Solitude…(My home gym)
No wading through a crowded gym, no waiting for equipment, no posers, no gossip corner, no social hours… just peacful solitude and focused comittment. My home gym…
Garcia Trail – Azusa, CA – Azusa Peak 866 vertical feet per mile…
…I was finally able to get out on a hike this weekend. Decided to give another local hike a try and it was intense. The overall mileage was low but the intensity was full force. You know when you first thought is “what have I gotten myself into”, it is going to be an intensive hike, and this one kept the pressure on the whole way up. I will be back to this trail on occassion. While I apprecate the intensity it is heavily populated which can be challenging on relatively narrow trails. However, the cardio benefits and the visual sites of San Gabriel make it all worth it in the end.
http://www.simpsoncity.com/hiking/garcia.html
Quoted from Dan’s Hiking pages – Simpsoncity. com, “Garcia Trail is steep, climbing some 866 vertical feet per mile. But thetrail is well traveled and makes a nice workout hike (popular with students and staff from nearby Azusa Pacific University). A typical trail in the San Gabriels gains 400 to 600 vertical feet per mile, so Garcia Trail not only gives the legs and lungs a workout, but it also provides a reference mark in evaluating other trails.”
Nooooo…oooooooo…ooooooo
Please do not let there be a market for this…I hope to see this on “Products that failed”, someday…
You may not be doing it right…
Pushing yourself to the limit takes intensity; pushing yourself beyond what you think you’re even capable of…the mind gives up before the body. Fitness for me includes lifting iron a.k.a. bodybuilding a.k.a pumping iron. If you have never looked like this, be it running, lifting iron, training in general…you may not be doing it right! Apply intensity; achieve results.
Waste not…Want not…
A worthwhile perspective on life. Take advantage of all we are capable of, Everyday!
A number is… just a number!
Getting caught in that fad of reaching a specific weight is a sure way to give-up and fail at your goals. We are a nation of varied cultures, shapes and sizes, to say the very least. The scientific rule we have all heard based on the height to frame ratio is nonsense. Set a goal to be healthy, eat right and always implement some physical activity into your day. This will get you farther than using a weight scale as your only tool for gauging your fitness accomplishments. Look for new muscle tone, keep track of your measurements and pay attention to the looseness in your clothes. A scale can be discouraging and if you tend to weight yourself everyday! even worse. Weight fluctuates with the slightest of change. If you had something with too much sodium the night before, you could easily experience a hefty dose of water retention, which can dramatically change the number you saw on the scale the day before. Don’t get me wrong, spot checking yourself now and again is good way to make sure you haven’t completely fallen off the boat, so-to-speak. However, if you are solely dedicated to the scale, keep in mind “it is just a number”!
Actions Speak Louder than WORDS…
To many people talk-the-talk, and never walk-the walk: “I can drop weight” “I can get fit” ” I can do that…” ” I know how to eat right”. Talk is cheap…DON’T TALK ABOUT IT; BE ABOUT IT! Let your results speak for themselves…
A year ends…but the road never ends…
Unfortunately, most people striving to lose those extra pounds, and looking for fitness and health, fail to realize that the “road never ends”. Fad diets, starvation, appetite suppressants – these are all part of the arsenal of bad ways to lose weight and keep it off. I hear my own extended family members all too often comment on how little they ate in a day, or about how they starved themselves yesterday and already lost three (3) pounds. “Can’t you tell”, they remark, just two days after they started this taboo ritual. Needless to say, not one of them has ever maintained any type of long term weight loss. What a lot of people fail to realize is that it’s all temporary unless you stay committed to a life change. Alter your ways, alter your foods, institute a workout regime and make it a habit. Even then; most people I know will stop everything once they get within 20lbs of an actual goal and end up gaining more weight than when they started. It takes work, it takes commitment and it takes you realizing what you want out of life. Vanity weight comes and goes; true health and fitness is a road that never ends…
Happy New Year!
Looking forward to sharing and discovering in this blog world; Looking forward to a continued drive toward fitness excellence and looking forward to learning more about better nutrition in 2013. No resolutions, just continued focus on the goal. Happy New Year!!
…what’s your excuse?…
…even little piggies are getting fit! With 2013 approaching often times it’s the new year “resolution” that gets people motivated (at least for a few weeks, maybe even months). Whatever the reason find time to make 2013 your life changer…best of luck in health and fitness for 2013 and beyond.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly…PISTACHIOS
The Ugly: They have to be one of, if not, THE Ugliest looking nut
The Bad: They are super addicting
The Good:
Heart Health – Pistachios have been shown to reduce LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and increase the good HDL cholesterol after only a short period of regular consumption.
Diabetes Help – Eating pistachios may help to prevent Type 2 diabetes.
Healthy Blood – Pistachios are an incredibly rich source of vitamin B6.
Nervous System – The vitamin B6 so abundant in pistachios has wide-ranging effects on the nervous system.
Eye Health – Pistachios contain two carotenoids not found in most nuts. These carotenoids, called lutein and zeaxanthin, function as protective antioxidants.
Immune System – A healthy immune system requires adequate intake of vitamin B6, which pistachios abound in.
Skin Health –Pistachios are a great source of vitamin E, a powerful fat-soluble antioxidant, essential for maintaining the integrity of cell membranes and often recommended for healthy and beautiful skin.
It seemed like a good idea…
…as the saying goes, “hindsight is 20/20”. Apply some forethought to everyhting you do; for every action there is a reaction; for every decision there is a consequence…
NO…it’s not a Diet…it’s a Lifestyle change…
I always get that “Deer in the Headlight” look when I try to explain the difference to those interested in working off some weight.
Some people literally want you to fail…
To many people these days don’t praise your accomplishments; they wish for your demise. They really just wish they had the dedication and committment to get healthy and fit…StOp HaTiNg!
Yeah, it’s kinda like that…
Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of running indoor and on a treadmill; it is what it is, but yeah it’s kinda like that…
You will find a way…
Where there is a will, there is a way…this applies to all aspects of life from fitness – to health – to everyday necessity.
KrOnIkFiTnEsS 