What’s Your Problem, Stress or Crisis

Quote of the Day: two kinds of pain. Pain of discipline and pain of regret. Either you discipline yourself and train for victory, or you will live with the pain of regret.

Economic crap is all around us people are
losing money, losing jobs, and generally living in fear.

People are waiting for the other foot to drop,
running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

There are a lot of people and companies looking for help.

Looking for

--stimulus packages
--handouts
--mortgage money
--bailouts
etc..

All in the name of keeping the lifestyle they have; and not 'going under'

What does all this have to do with fitness, STRESS!

All stress has the potential to produce a BENEFIT especially in exercise that is why good programming will consistently and systematically expose the trainee to new and different stress.

While stress can be detrimental it is only so when we can not recover from it.

Meaning we:

--exercise too much without getting enough sleep = equals an over stressed body

or

--'take our work' home and dwell on it and not get enough sleep = over stress mind and body. Doubly bad.

It's all lack of recovery and that is bad.

Unfortunately most people derive their stress from the later not the former.

When it comes to stress there are two clear defining factors

--Time Management -- most people suck at this, even better most people don't even attempt it.

--There is a difference between crisis and stress--

stress is a result of lack or poor time management = lagging project at work or home

crisis - an acute unexpected adverse environment in which we are forced to become reactive = being lost in the woods, having your home catch fire.

So if you find yourself being 'stressed out' here are some tips to help you 'de-stress'

1. Remember that you live in the greatest country in the world and that with a little personal accountability by each and everyone of us it will be ok.
What can you do, remember the JFK speech?

2. If you think you are stressed take a moment and think about what it must be like to be president Obama, operating in arguably one of the most difficult economic situation in the country's history.

None of us have anything on him.

3. Set yourself a time log to get things done and try to stick to it

4. As the old pastor for our college football team used to say, 'don't sweat the small stuff because it is all small stuff' I usually live by the terms especially when it comes to work it will always be there tomorrow and if you don't get it done today they aren't going to fire you.

That is if you are good at what you do.


5. Healthy eating is paramount to stress management poor, fast food and reactive nutrition will make your stress and stress hormone roller coaster rival anything that they have at Disneyworld.

Not fun, eat some veggies, drink water, have some lean protein. and fruit

6. Meditative movement/exercise if you truly have too much stress, going in and lifting super heavy or blowing it out with super hard workout is likely a bad idea.

What you should look towards are things Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga, simple body weight movement. It really comes down to moving and deep breathing. All which is made even better if you can get outdoors

Those are my top 6 stress management tips for making your life stress proof.


Remember what most of have is stress not crisis, own it, management it, move forward.






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Troy M Anderson

Arizona Personal Trainer