PARIS, October 17 (EDITIONS) –
We are in a difficult, pandemic period, where we are mentally tired of a bit of everything. Additionally, we spend many hours sitting in the office or telecommuting from home. This is not the best context for us, but we must not forget that taking care of our daily health is fundamental, and another important thing: it is never too late or too bad a time to take charge.
Miguel Ángel Peinado graduated in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences.and has a degree in physical education. He has worked for more than 15 years as a personal trainer, physical education teacher and health coach. He published “Nunca pierdas la sonrisa” (Alienta Editorial), a manual for “achieving a perfect balance between body and mind”.
In an interview with Infosalus, she points out that health is the most important thing in our lives. “If you don’t take care of your health and yourself, in the end, you won’t be able to enjoy other areas of your life. There are people who have a lot of money, for example, but who cannot enjoy life because they are not in good health.. In the end, we are bitter every day for stupid things, and you don’t realize that you can go out on the street, walk, or say talk because you have your health. In the end, that’s the most important thing,” he stresses.
That’s why he insists on this point every day, even if it’s only half an hour, we have to allow ourselves to do some physical activity, whether it’s at home because we can’t go out.or for walking or playing sports. “By doing this, we create a habit. If you set yourself small challenges every day or do some exercise, eventually your body will crave it and you’ll feel more energized and in a better mood. People who do not take care of their health and do not exercise wake up tired, in a bad mood, find it difficult to move; however, if you are in good health, you will have a happier life”, adds Mr. Peinado.
START SMALL
We don’t tend to be consistent with this, he admits, because we lack motivation and set ourselves too big of a challenge: “For example, when we set ourselves unachievable short-term goals, like when we enroll for the first time in a gym every day for an hour and a half. It’s impossible to maintain by obligation. You have to start with two or three days of half an hour and when you have got the hang of it, you can increase the time or the days; but the first failure is starting too strong at first. Since you haven’t done anything for a long time, your body and mind can’t take it and they do it out of obligation and don’t get used to it”.
Thus, Miguel Ángel Peinado advise those who, for example, spend all day sitting at work, Try to move around as much as possible during the day.taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walking or biking to as many places as possible, getting up every few minutes for short walks or moving around, and especially getting out of bed as often as possible.When working time is over, they should schedule an activity involving physical exercise.It’s not just about walking or going to the gym, but about signing up for yoga, pilates or dance classes, or just taking an online course, which is available to everyone. .
Maintaining a healthy life starts with leading an active life.The personal trainer continues: eat a healthy and varied diet, lots of fruits and vegetables, do not eat ultra-processed foods or sugars, “because ultimately this type of diet robs you of ‘energy which, if not spent, accumulates as fat and you will look worse and have less energy’.
At the same time, she commits to getting plenty of rest. “There are people who don’t even sleep for 7 hours, but you have to try to sleep that long. When you sleep less, you wake up with half-charged batteries, tired, angry, and you can’t start the day well because you fall over. These three pillars are the most important and the ones that everyone should more or less respect”, emphasizes Miguel Ángel Peinado.
A LITTLE EXERCISE EVERY DAY
He highlights the current problem of stress, which invades our whole life, and which he constantly reminds can undermine a person’s health and lead, for example, to depression or various illnesses. He claims that physical exercise allows you to release the stress of everyday life, to disconnect in every sense of the word, because otherwise your head will spin.
” That’s why it’s always important to take time to exercise and release that energy and stress that we carry within us. It will do a lot of good, because the best medicine for stress is exercise,” he points out.
If you don’t like to exercise, she thinks it might be helpful to start with something gentle, like pilates or yoga classes, which can be done at home. “One recommendation is to start slowly with something you like. Set up a Zumba or line dancing class, for example. Fun lessons that make class go by quickly.. If you do it out of obligation, you won’t get addicted, exercise doesn’t have to be a pain,” says the expert.
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