Weekly Recap 6/28-7/4/2020

With another Monday comes another weekly recap. This week we have an article from Dustin Lebel that covers building habits followed by an article from Alycia Israel about you being the obstacle that is getting in the way of reaching your goals. The articles are followed by an Instagram highlighting how exercise reduces the risk of all cause mortality. Finally, we wrap up the weekly recap with another Instagram post that covers the importance of resiliency.

Articles of the Week

We Don’t Find Habits, We Build Them by Dustin Lebel

This is a quick read from Dustin Lebel over at Medium.com. The article covers how to build habits and why you should. Building habits helps to streamline your life and create a better version of yourself. Buiding exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle habits help to set you up for a happier and healthier life. Dustin gives five great tips on how to go about building habits. Let’s just say that making many drastic changes all at once is not the way to do it. Dustin is going to be on our podcast next week so keep an eye out for that episode coming your way!

Get Your Head Out of Your Arse by Alycia Israel

Alycia Israel gives it to you straight. In this article, she talks about things that are getting in the way of reaching your goals. She covers everything from focusing on logic rather than emotion, stopping the comparison game, taking ownership and not blaming others for your shortcomings, and really going after what you truly want. If you are finding yourself stuck or you aren’t reaching goals that you have set for yourself, read this article for some insight on why that might be and where you can make some changes.

Instagram Posts of the Week

We know it is good to exercise and be physically active, but do we all really know how beneficial it really is? This post highlights how performing aerobic or strengthening activities reduces risk of all cause mortality. And there was an even greater reduction in the risk of all cause mortality when people performed both aerobic and strength activities. I recommend that you check out the full article for all of the details on this study. Click here to read it.

Resiliency. It is something that we obviously value at Resilient Training Lab and should be something that everyone strives to improve and value. Resiliency allows us to withstand hard times. and provides us with mental strength. It also plays a role in recovery and affects how we deal with pain and setbacks. Check out this post to read more about resiliency and its role in the physical therapy world.

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📚Extract from 'The Pain Management Guidebook' on Resiliency ⁣⠀ 😬Resilience has been defined as an individuals ability to successfully maintain or regain their mental health in the face of significant adversity. Instead of focusing on what's wrong, we appeal to people's resilience to engage in physically valuable activities despite illness, this can be either mental, physical, or a combination of both. As has already been discussed in this book - pain is a complex biopsychosocial issue and resiliency is required in order to deal with the complexities which develop from all parts of life. How do we function at work and at home? How we deal with setbacks and the support we receive from friends, family and or other care providers? ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ 😲Resilience is one of the constructs of positive psychology and has been shown to be an important factor in recovery. Various theories from science have been linked to the absence or presence of resilience. Catastrophising has been found to be a factor which can negatively influence resiliency. Pain catastrophisation is associated with an increase in pain and disability in individuals with persistent pain. Catastrophising leads to pain being constantly under a magnifying glass; people feel increasingly helpless and keep worrying about the impact it is having on their life.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ 😍Valued activities may provide balance during stressful situations. Especially people that suffer with persistent pain can lose sight of things they used to do and the things that might define resilience. These are the people that may need a guide or a coach to find some meaning or goal again.The sustained engagement in cherished activities, or stuff that MEANS stuff, seems to be a huge marker of resilience. Credit:@johan_savelkoul879 @corkinetic #physiotherapy #physicaltherapy #physio #fisioterapia #physiotherapist #rehab #rehabilitation #fitness #health #physicaltherapist #resilience #painmanagementclinic #pain #mentalhealth

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