staying healthy for you and for your business...
Health and wellbeing have never been so important than in the last 8 months. Reducing stress, controlling anxiety, maintaining fitness and a healthy bodyweight whilst finding a healthy escape should be at the top of our daily list. The pressures of running a business during a pandemic mean all of the above slip down that list and never really begin. Food, fitness and tracking health stats is all it takes to make a difference – however putting the theory into practice is where the battle begins. A new healthy routine won’t happen overnight, and a full-blown restriction diet is not the way forward. The key is small changes, find 30 minutes 4 times a week to exercise, put it in the diary as a meeting, get up 30 minutes early, take
your kit to work and head home after a training session – you will know what will work best to create this long term. As a personal trainer now with a health tech business heading into my 40’s I know firsthand the pressures placed on business owners. I now also understand how painful sitting is!!! That curvature of the spine and closing of the hips for hours is unpleasant. Therefore, a large focus of your exercise should be unwinding the desk, the tech neck and T-Rex arms!! Mobility and flexibility sessions along with cardio is a great starting place. If you have gained weight and become rather deconditioned, I would avoid running. The rowing machine although an epic piece of kit closes the hips and, in many ways, mimics the seated position you are in most of the day. Spin bikes, assault bikes,
