Life is busy, we get stimuli all day long, we feel that we have to do so much and we often get up all day. All in all, this causes stress. Heavy and intensive training also gives your body a certain amount of stress. This can be good, but sometimes not. Read here why it is sometimes better not to train intensively.
Our greatest passion is to get women fit and in balance. Unfortunately, many women today are not in balance. Society demands a lot from women, let alone the mother, let alone the working mother.
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A good condition and a strong body are important to be in balance. This requires fitness training and muscle exercises. In addition, it is also very important to have a flexible body and a healthy mind.
Intense training is important. It gives you a strong heart, a good condition, it helps with your hormone balance, it gives you energy and ensures that you are fit, powerful and confident in life.
Are you experiencing a period of enormous stress? Then it can be very good to do no or little intensive training such as HIIT or Strength for a while. Why not? With these workouts you are popping, a lot of blood goes to your muscles and your heart. This is also the case if you live under high stress. You address the sympathetic nervous system, our action mode or the accelerator pedal. This is the nervous system that ensures that you can take action, that you can make an effort. And is therefore also active under stress.
However, we also have a parasympathetic nervous system, the rest position or the brake. This nervous system is focused on your recovery and digestion. By doing more relaxing activities, more blood and energy goes to your organs and your body's recovery. It is important that the action position and the rest position are in balance.
Do you have a lot of stress, do you also exercise a lot, and do you not lose weight? This may be because the body doesn't get enough chance to recover. It can then be very useful not to do super-intensive workouts for a few weeks and to focus on more relaxing activities, such as Pilates, meditation, a stretch/relax session, walking in nature, etc. With these activities there is a lot of focus on breathing . And that ensures that the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, so that your body comes back into balance.
In all of this, it's important to start feeling more about what your body needs, rather than just focusing on how your body looks. So ask yourself more:How do I feel about the workouts I do?
And also learn to listen to your body. But how do you do that?
Do you think now:I really don't have time for that? Then make time for it from now on. If you keep on thundering, there will come a time when you can no longer do anything, when you are completely exhausted. You are too precious and valuable for that. And the people around you too.
So invest in yourself and learn to feel more of what your body needs. And adjust your training accordingly. Studio C has a wide range. There is a lot of focus on intensive workouts such as HIIT, Strength and Fire. Because balance and a healthy mind are so important, you will also find less intensive workouts such as Barre, Core, Stretch &Relax and, since this week, Power Pilates!
Christina and Heidy are founders of the online workout platform Studio C Online.
As working moms, they know how busy life can be. With Studio C Online they therefore want to make it easier to plan sports in your life, because you can do it from home.
They offer great workouts full of variety and energy. Christina is a born entertainer. Her energy bursts through the screen. We often hear:“Christina's enthusiasm makes a workout over in no time”. “It's like Christina is in my living room.”
In this way they hope to motivate women again and again to KEEP training. This is so important. Not only for your physical health, but also for how you feel mentally.
Their studio stands for variation, variety and originality. Not a workout is the same. For example, you can choose from Studio HIIT, Studio Strength and Studio Fire. These are tough workouts, it's better not to do them every day. In addition, you can choose from Studio Barre, Studio Sculpt (dance and aerobics in combination with arm/buttocks/core), Studio Power Pilates and Studio Stretch &Relax. These are training sessions of a lower intensity that can be nicely alternated with the heavy training sessions.
And if you are a beginner, you can start very nicely with the lighter workouts and slowly build up to the heavy workouts.
Want to try a variation of HIIT and Barre? Just in your house or garden, whenever it suits you? Join the Free Workout Challenge. 5 workouts in 2 weeks. You will also receive a motivational email.
