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

Are the Benefits of Yoga Magnified By Laughter?

There are many benefits of Yoga.

• Increases flexibility
• Lubricates joints
• Massages all the organs
• Detoxification
• Muscle toning
• Establishes a mind-body-soul connection

Yoga is good for you.  It’s a no brainer!

I’ll bet it wouldn’t be hard to convince you that laughter is very beneficial as well.  Watch a comedy and you will feel the benefit.

Shoot, even if you fake a laugh, it still has beneficial effects!

• Decreases stress hormones
• Improves Immune System
• Boosts Endorphins

Laughter really is the best medicine!  So how do you get more of it in your life?

How about starting everyday with a group laugh!

Dr. Madan Kutaria understands how beneficial laughter is for your health and well being.  In 1995 he started an infectious laugh that has spread around the world.

Laughter really is contagious!

Dr. Kataria is right!  Let us all become as little children and laugh ourselves to well being!

Yoga + Laughter = JOY right now!

The benefits of yoga and laughter are easy to claim for yourself!

Start your own laughing yoga club!  You’ll find many videos on YouTube that will give you guidance.  Laugh and the world will laugh with you, or at least your Laugh Club will!

OR

You can find many things to laugh about everyday, AND get started on your yoga practice today!

Just click on the link and Go For It!

Discover the Benefits of Yoga!

Many blessings,

Carrie

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

1. Relax and Release tension
2. Take deeep breaths
3. Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Are You Nurturing Yourself With Basic Heatlh Related Fitness Components?

If you are NOT covering the basics in health related fitness components, it’s only a matter of time before you suffer the consequences.

Nurture your body, or neglect it and push yourself into an early grave!
Worse yet, your neglect could end up pushing you into a sick bed and your suffering could possibly go on for years and years and years!

Do you have any idea what you need to do to provide yourself with the basics for health building?

When do you think it might be a good time to find out?

Do you want to wait until you are SICK before you build your health?

If you aren’t suffering… why bother?

Bad habits die hard!

“Hey, I need my vices to get through the week!”

Are you protesting the loss of your coping comforts?

“Only the good die young! I’m not hurting anyone.”

Why should you give a second thought to your health if you are enjoying yourself?

Why?

Because, when your suffering begins, you will have no choice but to suffer! Read more

The Weather Sucks, Why Is Exercise Important Anyway?

Weather messing with your exercise program?

I seem to be living under a perpetual gray cloud lately.  The clouds really aren’t all that bad, it’s the frigid trade winds that get to me.

Do you walk or jog first thing in the morning?

Isn’t it hard to get out there when it is raining, or worse yet snowing… and COLD?

You just feel like turning off the alarm and pulling the blanket over your head.

“Wake me up when it is sunny!”

Or maybe…. you are suffering at the other end of the spectrum.  Are your clothes dripping after your afternoon walk, and you feel like a noodle trying to lift a fork to your mouth at dinner?

The sun can really take it out of you, huh?

What is the alternative?

Drive through traffic to the gym to run around in circles without a view?

Fun?  I don’t think so!

Why is exercise important anyway?

Is Exercise Worth Your Time?

• Exercise strengthens your heart muscle.
• If you lose muscle you lose bone.
• Mental clarity is not associated with lazy people.
• Exercise actually increases your metabolism AND your energy level.
• Physical activity strengthens your immune system.

Are you still asking why is exercise important?

Is improving your quality of life a big deal to you?

“Well, duh!  That’s why you planned to exercise in the first place!”

So how can you keep the motivation-stealing weather from sabotaging your daily walk? Read more

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