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How am i going to get up earlier each day, learn to get up at 6am or earlier

Latest goal to work on is how to get up early, there will be plenty of time too sleep when im dead. The goal getting up early and sleeping less , too much time. Just like the cold showers, they will probly feel bad for the first few weeks but then once i get them in to the system , it will start to feel bad by not getting up early. The cold showers hurt at first , but now it seems that as im on a role it would be a shame to quit now.

Getting up early, how early should i get up? . The reason i stay asleep for so long is due to day dreaming, i almost find it hard to face life when im half asleep. By getting up and out , then i hope this will improve my focus. Of all the hours ive spent daydreaming and thinking in my daze, i honestly dont remeber what ive been thinking about or if that this has even been of benifit to myself.

Its going to be a struggle to get up early, perhaps just go straight for 5am so i can train my body clock to get up early if i wake naturaly around the 5am mark or even 6am this would still give me a great advantage.

Getting up earlier would give me more time to prepare myself for the days challenges, at the moment i role out of sleep get up get washed dressed and get in the car to go to work.  If i got up that hour or two earlier, i would have time to work on this site. Maybe an hour of reading an inspirational or instructional  book. Or just an hour walking through the park, which would blow the cobwebs out of my system and get some good air in to myself.

Im up now and it seems like ive got the whole day ahead, this moment in time 9am i would be rolling around sleeping and buried deep in my pillow.

Tomorrow morning im aiming for 6am, for the next 3 weeks 6am, this is going to be the learning and trail phase after that i should be on a roll like the cold showers and that would be the new easy route to take, it would be harder to stay in bed and daydream.

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Power Breathing Store PowerBreath UK, Review and personal experience so far.

I recently purchased a PowerBreathe, the reason for this is i wanted to improve my lung capacity and also the efficiency so my breaths, i have found when running hills i am breathing in heavily but i doesn’t feel enough to keep me going, i wanted something so i could train at home my breathing. Since i have had this only a week i have found it to be a positive tool so far. Ive got the powerBreathe Red Fitness Plus edition. I have used it daily quite allot and i enjoy this exercise, On the lower levels its really good for just focusing on deep breathing on the higher level, although i can only do level 2 at the moment it really starts to focus on the explosiveness and force you have to use to get the breath through this device. I find it a good idea to really breath out all the air , then the next breath it is very deep. Have only done a little jogging and not sure if i felt and improvement. But i work in a call center and have allot of talking to do, this has helped me to find my breath easily when explaining long and complex queries. I have also been sleeping well since using this product. Another point to mention, i think this may even tone the core muscles, i have been practicing without a shirt on in front of mirror and it looks like the “six pack” muscles are active during the higher levels of this tool. Update after 1 week of daily use.

in order to stop hitting the snooze button , set your alarm for that momnet in time when you would panic and say “oh crap i need to go go” so the alarm is an alarm. if your gona hit snooze then just set the time so that snooze is not an option, then if you want to get up earlier it is due to your own natural choice and motivation rather than the buzz of the alarm going off. using this aproach i am starting to wake ealier naturaly as i am now trying to get up before the alarm goes off, rather than after it has made its anoying beep. The alarm should be just that an alarm!! Learn to wake up before the alarms are raised!

wooo , had a while where i went back on the warm showers, but now the boiler is broke im on the cold 1’s again, think the trick is just stand under the water and feel the pain, it lasts about 1-2mins then the water just seems to feel warm. not sure if this is the point where your skin just goes numb. then massage the cold water in to your skin. feels good

the first 1-2 mins is the worst and also if you put your head on the water, you get the brain freeze feeling, and can be hard to open your eyes, your whole head goes numb

“cold n chilly”

How I did it: i take more cold showers now because as part of trying to achieve other goals i go to the gym and do more, a cold shower really cools me down and sorts me out.
i think cold showers are cold , so no suprise when i take one they are cold.
i just take a short cold shower of maybe 60 seconds just to quickly freshen up, or maybe a longer one when i get back from the gym and im too hot.

Lessons & tips: if you dont like them dont put the water on the coldest setting just have them cool .  or if they are too much , just turn the water on for 20seconds then turn it off and maybe try and last 30 seconds next time . or alternate between hot and cold… or go straight in without thinking about it. or just do 1 part at a time.. there is lots ofways to go about it. they are just a bit cold at first

Resources: cold / hot water. towel exersise shower

It took me 13 days.

It made me ahhh freezing

Health Benefits of holding your nose while drinking.

I had a whole pack of spirulina  and made juices packed with greens and minerals , the only problem was the difficulty getting them in to my system on a regular basis , the problem the taste, the spirulina drinks and some of my green vegtable juices just were too much for my taste buds, the flavor of spirulina is like mould or as described on the internet pond water. Some green vegtable juices just taste bitter and overpowering. Once they are in my system then they can go to work on doing the wonders to my body and health, but not able to get them in there because im struggling to force it down my neck.

Then i thought of an old trick where if you hold your nose while drinking you can’t taste whats in your mouth, or you can taste it but only just very subtle taste ie a bitter feeling or sour feeling in the mouth. Now using this trick i can easy consume large amounts of green juice and using the holding the nose technique its as though I’m only drinking a glass of water. the taste is the hurdle , use this trick to get past that.  Think that it interferes with the taste receptors, stop the bitter taste of vegetable juices or the odd taste of some other health drinks.

Now ive got no excuse . Kids show showing the same thig enjoy.

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Put on some relaxing music and spend an hour on the floor. Stretching and relaxing. Giving your legs a good Stretching, the videos and image will give you and idea of how to stretch your legs.

Not in English ,but using these techniques to open up the range of motion in the hips, i particularly like the slapping on the legs and feet and massaging the toes. Spent 45 Min’s gong through these exercises , think the thing to do is to relax in to the range of motion and also alternate with active tensing of the muscles in use. Stretching my legs out on the floor but also tensing and flexing the calf and leg muscles. Think this relaxes the muscles and also builds in the use of action in those new positions its about building up the leg strength for flexibility. When stretching to new angles the legs have not been used in those positions before so the muscles are not only stretched and tight , they also haven’t got much understanding or muscle memory with what to do in these new positions practice some kick moves. So while outstretched , wiggle the toes rotate the feet , swing round the legs in circles , give the legs something to do while in the new positions. So not only is the flexibility built in to the muscle use and range of motion is also built in. I also find that having a resistance band helps with holding and strengthen some of the kick stretching positions

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