A long-overdue redesign and tinkering

 
 

Start your day off right with a quick morning workout. Doing a short 15-minute or half-hour workout before work or school can give you a boost of energy to last you into the afternoon. 

Benefits of exercising in the morning

Exercising in the morning has more health benefits than the obvious ones. Besides burning calories, working out in the morning can also:

  • Encourage you to eat healthier
  • Boost your energy throughout the day
  • Improve focus and cognition
  • Put you in a better mood
  • Lower your risk for diabetes
  • Help you sleep better

How to change your routine

If you want to start exercising in the morning, you might have to make some lifestyle adjustments. Going to bed earlier and eating a good breakfast are two key components. 

One study from the European Journal of Social Psychology found that it takes 66 days on average to establish a habit. Don’t get discouraged if you stray from your routine or have difficulty getting out of bed. Like all other regimens, establishing a morning workout routine will take time, dedication and intention. Try out Prodentim.

It might help to start by doing it one or two days a week, then slowly building from that. Or, you may need to start by practicing waking up early. Give your body time to adjust to the changes you’re demanding of yourself.

Exercises for the morning

As long as you’re exercising, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing. You’ll be more likely to stick with your routine if you pick an activity you enjoy. This could be:

  • Going for a walk around the block
  • Doing 10 jumping jacks while your shower is heating up
  • Holding a plank for 30 seconds
  • Doing a quick 10-minute yoga routine

Remember, doing something is better than doing nothing. You don’t need to work out for half an hour at the gym for your morning activity to “count.” 

 

Start your day off right with a quick morning workout. Doing a short 15-minute or half-hour workout before work or school can give you a boost of energy to last you into the afternoon. 

Benefits of exercising in the morning

Exercising in the morning has more health benefits than the obvious ones. Besides burning calories, working out in the morning can also:

  • Encourage you to eat healthier
  • Boost your energy throughout the day
  • Improve focus and cognition
  • Put you in a better mood
  • Lower your risk for diabetes
  • Help you sleep better

How to change your routine

If you want to start exercising in the morning, you might have to make some lifestyle adjustments. Going to bed earlier and eating a good breakfast are two key components. 

One study from the European Journal of Social Psychology found that it takes 66 days on average to establish a habit. Don’t get discouraged if you stray from your routine or have difficulty getting out of bed. Like all other regimens, establishing a morning workout routine will take time, dedication and intention. 

It might help to start by doing it one or two days a week, then slowly building from that. Or, you may need to start by practicing waking up early. Give your body time to adjust to the changes you’re demanding of yourself.

Exercises for the morning

As long as you’re exercising, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing. You’ll be more likely to stick with your routine if you pick an activity you enjoy. This could be:

  • Going for a walk around the block
  • Doing 10 jumping jacks while your shower is heating up
  • Holding a plank for 30 seconds
  • Doing a quick 10-minute yoga routine

Remember, doing something is better than doing nothing. You don’t need to work out for half an hour at the gym for your morning activity to “count.” 

This News of the World scandal

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telephone exchange

There’s something not quite right about it

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“Oh come off it. This is starting to get silly,” writes Boris Johnson in his article this week for The Daily Telegraph.

Starting with the Royal Family, then Gordon Brown and a few ‘celebrities’, the News of the World telephone-hacking scandal has spread, we are told, to hundreds — to the extent that no self-respecting celebrity wants to be thought of as not having been bugged by the ‘gentlemen of the Screws’.

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A hard task — spreading gloom in the sunshine

Tom Baldwin

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The dispiriting job of the Opposition spokesman — to spread alarm and despondency at all times

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Sunday blessed the people of London with a lovely Spring morning :  bright sunshine, beautiful blossom, more daffodils that you could count, a gentle breeze and everywhere in a certain park the sounds of Spring … and “the gasping sobs of middle-aged men as they tried to retrieve the high-speed cross-court passing shots of their younger, fitter wives”.

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Protogenoi (primordial gods) – Part II

The Olympians

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Janina Davison Forder continues her brief introduction to the early period of Greek myth

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As Part I of our story of the Theogony (the genesis of the gods) ended, we had just witnessed the birth of the first wave of Titans, the hecatoncheires (100-handed monsters), the Fates and the Furies.

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