Health
The human body has an amazing ability to adapt to the stress placed on it over time. If you haven’t run a mile in three years, your legs will feel like jelly and your lungs will be on fire the first time you try. However, if you keep running that mile every other day, in a few weeks you’ll hardly break a sweat. That’s because your heart, lungs, and muscles have actually gotten stronger as a result of the work you put them under.
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It’s October, which means the holiday gauntlet has come. We know you strive to eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep, but nothing ruins a diet faster than a house filled with tantalizing bite-sized candy or an endless schedule of dessert-filled parties. And that’s only Halloween!
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Who says you have to slow down when your hair turns gray or you start adding a few wrinkles on top of your muscles? In the days long past, common knowledge said that the best you could hope for was to age gracefully. Not anymore!
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Life is stressful on a normal day. Throw the holiday season into the mix, and your stress-o-meter is probably already ticking up. You may have kids begging you to take them costume shopping for Halloween while you try to plan flights home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And you haven’t even started to wade through the boxes of decorations in the attic!
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It’s official, fall is here. The leaves will be putting on a show, changing into their beautiful fall colors, but the nights will also be getting darker and colder. It can be harder to hit the gym early in the morning or go after work when the sky is dark and it feels late. Additionally, as the weather cools, you’ll have less and less incentive to go outside for a walk or run or pick-up game of hoops.
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