You know it’s time to start throwing your limbs around and kick the heart rate up a few notches, but for some reason you just can’t bring yourself to put your pants on and head downstairs.
If you’re spending a third of your life on an acitivity, you’d be forgiven for assuming that you’ve mastered the craft by now. Except it’s getting tougher. Two thirds of the UK population suffer from disrupted sleep, and a third say they have insomnia. It’s a problem that’s not going away anytime soon.
Meditation is one of the most important tools you can possibly learn, and the earlier you start, the better chance you’ll have of sitting at the top of yogi mountain at a ripe old 80.
With the master control habit, we can wrap up Week 2 of Bulletproof Habits. I’ve said before, but I’m always happy to retrace my steps, exercise leads to a healthy mindset. By routinely making the decision to jolt the system a little and nudge the heart rate up, you’re cultivating a state of mind that’s …
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A bad sleep routine could be the thing holding you back from making progress in your living room gym. If you haven’t seen the guide for Week 1 of Bulletproof Sleep, check it before you read any further. This series is designed to get you to peak fitness despite all the setbacks that come with …
Read moreSleep Your Way To Progress – Bulletproof Sleep – Week 2
Constant run-ins with a bad sleep can hold back progress and leave you operating at 70% capacity. There’s probably still enough in the tank to gain muscle, lose fat, but the numbers would be so much better if you could storm into the day fully rested and revitalised. Sleep is one of the four major …
Read moreFit Fix #20 – Cut Off The Caffeine After Midday To Improve Sleep
⠀ Here’s an honest truth, I don’t get nearly as much quality bedtime as a healthy 26 year-old with every nutritional detail dialled in, should be banking on. The problem isn’t in sleep opportunity, I get 8 hours under the covers on most days. I should be sauntering into the day, but instead I’m getting …
This is part of an ongoing series, that will stretch out over the next month. They will cover possible upgrades that you can make for your mental and physical game. Feel free to pick out the ones you like and leave the rest for another day. We don’t have to make getting fit too complicated. …
In case you’re going to make the plan to smarten up in the new year and embark on the one book per week challenge. Beyond that, it’ll be well worth keeping a few audiobooks handy for the hours of slogging through mind-numbing cardio. I’ll be recommending a book every week, until I run out of …
Let’s cut to the chase. We can agree that a night of tossing and turning means you’re about to have a mess of a day. But we can’t leave it at that, because there’s every chance you’ve made peace with making do with 5-6 hours of sleep during weeknights. You can always catch up with a couple of monster lie-ins on the weekend. Right? No.