Improve your Muscular Endurance to help with everyday tasks like carrying the shopping or climbing up the stairs.
Muscular endurance is about producing force but for an extended amount of time. In terms of exercise it is about contracting your muscles repeatedly for an extended period. It plays a big part of our everyday physical lives. We use it for carrying the shoppings, climbing up the stairs and carrying small humans. Here are some exercises to help make these easier by improving your muscular endurance.
Chair Exercises to Help Sore 'Work from Home' Back and Hips
Many of us are having to make do with makeshift home office set ups such as laptops on kitchen tables or worse, working from the couch. Sitting all day in awkward home office positions can cause your hips and backs to start to get tense. While it is best to improve your office set up and take regular breaks, you can try these chair exercises to help.
Muscular Strength? Not just for bodybuilders.
Increasing muscular strength is not just for bodybuilders and weightlifters. It helps you build stronger, healthier muscles AND bones, helps with your balance and stability, helps you maintain a health body composition (the ratio between fat and muscle) and may help to boost energy levels, mood and good sleep patterns.
The Happiness Advantage - Principle #2 - The Fulcrum and the Lever
Our mindset makes a huge difference. Studies have found those given fake hair regrowth grew hair product and those who pretended to be younger had improved eyesight, memory and even looked younger! This isn't about thinking positive thoughts all the time. It is about realising that reality is not fixed but is actually relative.
The Happiness Advantage - Principle #3 - The Tetris Effect
This week we look at Principle #3 of the Happiness Advantage: The Tetris Effect. Researchers found that participants who played tetris for hours a day found that they couldn’t stop seeing tetris shapes everywhere they went. The same thing happens in our daily lives. We can train your mind to look for the positive things and create a positive tetris effect resulting in happiness and gratitude.