Fitness Tips

All About Healthspan

Fitness tips with Leanne Spencer | www.bodyshotperformance.com

Our tagline is ‘Healthspan, not Lifespan.’ What we mean by that is it’s really focusing not on the years in your life, but the life in your years. In other words, it’s about living a healthy life for as long as that is, as opposed to striving to live a long life where the last 15, 20 years may be punctuated by serious disease and ill health. So it’s really thinking about what you can do now and in the future to guarantee yourself the longest possible healthspan.

Shifting Our Focus To Healthspan

Shifting our focus away from longevity and lifespan to a healthy life or ‘healthspan’, that in itself is a big concept. It really takes a bit of a shift for many people, to ensure that what we do today, isn’t costing us further down the line. In other words, we’re not sacrificing future health for present pleasure.

Become A Business Athlete

We are all busy with work and family life. And very often physical activity, diet, sleep etc. are neglected. That’s where the concept of the Business Athlete comes in. This is the idea that we see ourselves like an athlete, we get ready for big events by doubling down on sleep, on nutrition, on hydration. And then we make time to recover after those big events. Now those big events might be life events. It could be big periods of work. Anything of that sort where, you know, you’ve got to be really ready and on your game. But we know that you can’t sustain that top level of performance all year round. So then you drop your level a bit and you recover. The essence of today’s message is all about recovery. Thinking of yourself as a business athlete, getting ready for those big events. The business athlete plans in the recovery so that they can reoptimise, recover and get ready to go again. If you do that, you’re more resilient, meaning you’ve got the tools and resources to be able to react to a big event when it comes in.

The Importance Of Recovery

Recovery can be many different things. It’s not feet up on the sofa with a beer or a cup of tea, doing nothing. It can be relaxing on the sofa with something hydrating, but it could also be spending time with loved ones, doing something you love like a hobby or a passion. It could be taking a walk, being with animals, being in nature, a bath, a massage etc. All of those things are recovery based or recovery promoting. Like everything in health, it’s very individualised. So I would like to ask you: What do you do to recover? Do you get enough recovery? Can you see in advance, in the next few weeks, or next few months, in your diary when you might need to plan in a little bit more recovery so that you can be optimising your healthspan as well as your lifespan.

Thursdays 7, 14, 21 & 28 July: Dulwich Folk Dance ClubThursday Dance

8pm - 10pm. Summer is here. Fabulous! Time to make the most of it. Get active and enjoy yourself. We invite you to come country (aka "folk") dancing at St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich Village from 8pm to 10 pm on Thursdays. Experienced or not, partnered or single, you can join in immediately and get the full benefit and joy of the event as all dances are first practised and then "called”. And there are many people to partner you and show you how it's done, should you need it. A chance to meet new friends and have some fun. As a bonus, the hall is lovely and airy and in leafy Dulwich Village. 7 July: Our caller tonight is our very own, multi-talented Gwen Godwin. Gwen gives us international folk dances and line dances in addition to English folk dances. I defy you not to have a good time! Come and try. You’ll enjoy it. 14 July: We are lucky to have the fabulous Philip Barber as our guest caller tonight. So experienced! We’re bound to have a great time and a lot of laughs along the way! You’ll definitely have a good time. Come and see. You’ll enjoy it. 21 July: We recently had Gwen and Les joining forces, calling, to give us a terrifically varied evening of dances-English folk, international and even line dances. It was such a success that we just had to do it again, tonight. Both Les and Gwen are very experienced callers and could, individually, carry the whole evening, easily. So, jointly, expect a wonderful evening. Dancing is so very good for mind and body. More, it's fun. So do come along and join us. You’ll enjoy it. 28 July: Tonight is our last dance until 1st September, as we take a short break for summer. Make the most of it! We are. We have the much in demand Sue Hastings calling. Sue just gets better and better. No wonder she's so sought after. Let's make this evening a wonderful sendoff for summer. So do come along and join us. You’ll enjoy it. ULEZ: Please note, the Club’s Hall lies within the south circular.

ENQUIRIES: John Blase: 020 8693 2873 johnhblase@aol.com Wendy Newall: 07821 089861 wendy.marsh@hotmail.com.

£5 (£4 Club Members). Pay at the Hall.

Saturday 9 - Sunday 17 July: The Canterbury Tales - Drama in the Garden

On an April morning ‘well nine and twenty’ pilgrims gathered at the Tabard Inn to set off to Canterbury. Along the way it is suggested that each Pilgrim tells two tales on the way there and two on the way back. However, in the event the Pilgrims never reach Canterbury and only 23 tales are recorded for posterity – the short time we have permits us to only retell five of these tales from Mike Poulton’s adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company, but we hope that our choices - which range from the heroic (The Knight’s Tale) to the bawdy (The Miller’s Tale) – mirror as best we can the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer. The Dulwich Players will be performing The Canterbury Tales in the gardens of Bell House: • Saturday 9th July at 2pm and 5pm • Sunday 10th July at 2pm and 5pm • Saturday 16th July at 2pm and 5pm • Sunday 17th July at 2pm and 5pm Recommended age 8+ Tickets : £12 and £8 (18 years and under). Tickets will also be sold on the door, subject to availability. Wheelchair accessible. Assistance dogs only. The Canterbury Tales is an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. www.bellhouse.co.uk.

Monday 11 July: Dulwich WI Monthly Meeting

7.30pm-9.30pm. We meet on the second Monday of each month at Vits+Kicks, 57 North Cross Road, East Dulwich, SE22 9ET https://dulwichwi.com

Thursday 14 July: Awkward Bodies – a Defence of Modernism

8:00pm -9:00pm. The Arts Society Dulwich lecture at JAGS Sixth Form Centre. Guests welcome, £10 at the door, no booking required. This talk will explore the particular talent of British 20th century painters for representing the human form in a particularly expressive manner. As disturbing as they are sometimes cathartic, the changing attitudes to depicting the human body reflected artists’ changing relationships with 20th century society. Speaker: Colum Hourihane. James Allen’s Girls’ School Sixth Form Centre

https://www.theartssocietydulwich.org.uk/ programme/lectures

Tuesday 19 July: Entrepreneurs Circle Local Meeting: Dulwich

5:30pm-8pm (registration from 5.30pm). The Entrepreneurs Circle Local Meeting is a new type of Business Growth Meeting (with some networking) that’s guaranteed to help your business grow... ...because as well as good old networking, our meetings always have a featured content session where we share a practical marketing tactic or strategy that you can use in your business to get more customers and make more sales! It’s a DOUBLE WHAMMY! You’ll get more customers IN the meetings through networking and referrals PLUS you’ll also leave with actionable ideas to market your business once you get home too. Whether you’re an existing EC member or this is your very first meeting, if you’re a business owner from the Dulwich area, we’d love to have you join us at our meeting. IMPORTANT: this event is exclusively for Members of Entrepreneurs Circle so you’ll either need to sign up (for free) at the event, or go to www.entrepreneurscircle.org/join to sign up

Hopefully we’ll see you there! If you have any questions, just let us know! Join your fellow Dulwich business owners for our Entrepreneurs Circle Local Meeting at The Clock House (upstairs) 198a Peckham Rye, East Dulwich, SE22 9QA.