It is very important to keep our motivation and to make changes or at least keep changes in our life that are good while at the same time pushing out bad habits. The problem that we sometimes run into though is complacency. The Danger of Complacency Complacency always rears its head at the same time that we are working towards some kind of big goal and are part way there. How many times do you find yourself losing weight, meeting people, getting a better diet going and then you suddenly … [Read more...] about Weekly Motivation Checkup
Fitness Motivation
Benchmarking Your Fitness Level
You never know where you are going if you did not benchmark where you started and know where you are today. Therefore it is critical to make sure that you know where you stand today so that you can make plans for tomorrow. There is truth in those statements but it is important for you to make sure that you are following certain numbers, and not just weight on the scale, but I have run into a couple of people over the last few days that are not sure if they are moving forward or … [Read more...] about Benchmarking Your Fitness Level
Getting Rid Of Distractions
This book to the right is important. You will know that by then end of this post. One of the big things related to planning your day and getting motivated to do things is getting rid of all of those distractions in your head. On a daily basis we apparently think about the same 98% of things that we thought about the day before. We are living distracted and the worst thing about it is that we are always finding more and more things on the internet to distract us from our goals instead of of … [Read more...] about Getting Rid Of Distractions
Why doing 90% is not enough
Now that it is College Basketball playoff season and we have passed the sweet 16 and are closing in on the final 4 we get to see a lot of young kids interviewed after games and often they say things like "I gave it 100%" or "I left everything I had on the court" or my very unfavorite (as my daughter would say) "I gave it 110%". Gave it 110% eh? Well that does not even make sense but the reason that people say that is that they want to stress that they had nothing left except what they did … [Read more...] about Why doing 90% is not enough
20 minutes a day
How long should you exercise? Experts say that you should exercise for at least 20 minutes a day. I don't know about you but 20 minutes is not a long time to exercise. If you get up just 10minutes early and get 20 minutes of exercise the you will have to rush around and still get to work on time. 20 minutes for exercise is easy to find. If you have dinner a few minutes early and then do the cleaning up and have your workout before starting your evening routine you will never miss the time. … [Read more...] about 20 minutes a day
Getting more from your workouts
Last night on the Biggest Loser I found that the over arching theme to the show seems to be that people were working out harder than they ever had before. Actually some of the people did not even know how hard that they could push themselves. Our mind is very slow to adapt when it comes to diet and exercise. If you live a sedentary lifestyle of years and then begin to work out your body will think that it can run let's say 100 feet. So you run 100 feet and your chest is sore and you are out … [Read more...] about Getting more from your workouts
Is Britney Spears Fat?
Is Britney Spears Fat? That is a question that came up yesterday across the mass media and it is something that we really need to look at in our society. Let's say for a minute that we see Britney on video and think 'Oh my, she has sure gotten fat' Well that was my reaction anyway, not fair to be sure as at least 95% of all people are fatter than Britney Spears were Sunday and still I thought she was fat. The fact versus the perception is the important thing to look at. If I look at … [Read more...] about Is Britney Spears Fat?
Why Diet and Exercise help you live longer
The traditional prescriptions for a healthy life Sensible diet, exercise and control, extend life by reducing signaling through a specific pathway in the brain, according to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who discovered the connection while studying long-lived mice. They said their findings underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and may also offer promising research directions for understanding and treating diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Howard Hughes … [Read more...] about Why Diet and Exercise help you live longer
More top 5 fitness lists
Here is a few more good Top 5 type articles from Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 4 that I took part in a few days ago. Hope you enjoy them! One writers reasons why Gluten free is the way to be Gluten Free Mommy » Top Five Reasons I Look Great on a Gluten Free Diet How to make real change Want To Make Real Change? Stop Making These 5 Mistakes Top ways to get fit...one of many I might add. Top 5 Ways to Get (and Stay) Fit! Simple and beginning meditations The … [Read more...] about More top 5 fitness lists
The best of the ProBlogger Top 5 lists
As I mentioned yesterday there is a blog writing contest, well kind of a contest going on where people are writing articles on their top 5... whatever they want. I have included this list from that list to let you peruse other articles, mostly fitness, that I liked. Here is the home page for darrens blog writing project Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 2 Great basics on staying or keeping in shape - with a great looking picture 5 Back-to-Basics Strategies For Renewing Your Energy at Ririan … [Read more...] about The best of the ProBlogger Top 5 lists
I am not Paul Plakas
Paul Plakas is the fitness trainer on the TV show X-weighted. I have written about X-weighted before and the show itself is really good from the standpoint of the ideas. Paul Plakas tries his best on the show to help people from where they are now and their attitudes about food and exercise and one of the nice things about Paul is that he is tough on people. What tends to happen to most people it seems on X weighted is that they change their eating and exercise and of course the early returns … [Read more...] about I am not Paul Plakas
What is your fitness excuse
It is a good thing that this is just a fitness blog because otherwise this subject could really scale out to a book or two in length. What is your fitness excuse, why are you not eating or getting the exercise that you need? I have flogged this one a bit but back in December I broke the axle on the back wheel of my bike. Of course it was a little cold and a week until Christmas so I did not get it fixed. I spend January trying a couple of times to fix it and the giving up. In February I … [Read more...] about What is your fitness excuse
24 hour fitness Recognizing California wellness initiative
California governor and ex bodybuilding pro Arnold Schwarzenegger as you can imagine understands the need for fitness and wellness programs for everyone in the state of California. This press release not only is a bit of a plug that 24 hour fitness shows that they support the program but also makes the governors announcement yesterday a bit more public around the country. 24 Hour Fitness today commended California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Stay Healthy California" five-point plan … [Read more...] about 24 hour fitness Recognizing California wellness initiative
Planning your Christmas day eating and exercise
Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite eating days of the year. Christmas dinner is now only a couple of days away and the Turkeys and Hams have already been bought and are waiting to be eaten. Every year I get up early on Christmas morning and eat and drink my way through the day and end up feeling boated and a little off by the end of the day. I have thought about how best to get through the day and have the following tips. Remember that so much about Christmas is about lounging around … [Read more...] about Planning your Christmas day eating and exercise
Kirstie Alley on Oprah
Today I watched my first Oprah episode in years. The reason I watched Oprah? Kirstie Alley was on to talk about her weight loss over the last year. It has been a pretty amazing year and between the media machine that Jenny Craig created and the media machine that is Oprah this was a very talked about event with Kirstie Alley showing up in a bikini and then getting interviewed while wearing a dress. It was an interesting episode where Kirstie Alley was very forthcoming about how tough … [Read more...] about Kirstie Alley on Oprah
