What Can Emotional Exercise Benefits Do For You?

When you feel down, do you think,

“I should get up and take a walk?”

Probably not, but you should!

Get moving and your mood will improve!

Do you believe that you can choose to be happier? Read more

Is It Just Stress? Chest Pain Isn’t Always Serious, Is It?

Do you ever feel significant chest pain?

Does it worry you?

Any type of chest pain that causes you concern or that is accompanied by any of the following symptoms, should be considered an emergency:

• Pressure, tightness and squeezing pain across the chest
• Pain radiating down the arm, shoulders, jaw, neck, and back, particularly on the left side
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness, sweating, weakness, overwhelming fatigue
• Feeling of impending doom
• Headache, blurry vision, lightheadedness, feeling faint
• Gastrointestinal symptoms such as indigestion, nausea and vomiting
• Coughing and palpitations

You are much better safe than sorry.

If you experience symptoms like those above, you want to get to a hospital and rule out the possibility that you are having a heart attack.

Do not reason it away and lose valuable time.

There are many other causes of chest pain that can become worrisome, but they won’t give you sudden extreme symptoms like those of a heart attack.

Any of the following might give you chest pain:

• GERD or heartburn
• excessive belching
• hiatal hernia
• gastric ulcer
• pulled muscle

Suffice to say that if you are worried, seek the advice of your doctor.

With that said, let me also say that even if you think your chest pain is related to stress, it is still cause for concern. Read more

Do You Find Health Related Articles Helpful or Annoying?

Are you doing all you can do to nurture your health and vitality?

Health related articles are meant to inspire you to take positive action toward better habits.

Do you eat at least 5 servings of fruits and veggies everyday?

How about exercise?

Are you active on a regular bases?

If you know that you need to eat more produce and be more active, then why don’t you?

Do you KNOW why?

“Because  I like to eat and I’m lazy?”

Have you ever said that about yourself?

Just for the sake of argument … what if Read more

Why Is Physical Fitness So Important? Step 3, Keep Moving.

Why is physical fitness so important?

We have already discussed Step 1, Getting Started, and Step 2, Knowing Your Limits; and as long as you are getting into motion habitually and honoring your limits while you stretch them, the only step left is to Keep Moving!

It’s really just that simple.

That doesn’t mean that you should beat yourself up if you fall off of your program!  Hey, if you get back up tomorrow, and have an active day, then you are on the right track!  Allow yourself your resistance, BUT get past it and get moving again!

You haven’t given up until you don’t get back up again!  The longer you wait to get moving again, the harder it will be to get back up!

Getting back on your program is VICTORY!

All that is required is that you keep on going!  If you can do that, you will see results.

Don’t feel like you need to kill yourself.  You should be able to talk comfortably while you move.  Respect your limits and you will not deplete yourself.

If your health is already compromised, Read more

Why Is Physical Fitness So Important? Step 2, Know Your Limits!

2010 has begun!  In a hurry to get in shape?

You’ve already made your first mistake.

If 2009 wasn’t an active year, your pace should be slow and steady in 2010.  Consistency is the way to achieve ALL your fitness goals.

Pushing yourself might just be your undoing.  Do you know that the first sign of heart disease is often a heart attack?

So, what is your motivation for wanting to get in better shape?  Do you have major health concerns, a family history of heart disease, or do you just want to look better this year?

Your motive for getting in shape might drive you, that’s not a bad thing.  Just don’t make immediate results be the measure of your success.  Read more

Why Is Physical Fitness So Important? Step 1, Getting Started.

Physical fitness is not a popular subject outside the gym.

Why is physical fitness so important?  To a couch potato, it’s a dirty word.

To someone dying of heart failure, it is unthinkable.

If you are not an athlete, why should you care about physical fitness?

Heard the expression, Move It OR Lose It?

You can take that one to the bank.

Why is physical fitness so important?

Because if you are inactive you will die prematurely of Sedentary Death Syndrome.

Look, if the mention of exercise makes your heart sink, then just get up and walk out the door on a regular basis.

Check out the flowers, clouds, and birds.  Depending on where you live, maybe the architecture is interesting or the people colorful.

Don’t call it exercise.

Make it a ritual to unplug from thinking and just move.

If you can’t move your body down the road, then move it in your yard, or on your patio, down the hallway or dance in your chair!

Just move.

If you will move, everyday consistently, until your heart rate increases and your tension is released, you will understand why physical fitness it so important.

You will FEEL it.

The experience is much like a warm blanket on a cold rainy day.

You get so stiff and your circulation so dull with built up sludge when you let yourself go.  Easing yourself into forward motion is a process that requires gentle patience.

No pain no gain is a myth. Read more

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