Napercise fitday7/6/2023 If today was April 1st, I would be passing this off as an April Fool. No babies waking you for milk, no one stealing your sheets and nobody waking you from your fabulous Tom Hardy dream to “tell you a secret”. Napercise is a 45 minute, blissfully uninterrupted sleep. Today however, I read about something that made me wish I hadn’t. We quit the gym as a family in January (just as most people join!), because we weren’t going enough and the costs just weren’t feasible. My skin is grey, my hair is dull and my motivation for exercise has gone right out the window. Two children who, given the choice, would stay awake and stare at my face, ALL NIGHT LONG. I thought that my first born was bad, but I appear to have met her match, in that I know am the proud owner of not one, but two adorable yet lethally talented sleep ninjas. Amen.I have made no secret of the fact that I get very little sleep. Of course, I won’t be going, because I’m not paying to lie down for 45 minutes, eyes wide-open, staring at the ceiling, revisiting all of my life’s many regretful digressions. It’s being trialled this weekend in Sidcup, and if it proves a hit, it’ll roll out nationwide and you’ll be able to sleep off that hangover in a comfy setting, rather than hiding in the broom cupboard crying into a scotch egg. "In addition to a lack of sleep bringing with it a higher risk of developing anxiety or depression, when we are sleep deprived we lack the energy to exercise regularly, and also the mental clarity to make good decisions about the food we eat, which could negatively impact our physical health in the long-run." "We tend to focus on the short-term effects such as being tired or lacking concentration, but it is also essential for our long-term physical and mental wellbeing too. “Sleep is a lot more important than people realise. The idea behind the class arrived as a response to the ‘tiredness epidemic’ that is currently infecting our shores, with 86% of parents complaining of fatigue and 26% admitting to getting less than five hours sleep a night.ĭreams and sleep expert Kathryn Pinkham says: The temperature is also dropped down to a level that promotes calorie burning, too. The classes occur in the middle of the day, so tired parents or workers can pop in, nuzzle down and get a good 45 minutes of shut-eye to a soothing soundtrack of atmospheric sounds. It’s all designed to improve well-being, regenerate the mind and supposedly, burn a couple of calories too. A branch of David Lloyd Clubs is trialing so-called ‘napercise’ classes, which involve getting into a comfy bed and having a likkle sleepy weepy boo boo, instead of doing anything active, thank God. Thankfully, one of my exercise-hating brethren has had an idea that is music to my prone, unsweaty body. What would be better was if I could nip in and have a nap – a nip-nap of sorts. I hate how it really knackers you out, I hate how sweaty you get, and I really hate not being able to find any weights heavy enough for my gargantuan ceps. The thing I don’t like about going to the gym is the whole “exercise” thing.
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