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Brent: It doesn’t always mean that you’ve done something wrong, you could have just been,
exerted a little more than what you should have. But if you look even at some of the biggest
body builders they’ll tell you they often work out and are not sore after their workouts.
So just working out to the point where you’re sore the next day is not necessarily helping
you build more muscle or helping you build more strength. If you do have sore muscles,
ice, you know, something as simple as ice is probably the best pain relief out there. Mas-
sage is also very good very indulgent but very good. And then the most important thing
is rest. Your muscles are growing and getting stronger as you rest. And that’s why it’s so
important if you’re a really... if you are really big into weight lifting that you take that day off
in-between periods of exertion or you´re working different muscle groups on different days
so those muscles have time to rest.
Lisa: What if you rest and don’t exercise. Is that good for your muscles, too?
Brent: Well then you’re sedentary, and I don’t recommend that for anyone.
Lisa: Thank you Dr. Ridge. For howdini.com, I’m Lisa Birnbach.
Unit 3. Physical activity and breathing
Interviewer: Let’s talk a minute about exercise. We eat too much of the wrong kind of
food, and we don’t exercise enough. What do you recommend to people who are under-
exercised; what should they do to begin?
Dr. Weil: Well, I think, I’m a believer in physical activity more than exercise so, you know,
more than wanting to see people go to gyms and do workouts, I think it’s good to build physi-
cal activity into your daily routine whether that’s, you know, walking, gardening, going up and
downstairs. I think it’s good to be physical active and also to find physically active forms of
recreation: dancing, for example, which is great and not seating in front of the television.
Interviewer: You have a number of unique stress management techniques and stress
management is a large and unique part of your protocols. How do you characterize stress
management and how do we bring it into our lives?
Dr. Weil: I don’t think we can life without stress, I think is part of human life, but we can
learn and practice methods that neutralize its harmful effects on our bodies and minds.
There’s an array of options out there. My favorite are breathing techniques because they
are so simple, they don’t require equipment, they’re extremely time-effective and they are
free. So I teach a lot of those to my patients and I practice them myself.
Interviewer: And people say they can’t really do anything but there’s a habituation: the
more you it do the better it works.
Dr. Weil: Yeah, the power of these techniques is in the repetition of them, it’s not the in-
tensity with which you do them or the amount of time per day, it’s doing it every day that
this pattern becomes part of your nervous system.