Health and Wellbeing Advice – Restoring Balance

Whatever your sport and however you train, breathing is important. But for many of us, how we breathe when we train may be holding us back.
By deliberately slowing our breathing, we can dial down the body’s stress response and activate its relaxation response. Blood and oxygen are more efficiently distributed around the body.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Do you want to know the science behind this well-known phrase?
In this post we discuss hormesis, which refers to the way organisms respond to stress factors.
Depending the strength and duration of the stressor, the response can be beneficial or harmful to us.

Our bodies are programmed to follow a 24-hour cycle that roughly matches the daily rotation of the earth on its axis. This natural cycle is called the circadian rhythm, an essential component of the body that helps to regulate many of our internal processes.
In this article we show how rhythms are at the heart of good health – and give you easy tips to put your body back in sync with the rhythms that have supported us for millennia.