Exercise for a more Productive Day and Positive Mind

Making time to include a fitness and nutrition regimen in your life can be challenging. But doing so can provide benefits beyond traditional goals like weight loss, muscle building, heart health, and endurance.

1. Exercise can be a catalyst for a more productive day. By starting your day with a workout, you've already gotten a win for the day under your belt. This helps you become more likely to make more productive and positive choices throughout the day.

2. Increased Energy. By working out consistently each week, you will have improved and sustained energy levels. Feeling tired all the time often leads to more destructive choices and lack of proactiveness. Moving will become more effortless and more energy efficient.

3. Increased Focus and Mental Clarity. Exercise helps stimulate blood flood which helps transport oxygen throughout the body. More oxygen moving helps keep your brain sharp and allows you to stay focused on your tasks for longer periods at a time.

4. Reduce Stress and Anxiety. Physical activity promotes the production of endorphins. Endorphins help to reduce stress, relieve pain, and improve your mood. This can in turn help you get in to a positive and productive mind set and cultivate better decision making skills.

5. Improved Sleep. Having too little quality sleeping hours each night can lead to a host of problems. By incorporating regular exercise and improved nutritional decisions, you can improve the quality of your sleep, without increasing the amount of hours you sleep.

Lack of quality sleep and stress/anxiety go hand in hand. When you are stressed, the body produces cortisol, a hormone that can contribute to poor sleep and perpetuate feeling anxious. When we aren't getting restful sleep each night, we often are worried about having energy for the following days events. Rinse, Cycle, Repeat, and you can see the connection to feeling stressed, having low productivity, poor mood, and poor sleep.

By prioritizing your health, and implementing a consistent exercise and diet regimen, you can take control of your life, make better decisions, and become more productive with each task.