Meditation or Yoga. Both involve a focus on calming your body and entering a state of relaxation. The idea behind this common recommendation is that you become more aware of your body and learn to sense when stress is affecting you. As you practice learning how to relax, you are able to calm yourself more [...]
Stress is a necessary fact of life for us humans. Indeed, it has helped us survive. But over time, the bodily response that was meant for life-threatening situations becomes triggered by simple daily hassles. How did this come to be?
A stressful event activates the lower, primitive part of our brain, which triggers our fight-or-flight response [...]
Here in the United States, we are right in the middle of winter. The excitement of the holidays is over, the momentum of New Year’s resolutions may have faded, and we have quite a few more months until warm weather seasons. On the East Coast, daylight is only available to us between 7:30 am and [...]
The Biggest Loser is a reality show on NBC soon wrapping up its 10th season. The contestants on the show are morbidly obese, have often tried and failed to lose weight numerous times, and many have undergone gastric bypass surgery – and gained the weight back. The premise of the show is [...]
I woke up on Christmas morning to cold New Jersey rain. I had planned on going for a run. Not just any run, but my first run. I had planned to start my New Year’s resolution early, but I had not planned on this weather. Suddenly I wasn’t so sure. Tempted to stay inside the [...]
This past Saturday I ran my first trail race, the Hardcore Serious Trail Run 5k/10k/15k. This was an interesting race structure where the 5k started at 9am and the 10k started at 10am so the sign-up options were to race the 5k, race the 10k, or to race [...]
Some time last year I caught the running bug. I started jogging/walking slowly and sporadically, but by the end of 2010 I was running about 15-20 miles a week. I knew that to keep 2011 interesting, I would have to sign up for a few races. I decided on the UNCC Homecoming [...]
In order for man to succeed in life, god provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body but for the two together. With these two means, men can attain perfection’’ (Plato, fourth century BC).
Here are several good reasons to work in working [...]