Behavior Changes

By failing to use our bodies, we allow our muscles to weaken and our joints to become stiff. Then when we try to start an exercise routine our bodies resist the sudden extra force. And this isn’t just physically discouraging. Mentally, someone who tries to exercise and finds it too difficult or painful will be quick to pick up a defeated attitude.

Once people get a taste of what exercise and proper nutrition can do to improve their health and quality of life, they often are motivated to continue to pursue a healthier lifestyle.

Beginning a new exercise or nutrition program is a form of behavior change. There are five stages – Which stage fits you and do you think you can work on making it to the next stage?

Precontemplation – Person has no intention of changing his behavior and may not even see any need to do so. However, something has taken place to at least get his attention (example: high blood pressure, adult onset of diabetes, etc.).

Contemplation – Aware that they has a problem whether its obesity, increased risk of disease, or simply being out of shape. Despite this realization, they have not made a commitment to change, but is still weighing the pros and cons of making a change.

Preparation – Person has made the decision to change their behavior but has yet to put the change into action. People in this stage have made attempts at change in the past and failed because they didn’t have a plan.

Action – Person makes the time and commitment to modify their lifestyle. In this stage people make lifestyle choices that benefit their health on a daily basis.

Maintenance – Person who remains consistently committed to their healthy new lifestyle for an extended length of time.

Some people remain stuck in one of these stages for an extended period of time while others bounce back and forth between them.


Info from US Career Institute

Muscle & Bone

When it comes to our bodies and muscles, the saying “Use it or lose it” really applies. By failing to use our bodies, we allow our muscles to weaken and our joints to become stiff. A body that balances flexibility and strength will better serve your daily life. You need to build and stretch your muscles.

Adding a few pounds of muscle can increase metabolism, or at least help make up for the decrease in metabolism that occurs naturally as we age.

Having strong muscles strengthens bones, too. Stress on your bones stimulates the growth of bone tissue and that helps prevent osteoporosis. At our prime physical health, new bone replaces old bone mass, but as our bodies age, production of bone doesn’t keep up. People lose bone density as they age, so as is the case with muscle strength, unless we build it on purpose, we lose it.

To increase bone mass you must ask the musculoskeletal system to move more weight than it would in everyday life. You have to challenge it.

Varying the kinds of exercises ensures that the musculoskeletal systems stimulated to produce new bone in many different locations. Example: exercising the hip socket in four directions gives more locations the stimulus to produce new bone.

Info from US Career Institute

People think I'm crazy...

While working out with P90X Plyometrics this morning, I thought of all the people that wonder why on earth someone would actually want to do this to themselves - put themselves through this "work" and "pain". The people that treat me like I'm crazy for WANTing to workout.

All I know is that while I'm pushing myself, sweating from every pore, and wondering if I'm gonna make it to the end - I know I'm doing the right thing for me. I'm improving my body AND mind. I think Tony Horton sums it up best...

"Take care of your body and it'll take care of you, 'cause time keeps tickin', you keep gettin' older - you can get better or you can get all gooey, crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me, not into it."

Thanks Tony, P90X, Chalene with her Extreme motivation, and Team Beachbody

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