Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Exercise Minus Healthy Nutrition = Unhealthy Lifestyle

On reading the headline you are probably saying to yourself,"I know this already, it's not rocket science". But the underlying message I am going to try and unearth for you isn't as simple as the title suggests. If it is then great you should be on the way to creating an existence rich in Lifesperity.

It isn't unheard of to hear of individuals making the sacrifice to exercise and attend to part of their lifestyle in a bid to increase their health and well being however nutrition and diet are not even addressed. They think because they are exercising they are automatically healthier. Nothing couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact if exercise is undertaken that is vigorous and of high intensity, without adequate nutritional habits you can actually increase the percentages of lifestyle conditions occurring.

Again I am probably going to sound like a broken record here but if one aspect of your lifestyle efforts is adhered to and others aren't then the likelihood of overcompensating in that area is greatly increased. As is commonly reported, exercise is carried out daily to cover for poor nutritional habits. Stress of exercise plus the stress of incorrect food options has no option but to equal double stress. They can't equal each other out. The sad fact is exercise is usually then carried out for longer to use up more calories in a bid to counteract poor nutrition; more stress!!!

As a lifestyle coach seeing these two common imbalances in a lifestyle means that emotional and spiritual health isn't optimal either. This is adding more stress to the equation just compounding the invisible and silent problem of an unhealthy lifestyle which are often realised only when you are diagnosed with some condition, relationships end or depression and associated problems present. Get holistic it is the way ahead, don't keep over compensating and kidding yourself that because you are exercising you are healthy.

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