ARO Wellness Wednesday Nicky Ruszkowski

Indoor plants play a significant role in eliminating indoor air pollutants and so contribute to improving the environment in your home or office. House plants can also elicit a positive psychological effect, improving both physical and mental health. In this episode we explore the research surrounding health and house plants. 

Dr. Adam Ruszkowski gives tips and tricks to improve posture when seated for work. These strategies are ideal for anyone who experiences back or neck pain, but also a great tool for those looking to prevent injury or pain in the future.

In this episode, we talk through why you should run, or if you are already running then why you should stick with it. We discuss some important considerations for new runners and frequently made mistakes. 
Episode notes at arowellness.com
 

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a marker that indicates your body's stress level. Measured daily you can start to learn what puts stress on your body and identify patterns. Heart Rate Variability is a valauble tool for cyclists, runners, triathletes and also non athletes to keep track of their bodies stress levels.

Meditation has a plethora of benefits but for many people it's hard to do and lacks real world application. Nicky discusses how she uses meditation in mountain biking and explores different strategies to get started. 
Episode notes can be found at arowellness.com

The concept of intuitive eating is pretty simple, listen to your body, eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full and trust that your body intuitively knows what it needs.
We all know that person who has no issue maintaining a healthy body weight, eats just enough but knows when to stop, and just seems to have a relaxed, healthy relationship with food. We all had that at some point in our lives, it might have been a very long time ago when we were children but it was there. Unfortunately as we've grown older, had rules and restrictions set around food, many of us have lost our inner intuitive eater. 
Episode notes at arowellness.com