A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
World-class tips, tactics, strategies and serious motivation
Better than or about what you expected? The annual Track Shack Watermelon 5k run had 4,000 runners and walkers. It’s become a tradition to start July 4th by running this hot and humid race. It went better than expected.
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PS. Traditions, fun, and goals are three great ways to stay motivated.
Never seen Cape Cod from this angle before.
Cape Cod, MA
We make plans, right? Say we’re going on a trip. We plan our arrival and departure and a few (or more) scheduled activities. Business appointments and meals are a given. I also plan eight hours sleep each night. What’s left is what we can call discretionary time – for running, sightseeing, etc.
Five days at Disneyland Paris. One 12-minute run. How did that happen? How does any of it happen? For any of us?
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Focus our health on top three areas:
The last one, flexibility, is the one most often overlooked.
Click here to explore why, and to discover simple tips to overcome this.
Sounds simple, but it will be one of the toughest, and longest, journeys of your life.
And one I wouldn’t trade for anything. We reap what we sow. Make it a great day. It’s up to each of us.
Whether or not you go to a gym is inconsequential. It doesn’t matter.
Why?
Because who cares where you exercise? Really. Who cares? No one. Maybe you care, but in reality, no one cares.
So what’s the point then?
Simply this – if you have the capability to exercise and don’t, aren’t you forfeiting one of the most amazing graces ever bestowed on you?
Lane 8, “What’s next”?
Face to face questions, as well as emails, ask the same thing, “Are you preparing for any upcoming meets”?
Yes, and no.
YES, there are two big meets in 2010. The WMA Masters Track & Field Indoor World Championships in early March, in Kamloops, British Columbia. And there’s the USA Masters Track & Field National Championships, in July, in Sacramento, California.
NO, the left heel pain precludes me from anything remotely intense enough to be considered world class training.
This may be a good thing. If you don’t know, it was never the intent to become a world class Master’s athlete. But after several years of running and making common sense, common practice, I wanted to see if it could actually be done.
Tomorrow I’ll describe the level of fitness that I didn’t even know I had achieved. And what it feels like to see it slip away and the thought process on how, and if, I should deal with that.
Lane 8 @ 2009 World Championships
Lane 8 at 2009 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
That’s “Jack”, my son’s Teddy Bear. He has three exactly alike. He got them as gifts years ago. The collar is actually inscribed “Jack”.
Our son was born in August 2000. My Dad, Jack Noel, passed on, April 2001.
My Father, and our son, never met. We were two months away from our trip to Pennsylvania when the phone call came, “They’re giving your dad three days”.
So, “Jack” the bear, has traveled extensively. He’s the one with two torn ears. The other “Jacks” are in near perfect condition. Our son was gracious enough to let the “tug-o-war with our yellow Lab” Jack travel.
Find a million ways, gimmicks, tricks – whatever it takes – to stay motivated. Jack is simply one of them.
It’s easier to exercise and eat sensibly during:
The reality? In the big scheme of life, youth lasts say 20 years, then fades quickly.
Humans are born to mate, like all living creatures. Wake up calls may take a lifetime before they start arriving.
It’s all the other times in our lives that are the real challenge, the real key. Look around people.
Like I suggested a while back, “If aliens found Earth and gave us a pass/fail health grade, what would we get”?
On the drive to Victory Martial Arts “Safety Demonstration” (recruiting) yesterday, I reminded our son there was no expectation that he enroll and take lessons.
All the children participated, even the first timers. Our son eagerly lined up. Surprisingly, two of his friends are members there and graciously welcomed him into the atmosphere.
Off to a great start and then somewhere in the middle it got more intense and he felt uncomfortable with his skill level, and returned to the audience with me.
I could not have been more proud. He tried something. He did his best. I didn’t push him, even though I could have. He’s nine. How hard do you push yourself? He’ll get were he needs to go. Will you?
Maybe today is the day our son finds a physical activity that interests him. He is great on exercising his Mind. Great with his Spirit. Decent on Money.
Body? Well, he has a keen understanding of nutrition for a nine-year old. Much better than most adults.
Yesterday, after we pulled away from Twistee Treat, he asked me to call a number. He said the first ten callers get a free t-shirt.
He passed the flyer up to me in the driver’s seat. At the stoplight I quickly scanned it.
We were the fourth caller. So today we go to Victory Martial Arts for a children’s safety demonstration, a t-shirt, and maybe something else.
Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning? Although it may not seem so, it might be a good idea to watch this. If you don’t have five minutes to spare on a day like today, maybe your life is too complicated. Alan Jackson sings his beautiful tribute song:
This is why I pray without ceasing that someday soon, we can all live in Peace.
Mind, body, spirit, money, and hq...
You see four of them below. The fifth is the "box" the holds the other four...
America's unheralded work life balance expert. jeff noel, is a Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. He believes work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity, he can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.