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- All right, hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the Internet.
Physical therapist.
- (laughs) Yeah, there you go.
In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're talking about stress relief,
how to reboot your mind after work at home.
It's three steps.
It's easy, but it's very helpful.
- Great, this is a wonderful thing to get that transition.
Work behind you, home in front of you.
And also, there's a nice thing about here
if you're weight control management.
- Sure.
- It relates into this,
but we'll get into that in a little bit.
- Yeah, a lot of times when you are stressed out,
you do eat some of the bad foods.
- You better believe it. - Those seem to go
hand in hand.
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So Bob, let's talk
about stress relief. - Let's talk about it.
- I don't know about you,
and I think probably a lot of people can relate to this,
is after a hard day work, you're stressed out
or you're driving home.
- Working with somebody like this.
- Yeah, it's a tough one.
And then my wife has to put up with me when I get home.
- Yeah, the bear.
- But if you ever get home from work,
you're tired, you're stressed, and you're hungry.
- Right.
- You walk in, go in the kitchen,
and there's a bag of potato chips already open
from the night before with company,
and you just have one chip,
and then you're gonna get on with things.
And then you realize you've got to stay in the kitchen
to put a few things away,
and then you have a couple more chips.
The next thing you know, it's like,
ooh, this is really good.
This is really getting that sensation going.
- Yeah, they know what they're doing.
- The whole bag is gone in five minutes.
Or chocolate.
If I get dark chocolate chips that are a little bit open
from cooking some cookies,
and my wife says, "Don't eat those!"
And it's like, well, you've finished those off, too.
(Brad laughing)
- I think we're gonna lead into this, Brad,
but basically I always think
you wanna have systems over willpower.
- Right, right.
- I don't think you were gonna even mention this,
but one of the systems would be to not have this
in the house at all.
- Right. (laughs)
- The battle occurs at the grocery store and not,
because if it's at home, I'll root it out.
I'll find it no matter where it is.
- (laughs) That's right.
So the three steps of the title talk.
Let's get on.
We know there's issues,
and everyone has their own problems you wanna stay away from
to relieve that stress and have a productive evening.
First thing, and this suggestion I got out of a magazine,
a men's magazine about health and whatnot.
He was a registered dietician, and he's an exercise...
- Guru.
- Guru, exactly.
He said, "Make sure you take a snack before you leave work
or on the drive home if you've got a long drive home."
And he's advising high protein, high fiber,
one of those bars you can eat.
Something that's gonna hold you over.
- A lot of times you eat that high protein,
and it really just squelches any hunger pains you may have,
and you really don't even have the desire
to eat anything anymore.
- He also mentioned chickpeas evidently have this.
- I have not tried those.
- I have not either,
but evidently it's a upcoming thing,
and they've got a number of flavors now,
so you can kind of pick and choose.
- Snap peas are something I like.
- I have done snap peas.
- I love those.
- Yeah, those are great. - You better believe it.
- And you can eat a lot of them and without any worry.
- And they're healthy.
- It's good for you.
- They taste great.
- Right.
- So do that before you get home,
so you eliminate that hunger desire
when you get in the kitchen if you do that.
The second thing,
and this is from a doc that was quoted in this article,
he says, "Hit the reboot button."
- Sure.
- In other words, a buffer action.
So it's action, something you physically do
to get work behind you and that stress behind you
and get your mind on some things you wanna do at home
and maybe get done at home.
- Sure.
- He suggests, and this is what I like to do,
if I immediately go to the bedroom, change my clothes.
Say I'm gonna go out and do something in the yard.
- Puts you in a different frame of mind right away.
- As soon as you get those clothes off,
the work stuff is behind you,
and I'm thinking about oh, I've gotta get this other--
- What am I gonna do now?
- Exactly.
Another thing, I've never done this, but he's recommended
maybe an action, an exercise
like do some pushups, 10 pushups.
Just something to get you on a roll.
- See, I do this.
- You do?
- Yeah, I get home, and I do a little workout.
It's kinda my mini-workout.
- Sure.
- I throw some pushups in.
I'll do some of our wall anchor.
- Sure.
- It gets me...
I'm getting tired when I get home.
I could easily fall asleep.
(Brad laughs)
Like you said, it does reboot me,
and now I'm ready to go and do something.
- There you go.
So the first step, get something to eat before you get home.
The second step, hit your reboot button.
Get your action, do that thing.
Here's the third one, and this is really big,
and everyone knows this.
If you come in the house, you're fatigued, you're tired,
and you have to sit down to do something.
- You're done for.
- You make the mistake of sitting in the recliner.
Ah, does that feel good, you've worked so hard,
you need a break.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, that puts you in,
it's like stepping off the cliff.
- You know what I do, actually, Brad?
I have one of the standing tables.
- Yeah?
- I don't sit down at all.
I'll want to check my computer usually when I get home.
- So your standing table for your computer workstation.
- Yeah, for my computer, yeah.
My electric table that goes up and down.
I get there, and I don't even sit,
because even if I sit there, sometimes I start to fade.
- And one recommendation he said is,
and this makes total sense,
if you need to sit for whatever,
sit in a firm chair with good tall posture.
Don't recline back, no pillows behind you,
and your feet out wide like you're ready to get up again.
- Yeah, ready for action.
- Exactly, the action position.
- It is amazing how your mind works.
If you put your body in a certain position,
just like they recommend,
like if you smile, you suddenly feel better.
- Right.
- Just force yourself to smile as opposed to
you've got the sourpuss on you.
- Right, the old saying "fake it 'till you make it."
- That's right.
- If you feel tired or whatever, just...
- Tell yourself you're not tired.
- Exactly.
- Put yourself in a position.
- Then you've gotta follow up with some physical action.
Eventually, things work good, and life becomes good again,
and your whole evening is turned around,
and you get dinner at night before you go to bed,
and you say wow.
- You're gonna feel a lot better about yourself
if you get home and are productive
as opposed to eating crap and laying down on the couch.
(men laughing)
Well, these are all suggestions.
Remember, Brad and I can fix just about anything
except for a broken heart.
- This could fall--
- We should have them put it right on the mattress.
- There you go.
Oh, wow.
- That'll look nice.
- You think he can do that?
- Yeah, yeah he can.
- That'll be a nice comfort.
- All right.
Thanks for watching. - Adios.