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 Short, Sharp, Intense - Just the way I like it! - Terminal Insomnia

In fact I know a friend of mine who ran a half-marathon every day for the month of June in 2004. His name is Jim Ewan and he capped off this feat by running a full marathon on the final day. In 2007 Jim ran across the Sahara desert both to test his own physical endurance and to raise money for charity.

Now whilst I admire Jim and all the others like him who run long distances I'm not convinced that it's actually that good for you and there is an increasing body of medical and scientific knowledge that backs up this view.

My first source of a new way of thinking came from Dr. Al Sears who is becoming very well known on the subject of increasing lung capacity as a way of maintaining good health and ensuring longevity. His research over some thirty years has convinced him that many people are being sleeping aids the wrong advice about how best to exercise. He believes that the accepted practice of aerobic exercise where your body works within its own limits is damaging in the long term. By exercising aerobically you end up shrinking your muscles, heart and lungs.

What is needed is a 'reserve capacity' that your body can call on in times of stress or physical injury. To achieve this you need to exercise in a different way, one that involves short, sharp intense exercise. Dr. Sears insomnia sleeping disorder developed a programme that he calls PACE (Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion). Now you no longer spend hours at the gym on a treadmill or pound the roads or parks. The whole idea of the PACE programme is to undertake alternating bouts of intense exercise and recovery exercise. In as little as 12 minutes a day you can get all the exercise your body needs.

So, how does it work? Well it's really very simple as most good solutions are. You need to start off such that you do Terminal Insomnia cause of insomnia over exert yourself. The best way I find to determine what level of intensity to work at is to 'listen' to my body as it provides a great barometer of just what is sensible but at the same time challenging.

If you have not exercised for a long time then the recommendation is to begin very slowly and as the days and weeks go by you increase the level and frequency of the exercise until you reach a point where you are able to exercise daily at the peak level.

I am now at a level where I train for a maximum of 10 minutes at a session. I do a series of gentle jogs interspersed with fast disney tickets so that at the end of the session my lungs are breathing in deep gulps of air to re-balance my breathing level. This deep breathing ensures I am strengthening my lungs, heart and muscles.
Terminal Insomnia