ZENandTECH 4: Exercism

Returning to your regularly scheduled ZENandTECH, Georgia and Rene discuss the benefits of exercise and how it alleviates depression, burns away stress, helps you sleep, improves your concentration, and otherwise works wonders. Plus, some app picks to help you keep track of your progress and build good habits.

Read on for more!

Topics

The importance of aerobic exercise
The benefits of aerobic exercise: Rapid metabolism of adrenaline and thyroxin, oxygenation of blood and brain, stimulates endorphins, decreases cholesterol, improves circulation, lowers insomnia, increases self esteem, improves concentration and memory
How to know if you’re not getting enough: Are your muscles tense? Can’t walk up a set of stairs without being out of breathe? Long recovery time after you exert yourself? Feel tired? Lethargic? Feeling depressed? Ache for days after a work out?
Examples of aerobic exercise: Cycling, running, swimming (great if you have injuries), combat sports like grappling, vigorous sex
Help getting motivated: Join a gym, join a team, ask a friend to start with you

Tools

Think about how well you take care of your gadgets, how you keep them clean, protect the screens, keep them charged and updated.
Now think about how well you take care of your most important gadget — your body. You deserve the same level of care! More even!

Homework

Get your heart rate up for 10 min., 5 times a week (to burn stress)
Start slow if you’re new, better to aim small and accomplish

Giveaway

to coincide with ZENandTECH 4: Exercism, we’re giving away a barely used, mint-condition Nintendo Wii (we review a lot of stuff we never have a chance to use later). One lucky listener will get to work out, and have fun, with Wii Sports and a bunch of other active, exciting games.

All you have to do to enter is head on over to iTunes and give ZENandTECH a review. (We’d love 5 stars, but that’s not a requirement!)

Because iTunes doesn’t provide contact info, once you’ve posted your review, just shoot us an email at podcast@zenandtech.tv and let us know which one is yours. We won’t make your email public, but we will use it to contact you if you win!

And hey, if you already have a Wii, enter anyway. You can give it to a loved on or friend, a child or grandparent, anyone who would benefit from staying healthy and having fun!

That’s it! Go enter!

Tech pics

Sponsor

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Hosts

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Disclaimer

While Georgia is a therapist, she’s not YOUR therapist. Everything said or implied on this show is for informational and entertainment purposes only. And shouldn’t be taken in any way as a replacement for proper, professional care.