RYPT Mindset Corner: Why Am I So Tired?
- Weekly review of psychology
- Improve your mind; improve your health
As a new addition to the RYPT online blogging, I have decided that I will be looking at one idea of psychology each week and reviewing how it can help with your fitness.
During many of the RYPT blogs I make reference to psychology on and albeit shallow level.
This week: Fatigue
Whether it’s doing too much or too little, getting the energy balance of fitness right is a difficult act.
Expenditure of energy inevitably needs replaced with the correct nutrients.
From a basic perspective, a common realisation amongst people who work sedentary jobs (inactive) is pondering how they can be so tired despite doing minimal activity. Surely energy conservation means that there should be plenty left?
The human body doesn’t see it as so.
Becoming inactive leads the body to adapt to these levels of laziness, much in the same way that training for running a marathon gets easier over time.
If you don’t exercise to any extent, then your body begins to prepare for this lack of activity. Furthermore, without burning off calories, the body begins to store them.
It’s a vicious cycle.
I’ve always said that “it takes energy to make energy.” As incredulous as this seems, if you don’t exercise your body reaches a point of homeostasis whereby it will accept this.
The essence of modern life is drive to work, sit down all day, consume calories, drink caffeinated drinks, drive home and watch television. There isn’t much in there that suggests an energised routine – in fact it’s just the opposite.
Yet at the same time burnout plays a major role too. High levels of stress and heavy workloads can make exercise the least of your priorities. Exercise can be a powerful means to relax and get an endorphin rush if used correctly. There can be times when adding exercise to a routine can add stress but if used correctly and included in your routine rather than slammed on top of what you already, then it will prove effective.
Balance is essential for this.
Mindset plays a large role in here too. Normally under the guise of “I’m too unfit to get healthy.” Which leads to repetition of the same routine.
Starting with this mentality is a hindrance and will definitely dissuade you from changing your lifestyle.
Sure, sometimes you do need to do things that make you uncomfortable but when was the last time you tried something and loved it? Furthermore, if you don’t like it, there’s no commitment to go further.
The belief that you need to be fit to start exercise or the gym is ill founded. At RYPT I start from the beginning, with the very basics and make that clear.
In fact, most of the exercise plans are tailored to very simple fitness levels – if you can walk up a set of stairs then you can definitely succeed with RYPT.
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Ross Yeoman
RYPT Owner
