Keep Stoking Your Stimuli

Working out is a series of stimuli, that over time, sometimes a long time, our beautiful bodies can adapt too.  

Stimuli adaptation is also called resiliency and it’s what I am passionate about helping my clients find and nurture in their health journey. 

Metabolic flexibility and stimuli adaptation are very similar.  Let’s break this down.  

What does this mean for you in your 40s, 50s, and 60s?

• It means small gains for no daily pain.  That’s right.  The end game here is NO PAIN.  To get there, you have to make small gains every day.  An example: 10 extra steps on your toes and 10 on your heels.  Start small.  Start with what’s doable.  Something you can repeat every day for a week. 

• It means flexibility eating a variety of whole foods, most of the time.  Flexibility in food means all the colors of the rainbow in vegetables, it means trying new things, like fermented food.  It means diversity in your gut, which helps to keep you metabolically flexible.

• It means routine.  Routine in your morning.  Routine in your evening.  Pick one that you know will be most consistent with your lifestyle and go with it.  An example: Set an alarm for putting down your phone in the evening.  An hour before rest is best as phone light restrains the production of melatonin, the natural hormone in your body that helps you settle into your circadian rhythm best)

• It means getting good at one thing, like balancing on one leg with a weight in your hand, and then getting better at it with consistent practice and that consistency leads to challenging yourself to push for your best.
  

Your beautiful body will not adapt and change until you give it a reason to— not once, not twice, but many times.  So, be consistent, diligent and KEEP SHOWING UP.  This is stoking your stimuli at its best.  You got this!

Yours in Health,

Jenny