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 #42  10/17/2025


You can not make yourself feel something that you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl S. Buck


Fit Tip: You Won't Always Enjoy It

Those less familiar with regular exercise often think of their fit friends as robotic freaks who love working out. I will dispel that myth. Everyone should learn to enjoy the process and at least have some fun with exercise. Doing the exercise that you enjoy is important in order to keep doing it. Just know that you will not enjoy every workout. Nobody does. What you will always enjoy is completing a workout. Hold on to that feeling. Remember how good you felt having worked out the next time you are dragging your feet.


Sauna Benefits

If I have not yet mentioned the benefits of sauna use, I have failed you. Of all the 'extra-credit' health and wellness tools, the sauna is the powerhouse. It has real, measurable, significant benefits. Places like Finland have at least one sauna per household as they understand the benefits and how good it can make you feel. It is good for you cardiovascular health, detoxing, and even preventing neural diseases like Alzheimer's. This link summarizes the benefits and provides links to the studies: sauna benefits

In the United States, a sauna can be a little harder to access. If your gym has one, I suggest giving it a try; finish your workout with 15 minutes in the sauna. Even though they are gaining popularity, it still costs a pretty penny to put one in your house. While the infrared versions are more affordable and available, the experts don't trust them as much. All the old reliable studies are based on traditional saunas; they get significantly hotter than the infrared versions.

There are a lot of health gimmicks or products that oversell their benefits, but the sauna does not fall in that category. It works and has for many years. The only thing it won't do is replace the exercise you should be doing. 


October Challenge: Get Off Your Phone

This week I challenge you to make your phone boring. This might mean deleting some gaming apps or a social media app. Maybe you remove a whole bunch of icons off your home screen. Try using some advanced settings to dull all your icons to the same color to avoid autopiloting to those bright, attractive apps designed to suck you in again and again. Turn off notifications! Stop the pinging that makes you take it out of your pocket and get sucked in for another chunk of time. Don't compromise; only phone calls and maybe texts (from certain people) require any kind of notification; anything else is a distraction.



Win the weekend!


Brad


Durable Dad Training

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