Tips to change your life
1. Exercise
Challenge your confidence and your balance by adding short runs or walks backwards into your cardiovascular routine. This exercise variation can help build your confidence in being able to catch yourself before falling or stumbling rearwards and hurting yourself.
2. Nutrition
It’s all a matter of habit. It takes 66 days to change a habit. So don’t give up too early. Start with small changes and progress; it’s amazing what you get used to.
E.g. if trying to reduce sugar in your coffee: start with 1½ tsp instead of 2tsp. After a week or so, reduce to 1tsp, after another week or two reduce to ½tsp. Stop there if you like or reduce to none. Once you are used to drink coffee with less sugar, you will be surprised at how sweat sugar in coffee tastes!
Don’t believe us, try it for yourself! The same can be done with added salt, or any dietary change for that matter. Completed for David’s Health & Lifestyle Studios by Adelle Purbrick, www.bodybalancenutrition.com.au
General Life
Stop and smell the roses occasionally. We need to just slow down some days and take in a little of what is around us to appreciate. In this ‘go faster’ world we live in, a pause is sometimes just the refreshment we need.
Weekly Exercise Suggestion
A balanced abdominal and back structure routine. This routine will be more specifically designed to help keep a balance between your abdominal
muscles and your back muscles.
- Start on one side with a side plank for up to 20 seconds.
- You then roll onto your front and complete a full plank for up to 40 seconds.
- Roll onto your other side and complete another side plank for up to 20 seconds.
- Roll back onto your front a complete a full plank holding for 10 seconds,
- then lift one foot for 5 seconds, then the other for 5 seconds, then back to both feet for 10 seconds, and repeat the leg lifts.
Complete this routine through once, twice or as many times that suit you. A note for this routine is to start with less time if needed or complete all versions with your knees on the ground. This is also a routine that can be completed daily.
5. Wise Words
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” — Henry W. Longfellow
Have a great week everyone and keep healthy,
David