Monday, 27 August 2012
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
He can do it all!
Arnold gives so much back.
This is the answer to childhood obesity right here!
If the schools are not adopting it, parents should be.
If you're a parent and you are not fit...how do you expect your children to do something you don't?
I'm not sure what schools are like at the moment with PE but I remember having to do some, but there was never a huge emphasis on it. I imagine in this day and age of lawsuits, over protective parents and the heavier focus on other subjects that this is becoming more of an elective thing rather than mandatory.
I'm with Arnold, we need to have more focus on the exercise to make the minds of our youth stronger to cope with the new world we live in.
This is the answer to childhood obesity right here!
If the schools are not adopting it, parents should be.
If you're a parent and you are not fit...how do you expect your children to do something you don't?
I'm not sure what schools are like at the moment with PE but I remember having to do some, but there was never a huge emphasis on it. I imagine in this day and age of lawsuits, over protective parents and the heavier focus on other subjects that this is becoming more of an elective thing rather than mandatory.
I'm with Arnold, we need to have more focus on the exercise to make the minds of our youth stronger to cope with the new world we live in.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Your History to Channel
A little
more about me.
Knowing where
you have come from can help you stay on track and push forward with your new
goals. So perhaps looking into your history could give you some new inspiration to channel into.
My high
school life was riddled with fat kid bullying, until year 10 after I shot up in
height.
Then I spent
the next 2 years taking control of my diet and by the end of high school, I was
slender. A goal I had wanted to achieve for a long time.
Then many
more years passed until a couple of years back on my birthday, my mom answered
the phone. It was a random cold call for an exercise club in town. Mom was
already a gym junkie so she passed the phone on to me.
Originally the
plan was to use the two free weeks and then bail. The only gym work I had ever
done was back at high school and it never did anything for me.
So I rock
up and start on the circuit and the bug hit me almost straight away. The sweat,
challenge and self challenge were a great feeling. I wanted more; my new goal
was to be in a fitter condition for snowboarding in Canada by the end of the
year.
By the time
the trip came, I was fitter and my goal was achieved. Previous trip, massively sore
legs from boarding, new trip, no sore legs!
However in
that trip I ate quite a bit, one of the pitfalls of holidaying in the USA. So upon
my return, the food side of things got a good kick start again. Smaller meals, healthier
meal and in about 3 weeks I had lost around 10kg!
Now my goal
changed to maintaining and gaining a bit more muscle mass.
So it has
been a fairly long journey so far, with many smaller achievement goals in-between,
I can still remember that awkwardness of going into the gym for the first time
and feeling out of place. Now I can confidently walk into any gym set up and
begin a workout with a very clear goal set in mind.
I urge you, if you
have been scared to start or think you should do something about your fitness,
begin NOW and see if you can get bitten by the fitness bug.
Your History to Channel
A little
more about me.
Knowing where
you have come from can help you stay on track and push forward with your new
goals. So perhaps looking into your history could give you some new inspiration to channel into.
My high
school life was riddled with fat kid bullying, until year 10 after I shot up in
height.
Then I spent
the next 2 years taking control of my diet and by the end of high school, I was
slender. A goal I had wanted to achieve for a long time.
Then many
more years passed until a couple of years back on my birthday, my mom answered
the phone. It was a random cold call for an exercise club in town. Mom was
already a gym junkie so she passed the phone on to me.
Originally the
plan was to use the two free weeks and then bail. The only gym work I had ever
done was back at high school and it never did anything for me.
So I rock
up and start on the circuit and the bug hit me almost straight away. The sweat,
challenge and self challenge were a great feeling. I wanted more; my new goal
was to be in a fitter condition for snowboarding in Canada by the end of the
year.
By the time
the trip came, I was fitter and my goal was achieved. Previous trip, massively sore
legs from boarding, new trip, no sore legs!
However in
that trip I ate quite a bit, one of the pitfalls of holidaying in the USA. So upon
my return, the food side of things got a good kick start again. Smaller meals, healthier
meal and in about 3 weeks I had lost around 10kg!
Now my goal
changed to maintaining and gaining a bit more muscle mass.
So it has
been a fairly long journey so far, with many smaller achievement goals in-between,
I can still remember that awkwardness of going into the gym for the first time
and feeling out of place. Now I can confidently walk into any gym set up and
begin a workout with a very clear goal set in mind.
I urge you, if you
have been scared to start or think you should do something about your fitness,
begin NOW and see if you can get bitten by the fitness bug.
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