''Ouch!' . . . I said NO!'

'The Chase For Optimal Performance'

Author

Bradley Abbott
October 18, 2023

In 5 minutes or less you will learn:

  1. About the Equilibrium of the body relating to exercise.

  2. The negative effects of exercise and why recovery methods are important.

  3. Why the wholistic approach to recovery is the ‘Best’ option for you post-exercise.

Minerals . . . Fitness . . . Sleep . . . Hydration . . . All of these aspects of our Human Health matter enormously and are Essential for our Optimal Health, which include cellular regeneration, water balance, digestion and excretion, cognitive performance, emotional health, and every other aspect of homeostasis - our body’s own equilibrium.

Nobody is exempt from these factors, and everbody needs all of the above, whether you’re a human, a cat, a dog, a mouse, or a sea lion.

You need minerals, like you need water, food, and air. Combined with sleep and hydration, this is how you repair the body’s tissues, joints and cells optimally; whether it be for reversing conditions to return the body back to a state of equilibrium, or to recover from exercise - Remember, when you are exercising the body is in a catbolic state (meaning, it’s ‘breaking down’), and when you exercise, the body also releases an inflammatory response, as a natural byproduct of exercise. This is why Nutrition, hydration and sleep, together, collectively, are not just “important”, but VITAL for your health. This is also why you need minerals, and anti-oxidants to recover the body after your session - to help fight the body’s natural inflammatory, and catabolic response to exercise.

On the flip side of this, when you are recovering, the body is in an anabolic state (meaning, it’s repairing and ‘building back up’). In this state, the body is using amino acids to repair muscle tissue (and other tissues of the body), differentiate cells, multiply cells, restore energy (Adenosine Tri Phosphate - ATP), and sending signals to your brain that you need food and nutrients.

Additionally, the amino acids that are helping you recover require mineral cofactors to work efficiently and optimally, without them the body will not recover optimally, and over time, parts of the body will continue to breakdown, and cause discomfort and pain.

An example of this is bones and joints require 90 essential nutrients, most important of which, are calcium, magnesium, collagen, chondroitin sulphate, boron, strontium and others. When any of these nutrients are missing for a number of months, years, or however long, the body begins to break down in those areas, especially in the skeleton and muscles, when you are engaging in exercise. This contributes to the pain.

When you are in pain after exercise, it’s usually a ‘warning sign’, pain is like a ‘red warning light’, and it’s your body’s way of saying, ‘don’t use those joints, don’t use those bones until you fix me!’ This is when you should really LISTEN to your body!

When you’re doing a workout, you want to feel like Superman or Superwoman! You want to feel strong, fast, agile, flexible, and have the energy of a thousand Cheetahs! You don’t want to be held back by any pain.

However, I will point out a simple feeling that most of us have after a difficult workout, especially if you are new to the gym and just starting out. That feeling is ‘TIRED’. How many times have we talked ourselves out of things because we’re tired? . . . ‘oh, I’m too tired to out the water and supplements in the shaker’ . . . Or, ‘I’m too tired to get up off the couch now,…I’m…I;m done’. There are no excuses that should prevent you from optimizing your health and fitness performance, once you’re armed with this knowledge.

BONUS: Recovery Strategy:

  1. 90-Day Supplementation programme with the 90 Essential Nutrients.

  2. Sleep Hygiene Strategy.

  3. Mindset Strategy.

Companies that I trust:

  1. Youngevity

  2. Natural Immunogenics

  3. Good Herbs

Prinicples:

  • Supplement with a full dose of the 90 essential nutrients orning and night in the correct form and ratios

  • Turn off blue light 30-60 minutes before bed and engage in writing, reading, meditation, or other activities that help ‘you’ sleep, personally

  • And for the Mindset strategy it’s important that you create a list of important tasks that’s achievable, that you complete every day no matter how you feel - this helps develop that mindset and work ethic

Thanks for reading, everyone!

I appreciate you and love you all!

Brad

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