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What's Luck Got To Do With It?
March and St. Patrick's Day brings up thinking about LUCK. The shamrock is a symbol of luck and it's associated with St. Paddy's Day. You are not fit and healthy because you are lucky. You are not pudgy and lethargic because you are unlucky. The fitness lifestyle is a choice as is the couch potato life.One thing I love about St. Patrick's Day and all the festivities is that the whole day is celebrating green! I tell my clients and friends to eat green and other vibrant colored foods and the results will be health and vitality. Stay away from eating brown and white food because that will get you to lethargy and sluggishness.
Choosing healthy and well-conditioned versus apathy and depression seems to me to be a "no-brainer". Why do people choose to become inactive? Disuse is the main cause for ailments from arthritis to strength loss to despair. I know it takes work and determination to get from flab to fab, but the payoffs are tremendous.
When you decide to become more active, you need to think in "baby-steps" and not the all or nothing mentality. Since you've been inactive for a long time-it's going to take a while to see your life turn around. If you are coming from a place where you used to be in shape and active then you'll see things happen faster. Your body remembers how it felt to be strong and agile. It likes that feeling and it will respond fast to exercises that promote health and wellness.
The next time you see someone doing something physical that makes their heart stronger, their skeletal system support them better, and their self worth climb a notch or two, think to yourself-"that could be me".
Everywhere you look there are opportunities for you to be more active. Take advantage of what your area has to offer and get up off the couch and dare to BFIT. What's Luck got to do with it??
In Health,
Bonnie
Change Your Life in Less than 24 Hours
On December 9, 2006 the AK Show aired a piece about my Small Group Personal Training Studio in East Anchorage. As a result of the show, I had a 42 year old woman call me telling me that when she heard the show she burst into tears because she felt so old and out of shape!
This gal has two little boys both under the age of 3 and she wanted to be able to do things with them but she knew that in her state of health and fitness she'd have to opt to sit on the sidelines.
We worked together for 18 sessions and she is a changed woman. She told me that she was in the bathroom the other morning and one of her boys came in and needed help with something and she squatted down and helped him with whatever it was. While she was down there she realized that she could not have done this a few short weeks earlier. (She would have had to sit down, not use her leg muscles to support her in this squat position.) She remarked at how much strength she'd gained and how wonderful she feels.
We will be working together for 6 more weeks via phone. She will really discover that she has made exercising a habit and will become accountable for her own workouts. She understands that this is a lifestyle change and she will need to have exercise as her second priority, family being first. Because she is fitter now, she realizes that she is much more valuable to her employer and more vital to her family.
She shared with me how she used to be so caught up with work and the stress of the job that she would cause storms or be the better part of the fury. Today she sits back and watches the storm and realizes how futile it all is. Because she is exercising and releasing her endorphins in a good way she no longer needs to get all riled up and panicky. Even her co-workers acknowledge the difference in her demeanor.
She has gotten her boss to OK a small gym at her workplace and she'll be continuing her training during the day at work She will be exercising during the day, probably during her lunch hour because she realizes that she will not, does not want to, get up two hours early to work out nor will she take time away from her family in the evening to get in a 45 minute run.
This woman went from out of shape to fit in less than 24 hours.
You can too.
Call or email me to schedule your free fitness consultation today. (907) 229-7652
In health,
Bonnie
This gal has two little boys both under the age of 3 and she wanted to be able to do things with them but she knew that in her state of health and fitness she'd have to opt to sit on the sidelines.
We worked together for 18 sessions and she is a changed woman. She told me that she was in the bathroom the other morning and one of her boys came in and needed help with something and she squatted down and helped him with whatever it was. While she was down there she realized that she could not have done this a few short weeks earlier. (She would have had to sit down, not use her leg muscles to support her in this squat position.) She remarked at how much strength she'd gained and how wonderful she feels.
We will be working together for 6 more weeks via phone. She will really discover that she has made exercising a habit and will become accountable for her own workouts. She understands that this is a lifestyle change and she will need to have exercise as her second priority, family being first. Because she is fitter now, she realizes that she is much more valuable to her employer and more vital to her family.
She shared with me how she used to be so caught up with work and the stress of the job that she would cause storms or be the better part of the fury. Today she sits back and watches the storm and realizes how futile it all is. Because she is exercising and releasing her endorphins in a good way she no longer needs to get all riled up and panicky. Even her co-workers acknowledge the difference in her demeanor.
She has gotten her boss to OK a small gym at her workplace and she'll be continuing her training during the day at work She will be exercising during the day, probably during her lunch hour because she realizes that she will not, does not want to, get up two hours early to work out nor will she take time away from her family in the evening to get in a 45 minute run.
This woman went from out of shape to fit in less than 24 hours.
You can too.
Call or email me to schedule your free fitness consultation today. (907) 229-7652
In health,
Bonnie
