![]() So, if you’re keen to achieve a Sound Mind in a Sound Body by running, start slowly. But, it’s important to remember that lots of training can have the same impact on our physiology as life stress. Yes, the more trained you are, the more resilient you might be to stress. If you like to run at a slow comfortable pace or even stop frequently, you’ll still benefit in mind and body. The benefits aren’t only for trained runners. Running also helps us develop confidence and strength when faced with long distances/hilly terrain, characteristics that carry over into normal life. For example, research has shown that trained runners have better tolerance to cortisol than untrained people. A run later in the day can help fulfill this primal instinct using up some of the excess cortisol.Īnd running also helps build resilience so that we are less likely to be overwhelmed when life gets hard. If you think about it, when we are presented with a stressor we may be at our desk, in our car or on our email, and yet still our body goes into ‘fight or flight mode’ but we cannot get away. Running can help us to diffuse stress by using up some of the elevated adrenaline or cortisol that may be surging through our bodies as a result of life demands. It does this by promoting a flow state feeling due to the fact that we’re concentrating on our breath, foot placement and nothing much else other than maybe navigating people or objects that might be around us as we run. Moving our bodies by running helps us to calm the mind. Especially running outside in nature as well as with other people. ( Make sure you follow restrictions in your country). Research has proven that running enhances mood and supports brain health. How running (movement) can help us achieve A Sound Mind in a Sound Body… These include movement, sleep, nutrition, self-care, rest and recovery. And most importantly a Sound Body is also one that has its needs met. It absorbs training stress and/or life stress well, bouncing back to perform again when needed. …is one which is ready and able to handle the physiological demands that our bodies go through in times of stress. A Sound Mind is one that isn’t so overwhelmed that it tips our physiology into a state of overdrive or exhaustion.A Sound Mind is one that can deal with elevated stress before it becomes a problem or leads to low mood.A Sound Mind is a mind that notices, accepts and respects this stress response.We must embrace it and learn to have a sound mind so we can navigate it in a more positive way. As such, stress helps us be ready and perform. This is a finely tuned system that allows us to activate energy and oxygen and quickly transport it to where it’s needed most (our heart, lungs, muscles, and brain) not to the things we don’t need right at that moment such as digestion and sleep. adrenaline and cortisol) so we can contend with whatever the demand/stressor is. When we experience these things our autonomic nervous system is switched on we have a rush of hormones and neurotransmitters (e.g. Stress is an insidious and ever-present part of life coming from work, family, sport or competition demands. With a healthy mind, we will be motivated to move however we desire and when we move our bodies, we move our minds to become optimistic, energised and clear. ![]() The two go together and are inextricably linked. BUT just as Mr Kihachiro believed, I too believe and know that when we are sound in mind, we are sound in body. We are limited in how we train, exercise, work, play and see family and friends. Onitsuka, inspiring his dedication to making athletic shoes with the aim of nurturing healthy minds and bodies of young people through sports in post-war Japan.Īnd so the mantra “Sound Mind, Sound Body was born”.įorty-five years later and once again we are faced with unprecedented uncertainty and stress. ![]() These words made a deep impression on founder Mr. ![]() ASICS - the name is inspired by the acronym for the Latin expression "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano" ("You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body"). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |