 I'm sitting here basking in the spring time sunshine here in Norway and today I want to talk about training and really define what it is. What is training? What does it mean and Why is a tan from the sunshine relevant to that? So let's start with the simplest terms first Activity what is it? Well, you know if you think about it Activity is sort of anything except death You know even just sitting here now. There's activity going on in my body. It's active Of course if I get up and I start cleaning my jar. I had a smoothie earlier Start clean. That's a bit of activity there Healthy to be moving and using my body and that's a good thing And then of course if I start cleaning the house or start I don't know carrying stuff around fixing stuff That's a higher level of activity yet and that you get the point we can go all the way up to super intense exercise And it will be all under the umbrella term of activity living in active life It's really the opposite of living a sedentary life, you know, practically speaking. We're dealing with activity versus Non-activity and even though there is stuff going on in my body right now just sitting here. I'm relaxing right now It's it's it's inactivity and we all know that it's healthy to be active sedentary lifestyles are One of the main causes of a lot of the diseases and problems people are experiencing in today's day and age So activity is really just life. It's moving around doing things being active There's also mental activities of course as well when you're working on the computer and not physically active But you are mentally active, but we're dealing with the physical aspects here today now Exercise what's that though? I mean activity, you know, if I'm walking to the bus or even if I'm walking all the way to town That's activity, but it's not exercising Exercising is per definition when you do something For a specific purpose Right you do an exercise so I might head out for a run I'm running because I want to be getting fitter. I want to want to get healthier There are a little different motivation. Some people might go out running because they want to lose weight. Whatever it is It's an exercise. You're exercising when you go to the gym You do all these different things on the different machines and with the different weights. You're doing different Exercises you're exercising and then there's this exercise the bicep curl and there's the Overhead press. That's a different exercise the bench press a different exercise seated row different exercise There are all these different exercises that you can do and generally speaking. We're just dealing with Physical activity for a specific purpose so it also goes for people who do Technical sports like for example, if you're doing basketball or if you're doing football or something like that You're exercising to get better in your sport and there are a lot of different aspects to the exercising, but it's it's exercise Okay Now let's move on to the real term today and that is training training is also where that's sort of used Almost synonymous with the word exercise, you know, you're exercising or you're training But it's actually possible to exercise without training training is when you're exposing your body to stress to stimuli That will cause an adaption Okay, so if you are doing something that you're always that you always been doing let's say every day you go for a walk Three kilometers you've been doing it for years every day three kilometer walk. That's that's some exercise for you And it's true. It's exercising. You're exercising for three kilometers every day. It's not training though Because your body has already adapted to that level of stress your body It's fine with doing three kilometers It's not a challenge. It's grown accustomed to it and Adapted to it. It can deal with that stress That's not training now if you suddenly one day walk Six kilometers and you're not used to that Well now your body's been exposed to something that is not used to and essentially you're Stimulating it to adapt you're telling it. Hey, I want to walk six kilometers not just three You better adapt and then you take a period of rest and then you try it again six kilometers a few days later Back to three a few days later six kilometers again back to three then suddenly you do 10 kilometers one day Wow, that's a big that's a that's a new stress and you are in training You are now training your body is adapting to a higher level of fitness And that's what training is and that's why I mentioned the sunshine when I was doing the intro If you're exposing yourself to sunshine sunshine that you're not used to let's suppose it's spring time I've been indoors the whole winter. Let's just disregard the fact that I've been on La Palma I'm exposed to a lot of sunshine there Pretend I've been indoors the whole winter and this is my first sun exposure session for the year I'm out in the spring sunshine and I am Getting a bit of a tan going right well If I overdo it I get sunburn, right? So I have to just do it just enough before the sunburn sort of starts at all like I don't want to get any sunburn So just just a touch and I go back indoors put on clothing a few days later I might go out again a little bit more Etc and over time I will build a tan, but let's suppose I go out Every other day For ten minutes in the sunshine If I keep doing that like every week doing going out for like three days a week or four days a week Ten minutes if I just keep doing that for the rest of the summer I'm not gonna get a more of a tan. It's just