Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben

Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy and in today's episode you're going to discover what the one

workout is that I think you should do every day and that I personally do. Now I'm simply not a guy

who leaps out of bed in the morning to charge up a mountain,

do a crossfit workout of the day, hammer on my bike, or throw a barbell on my back.

Instead, as I outline in an article that I wrote over at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com

called My Exact Morning Routine Unveiled Step by step. I'm a big proponent of engaging

in morning activities that don't involve running from an imaginary lion and instead involve

activating your parasympathetic rest and digest branch of your nervous system. This practice

sets the standard for the entire rest of your day to be less

stressful and more productive, and allow you to do things like decrease salivary cortisol,

do more subconscious, deep diaphragmatic breathing, and produce more focused alpha brainwaves

during the rest of your day. So I typically save any hard workouts for the later afternoon to the early evening

when body temperature peaks, reaction time peaks, and post-workout protein synthesis peaks.

These days, nearly every morning, my parasympathetic nervous system, relaxation-inducing,

and stress-relieving activity of choice is a 30-minute sauna workout in an

infrared sauna that I biohacked in my basement to learn about how I biohacked a sauna in my basement

and how easy it is to actually build a sauna in your own house. You can check out Ben Greenfield Fitness.com

slash hacked sauna. Now, I'm going to give you the

exact sauna routine that I do every day, but even if you don't own a sauna, you could do this same

morning workout in your living room, basement, backyard, or in the sauna at a health club. All you

need is your body weight and the self-control to engage in deep breathing and focused movement for 30 minutes each morning.

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