let them take control of me.
Anyway, thanks for sharing such an insightful post. It’s truly a gem never to be taken for granted.
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Hi Anne!
Welcome to my little patch of the blogosphere. It’s great to have you here.
Thank you for taking the time to stop and leave a comment. I’m really happy that you enjoyed the article.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hello Steve
I’m 22 years old and I never work out. I’m slim by nature and I don’t put on weight not matter what and how much I eat. But I really want to get into shape, but I’m to damn lazy, I always find something else “better” to do, like working, sleeping or watching a movie.
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Hi Roshan!
Welcome to my little patch of the blogosphere. It is really great to have you here!
Haha! I was exactly like you when I was your age. My Mum used to say that I’d have to run around in the shower to get wet I was that skinny. Then I turned 40, ’nuff said.
All I can say to you, Roshan, is that you should put effort into making being active a habit so that later in life it won’t be so much of a PITA to get active.
Thanks for taking the time to swing by and comment. I really appreciate that and hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I felt very very tired since the start of the year. I really don’t know why. Stress has always been there. What I’m planning to do now is to do some activities outdoors like playing any sports or exercise to at least maintain a healthy condition. I’m not getting any younger anyway.
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Hi Samantha!
That’s great that you are planning on getting out and getting more active. One thing you will find will happen pretty quickly is that your stress levels will reduce, maybe even disappear completely.
Have fun with it, Samantha, and thank you very much for stopping by again and commenting.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I agree with the stress level thing. The more interesting stuffs that you’ll be engaging yourself within the day, the better. You’re releasing all energies inside you in a more positive way.
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Absolutely right, Samantha. Aerobic exercise is probably one of the best, if not the best, ways of getting rid of all kinds of negativity. Anger is one that comes to mind. There’s nothing like a good run to get rid of all your anger.
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‘Mens sana in corpore sano’, that’s all I can say. In order to think right, you must feel ok, to feel ok you must be healthy so… to keep your healthiness you got to ‘work-out’ (not the pro way, the usual way – jogging etc). Like you said, no oxygen – no results. Great article, thanks for sharing !
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Hi Latief!
Glad you enjoyed the article, thanks fo much for stopping by and commenting.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I actually just started Zumba once a week, I know I need to go more often, but that is what I have time for at this point.
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Hi Jessica!
Welcome to my little patch of the blogosphere. It’s really great to have you here!
Once a week is a lot better than none per week.
Good on you for getting out there and getting active.
Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and leave a comment, Jessica. I really appreciate that and hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
Twitter: SteveYoungs
Steve, this is an excellent post. I’ve bookmarked it so that I can see if my walks are helping – or if I need to workout a bit harder.
In fact, I linked to it in my latest post
Come on, Spring!
Cheers,
Mitch
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Oh wow! Thanks so much, mate!
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Good stuff Steve. You know of course that the brain is like a muscle and will grow if used properly? At least that was something I read somewhere. It even said that of late because of the advent of calculators and such, resulting in us using our brain less, that they’ve noticed the size of the brain had decreased?
Anyway, what you’ve said makes perfect sense and is another good reason for getting off your butt and working out.
Must thank Mitch Mitchell for linking to this post.
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Hey Pete!
It’s not so much the physical size of your brain that increases or decreases (your skull would prevent it from growing any bigger than it already is), but it is the number of synaptic connections that exist. The more you use your brain the more connections that are made.
Thanks for stopping by, mate, always a pleasure to see you here. And thanks too, to Mitch!
Kind regards,
Steve
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I think you got your Mitchs mixed up.
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So I did, I meant Mitchell Allen. My bad. And you’re right about the size of the brain itself, more about capacity
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Whoa, one who sits at the computer all day can never have too much of ‘get off your butt and exercise some!’.
Thanks for your post Steve, my next investment will be in a spin bike. I’ve always had dreams of tying the keyboard to it but I doubt it will work. Well, I’ll just try the mouse pad then
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Hi Aloys!
