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What is a corporate athlete? What does it take to be one? Learn your way to becoming a corporate athlete and overcoming the rigours of daily life.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- How to improve aspects of your wellbeing that you haven’t thought so much about
- The areas you can focus on to try and represent that corporate athlete idea
- Eustress vs Distress
- Examples of eustress
- Sympathetic dominance vs parasympathetic dominance
- Practicing heartfulness
- The importance of autonomy, variety, and getting connected to your values
- Effective fat-burning strategies
Key Takeaways:
- Sleep is probably the most important thing when we’re talking about health. It’s a great place to start for a whole host of health issues.
- Eustress is when you put your body under positive stress.
- The ideal blueprint for fitness for most people is something like this: one hard or heavy session once a week, one cardiovascular session once a week, one stretching or flexibility session or a more parasympathetic dominant session once a week.
- Heartfulness is getting connected to the things that you love doing, getting back to your hobbies, and making sure that you’ve got lots of opportunities for movement.
- Heartfulness is doing something for other people and feeling a sense of contribution.
- Feeling like you’re in control of your life is an important part of wellbeing.
- One of the very effective fat-burning strategies there are for most people is a combination of three things:
- Getting up in the morning and going for some fasted cardio, and then getting a cold shower for as long as you can endure. Cold water accelerates fat burning.
- Doing intermittent fasting. It isn’t technically a caloric restriction diet. All you’re doing is you’re shrinking the window in which you’re eating food.
- Personalising your diet.
Action Steps:
- Avoid being sleep-starved. Sleep a good amount of quality sleep.
- Find ways to put your body into eustress.
- Get into your discomfort zone.
- Practice active rest and exercise snacking.
- Don’t neglect the recovery aspect of trying to get fit.
- Practice heartfulness.
- Apply fat-burning strategies for weight management.
- Manage your blood sugar levels.
- Personalise your diet.
Leanne said:
“Consistency comes when you’re really clear on [your] non-negotiables and also when you’re really wedded to the outcome that you want.”
“That’s the future of health, fitness, and wellbeing — it’s personalisation… Genetic testing, blood testing, gut testing, all that kind of stuff is definitely going to be the future [along with] wearable tech.”
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