Why Exercise Lane 8?

What's It Going To Take?
What's It Going To Take?

How often to you consciously focus on your health?

Alright, let me ask it this way.  How often do you think about work? About all the things that need to be done. About whether or not you are doing a good job or a great job?

How often?

Do you see where this is going?

Why is diet and exercise any different than work?

If you had a few rare moments where the daily pressure and stress weren’t about to crush you, and you could think calmly and intelligently about your health, what would you think about?

What would those thoughts prompt you to do?

Guest Blogger Nike

The Master’s Track & Field National Indoor Championships conclude today at the Reggie Lewis Center, in Boston. About 850 Master’s athletes, aged 30 – 90+ have been running, jumping and throwing their way to better health.

It takes passion, inspiration and motivation to continue to remain active and healthy, well into our midlife and senior years.  How do they do it?

Well, for starters, they’ve got soul:

Maybe your impossible goal is plain and simple. Once you get healthier, stay there for the rest of your life.

So Predictable, Isn’t It?

Frozen, Complacent Souls?
Frozen, Complacent Souls?

We wake up.

We do our morning routine.

We go to work.

We come home.

We do our evening routine.

We go to bed.

When does healthy eating and adequate exercise hit our radar screen?

Waiting

Curious Answer
Curious Answer

Sitting here on the floor, waiting for Quest Diagnostics to open. Kinda like camping out for Springsteen concert tickets.  Lots of people trying to get in.

Do you get an annual physical?

Do you like getting your blood drawn?

Do you like knowing the truth?

The guy in front of me comes every three months, to establish which cholesterol medicine works best.

Told him I wish I could come every three months.

He looked surprised.

Life is funny sometimes.

Not knowing your health stats is not.

James Brown Track Star?

Track & Field?
Track & Field?

Remember James Brown, American singer and nicknamed “The Godfather of Soul”?

His most popular song, “I Feel Good”, has been used repeatedly through history to summarize how we feel when good things happen in our lives.

Hope you get to use this “feel good anthem” today.

Looks like I’m going to try for a local Central Florida 5k run on April 10 – the Windermere Run Among the Lakes 5k.

Foot pain, plantar fasciitis, is still a challenge, but it does appear to be (dreadfully slowly) getting better.

“I feel good!”