Mindset/faith, nutrition and fitness articles to help Christian men manage their stress.
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Muscle Growth Without (Excessive) Stress
How to stimulate muscle growth without increasing your cortisol, depleting your energy levels and destroying your joints with Density Training. Arnold Schwarzenegger is slapped down to size by his maverick mentor with some tough love and a lesson in humility for all of us.
Lift Weights to Lower Stress
Research and real-world experience conclusively show that lifting weights and other forms of resistance training such as bodyweight or band exercises train a lot more than just your biceps with many beneficial psychological and emotional effects reported.
Godly Gratitude
Train your brain to look for the positives in life to improve your mood and raise your levels of optimism with one of the most commonly used Positively Psychology exercises to promote happiness. It is simple yet profound.
Get Fit for Life
Getting your exercise fix from some kind of cardiovascular training will benefit more than just your heart and lungs. It is also the perfect stress buster and can bring you closer to God.
The Breath of Life
Deep breathing is one of the best known and effective stress management techniques. The Navy SEAL's box breathing method, together with some special tweaks of my own, levels it up to bring your stress levels down.
Water: The Most Essential Nutrient of All
Embrace a challenge that can radically improve your physical health and mood - reducing the intensity of your stress responses and increasing your vitality.
Stress Management Nutrition - An Introduction
Eating to reduce stress and promote calmness is a question of selecting the right foods and limiting those that release the stress hormone - cortisol.
The Best Carbs for Stress Management
How to make the best carbohydrate choices to reduce stress and promote calmness. Learn the difference between simple and complex carbs and how they affect your mood and emotions.
The Power of Protein
Protein is essential for our bodies to function properly, in particular repairing and building tissues. What is less well known is that it can also influence your mood.
Eustress = Use Stress
Remove the fear of stress and learn how to turn it to your advantage with an awareness of eustress - a positive form of stress that provides us with the motivation and energy needed to successfully tackle life's challenges.
The Good News About Fat
Fat consumption is most often associated with unwanted weight gain but did you know that the right kinds of fat are required for optimal brain health and mood stability?
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