Physical Vs Mental Fitness
There is but one way to live life to its fullest- being fit. Understanding the benefits of all-round fitness and knowing how active you should make it easier to improve the overall quality of your life. To help you live better, here’s how you can benefit from mental and physical exercise regardless of your age, sex or physical ability.
When talking about fitness, both mental and physical fitness come into play. More often than not, physical fitness gets plenty of attention, and for a good reason. A healthy body can counter conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, and help you maintain confidence as you age.
However, mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness, and should not be neglected in your self-betterment plans.
Mental fitness means having a brain and emotional health in tip-top shape. It may not necessarily mean training to ace an IQ test, but a series of exercise that helps slow down, decompress and boost a flagging memory.
Aerobics (cardio)
Aerobics involves maintaining an increased heart rate for an extended period of time. Types of cardio exercises include running, swimming, biking, rowing, dancing, and jumping rope.
Strength
Also called Resistance Training. It’s a physical activity with the purpose of increasing muscle strength and mass. Examples include weightlifting, dumbbell and bodyweight exercises.
Balance
This is where you activate your abdominal muscles for stability and control of your body. Balance exercises can include yoga, tai chi and stability ball exercises.
Flexibility
Bragging about how much you can bench is no fun if you have trouble tying your shoes. Flexibility saves you from tight hips, hamstrings, hip flexors and makes you as strong as you can be.
Why you need to be fit and importance of physical fitness
Weight control leads you towards fitness
Along with diet, exercise plays an essential role in managing your weight and preventing obesity. To maintain your weight, the calories you are taking must equal the energy you burn. To lose weight, you must utilize more calories than you eat and drink.
Manage your sugar and insulin levels
Exercise can reduce your blood sugar level and help your insulin work effectively. This can lower your risk for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. And if you already have one of those diseases, exercise can help you to maintain it.
Feel Happier through fitness
Exercise has been shown to improve your mood and reduce feelings of depression, anxiety, and stress. It produces variations in the parts of the brain that control stress and anxiety. It can also boost brain sensitivity for the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which relieve feelings of depression.
Better Mental Health and fitness
Regular exercise can have an extremely positive influence on depression, anxiety, ADHD, and more. It also relieves stress, increases memory, helps you sleep better, and boosts your overall mood. You don’t have to be a fitness fanatic to reap the benefits – browse through our site and discover how to reap these benefits.
How to Achieve Mental Fitness
Be positive with yourself and improve your fitness
Affirmation, or positively talking to yourself, involves strengthening neural pathways to bring your self-confidence, well-being, and satisfaction to a higher level. To start, make a list of your good qualities. Remind yourself that you don’t have to be perfect. Set goals for what you want to make better and start small to avoid becoming confused.
Stop Multitasking
Many think that multitasking enables you to get more things done at once, but it creates more problems than it solves. Focusing on one task at a time will improve your concentration and help you to be more productive.
Try Something Different
New practices can also set you on the way to mental fitness. You can fit new approaches into your daily life by trying new foods, new ways to accomplish routine tasks, traveling to new places or trying a new route to the grocery store.
Read More
Reading is great for your brain. Your brain processes every word you read, including this one. Beyond the mechanics, reading helps you visualize the subject matter on the pages before you, and imagine what voices sound like in the written dialogue.
This can also be a great relaxation technique
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Get rid of stubborn belly fat and keep it off, here’s how!
Abdominal fat (belly fat)
It’s either you have it or you’re doing everything to keep it off.
So why are we obsessed with getting rid of this? As we all know, having excess fat on your waist determines your health and lifestyle. Despite all the diets and workouts, some of us are still not happy with the result. The fact that having as strong abdominals or the so-called ‘Abs’ is essential for the body’s stabilization and supports the spine.
And not just that, this can help you to perform your body’s natural movement as it supports your overall movement such as bending, keeping your body in balance, improves your running techniques, protects your internal organs, and it can even help improve your breathing comfortably.
I know you’re reading this article because you are so tired of looking uncomfortable with your clothes and are having a hard time wearing your favorite jeans, and all you wanted is to look good and become more confident. Anyway, we will show you how to ‘lose’ those stubborn fats around your waistline effectively and the best diet and exercise to tone up those mid-sections.
The Best Way to Lose Belly Fat is…
To see and feel the results in no time, you need to be more focused on your goals and be “mentally” prepared. You will need a well-organized eating plan that will limit your food intake and prevent adding more fat to your belly.
