I’m still waiting for the day when a leader tells me that they don’t struggle to manage their workload. Under such unceasing pressures, it is easy to deprioritise maintaining our physical health and fitness. Doing so, however, comes at a high price.
Fortunately, more and more ways are being discovered by which we can stay healthy, without needing to spend hours working out. The 4-minute workout described in the article is designed to maximise the release of nitric oxide, a powerful molecule that delivers multiple benefits in our bodies: so powerful, in fact, that the medical journal Science named it the “Molecule of the Year”. Its physiological importance was officially recognised in 1998 when a Nobel Prize was awarded to the scientists who discovered its critical role in the cardiovascular system.