The best thing about physical activity is the refreshing feeling afterwards! Here, you can learn how exercise can be lots of fun.
Not everyone is suited for team sports or formal training. It works for some, but not for all! In the long term, it is much more effective and motivating to enjoy an activity that best suits you than constantly striving to become accomplished in one sport. For instance, you can enjoy the benefits of exercise by taking on little everyday challenges. Examples include, take the stairs as often as possible, have a race with your dog, take a dance class, or discover if you can still manage to climb a tree.
These activities can be more rewarding than joyless gym workouts or monotonous training for a race. And if you don’t care whether people are watching you, you are on the right track. On the track to finding your own bliss!
You naturally loose fluid and minerals through all physical activity, but particularly when you exercise rigorously. Therefore, it is extremely important for active people to drink enough fluids and replenish the minerals the muscle cells use during exercise. Every litre of Gerolsteiner Sparkling Mineral Water contains 2,500 mg of minerals – more than most other mineral waters worldwide.
Calcium is quantitatively the most important mineral in the human body: 99 percent of calcium (approx. 1kg) is stored in the skeleton. For the most part, magnesium can be found in your skeleton as well and it is also present in your muscles and between your cells.
All of that make calcium and magnesium important minerals which our bodies are not able to produce on its own and therefore need to be obtained from our food and beverages.
Mineral Water contains mineral nutrients like magnesium and calcium in a dissolved form - this increases its bioavailability, enabling our bodies to absorb and use this vital nutrient more readily. One litre of Gerolsteiner Sparkling or Medium satisfies one third of the daily calcium requirement and one quarter of the daily magnesium requirement.
Learn more about a well-balanced diet and minerals here
Running barefoot activates the countless receptors on sole of the foot, which in turn improves the interaction between the brain and musculature. It also strengthens your foot muscles and enhances your physical balance. Barefoot shoes offer the same benefits.
Try standing on one leg while brushing your teeth. This is an old trick, but enormously effective. Look for other everyday occasions where you can briefly stand on one leg. Even putting on your socks and shoes without sitting down can be a suitable challenge.
Sounds strange, but if you regularly swap the side of the bed you sleep on with your partner, your body will be much more balanced. While sleeping, we intuitively move away from one another, which means that we generally sleep on the same side of the body. And, in the long term, this prompts an imbalance of the musculoskeletal system. So go on switch it up in bed!
Slacklining is a new adventure sport that combines the talents of tightrope walking and tramp lining – sounds complicated but it really isn’t – it increases body awareness, coordination and balance. Simply set up a slackline, a least a foot above the ground, between two trees in a park or your garden and the fun can begin!
Two men are hiking in the mountains: deimagine / iStockphoto, A woman is wearing headphones and having fun while dancing: HconQ / iStockphoto, Mineralienstein mit Calcium, Magnesium und Hydrogencarbonat: ElementalImaging / iStockphoto