Unleash The Beast! My Top Ten Beast Mode Exercises
The best beast mode experience will have you moving in a way that's intuitive and somewhat low-skill, where you can focus on massive effort. You need to lose yourself in the struggle and not be all up in your head. Exercises that mimic the sort of thing a neanderthal would do work nicely (running, hitting stuff, throwing stuff - you get the picture).
Enter The Pain Cave: High Intensity Interval Training As Exposure Therapy For Anxiety
Could I harness my pre-exisiting love for training and deploy it in service of my recovery from generalised anxiety?
Hibernation beckons.
The days are getting shorter and the TV shows are getting more interesting. The call of the couch is strong upon you after work and on the weekends. The AFL is back on. The Tour De France is around the corner. Netflix has never been (or seemed) better. There’s the chance of rain. You feel a little chilly outdoors. For all of these reasons, many people ratchet down training, exercise and being outdoors in the winter months and embrace the (mostly) blissful allure of wintertime hibernation.
Winter is coming. Rumour has it that a foreign substance called “rain” will begin to fall from the Perth skies…
The days are getting shorter and winter will be here pretty soon. If you’re in the habit of training outdoors, you don’t need me to tell you there’s some challenges coming your way!
Learning to belly breathe
You may have heard of these phrases - “belly breathing”, “diaphragmatic breathing”, and ”paced respiration”.