When it comes to our health, it is easy to look for the “one trick” to bring a beach-ready body, but there isn’t a trick. There isn’t some “magic formula” that fixes our health and keeps us in shape. It always comes down to the little daily decisions in our life.
The idea for this series came from a quote that Dr. Layne Norton put on X:
"STOP stressing over every single health topic. The majority of ‘optimal’ health can be achieved through
- Regular exercise
- Controlling calories
- Eating enough protein & fiber
- Psychological stress management
- Adequate sleep
- Don’t smoke or drink
- The amount of stress you spend on individual ingredients in food, meal timing, fasting windows, fad diets, special exercises, etc is killing you faster than getting these small things ‘wrong’"
Implementing these priorities is the key to having a beach-ready body year-round. Plus they aren’t weird or super complicated. On today’s show, we are covering the first of two parts about Movement and its importance in our lives
Beach-Ready vs Sedentary
- We are a sedentary society.
- Most jobs today involve sitting in front of a computer.
- Even jobs that don’t involve an office often involve a lot of sitting. This is a reality that we have to understand and work with.
The Sitting Norm
- Many of us sit at work and look at screens most of the day.
- When we get home, we often find ourselves sitting (with our feet propped up of course) and watching something.
- Sitting is not evil, but the truth we have to recognize is how much sitting we do is excessive.
- When we go from a sitting job to sitting at home, that can cause us to get used to the sedentary lifestyle.
- Walking is something we don’t do often and our bodies begin to lose their muscle tone. If we don’t use muscles, they get weak.
- A sedentary life won’t help us be beach-ready it only helps us be couch-ready.
Watching vs Doing
- We have a spectator society and that is a bad thing for our health.
- Instead of doing something or trying something new, we often sit and watch the “experts” do it online.
- Armchair quarterbacks are a classic example of this.
Trained Sedation
- Many of us have grown up and live in a sedentary environment and we need to recognize this and fight against it.
- As kids, many of us grew up with all kinds of digital games and devices where we could spend hours playing but never move.
- This gives us a sense of activity while not doing anything active.
- Our devices don’t help us because at any time we can watch videos and be mentally stimulated.
- We can’t let the digital world consume us and force us to become sedentary.
Mental Fatigue Reaction
- The digital world we live in often drives us to end the day with a lot of mental fatigue.
- This is real and we do want to learn how to deal with it but we often confuse mental fatigue with physical fatigue.
- We can be tired mentally, but our bodies will often still need some type of movement.
- The amazing thing is as we work our bodies, it often stimulates our minds and energizes us mentally.
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