gonna stay the same. Isn't that strange? It's just gonna stay the same although of course It's not actually because the Sun is gonna get more and more intense which means that I'm gonna get more and more Stimulus for a stronger tan, but the point here is that as long as you keep doing the same thing Exposing your body to the same level of stress You're not adapting. You're just maintaining So the tan will stay the same if I want to have a darker tan I now need to either increase the time that I'm spending in the Sun per session or the amount of sessions Sunbathing sessions I do in a week Or the intensity of the sunshine which I can regulate by the time of day that I sit outside. So If I want to be like a super super dark tan dude, I need to constantly increase my exposure to sunshine and then my body will adapt constantly to that and get a darker tan Well, it's the same with training. It's the same with running If I'm used to running Five kilometers per day Then that's not training As long as I'm just doing that. I'm not getting any fitter. I'm just staying the same So if you want to be fitter next week then when you what you are today Then you have to essentially give your body a burden That's too much. If it's just something that it can perfectly handle then it's not training You have to give it more than it can handle by a little bit and then it will adapt to it And next week it will be fitter. Of course, if you give it too much at once You just injure injure yourself or it's more than your body's able to adapt to at one time because you you do have a certain amount of sort of adaptive power so to speak ability to Absorb training they call it. So you have to keep that in mind That's why training has to be done in small increments And you have to have a long-term plan and it's just a little by little slow and steady wins the race, you know, I mean so That's why a training plan is super important and you know, if you if you're interested in training plans I would be happy to sort of help you out. You can contact me and I would you know, we can talk about training plans you can go to our website sweet natural living.com where You can go to the contact section contact me there and we can work out something if you're interested in some like some personal coaching On that in that regard. So that's it really. Let's summarize it activity movement. It's just being alive doing stuff and moving Using your body and that's great important exercising also important It's when you do something for a specific purpose you go for a run you go lift weights You play football because you want to get better at football or because you want to you just want to move You just want to move you're exercising now If you want to get better though, if you want to really get better at something if you want your body To change if you want your muscles to grow You need to tell them to grow That's another good example actually if you just go go into the gym and you're lifting even if it's a lot of weight Like let's say you're benching like I don't know 80 kilos But 80 kilos bench press Wow if you keep doing that Two times a week three times a week for the next ten years. You know what nothing's gonna change a lot of people think that Yeah, if you keep benching 80 kilos three times a week Your muscles are just gonna grow and grow and grow and grow, but no that's not how it works They will grow to a certain point once that when you're first doing that 80 kilo bench press three times a week That's a new stress for your body to deal with yeah, then your muscles will grow to a certain point and then You keep doing the same thing You'll just stay the same if you want your muscles to grow further now You have to start doing it four times a week or five or you have to up at up to 90 kilos then a hundred kilos You have to find new ways to stimulate that growth. So that's what training is pushing those limits pushing the envelope Systematically exposing yourself to more stress than then you're adapted to at the moment and thus your body reacts adapts and You're at a higher level of fitness. That's training. All right, so I hope that makes sense to you I hope it all sort of That gives you a little bit of more of an overview because it's it is confusing sometimes even myself I sometimes use those terms a little bit Interchangeably, you know, just oh, I'm gonna go exercise. So or I'm I'm yeah my training Whereas it's not always that I'm training sometimes. I'm just maintaining Right recovering. There's different times of the year Where you focus on different things All right It's wonderful today. I do feel like I am getting a bit of a tan probably You know because it's interesting even though it's pretty cold The Sun is just as strong now This is the beginning of April as it is in The beginning of September and in September everyone walks around in shorts and t-shirts, you know, it's the end of summer really And yeah, the Sun is just as strong now as it is then Interesting if you're interested in learning when the Sun is strong is and how high it is on the sky and all kinds of Metrics and stats about the Sun then you should go to a website called time and date calm and you can get all kinds of information on the Sun and the path and the altitude of it and Intensity and all that stuff very interesting. I love that stuff Hope you're having a good day post your comments down in the comment section what you think about this Are you always training? Are you exercising? Are you doing both? 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