In today’s fast-paced life, time is a precious commodity. Balancing work responsibilities and finding the motivation for regular exercise can be challenging. Discover the numerous benefits of exercising and how it aligns with your career goals.
After all, in today’s competitive market, developing your professional skills gains priority over cultivating the physical ones.
Well, you may be surprised to hear that those two things walk side by side: intellectual work also depends on your physical fitness and wellbeing. Today, there are plenty of studies showing the importance of maintaining a regular exercise routine, not only for your health’s sake… but also for your career.
What exercising has to do with your performance?
Doing a quick search at Google Scholar right now, you’ll find a bunch of articles – from many different fields – addressing the harmful effects of sedentarism not only on our personal lives… but also in our professional ones.
Sedentarism, much like Colin Robinson from the show What We Do in the Shadows, is an “energy vampire” and its impacts over the office climate are much similar to the character’s: tired and stressed out workers, without motivation or energy to innovate and perform.
If you feel anything like that, it’s a sign that you should continue reading this article because sedentary Colin Robinson may be after you. But there’s a silver lining. Or rather… a silver stake to this energy vampire.
There are also plenty of studies showing that regular exercising can develop more than just your biceps and your health. Sure, it does improve your blood circulation, reduces the risk of hypertension and other cardiac diseases, regulates sleep and humor and makes your back stop hurting… which is always good.
But physical activity can also help you developing skills and features that will improve your work performance in many levels:
- It improves self-esteem and self-confidence
- Reduces anxiety
- Improves learning
- Increases focus and concentration
- Helps developing reasoning and quick thinking
- Improves the interaction between the members of your work team
- Balance humor and sleep
- Instills a sense of cooperation
- Sets a challenge driven attitude and approach to problems
Plus, it makes you look good, whatever the office dress code.
Can Brazilian Jiu Jitsu improve your work performance?
Beyond an unmatchable self-defense technique, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a great sport practice and, like all intense training modalities, it will provide you with all those benefits we mentioned above… and more!
Today’s market is a battlefield, and to thrive in it, you’ll need to become a warrior. More than resilient, you’ll have to become antifragile. And BJJ can help you with that. By training Jiu Jitsu, you’ll develop your
- focus
- resilience and stamina
- discipline
- ability to strategize in stressful situations
- confidence.
Small steps you can take to beat sedentarism
Winning over inertia is the hardest part of changing your lifestyle, so there’s nothing wrong with starting small and building up from that. There are many little changes, easily implemented, that can help you start your healthier routine.
Choosing the stairs over the elevators, for instance. When moving to close destinations, choosing to walk instead of driving. Maintaining a good sleep schedule and a balanced diet, with more natural food. Those are all great starts on the process of beating inertia.
Another important thing you can do is schedule your free trial class at School of Jiu Jitsu: it’s easy, painless and free, and will help find out that working out doesn’t have to be boring at all!
Come meet our community and, together, let’s win over inertia!