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. It’s great to have you here!
Actually I think you’d be much better off with attaching your keyboard, not your rat. You can still type fairly well when the rest of your body is moving, but trying to get stuff done with a rat while you’re huffing and puffing would be a complete nightmare.
Thanks for taking the time to swing by and leave a comment, Aloys. I really appreciate that and hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Thanks for your welcome Steve! I’ll stop by your “little corner” once in a while, I see you’ve got a nice lively blog here. It’s always nice to see blogs like yours thriving. All the best in the new year!
Cheers,
Aloys
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Thanks, mate. And all the best to you and yours too!
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I try to catch time once or twice a week at the gym. Our gym has free daycare while you’re there, so it’s kind of a bonus. Get time to excercise and a break from the kids =)
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Hey TJ!
That’s awesome, mate, and I can so relate to the bonus of some kid-free time. School is such a blessing to parents. lol
Thanks for taking the time to swing by again, mate. Really appreciate that.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hi Steve,
I love this article. You write so well and this particular blog entry is of special interest to me.
Exercise and good food make a huge difference to our bodies, and often it is the last thing we will actually follow through with. In particular people with emotional issues or even just plain stress can benefit so much from just exercising! It’s funny how we someitmes just ignore the basic things our bodies and minds need.
Thanks for bringing this important element of health back to our attention!
BTW
I love the way you have organized the flow of your blog.
I’ll be back!
Best regards,
Jen
Hi Jen!
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. It is really great to have you here!
Thank you very much for your lovely compliments, Jen.
There should be no denying the correlation between good physical health and good mental health, and yet, so many people do not see it. Perhaps, though, and I’m speaking from personal experience here, that it isn’t that we don’t see the correlation, but that we choose to ignore it. Or that it doesn’t even enter our minds because we are so weighed down and preoccupied with other seemingly important troubles and worries.
When you said…
It made me smile and think you must be someone who can see order in chaos. LOL
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and leave a wonderful comment, Jen. I really appreciate that and can’t wait to see you back here again.
Kindest regards,
Steve
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You do not even need any special exercise. Once a day I go for a walk about an hour long, and visit a local gym twice a week, where I swim for about half an hour each time. And it is enough to keep me in shape. And the best part for these type of exercise you do not even need to go for a check up to a doctor, as even an out of shape person can handle walking and swimming.
Hi George!
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. It is great to have you here!
That’s right, you do not need to go to any special lengths to get in a good dose of exercise. In fact you don’t need to spend any money on any equipment or gym fees if you don’t want to. Costs nothing to go for a walk, hey?
I do disagree with you about the doctor check up though. Everybody, regardless of their fitness levels should have regular (annually) check ups. This is especially important if you have been inactive for any length of time and you are contemplating starting an exercise programme of any sort.
To anyone reading this: I implore you to go see your doctor. It really is vitally important that you do the right thing by your body.
Thank you very much for taking the time to visit and leave a comment, George. I really appreciate that and hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Throw me 20 hours in front a monitor and i forget to speak. I get clients calling me and i’m talking to them like a 5yo trying to remember the words. They probably think i’m high.
But things are looking better since i got a bike and i get out 1-2 times a week with a friend.
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Hi Alex!
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. It is really great to have you here!
Haha! I can relate to that. I always thought it was because I spent most of my time talking to my kids that I just got too used to speaking like a young child, but maybe it was too much PC time.
Glad to hear that you are getting out and getting active. You just need to step it up now and get your 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.
Thank you for taking the time to visit and leave a comment, Alex. I appreciate that and hope I’ll see you back here again soon.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Unfortunately, i don’t have the time to do it every day. But those two times per week i get out i usually spend 2-3 hours in the park, drink some beers to build up energy, things like that
Thank you for the warm welcome, it feels good to be here.
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Hey Alex!
Going out with you mates a couple of times a week to drink beer is not exercising. Fun, yeah, but exercise, no. And I don’t believe for a second that you can’t find 30 minutes a day to exercise. If you’re serious about it, you’ll find the time. It is as simple as that.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hi Steve,
This post exhibit that you are not only a good blogger but also a good fitness instructor.
Your tips will definitely work for me and provide me some relieve.
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Hello Nazimwarriach!
No, I’m not. I’m just a guy with a little bit of common sense.
Thanks for swinging by again, mate.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Keeping fit is a must. There was a short video going around on youtube with some instructor that in only 10 minutes would do a bunch of abs exercises with his team. I can’t seem to find the link anymore, but the point is when i first started doing those exercises i thought i was close to dying after only 2 minutes. Now i can do the whole set and i’m feeling great. My breathing problems are also gone, i used to get tired after only 100 meters of running.
I can’t understand why we’re not all doing something similar when it actually makes you feel so good.
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Hi Maria!
I think one of the main reasons why so many people don’t exercise is that to begin with, at least, it isn’t easy. When you are unfit and you go out and try to be active it hurts. We see the short term pain and don’t see the long term benefits. Those of us that push through that initial pain and discomfort know that it gets easier (even addictive).
Thanks for stopping by again, Maria. Always a pleasure to have you here!
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hi Steve!
Yes, now i remember the pain. It never bothered me because i like doing things that test my limits. So when it hurts, i know for sure i’m doing something right.
If you’re 100 pounds and can’t get through the door, nobody’s expecting you to run 10 miles in the first day. But at least go take a walk in the park, try to sweat a little. All you need is will.
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Parkinson’s law totally kills my productivity on days where I have all day to get my work done, so physical activity breaks really help me.
I try to break it up by doing an hour of work (maybe a post or some comments), then some physical type activity, then another hour of work.
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Hey Ryan!
Ryan, from plantingdollars.com, yeah? Welcome back, mate! Great to see you again!
“Parkinson’s law”? Do you mean “Parkinson’s disease”? Yeah, I could see that ruining your productivity. Great idea to break up your day like that with frequent bouts of physical activity.
Thanks for taking the time to swing by and comment, Ryan. Really appreciate that.
Kind regards,
Steve
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Hi Steve,
Yup, haven’t been active on PD for quite a while now, but still building some niche sites. Just kinda ran out of things to say over at planting dollars really.
There’s actually a parkinson’s law that pretty much states “how much time you give yourself will dictate how long an action takes” so if you give yourself an hour to get something done, it’ll take an hour, but if you give yourself a year, it’ll take a year.
Here’s a description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law
As an aside have you considered changing your permalinks to your site? You might get some more google traffic that way.
For example you can change this post link, which is:
http://www.steveyoungs.com/?p=905
to http://www.steveyoungs.com/free-your-mind-by-exercising-your-body
If you’re interested I can show you how, otherwise just access your peramlinks structure on wordpress, which is under settings.
Then in the permalinks page click the box “custom settings” and paste this in:
/%postname%/
Should help out a bit for the search engines.
Hope you’re doing well!
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Hey Ryan!
Oh, that Parkinson’s Law. I’ve heard of it, but didn’t know what it was called.
As for my permalinks…
SELECT option_name, option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE 'permalink%' ;
permalink_structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
It was one of the very first things I customised when I installed WordPress in 2009. But thanks for trying to be helpful.
Kind regards,
Steve
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I too am guilty of sitting at the laptop for too long, a walk with my dog is my way of refreshing my body and I find I solve a lot of problems whilst out in the fresh air, without even actively thinking about them! Thanks for sharing, well written, interesting article, and the comments.
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Hi Juliette!
And I bet your dog enjoys it too.
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Exercising the brain and the body is what makes you a healthy person.
Great post!
It’s a life changing decision when you decide to become more active, mentally and physically!
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Hey Chris!
Indeed, mate. Thanks for commenting!
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Exercise is one of the best antidepressants too.
Hi Jane!
Thank you so much for taking the time to swing by and comment.
You are absolutely correct, I couldn’t agree with you more.
Kind regards,
Steve
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