And of course, a well-designed workout program is what you need to help strengthen and improve your muscle tone.
The important ways are
- Your mindset (prepare mentally)
- Your diet
- Your daily physical activity
I am not saying that you’ll get a totally ‘ripped,’ chiseled abs, but if you follow these three factors, then you can expect a positive and real change on your waistline.
Keep in mind that having a beer belly or flab around your middle, this means that you have an accumulation of EXCESS FAT and not the lack of abdominal muscles that causes it.
People tend to store most of the fat in the abdominal area, and it’s either subcutaneous or visceral fat. Subcutaneous, meaning underneath the skin but above the abdominal muscle, while visceral fat is the one that lies deep in the abdomen, which is usually beneath the tissues.
Visceral fat the ‘most deadly’ fat in your body, so why is that so? It fills up space in your abdominal cavity, so there will no longer be enough room for your vital organs and vessels to function correctly.
Think about this: having too much subcutaneous fat can knock days off your life, but having too much visceral fat can knock years off your life.
Significance of Exercise
Physical activity is essential to our daily living, and it can help people to maintain a healthy weight and prevent stress. It can help improve the quality of life and reduce the risk of developing dreaded diseases. Being physically has positive effects on our social and psychological health. Notice that people who exercise are much happier, with higher self-esteem, and most of all, it can prevent depression.
How much physical activity do we all need?
To reap all the health benefits of physical activity, you should follow these guidelines (age 18- 65 years):
Aerobic exercise – at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity or at least 75 minutes a week of vigorous activities.
Flexibility & strength exercise – for at least twice a week
Begin or maintain an exercise program that is easy to fit into your life and also consider the ones that you enjoy and fit into your life. These activities must make your heart beat faster. Focus as well with those strengthening exercises that will make your muscles do the work than usual.
Belly Fat Loss and Exercise
Higher intensities of aerobic and resistance exercise can reverse the amount of visceral fat, while some can prevent it from mounting up. If a person remains inactive, it will likely pile on the weight at a rate of about 4 lbs. (1.8 kg) per year. It does not sound like a lot of weight, but imagine it does add up quickly over the years.
If you want to remove and get rid of fat on any part of your body, you simply cannot do ‘spot exercises,’ and it’s a common misconception that doing sit-ups can burn belly fat. The part of the body in motion will not directly burn off the fat that covers it.
Belly fat is not an issue of muscle development. Like what I said earlier, it’s the accumulation of fat and getting rid of it; you need to do exercises that focus on the burning of fat and calories.
Below is an exercise plan to help you get started
It’s a 2-week exercise plan that will help you lose belly fat, and it is based on current exercise guidelines. Use this exercise plan as your guide and feel free to substitute with different types of exercises you enjoy and the one that works best for your busy schedule.
Day
Aerobic
Excercise
Day 1
Aerobic
20 min brisk walk in a.m.
10 min brisk walk in p.m
Day 2
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps: 10
Sets: 3
Day 3
Aerobic
15 min walk in p.m
Day 4
Aerobic
(or any sports you enjoy)
Day 5
Rest
Day 6
Aerobic
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:12
Set:3
Day 7
Day 8
Aerobic
10 min jog in p.m
Day 9
Aerobic
35 min of biking
(<10 miles/hr or 16 km/hr)
Day 10
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:10
Sets: 3
Day 11
Rest
Day 12
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:12
Sets: 3
Day 13
Aerobic
(or any kind of sports you enjoy for 60 minutes)
Day 14
Rest
Day 1
Aerobic
20 min brisk walk in a.m.
10 min brisk walk in p.m
Day 2
Strength/ Flexibility
Sit-ups, push-ups, lunges
Reps: 10
Sets: 3
Day 3
Aerobic
15 min walk in p.m
Day 4
Aerobic
(or any sports you enjoy)
Day 5
Rest
Day 6
Aerobic
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:12
Set:3
Day 7
Day 8
Aerobic
10 min jog in p.m
Day 9
Aerobic
35 min of biking
(<10 miles/hr or 16 km/hr)
Day 10
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:10
Sets: 3
Day 11
Rest
Day 12
Strength/ Flexibility
Reps:12
Sets: 3
Day 13
Aerobic
(or any kind of sports you enjoy for 60 minutes)
Day 14
Rest
Final Say
The is no simple way to lose belly fat. The main thing is to have a healthy diet and start doing core muscle exercise to tone the muscles.
Guess what, it becomes harder as you grow old.
WE have provided a good plan that will support you in your endeavours.
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