I read somewhere that a person starts to lose the muscle tissues he gained from exercising after 4 or 5 days of inactivity. If that’s true, then the same must be true for brain tissues as well. I’m barely two weeks into my current menial and monotonous job, but my neurons are in danger of slipping into a state of atrophy. Even when I was simply staying at home I never stopped pondering about current events, my future, and life in general. Having to basically turn my higher brain functions off for 8 hours a day has been quite unpleasant. I’m once again reminded of how important it is to find an intellectually challenging and stimulating career.
I’ve decided my current condition is completely unacceptable and have devised activities to regain and maintain my mental sharpness. I’m trying to muse about anything interesting while at work, including what to write on this blog. In my spare I’m trying to do some critical reading and studying, and I'm starting to draw once again.
It is true that physical conditioning enhances mental fitness. For that part, I’m getting back into exercising, which I had abandoned after my snowboarding trip. On 3 days a week I'll run for at least 30 to 40 min.; on 3 other days I'll do body-toning exercises, and Sundays will be R&R day. Upper body strength training is not a priority, but core fitness is. I just purchased a balance ball, which seems to intensify all the regular exercises 2 to 3 folds. I had a stomach cramp after doing just 2 sets of ab exercises. It sure is effective, and this is a good start to my regiment. I’m also considering resuming a diluted version of the killer workout routine Air Alert III, which basically decreases the repetitions by 1/3 and slows the progression by 50%.
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Good stuff. IIRC, it takes two weeks of not exercising before your muscles degrade to their workout state. Do you exercise at home? What do you do on the job? Push papers? =( If you're working in a law office, I guess you could just try to learn from the lawyers around you.
I have picked up many interesting pieces of information while talking to attorneys. Still, since my job consists of simplying filing and scanning, it's quite a challenge to keep my mind alert.
That air alert thing looks like awesome training for snowboarding. Doesn't do much for upper body though.
i heard air alert really effs up your knees
Make no mistake, folks, AAIII is a workout designed to improve your jumping ability, thus the focus on lowerbody muscles. It is also good for overall fitness.
It put very high stress on ALL of your lower joints, i.e. ankles, knees, even hips, as well as all of your leg muscles and your lower back. I would not recommend anyone to follow the full-blown workout unless he is in very good shape already. I'm looking to take up to 30 weeks to complete the whole workout, as opposed to 15 weeks listed on the chart. The key is to know your own limit and push yourself to it, but not over it.
So what happens after the 30 weeks? You let your muscles degrade back to normal again?
The bottom of the website explains how to maintain the gain of jumping ability.
BTW, the first week has been great. The squat hops were the most difficult.
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