Becoming Prime While Serving Time: In part one last month I introduced myself and this month I will introduce the idea of fitness.
What do you understand by the word ‘fit’ – and I don’t mean Jennifer Lopez is fit! Even though you might think she is! And it is not about how much you can bench press, or you can run a half marathon or do 50 press-ups or being a vegetarian. Being fit is a whole-body state and has a number of features that include:
- Having a positive state of mind;
- Being able to cope with stress;
- Believing in your potential;
- Having clear, wholesome values;
- Eating a balanced diet that reflects your needs and fuels your activity;
- Getting your body working as best it can;
- Having a content life.
For most people, getting fit will include doing some form of activity and activity comes in four different forms:
Aerobic training
This means performing activities that need oxygen to burn fuel in our bodies; this includes, swimming, cycling, rowing, jogging and brisk walking. In an old steam-train, water is boiled by coal (fuel) in the presence of air (20% oxygen) to make the engine move. We burn the food we eat using oxygen in our bodies to make it work. Oxygen gets into our bodies through our lungs and food is what we eat. If you run, lift weights or do any exercise you have to breathe harder and the more you work, the more you breathe, and if you are doing a lot of physical work you get hungry and need more fuel, so you eat more. This type of exercise makes the lungs and heart work harder – which makes them healthier.
Too many people do little activity or exercise and then go and do a 2-hour workout in the gym or their cell and are in agony for days afterwards.
Anaerobic training
This means working so hard that our bodies use fuel but cannot get enough oxygen to burn the fuel so your body uses a chemical process to burn it without oxygen and this helps increase your ability to exercise for longer. It builds what is called endurance; the ability to exercise over a long period.
Strength exercises
These exercises involve working muscles hard by lifting, pushing against resistance, carrying, climbing and hitting. These activities will stretch and increase the size of muscles – making them bigger and stronger, thus making us stronger and helping with posture and balance.
Flexibility exercises
These activities include putting joints through a full range of movement by bending, stretching and moving – for example by doing yoga. This will help with balance and posture and reduce the risk of injury.
Both aerobic and anaerobic exercise will help you increase your fitness by getting your body used to working hard. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins, dopamine, adrenaline and endocannabinoids – these are all brain chemicals that make you feel: happy, more confident, more capable, and less anxious and stressful and even less experience of pain. Endorphins are a natural morphine-like substance and endocannabinoids are natural cannabis-like substances.
Finally, let me talk about ‘no pain, no gain’; using muscles will make them ache and any sudden increase in activity will be followed by a few days of pain in the muscles that were worked more than usual – which is why you should always start gently and build up activity over time. Too many people do little activity or exercise and then go and do a 2-hour workout in the gym or their cell and are in agony for days afterwards. In prison you have access to staff in the gym who are there to help you; but they won’t know you are keen unless you ask.
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