RESTOR-ation For Strength and Power

Fitness warriors remain fierce through restoration. As the name implies 'RESTOR'- ATION is an essential part of your well rounded strength & conditioning program, especially if you want to achieve highest quality results.

In fact, the more intense your training and life in general, the more you should be focussing on the way that you recover from your training and life's distresses.

This is especially true of life dis-stress, when you consider the many other environment and social stressors nowadays which many of us face, (which are more prevalent than ever), such as lack of jobs, poor job security, increased workloads, lack of time, high living costs with poor wages, school fees etc.

All these undue stressors can create huge mental pressure and often we dismiss it, as we can't see it, but unfortunately your body recognises every part any dis-stress within your life, in fact it will hear every word. Yes that's right! Because your body is a super dooper survival warrior, it will reflect your thoughts (distresses such as worry anxiety), back upon it's ability to function and restore optimally creating weaknesses in your. body.

This means that your body is in constantly in fight mode (sympathetically overloaded) rather than being allowed to recover and adapt to your training (parasympathetically activated) accordingly.

Kinesiologists recognise that emotional stress is directly linked to pain in different areas of the body. So it's important we manage everything from a 360 degree view, to stay injury free and enable a good level of progression from our training & nutrition plan.

If this rings true for you, try adding in some restoration activities into your training program that will nurture your para-sympathetic system. Activities can be as simple as getting amongst nature, such as the beach. Learning how to meditate and diaphragmatically breathing reduces oxidative & mental stress, getting enough sleep, massage and of course myofascial stretching and/or yogic types of stretch. More on these later...

Whilst your kicking back & RESTORE-ing your system, this weekend why not come and shop in the Royal Fit Apparel POP UP Store this at Balgowlah Fitness First this weekend Saturday 30th June, 08:30am-11:30am? You can catch the best sales here so don't miss out!

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