Stand up and move. Your brain equates being seated to being stuck and responds by restricting energy...
Bring green into your space. A Taiwanese study found that office workers reported feeling less nervous or anxious when a plant was visible nearby. That's an important benefit because anxiety can burn up a lot of your energy...
Check your neck. If you need another reason to sit up straight, consider this: For every inch your head tilts forward, the amount of weight your neck has to support doubles, a chore that could affect your daily level of fatigue.Very cool article. There was also a tip about shocking your body with cold water -- the shock producing the equivalent of 15 minutes worth of extra energy...
Had kettlebell practice today and I had energy.
10 x 10
10...Jumping Jacks
10...Two-Hand Swings
10...Kb Cleans (5/5)
10...Presses (5/5)
10...Rows (5/5)
10...Push-ups
10...Knee Sit-ups
10...Goblet Squats
10...Burpees
10...Around the Body with a Catch and Lunge
As Marisa pointed out, you're doing 100 push-ups but it seems easier. Well, I didn't do 100 push-ups. Julia and I made it through seven rounds and Jessica a.k.a. Crazy Lats made it to nine, I believe.
I really liked this workout. It was taxing but so doable.
I used to do a "poker" workout, where you have a deck of cards and assign an exercise to each suit, like hearts are pushups, spades are lunges, etc., then you deal yourself a hand of five cards and do however meany of that exercise you dealt yourself. I think it ends up being 90 reps of each movement, but I don't remember... anyway one time I dealt myself something like 37 pushups in one hand! That was brutal; I had to do them in 3 or 4 sets.
ReplyDeleteI remember your "poker" workouts. Re: the 37 push-ups -- that's really playing the hand that you're dealt.
ReplyDeleteI, on the other hand, might have kept shuffling cards until I got the workout that I wanted.