Two reasons why Gold’s Gym was packed last night

Some watch the Olympics, some compete, and some do both… these two baby Boomers did both… at the 2012 Masters Track & Field National Championships at Benedictine University this past summer. (left to right: jeff noel, Pat Dunigan)

Baby Boomer athletes

Two reasons why Gold’s Gym was packed last night:

  1. The Olympics are heating up (Usain Bolt is still the World’s fastest human)
  2. The Nike commercials are stirring the human spirit to move

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She said…

travel exercise
Road warriors find little time to exercise

Yesterday at the bank waiting to close a home equity loan, the bank representative and I were catching up (our sons are 11). She said, “I see you running all the time on 535. You can tell you really love to run”.

Pausing, and considering whether I should say it or not, I finally did, “Maggie, here’s the thing, there are many days where I don’t feel like it at all. Really!”

Does the most common excuse for exercise begin with, “I can’t find the motivation”, or, “I can’t find the time”?

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jeff noel’s Hometown, Walt Disney World

jeff noel's Hometown, Walt Disney World

At Disney’s Contemporary Resort, jeff noel was standing in the shade on a hot, humid Central Florida afternoon, and the flags and monorail caught his eye for no apparent reason. Just weeks before the 2007 Masters Track & Field World Championships in Italy, noel’s workout included six repetitions of the Contemporary’s 14 flights of stairs, all two-steps at a time, with two sets at three steps at a time. Two weeks later, from overtraining, noel became injured and couldn’t go to Italy.

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