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How has your health been the past few days?
How often does it cross your mind?
Never? Rarely? One a year? Occasionally?
All day, everyday?
What if it did?
And what if it was so habitual, you weren’t even conscious of all the healthy choices you make?
People are working harder than ever at work to make ends meet. Some are doing so with their salaries reduced. This hardly seems fair, does it?
Stopping at Gold’s Gym on the way home from the airport last Friday, a friend was there who’s made great progress with losing weight and toning up.
People often consider my approach too basic, too repetitive, and sometimes, too lofty.
I’ll bet a dollar, this person will revert back to the old routine, the less healthy, less effective, lower health-metric lifestyle. Say, in a year, maybe two. Why? Because it’s harder these days than ever to find time and willpower to get and stay healthy.
Before you go to bed each night, do you think about when you’re going to exercise the next day? Maybe you should. What would happen if you did?
So last night I asked cousin Mike, “Can you run a 6-minute mile as a 51-year old?”
“No, I can run a 7-minute mile”, Mike said.
I continued, “We’ll go 5 miles. First mile a warm-up, and then mile two as a time-trial. I’ll slow up (a lot) after that and you can catch up and we’ll run the last three miles together.”
Last week’s time trial netted a 5:45 mile. With splits of 2:55 and 2:50.
Remember when I was only running one mailbox per day? Good thing it never felt like a Green Mile.