Month: June 2023
Health Tip for Today ~ DYK There is a Relationship Between Sleep & Muscle Gain?
Want Muscle Gain? Get Adequate Sleep
Few habits will help you build muscle as effectively as getting enough sleep every night. “Sleep is when the magic happens for muscle development,” Chesworth says. For example, the dreamless non-REM sleep phase activates hormones involved in protein synthesis (the process of creating protein), according to an October 2014 review in Sports Medicine. This helps repair damaged muscle tissue, allowing muscles to grow back bigger and stronger. Plus, skimping on sleep can harm your workout the following day. According to a June 2022 review in Sports Medicine, getting fewer than six hours of sleep significantly affected lower-body strength during afternoon workouts. “If you don’t get enough sleep, physical gains will be unlikely to occur, despite consuming protein and hitting the weights,” Erin Nitschke, CPT, certified personal trainer and health coach, tells LIVESTRONG.com. If you want to build muscle, aim for at least seven hours of quality sleep per night, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Feel Good Tip of the Day ~ I Love to Exercise
One of the things that makes me feel good is exercise. I enjoy exercising as much as I enjoy a good meal. Hold on, I don’t need an intervention LOL. I like the feel of moving my muscles. I like it when sweat drips of my face and my shirt clings to my body. I like the emotional high I feel after a good workout. I’ve been doing it for so long that it’s second nature to me. If you’re an exercise person, like me, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t exercise start slowly and be consistent. You’ll feel a lot better.
Joke of the Day
Joe: “My doctor told me I have to break sweat every day.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I told him that was easy, I’d start lying to my wife.”
Inspiring Quote for Today ~ It’s All Good
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
Poem for Today ~ Where the Mind is Without Fear
Where the Mind is Without Fear
Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Thinking Out Loud ~ There are Moments of Light
Victor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning describes an incident where he was speaking to fellow prisoners about finding meaning in their suffering. He said, “I also mentioned the past; all its joys, and how its light shone even in the present darkness. I quoted a poet to avoid sounding like a preacher, “What you have experienced no power on earth can take from you.” Not only our experiences, but all we have done whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered all this it is not lost. Though it is past; we have brought it into being. I told them they must not lose hope but should keep their courage .…” p. 90
NOTE: Each of us has moments of light, joy, and happiness in our past. These are our treasured memories. We can recall specific events where everything seemed to come together. Perhaps it was the moment we fell in love. It may have been a vacation, the birth of a child, there is something there for each of us. When things are not going well for us, we can step aside and recall moments when it did go well for us. In recalling these moments, we have our hope restored. We know there will be another day and that good things will once again come our way.
Poem for Today ~ Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Mary Frye
Do not stand at my grave and forever weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and forever cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
