What would you consider is your most valuable tool for staying in shape? Is it your treadmill? What about your weight set? Is it your arsenal of low-fat cookbooks, and low-carb diet snacks? What about your collection of workout videos?Would you consider it a revelation that your most lethal weapon in the battle of the bulge is your Attitude?Think about it. What good is your treadmill if you don't have the energy to get on it, or can't get up the...more
How do you see yourself in the last third of your life? Strong and active with loads of energy, mentally sharp as a tack, rarely experiencing a sniffle much less a serious illness or disease? Add to that the ability and 'get up and go' to travel and enjoy leisure activities with family and friends.Or do you see yourself planning your life around doctor's appointments and tests, planted in front of a television set between running to the drug store to try and manage some chronic disease, illness or injury that leaves you unable to fully engage in life and the things you love to do?You don't have to answer that, of course we all naturally want to keep as much of our youthfulness, strength, health, vigor and vitality as we can, well into our later years but it is not all up to Lady Luck there is a lot we can do to make sure it happens.Our bodies are designed to be active - very active, but unfortunately most of the physical 'work' has be engineered out of our daily lives to make them 'easy' and 'convenient'. Gadgets, appliances, cars and technology of all sorts are robbing us of the activity we need to keep our bodies strong and resist disease.One of the biggest changes in our bodies...more
Running on a treadmill can be a great workout. When you feel that you have hit a plateau in your treadmill workouts, there are a few things you can change on the machine and a few things you can change in your life to experience more results.First, you want to make sure that you are exercising on the elliptical in a very consistent manner. When...more
When both physical and mental skills are underlined by a softball hitting plan to prepare a softball player to become a great hitter, that plan is definitely comprehensive. And with regular executions of those plan and careful attention, a softball player can definitely create an explosive stroke. Developing physical skill is one aspect of hitting...more
When you read the Merriam-Webster definition for attitude, there is a list of 7 different explanations as to how the word can be used. Reading down the list it is abundantly clear that attitude is not only a state of emotional or physical being but...more
Would you like to lose a little weight but just can't seem to psych yourself up mentally? An easy way for you to make running fun is to change your attitude toward the process. What if you can do something a little differently that will make you...more
If you are trying to lose weight and get in shape, you might be thinking of all the work that has to go into the process. You must change your mental attitude. If you think about running or working out a little differently, you might be surprised...more
Have you ever thought about how you feel about your money? Money defines so much of our lives-what we wear, where we live, what kinds of vacations we can take, our choices of higher education, and so on-maybe it's a good idea to take notice of how we...more
Do not take wit that is simply there to have the viewer's laughter. There is an older saying "Humor is simply disaster separated by moment and place. Or just believe of any incident that was amusing to be shared. The wit needs to draw...more
Are you afraid that you will never be able to get him back after your breakup? Are you really thinking that this might be it and that you will never feel his loving arms around you ever again and that you will have to deal with the pain of seeing...more