A lack of activity can prevent you from living healthy. If you do not enjoy activities, you may feel fatigued or find it difficult to sleep at night. When you awake in the morning, you may feel tired until you finally fall asleep. As we age our bodies change and we have to make changes to accommodate our lives.
Having a good night's sleep makes the mind think more clearly, boosts your energy whilst controlling your weight. You can also make decisions with less stress. Sleeping well at night makes our immune system stronger to keep us healthier. Researchers have proved that a good night's sleep is necessary for our health. Researchers have found that lack of sleep reduces the growth hormones in our bodies and can lean to a depletion of muscle tone and an increase in body fat. Sleep is important, however being active and following a balanced diet are just as important. As a start to improving your health, try walking each day.
Walking will help to loosen our muscles, reduces stress and depression along with anxiety. By relieving these things, it will help us to sleep for a longer and deeper period and when we wake up in the morning we feel happier and more rested.
When you exercise, you get a good night sleep, which promotes metabolism. Without the right amount of sleep, our bodies crave energy. Our body will release insulin or glucose into the bloodstream, which slows down metabolism. This action causes the body to gain weight, rather than control weight.
Sleeping right balances out our bodies giving us, more energy leading to more activities that will satisfy our sleep needs.
What to avoid:
To rest proper and feel active you must reduce your intake of caffeine, nicotine, harmful chemicals, such as over-the-counter meds that keep you awake, alcohol and so on. Try to avoid drinking anything after 8pm. in the evening. Nicotine should be avoid if possible, yet if you must smoke try to avoid smoking after 8pm.
Start a walking program in the morning to help wake you up, whilst boosting your energy. You will feel better since the joints will feel flexible enough to move freely. In addition, walking, particularly in the morning, will help you burn fat and calories. You'll notice a big change in how you feel the rest of the day. Start out walking at a slow steady pace for as far as your comfortable. Each day pick up the pace a bit and walk further. Just remember when walking that you want to work up to a steady brisk walk to make you sweat but not out of breath.
If you start a walking program for yourself, it is a lot more fun if you have someone to go with you. Talk to that neighbour you don't know and maybe they'll walk with you. Just think about it; you'll be acquainted with someone new, talk about new things, will relieve stress and get you exercising as well. This might help that neighbour too who may have been looking for a reason to start exercising.
After walking that brisk walk your doing be sure to cool down. When walking at a vigorous pace your heart rate will go up and it needs to be back to normal. Just walk a bit slow and relaxing until youíve cooled down.
