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.
Learned Helplessness. How do you explain challenging events?
This week at Science Saturday, we will look at learned helplessness. It is a psychological phenomenon where if we experience a stressor repeatedly and come to the conclusion that we cannot control or change the situation, we stop trying. One of the biggest contributing factors to this how people explain bad events. It is your fault? Is it permanent? Is indicative of the rest of your life?
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.