Exercise and Napping 1
75 Hard...but with napping...
Last week, I finished a 30-day discipline program. It was self styled after 75 Hard, but I was (and remain) too intimidated by that regimen. So I created my own.
Minimum 45 minutes a day of exercise.
A specific diet. In my case, my regular eating patterns but no alcohol, and no sweets. No sweets is far harder for me than no alcohol. Matt strenuously objects.
Minimum 10 minutes of napping, yoga or meditation. I napped 29 of the 30 days, natch.
10 pages of a non-fiction book - thank you Mark Messier and Jesse Waters for your memoirs.
One shirtless selfie a day. Actually…it was pretty cool to look back and see the morph from blob into less blob.
This was a discipline program. Doing the 5 things I set out to do every day, no matter what — daily inconveniences, traveling, forgetfulness, laziness. After a few days to recover — meaning enjoying alcohol and sweets — I am starting another 30 days.
I was exercising literally every day, while many (all?) doctors and trainers recommend having at least some days off a week or a month. So I began to research the idea of whether napping — and specifically a post-exercise nap — would counteract the negatives associated with not giving the body the recommended respite. The results of my in-depth rabbit hole Google search were fascinating. I intend to deliver them when Matt gives me another 250 words to run with.