{"id":2450505,"date":"2019-10-29T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/brain-fitness-just-as-critical-as-physical-fitness\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:25:21","slug":"brain-fitness-just-as-critical-as-physical-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/brain-fitness-just-as-critical-as-physical-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain fitness just as critical as physical fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Brain fitness enhances physical fitness. It is understood that physical fitness plays an important role in improving brain fitness. Yet, in a community where so many work and play hard, we may pay a price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We are well-aware of the endorphin high. Movement certainly makes us feel good. Sometimes this is taken to an extreme, especially in this community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It takes energy to exercise. Depending on the duration and intensity of the activity, the body has demands placed on it to meet the requirements of performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Some bodies are under so much stress that it takes more than what the body has available. Constant chronic low-grade stress (of either physical, mental, or chemical) compromises the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This may show up in various ways. Often, we see injuries or chronic injuries that either never heal or are constantly being reinjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other signs of overuse or overstress may include sleep disorders, digestive issues, anxiety, depression and other conditions. All of these indicate an imbalance of the nervous system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The adrenal glands provide the \u201crhino energy\u201d for us to get up and go. When our get up and go has gotten up and gone, a chain reaction occurs and our hormones and neurotransmitters become unbalanced. The gut-brain connection is affected and our survival mode (sympathetic) and healing mode (parasympathetic) are thrown out of balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When we are able to rebalance the relationship of these systems in our body, we can play hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Balancing our bodies enables us to enjoy our play more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Tom Lankering<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/brain-fitness-just-as-critical-as-physical-fitness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain fitness enhances physical fitness. It is understood that physical fitness plays an important role in improving brain fitness. Yet, in a community where so many work and play hard, we may pay a price. We are well-aware of the endorphin high. Movement certainly makes us feel good. Sometimes this is taken to an extreme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 11:12:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450528,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450505\/revisions\/2450528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}