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Exercise of the Month - March 2011:
“Increasing Energy Levels for Your Training Sessions”
If there’s one question I get all the time, it’s “How can I improve my energy for my workouts?” People sometimes expect be to answer with a recommended food or supplement, when in fact it’s what you do the night before that makes the biggest difference. I should actually re-phrase that and say what you fail to do can make a huge difference. The missing component, in my opinion, is the lack of a nighttime routine to wind down. Lowering levels of light, avoiding screen time 60-90 minutes before bed, amongst other things, helps increase your quality of sleep, thus improving your energy.
The Boston Globe recently had an article discussing this very topic. Check it out here: