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October 24th, 2006
Today, we are in the age of achievement. We can
accomplish our goals faster than at any other time in history
with access to more information and opportunity than ever
before. Even if you don’t currently identify yourself as an
"achiever", you most likely are one because of the competitive
demands facing all of us in our lives and in our businesses
daily; keeping up means being an achiever.
It is understandable, with this "survival of the fittest"
type thing that’s going on these days that the problem is, how
do you keep up with relentless demand and still thrive? Today,
we are not thriving because of a paradox. It is the achievers
paradox of, ‘the busier we get the less time we have to take
care of ourselves’.
It should be no secret that the top three reasons why
people don’t take care of themselves at a high enough
level and why they do not actually experience the health so many
seek, are a lack of time, space and energy.
We are simply too overwhelmed and exhausted. This is the real
problem we need to deal with and the start of what you’ll soon
come to know as the downward trend.
To get off this downward trend of overwhelm and exhaustion,
which leads to the overweight condition, we need lifestyle
strategies that deliver results as a natural consequence of how
we live, not heroic or merely periodic efforts at dieting and
exercise. Eating less and exercising more are nothing more than
isolated solutions to obvious symptoms of a lifestyle gone awry.
No one is overwhelmed, exhausted or overweight because of the
lack of a diet or exercise program. As I said in my
last article, it’s not about the workout, it’s about the
lifestyle. Our current condition is the direct result of how we
live.
You can learn everything there is to know about eating and
exercise. But if how you live is overwhelming and exhausting (in
more ways than one) and you don’t know how to manage your energy
in this relentlessly demanding world, eating well and being
active will remain a secondary thought as you press on toward
"success". And the price you pay is high.
If you want to be healthy and successful, it
becomes essential to live a health and performance promoting
lifestyle so you have the energy and fitness you want and need
not only to succeed, but thrive.
I suggest you start considering this idea of "lifestyle" and
what it means to you. If you would like to share your thoughts,
go ahead and comment on this article; on what you think is the
"real cause" behind the health problems we’re collectively
experiencing today.
In the next three months, all of us at
are up to something big, and that is a lifestyle
solution to dealing with the real problem. We’re going to help
you take the steps to solve it with a lifestyle success
"formula" (a way to make a complicated subject simple) that you
can be successful with, forever. The seven steps high-achieving
people take to live, feel and perform better.
We are going to help you become a "Healthy High Achiever"™,
free of the diet, weight and the increased risk of long term
health issues that plague so many people today.
With what we have in store for you, you will
no longer have to live the fast track and put healthy living on
hold. In the "7 Steps" you’ll have the never fail, way to be
healthy and successful.
If you’re up to big things in your life (building your
career, business, family) or are focused on the achievement of a
particular goal intended to drive you forward and upward, then
you no doubt want to avoid the downward trend.
It’s about time that achievers like you and me learn
that we are not forced to live on the fast track with healthy
living on hold, thinking that poor health, fatigue and an
overweight body are the price to pay for success. As many of us
are discovering, that price it just too high!
Get ready to get masterful around lifestyle. What used to be
a vague and pushed aside idea is now becoming the central issue
of our time and the difference between those who struggle and
those who are truly successful.
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Lifestyle fitness, it’s about the lifestyle first, not the workout!
October 11th, 2006
Thanks to globalization of business, communication technology
improvements, longer work hours, and changes in family roles,
the idea of maintaining balance in our lives has become more and
more elusive. You can’t just have one concept of balance, you
need many.
Life has become a juggling act: work continues 24 hours a day
around the globe. As entrepreneurs, service professionals, and
small businesses owners and as players in large corporations;
employers can contact employees and customers can contact us, in
our cars and even on vacations. The 40-hour work week is now
often a 60-hour work week or more.
Essentially we’re working all the time, and we take breaks
for everything else, from self care and development to family to
social time (some of us taking more time than others). We are in
a transitional time in the history of mankind, as information
technology has sped up the pace of life and competition, not
just for adults but kids too. This new reality ensures all of us
are faced with relentless demand on our time, space and energy
levels, which are the determinants for how we live our lives.
Today’s married workers are typically dual-career couples,
and of course if our kids are moving at lightening fast speed,
that pretty much adds a great deal of stress to us adults who
also have our own lives to contend with. It’s
bewildering if you stop and actually think about it.
The stress of day-to-day life seems to leave little time to
improve quality of life and overall fitness and we’re suffering
because of it. Today, we are overwhelmed, exhausted and
overweight. There are 3 Reasons why:
1) TIME,
2) SPACE,
3) ENERGY None of these reasons have
anything to do with convincing you or millions of other smart
high-achieving people that they need to take care of themselves
more, or else...
I believe people know this (though most can definitely use a
wake up call) and are frustrated that they can’t seem to take
care of themselves at a higher level. They know they need to but
just can’t seem to make it work. And what are people
being told by the fitness industry to do about it? Exercise
more!
Now, if you’ve just read the preceding, working out, in the
traditional sense, can become quite challenging if you are faced
with any of the realities I just mentioned and you have a great
deal of demand on your time, space and energy.
Ask yourself how many times you’ve tried to stick with an
exercise program and either thought or said "I fell off the
wagon" or "I just couldn’t stick with it" or something like
that; you’ll instantly reconnect with how challenging it can be
to maintain physical fitness in today’s day and age.
Merely "working out" on top of a lifestyle that is not
providing the time, space and energy to maintain your fitness,
is not going to be a sustainable endeavor; get that!When it
seems like you don’t have time or the headspace and you know you
don’t have the energy, working out is not very high on your
priority list. I too have been faced this many times, and this
is exactly what happens. The only answer is a fitness oriented
lifestyle which changes the game and your approach and prevents
the above situation from really mattering that much...
You’ll learn more about this as we proceed together.
What I want to inspire you get in this blog post, is this. If
you are living one way, and they trying to solve the "overweight
condition" or "a lack of fitness" with merely working out, you
are missing the boat.
I don’t know of anyone who is experiencing overwhelm,
exhaustion or (fatigue) and the overweight condition, who is
sustainable and successful at "working out" regularly or
consistently. And you shouldn’t be thinking you’re any
exception. No one can be sustainable at anything, let
alone working out, when they don’t have time, space and energy!
There is a reason why 9M of the 12M people who have gym
memberships, don’t go, and why it seems the majority of people
can’t stick to exercise programs. Again, they don’t have time,
space or the energy to do it. Which bring us to the title of
this article, fitness is about the lifestyle first then the
workout. Actually, you can live relatively fit, at or near your
ideal weight in an active lifestyle that promotes your health
and success, and never even really workout!
Animals in nature are perfect examples. When is the last time
you ever saw a Gorilla
workout? They get the results they want as a natural consequence
of how they live,
not heroic or periodic efforts of exercise to make up for how
they are living. Now I’m not saying don’t workout. I workout!
The structured "workout" is a function of modern society given
we are physically inactive most of the rest of our day as our
brains and fingers chug along. We need to set aside time and
build it into our day, unless it’s part of how we live, which
too is another story.
But our current mentality has caused problems. We are living
one way and then thinking that merely working out is going to
solve our problem; for example, being overweight. This is not a
whole or successful approach. First things first; you’ve got to
deal with overwhelm and exhaustion if you are ever going to be
successful at experiencing fitness on a regular basis.
Space and time need also need to be dealt with and then
you’ve got to learn how to not "cause" the overweight condition
and the cumulative health complications that go with it in a
lifestyle that promotes not only your health, but your
success! This is why fitness is about your lifestyle first.
Working out can be part of your lifestyle, it’s an albeit
important but secondary issue. Anyone who is successful, has a
lifestyle that first reinforces their success.
The insight of the last paragraph is a good thing to know.
It’s the reason why lifestyle fitness is the new mindset; in
other words living in a way that is always promoting your
fitness. But what does that mean, and what does that
look like?
You’ll find out in the coming weeks!
When it’s time to skip formal exercise…
September 21st, 2006
You know it.
The last three weeks were a whirlwind! Sure I slept, and took
breaks and exercised, but I was putting out an inordinate amount
of energy on top of everything else that was going on, like
running the business, family, learning, training and
conditioning and my social life, etc.
Every quarter I take a vacation and I’m in the middle of one
of those periods right now.
By the way, I am careful to make absolute resolutions
like "I’m not going to get on my computer once during this time
period". I can rarely stick to such proclamations, so I don’t
set myself up for hypocrisy.
This week, I am focused on rejuvenating, and facing my true
energetic condition, so that I don’t carry energy debt
forward; it’s not easy sometimes, but best done on a vacation.
Anyway, this week formal exercise is not a focus for me, why?
Because in the name of my health and ability to perform well,
paying back energy debt needs to be my focus. If you’ve ever
"hit the wall" and felt like you were in a malaise, on a
downward trend, unable to perform at a high level, you know why
this is soo important.
It’s not like I’m just sitting on my duff all week, my wife
is a lighthouse buff, and so after seeing Alcatraz in San Fan,
and touring the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, we’ve since seen 9
lighthouses. I think that qualifies for being pretty active.
It’s also a time to reboot my desire to work, to train and
condition my body and move forward. I enjoy exercising by bike,
resistance training and bodyweight training, but this week,
besides some basic yoga moves to maintain my alignment and core
strength, it’s all about just being active and resting, while I
renew my spirit.
The "cycling" of how you exercise and switching it up, to
take care of high priorities or other matters of maintaining
balance in your life are key to the sustainability and success
of not only your self care and development but your ability to
perform well in the realization of your objectives, goals and
vision.
31 States Record Increases in Adult Obesity
August 30th, 2006
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
Tue Aug 29, 7:02 PM ET TUESDAY, Aug.
29 (HealthDay News) -- Adult obesity rates increased in 31
states during the past year, leaving an estimated two-thirds of
Americans vulnerable to fatal diseases such as diabetes, stroke
and cancer.
This, despite federal and state government efforts to curb
the overweight epidemic, according to a new report from the
Trust for America’s Health.
The report, titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are
Failing America, 2006, was released Tuesday and is the third in
a series of annual reports by the trust detailing state obesity
rates as well as the effectiveness of government policies to
fight the problem.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: No
government policy will ever or could ever "fight" obesity.
Health is a personal responsibility. Unless of
course, they make exercise a law and ban refined foods,
making them illegal and even then it wouldn’t solve the
problem.
According to official figures, the adult obesity rate rose
from 15 percent in 1980 to 32 percent in 2004. Combine that with
the number of Americans who are overweight but not obese, and
the figure stands at 64 percent. And the childhood obesity rate
more than tripled between 1980 and 2004, from 5 percent to 17
percent.
"The most important news in this report is that the obesity
epidemic in America is getting worse," Jeff Levi, executive
director of Trust for America’s Health, said at a Tuesday
morning press conference. "The percentage of obese adults
exceeds 25 percent in 13 states. That should sound some serious
alarm bells."
At the root of the epidemic is a combination of poor
nutrition and lack of physical activity,
ExecutiveEdge1.com: In other words a nutrient poor diet and
the lack of a lifestyle plan the report stated. Being
either overweight or obese increases the risk for a variety of
serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart
disease, stroke and some cancers.
>>>>>> "What’s particularly distressing is that we think we
understand why this is happening. It’s happening because the
environment is built to promote obesity, and it is so pervasive
that in order to make changes, we really need to change
everything," said Cathy Nonas, director of the obesity and
diabetes programs at North General Hospital in New York City and
a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: This is the point that
ExecutiveEdge1.com: is making, your lifestyle has many touch points
and we need to address them progressively while we improve
how we manage our energy, shift to Nutrient Rich diet,
activate and strengthen out bodies.
If you are sayint you don’t have time or energy to take
care of yourself, this article is talking to you. It’s
because your lifestyle is not set up for success!
See the 7 Step,
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The new report has Mississippi weighing in as the "largest"
state, with 29.5 percent of its adult population considered
obese. Alabama and West Virginia are second and third with 28.7
percent and 28.6 percent of the adult population, respectively,
in the super-size category. Mississippi also has the highest
combined level of obese plus overweight adults -- 67.3 percent.
Overall, the South is the "Biggest Belt," containing nine of
the 10 states with the highest obesity rates. The region is also
home to nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of diabetes
and hypertension, both of which are associated with obesity.
Colorado is the "thinnest" state, with an adult obesity rate
of only 16.9 percent. Other "thin" states are in the West and
Northeast, including Hawaii (18.2 percent), Massachusetts (18.6
percent), Rhode Island (19.5 percent) and Montana (19.9
percent).
Obesity rates remained stable in 18 states plus the District
of Columbia.
Every single state in the union failed to make enough
progress to meet the national goal of reducing adult obesity
levels to 15 percent or less by the year 2010, according to the
report.
"The 2004 and 2005 documents reported that there was no
strategic policy to address obesity," Levi said. "The 2006
report shows little improvement. While there are innovative
promising pilot programs under way in some parts of the country,
for the most part, federal and state policies are limited in
scope, designed for the short term and woefully underfunded."
"It’s a shared responsibility involving individual and
society," he added.
"We believe that all stakeholders must be involved if changes
are to take place," said Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan, vice president
for academic affairs at Emory University’s Woodruff Health
Science Center, and chairman of the Institute of Medicine
Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity.
Among the report’s other findings:
The percentage of adults who are obese or overweight exceeds
60 percent in 28 states.
West Virginia has the highest rate of type 2 diabetes among
adults (10.4 percent) while Alaska has the lowest rate (4.5
percent).
Mississippi has the highest rate of adult hypertension (32.7
percent) and Utah the lowest (19.8 percent). Seven states now
have body mass index screening requirements in schools.
All states except South Dakota have school physical education
requirements, while 44 states plus Washington,
D.C., have school health education
requirements. There is little enforcement capability in either
of these cases, however. Seventeen states plus Washington,
D.C., have passed taxes on junk food
or sodas.
Efforts to combat the obesity epidemic have failed to meet
their goals, Nonas said. "I don’t think they’re going far
enough," she said. "The perfect example of this is the
physical-education and health-education requirements, where
states have very little ability to enforce it. It’s good that
people are doing this, but it’s not enough."
The report also offered a 20-step action plan to address the
obesity crisis. Recommendations include improved nutritional
labeling on foods; community-driven efforts to increase access
to healthy foods in low-income areas; improved nutritional
content on foods and beverages served and sold in schools; an
improved physical environment with more and better sidewalks,
parks and bike paths; better physical fitness curricula in
schools; and employer-sponsored programs to increase physical
activity and provide better insurance coverage for preventive
services.
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found
that being obese in midlife dramatically increases your risk of
dying early. People who are overweight when they are 50 have a
20 percent to 40 percent increased risk of dying prematurely.
For obese people, the risk of premature death is two to three
times that of normal-weight people. The primary causes of death
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July 31st, 2006
Do you think living in a health-promoting way, developing and
maintaining fitness is an optional part of your life? Something
that’s better suited for the "health guy" or gal, your trainer
or athletes, but not you?
Do you reduce the idea of taking care of yourself to merely
"getting in shape" from time to time, "working out" every once
and a while, or as something for muscle builders or those who
need to lose weight?
Are you rewarding yourself with "cheat days", to help
yourself eat better?
These and many more modern concepts of taking care of
ourselves are likely not serving you. All subtly imply that
living one way and then periodically living better is all you
need to live at or near your ideal weight and "healthy"…
This is not true. Actually all of the above examples are
making your life difficult because the very foundation of our
lives, our health, is only being respected some of the time;
not enough of the time for there to be a noticeable impact
on our energy health and performance levels.
Health and fitness professionals therefore spend a good
portion of their time, actually convincing, customers and
clients who are "caught up" in poor lifestyles, heavily
influenced by commercial promoters of products and services that
don’t serve them, to take better care of them selves.
Does this make sense to you; having to be convinced to take
better care of yourself, to live "healthy"? Of course not, this
should be the status quo, a given; what is normal and natural.
What people don’t know is “how” to live and work in a way
that promotes the results they want that is also practical and
real world. What they’ve learned is how to promote results
outside the context of how they live day to day.
There is a big difference between having an active lifestyle
plan you can call your own, and merely going on a diet or an
exercise program.
This Tuesday, let’s discuss this insightful concept as you
contemplate taking the 7-Steps you need to take to increase your
energy, optimize your health and improve your personal
performance.
The 7 Step Active Lifestyle Plan, is a proven method;
a comprehensive approach to looking, feeling and performing
better in a lifestyle you can call your own. If you haven’t
already downloaded the new Special Report that introduces you
the seven steps, go the
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It’s called, The 3 Lifestyle
Blunders That Can Derail Your Ability to Perform Well and
Wreck the Way You Look and Feel!
Here’s a thought to think about before tomorrow’s Active
Lifestyle Teleforum, 12:00 Noon Eastern Time.
In the fast-paced, overwhelming world we live in, respecting
and promoting your health, fitness and wellness must be a
dominant goal in your life and be fully integrated into the way
you work and live.
If you no longer want to trade your health for success, and
be done with ongoing fatigue and an under performing body, join
in on the Active Lifestyle Teleforum, tomorrow!
John Allen Mollenhauer,MTCP, CFT, CNT
Founder ExecutiveEdge1.com:.com
John Allen, "JAM" is the author of the 7-Step Active
Lifestyle Plan: The most successful way to increase
your energy, optimize your health and improve your personal
performance. This manual and CD set is for busy, motivated
people who are playing a big game in their life; who want to
look, feel and perform better.
He is also the founder of the world-class lifestyle fitness
coaching system,
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the steps with intensive support, education and inspiration from
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July 24th, 2006
It is of no surprise to me that when I interact with people
about developing fitness, the first emotion most people
experience, is doubt, skepticism or worry; worry, about whether
they can stick with another diet or exercise program or bigger
worry still, that it is another demand on their time and they
don’t have any time to spare. The reason this is of no
surprise is because people have been trained to "stick" with
diet and exercise programs for decades with limited success, and
they don’t want to waste their time or their money on another
failed attempt.
Why, the limited success?
Here are a few the many reasons:
1) How you live doesn’t support the outcomes you want.
2) Few can change their lifestyle overnight.
2) Fast results are disconnected from the reality of the
person’s life, their current condition and capability.
3) Dietary tactics are unhealthy and undermine performance
for the purpose of delivering a weight loss effect.
4) Very little understanding of energy management.
5) Going on any program for a temporary period of time to
make up for a lifestyle that isn’t serving you is not
sustainable.
5) The exercise program is seen as THE
way to be active and the ONLY
way to be active. The concept of an active lifestyle is lost.
Fitness needs to be redefined through an active
lifestyle.
For decades, the concept of "working out" has been five or
six days a week of cardio workouts alternated with resistance
training workouts, or maybe taking martial arts, yoga or
Pilates; all good, but if "working out" is your only concept for
being active, you are missing the boat.
First of all an active lifestyle, especially in today’s day
and age isn’t all about exercising. In order to be active, one
must know how to manage stress, increase energy, eat nutrient
rich food, and manage their life so that they have the excess
capacity to actually be physically active, amidst a relentlessly
"busy" schedule.
It is also about being physically active in a way that stirs
your spirit and inspires you.
We’ll be discussing some of these points on our next "Active
Lifestyle" teleforum, held on Tuesdays, 12:00 Noon Eastern Time,
where we introduce concepts of a comprehensive lifestyle
approach to fitness and wellness.
Stay tuned to this discussion if you no longer want to trade
success for poor health, fatigue and an overweight body and know
what to do about it.
John Allen Mollenhauer "JAM" is the author of the 7-Step
Active Lifestyle Plan™, the most successful way to increase your
energy, optimize your health and performance. He is also the
founder of the world-class lifestyle fitness coaching system,
www.ExecutiveEdge1.com:.com where
clients develop an active lifestyle plan they can call their
own.
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June 27th, 2006
America has an energy crisis, and it’s not just at the
gas pumps.
Today’s hectic lifestyle with the stresses of job and home,
eating on the run, and lack of healthy exercise drains our
energy faster than a Hummer gobbles gas. Doctors report that
an increasing number of patients have the same ol’ tired
complaints: lethargy, fatigue and exhaustion. After any medical
problems are ruled out, such as anemia or thyroid imbalances,
it’s time to look at how you can make your life more “fuel
efficient."
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - the two paragraphs above are
powerful, we agree wholeheartedly. But lethargy, fatigue and
exhaustion are not merely the result of being fuel
efficient. It’s about being energy efficient and one needs
to understand the difference between vital energy and food
energy to become truly energy efficient.
We have been sending a similiar message about energy for
years and it’s the reason we teach the Energy Regeneration
Method as part of the 7 Step Active Lifestyle Plan.
Fuel efficient
“You need to make sure the body as a whole is at peak
functioning capacity,” says Dr. David Leopold, family
practitioner and integrative medicine specialist at Scripps
Center for Integrative Medicine. “If you have no energy, then
you need to look at what you’re eating, if you’re exercising and
what you’re doing for stress. All of these things can make a big
difference in your energy level.”
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - no debate!
So, put down that third cup of coffee and review the
following energy boosters to help put more pep in your step.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - be weary about the phrase
"energy boosters". Almost any approach to energy
management that is not talking about recuperation at the
same time it is talking about boosting your energy,
is likely going to fatigue you more, even if it’s a positive
stimulant. You’ll learn all about this in the 7 Step Active
Lifestyle Plan.
Eat healthfully
“Food should be energizing.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - Actually, food should be
fulfilling and refuel your body so that you have the fuel to
move forward powerfully, but that’s not the energy people
are suffering a lack of today.
People shouldn’t feel like they need to rest after a meal,”
Leopold says. “We’re eating way too much of the wrong things.”
Strive for a balanced diet that should include: Complex
carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, whole grains) to sustain
blood sugar levels and offer an energy boost;
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - This is accurate in part,
but you really want to understand the whole story to get the
benefit of this message. These foods mentioned above don’t
offer an "energy boost". When was the last time you ate a
bowl of brown rice and felt like galloping like a dear? I
had a bowl of brown rice last night during dinner and then
wanted to go to sleep. Not because of the rice, but because
I was rightfully tired at that time of day, and based on the
activity of the day.
Nutrient Rich foods restore the nutrient reserves in a
healthy body after it’s nutrient reserves have been drawn
down by activity, and is therefore experiencing hunger. But
most people are not suffering from a lack of calories when
it comes to energy levels.
Lean protein (fish, chicken, lean meats) to help blunt the
rise in blood sugar after a meal and aid in extending energy;
limited fats (except for the healthy omega-3 fats in fish),
especially artery-clogging saturated and trans fats, which can
slow down digestion and make you feel sluggish.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - the way to blunt a rise in
blood sugar (as if that was always a bad thing) is not to
eat animal protein. The value of animal protein and whether
it’s promoting your health in significant quantities is the
subject of another post, but let’s clarify one really
important point here.
A rise in blood sugar is not always a bad thing. It is
for diabetics eating junk food, but not for active people.
Look at the foods you are eating that are causing a sharp
rise in blood sugar of the wrong kind; refined, nutrient
poor foods that are disease causing.
Nutrient Rich foods that are health promoting are in some
cases high in "natural sugars". They too will create a rise
in blood sugar, but this is not a problem, it’s supposed
to happen, and these foods promote your health.
Just ask any athlete or active person. Blood sugar will
naturally come down as you use it, and your body
processes the excess blood sugar. Trying to combat a rise in
blood sugar by eating animal protein and all that comes with
it, is unnecessary and does not promote fuel efficiency
anyway.
Start moving
In some ways, energy is like high finance. To get more, you’ve
got to spend more.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - this is true in "some" cases
only the problem with this statement is this... if exercise
is being used as a stimulant at a time when fatigue is
present, it’s acting in the same capacity as drinking
another cup of coffee.
Ever wonder why you’re not in the mood to exercise? It’s
not a direct lack of exercise that is causing your lethargic
mood (that may be part of the reason). It’s a lack of vital
energy, which you can only get from recuperation.
Out of balance you stay stuck.
Your best energy investment is exercise.
ExecutiveEdge1.com:- Actually it’s your third best
energy investment following a Nutrient Rich eating plan and
enough recuperation.
“Exercise is key to energy,” Leopold says. “You have to
exercise 35 to 45 minutes three or four days a week minimum if
you expect to increase energy levels. Exercise teaches the body
to build up reserves and use oxygen more efficiently, plus it
improves the resting heart rate. The long-term benefits are more
energy, and you feel better.”
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - we agree with this statement
in that exercise at these levels is key to looking, feeling
and performing better, but it has to be said again, it all
depends on where you’re at. For some people, jumping into 45
mins of exercise in a sustainable way, right off the bat to
"increase energy", can backfire. Your current condition and
other factors have to be taken into consideration.
This is why Lifestyle Fitness Coaching with
ExecutiveEdge1.com:,
based on the 7-Step Active Lifestyle Plan is so important.
One size fit’s all recommendations, no matter how good they
sound, may not be the right lifestyle strategy,
right time for you.
You don’t have to run a marathon. Walking is great exercise.
So is resistance exercise to build muscle, a key component in
generating energy. Mind/body exercise, such as yoga or Pilates,
incorporates strength, balance and flexibility.
“Increased activity can really turn things around,” Fujioka
says. “Not only does exercise help you sleep better at night,
but it also helps your insulin work better so your blood sugar
isn’t fluctuating all over the place.”
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - Great points.
Seek out energy mentors
To boost your own internal reserves, spend time with upbeat,
optimistic people whose zest for living can be contagious.
Negative folks who are overly critical, argumentative, angry or
difficult are black holes that devour energy. Try to limit the
amount of attention you give them.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: - great ideas. Hat’s off to
the original author!
John Allen Mollenhauer "JAM" is the author of the
7-Step Active Lifestyle Plan, the most successful way to improve
your health and performance, increase your energy and transform
your body. He is also the founder of the world-class lifestyle
fitness coaching system,
www.ExecutiveEdge1.com:.com where clients develop an active lifesytle
plan they can call their own.
ExecutiveEdge1.com: Certified Professionals including John Allen,
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June 20th, 2006
Hi all, here’s an hour long recording touching on a
phenomena many people experience; they actually gain weight
even though they are exercising more and eating less.
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June 8th, 2006
Lifestyle has become quite the buzzword lately, but the truth
is, it’s still a very misunderstood term.
The reason why is simple.
The fitness industry, an industry I have been in or around
for over 20 years is just coming out of a multi decade period
where the model was simple, "eat less and exercise more"
and then go on the XYZ program, better
yet "stick to" the XYZ program for
results.
Years have gone by and the ugly truth has reared its head.
www.ExecutiveEdge1.com:.com/obesitytrends. This is the net effect of
the fitness industry for the past 50 years!
You can’t just eat less and exercise more and be successful,
if you’re eating nutrient poor food and tired. You can’t just go
on diet or exercise program and call it a lifestyle!
A lifestyle is a far more dynamic, forward moving concept
than most people, let alone experts understand or at least talk
to when selling their wares.
Most people don’t have a successful lifestyle plan and we
know this because if you’re living in overwhelm, fatigue and
overweight, you are living in way that causing these problems.
Fatigue and weight problems then lead to health complications
and this is what 80% of the population or more is suffering
from.
Many people have lots of money and can afford nice things,
but that’s not a successful lifestyle at least the way we’re
describing it. Wealth is only part of the equation; health, is
the net effect of lifestyle.
A successful lifestyle is about living in ways that maintain
and promote your health, your success and sustainability... that
you enjoy.
The proliferation of exercise programs or diet programs, the
thousands upon thousands that exist, while capable of engaging
and inspiring someone into action, don’t actually focus on
lifestyle; they focus on temporary actions to manipulate weight
or muscle growth, not the whole life steps one wants to take on
a regular basis to be a healthy high performing person and never
have to worry about going on a diet or exercise program ever
again!
Here at ExecutiveEdge1.com: we teach the 7 Step Active
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May 31st, 2006
Many people feel that factors
influencing health and wellness are out of their control.
A recent Gallup poll indicates that
91 percent of adults, state that there are aspects of
their lifestyle that they would like to change to increase their
quality of life and to improve their overall state of wellness.
People want to change their lifestyle’s, to
make their lives more enjoyable and to change factors associated
to wellness, but unfortunately, many people feel that they do
not have personal control.
Why do they feel that achieving
high level health is out of their control?
Well let’s look at some of the reasons:
One survey suggests that most lifestyle
changes deemed important in our society remain in the realm of
fantasies, just beyond realization.
Experts have shown that people, who feel
that health is beyond personal control, express such ideas as
"bad things [illness] can’t happen to me, and good things
[wellness] are beyond my reach.
What causes this belief system?
First and foremost it’s the lack of
"enabling skills" that help people follow through with decisions
to make changes in behavior.
For example: skills such as goal setting,
self assessment, self monitoring, self planning, performance
skills, coping skills, consumer skills and basic time "action"
management.
All of these skills enable one to
live a healthy lifestyle in a market that reinforces
the opposite - overwhelm, fatigue and the overweight condition.
Once a person has reached the action or
maintenance stages of a lifestyle that is health promoting,
its not hard to stay at this higher level of health and
performance. That’s the not the problem, it’s getting out of the
"matrix" so to speak; out from under the influence of those
factors that are reinforcing a lower level of living - a
lifestyle that results in poor health and performance.
Once you change a behavior and have
success, it makes you want to keep doing that behavior. If you
fail you may conclude that the behavior didn’t work and give up
on it.
So planning for success, or as we say here
"setting yourself up for success" is vital to
healthy lifestyle change.
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