Weekends are the most looked forward to and the biggest highlight of every week for most people, thinking about relaxing while not considering the state of their bodies.
It’s only natural to feel that way if you’ve worked like an ox all week and are itching to lay your feet up and your head down while binge-watching Netflix.
While this behavior is understandable it’s more habitual and engrained into society’s general thinking mode.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s super important to take time off get plenty of sleep and rest to regenerate healthy cells and not burn out.
To be clear: I’m not calling you lazy if you spend your weekends on your back chilling, eating, and sleeping – sometimes it’s something that needs to be done.
If you make this a habit and repeat it every weekend, it’s not going to support your energy recovery, immune system, and overall health and aging process.
Our Bodies Are Made To Be Moved
Just take a look around your immediate environment, whether that’s at work, on the streets, at a gym, a swimming pool, shopping, or wherever, the majority of the population – young or older – are overweight and/or out of shape.
That’s not only because they’ve become lazy and sedentary and incorporate hardly any or no exercise in their life, no. It’s 80% down to the terrible diets they are hooked on.
Why do I say “hooked on?”
Food Addiction and Junk Food
It’s otherwise known as “food addiction,” which most folks haven’t even heard about.
Again, most of this pretty serious problem isn’t really your fault. It’s what has been indoctrinated in your brain as good, normal, and “healthy-ish” food.
I’m referring to:
Anything made from grains (bread, pasta, pizza, noodles, rice, and the rest,) plus all forms of sugar.
It’s all marketed and sold to you everywhere you go…so, it’s become normalized.
And that my friends, is why people are becoming sicker and sicker by the day and the world population is stuck in a health pandemic and decline.
The result?
Early death from a heart attack or stroke is the world’s number 1 killer thanks to diabetes and obesity caused by junk foods and drinks the nasty food industry pushes on folks while claiming they are “healthy.”
The truth is – none of it is healthy – it’s all junk food.
So why do they do this to us?
The answer is simple – making junk food from grains is cheap!
All types of grains are not only the most harvested crop (besides sugar) in the world, there’s more…
… topping that off, governments subsidize the production making it super cheap for the mass-production food industry to buy vast amounts from the “farmers” to produce more junk food, and….yes, Profits.
You don’t have to be an economist to understand that this practice stimulates sales of even cheaper toxic junk food across the globe making people sick.
But hush, we shouldn’t talk about this TRUTH too much, as the people in charge want to keep this little secret to themselves for as long as possible.
So far they’ve done pretty well by hiding this fact for decades.
Back to Moving Your Body
Sorry to have gotten a little off-topic, but it’s important to highlight what an essential role food plays in your health and life.
Movement, exercise, and an active lifestyle are equally vital but for different reasons.
Pro Tip: Regular exercise does not mean you must go to the gym daily or at all.
The benefits of a frequent and continuous movement plan:
• Keeps your muscles lean
• Burns excess fat
• Burns excess sugar and carbohydrate intake reducing the risk of becoming fat
• Builds bone density (especially important as we age)
• Keeps your body flexible, which can mitigate injury
• Strengthens joints, while lubricating them, which can prevent arthritis
• Improves sleep
• Boost mental clarity and focus
• Stimulates the brain’s creativity
• Inspoires and motivates
• Increases libido and happiness
For me, those are pretty great reasons to make weekends active rather than lazy.
That’s why I suggest you do everything possible to move your body in nature and catch some sun exposure while you’re at it to boost your essential Vitam D hormone.
Walking, hiking, trekking, swimming, stand-up paddling, wakeboarding, skiing, snowboarding…anything you please.
If you do, you’ll feel much more energized and accomplished day by day and be super motivated to roar into a successful new working week.
Remember this simple rule: the more you move your body the healthier you will remain and the better you will feel, no matter your age.
To highlight – it’s even more important for us to increase our movement patterns the older we get.
Why?
Because that keeps your body mobile, flexible, pain-free, and your mind alert and creative.
Please check out my latest short YouTube video where I explain the hows and why’s in simple terms:
Final Thoughts
You can never move too much. Yet, it’s very easy to fall into the lazy trap if you are not constantly self-aware and stay on top of your movement and health game.
Enjoy your weekend, folks. Rest up and be active too.
Rob
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