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Essentially be your own gym. If you learn certain health and mood improving deep breathing exercises you at least have a choice. Either just do them for ten or fifteen minutes each day or do them and do a standard gym session. In essence, you utilise your breath to wake you up and get
endorphins to kick in so to speak, and this provides impetus to do more.
Beginning is half done. When you awaken yourself using deep breathing exercises you are much more likely to want to take day by storm!
Try following examples for easy to do, and access, exercises using nothing more than your ability to breath and using simple body movements. 1. Standing up straight, hands by your side, expel all air from your lungs. Raise hands, bringing palms together above head, making a full inhalation at same time. From this position slowly allow your arms to drop back down to your sides while expelling all air from your lungs. Try this ten times.
2. Standing normally swing your arms forward while rising up on your toes. While doing this inhale deeply. Then as your arms swing back and behind your body bring your heels down and exhale. Make this a dynamic movement. Perform for twenty to thirty repetitions.
3. Standing normally inhale deeply while gently bridging backwards (not too far!) and then bend forwards exhaling all air from your lungs. Come back to normal standing position and repeat ten times.
Try these three for now focusing upon breath first and body movement second. Use them as a short circuit in morning or any time you need a mood enhancer or quick increase in energy levels!
Have at it!
Tim Webb is a fitness instructor, Ju Jutsu instructor and competitor. He specialises in easily accessible deep breathing exercises that combine breath and mind together. His site BreathForSuccess.com offers a product that provides deep breathing exercises for invigorating yourself, relaxing, and highlights how your breath can be tied in with your goals to move you towards them in record time!
