Hope, optimism and health. Turn it into an acronym, repeat three times fast and you have “Hoh, hoh, hoh”. I love finding out the origins of famous phrases…! We’ve been getting some good news lately – wow, we can shoot at and hit a satellite traveling at 17,000 miles an […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
The power of hope and optimism, or the lack thereof, has a powerful impact on our health. News stories can make or break our days. Seeing hope in a time of crisis can turn around our life outlook. Being optimistic will carry us through even the toughest situations. This week’s […]
At other times in my life, the reason that I haven’t blogged since Wednesday would be attributed to poor health. It is not the case this time. In fact, I have been quite busy and have accomplished a lot in terms of my mission to spread the gospel of fitness. […]
Do you have a vision of your life or your body that the light of hope is quickly going out on? My light of hope revolves around my ability to run, which has become so challenging that I thought that the melted wax under the wick of the candle of […]
I have a stress problem. I guess that I have been in denial for a long time, because now that I have given up stress cold turkey, I realize how good I can feel and how badly I felt. Whether you have a stress problem or not, this week’s articles […]
If what I am reading is true, I may not be around a lot longer. My long term goal is to live to 105, but unless I can repulse the attack of the killer stress, then it could get ugly! If you adhere to the “everything happens for a reason” […]
Turning the Corner That Never Came It would be good for you to first understand what I was doing in my last job before you know what my job is like now. Up until last year, I was a Polar Authorized Internet Dealer, selling Polar heart rate monitors and accessories […]
Over the past 25 years (in a 42 year running career), I have used probably a dozen different ways of tracking my workouts and my progress. Ranging from the Runner’s World Runner’s Log to my first computer that had a printer with paper with the little holes on the side […]
I am finally vindicating, 31 years later, the college guidance counselor who determined that my best career paths would be as a brick layer or a minister. I certainly would like to think that my advice and guidance is helping to give people a strong foundation to build their fitness […]
The Past My identity is wrapped up in being a runner. After almost 42 years of running, it is part of my fiber. But instead of being my best friend like it used to be, because of a moment in time in May 1983, I realize now, that it was […]
Ok, so I had the newsletter done and got it out early this morning, but when I was running a while later, I realized that I hadn’t posted the articles. I always wear a Camelbak with my cell phone in case there is a kid emergency, my keys and a […]
Had I written this blog last week, it would have been titled, “Negative Thinking, Negative Habits, Negative Change” because a stomach virus started wreaking havoc within my body early last Monday morning and was quite successful in preventing me from having those positive thoughts that keep me going every day […]
Team Beachbody is not a quick weight loss program. Team Beachbody does not sell weight loss drugs or gimmicky, useless fitness equipment. It is not promoting quick fixes for anything. Team Beachbody is hundreds of thousands of people just like you and me working together in a national fitness community […]
I just got off a radio interview with one of our newest coaches, Neil Anderson, a trainer and radio host of The Health and Fitness Zone in Salt Lake City. During the conversation, we came up with the concept of how trainers can actually expand their business and better serve […]
I was doing really well for a month. I got in some good workouts in January and visions of fitness danced in my head. Then along came a virus that sat down beside me and now those visions have gone down the toilet, so to speak. What? Although I got […]
Seeing the Giants, a wild card team, win the Super Bowl is a perfect example of the power of positive thinking as they denied the New England Patriots the chance to complete a perfect season. As Eli Manning said, “There’s something about this team. The way we win games, and […]
Carl Daikeler has an interesting theory, presented here, that people are now waiting until after the Super Bowl to start their resolutions, given the drop in people actually starting their resolutions on New Year’s Day. Let’s see what the CEO has to say: Running a weight loss and fitness company […]
It is named as such because, this year, that Monday is about starting your weight loss cycle the right way – with the kind of accountability that we know leads to real success. The “Before photo” gives you instant accountability. (If you want to drive to a new destination, the […]
Ironically the theme this week is positive thinking and given the Giants shocking upset victory over the New England Patriots, it is a well timed subject. As Eli Manning said, “There’s something about this team. The way we win games, and performed in the playoffs in the stretch. We had […]
I wrote in another blog about how I am a “late adapter”, meaning that all of those things that to younger generations are second nature – texting, getting email on their phones, etc. – are more challenging and frankly not worth figuring out. My fingers are way too big to […]