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A Fifty Year Retirement
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admin on 20 May, 2008 06:11:00
 
As this web site prepares to kickoff in a few days we wanted to give you a
little preview of what you can expect. The program was designed by a Weirton WV
resident, and he has produced a initial 12 week program that he will guide and
mentor you through. You will also be able to see him lose weight along with you
as he provides an online Video of each weekly program.
Our thoughts determine our responses to life. We are not “Victims of
Fate.” To the extent that we can control our thoughts, we control our
fate.
- Kyriakos
Since the dawn of human history, people have sought ways to reduce or eliminate
the pain and debilitation of disease and ways to extend their life spans.
The dramatic improvement in life expectancy over the past centuries has come
mainly from lowering the death rate among children. There has been no such
lowering of the death rate among the elderly – so far.
You can take small steps to improve health, make it a habit, take another small
step, and make it a habit. It takes a month to make the changes permanent. By
this method, you improve continuously.
Take a good look at yourself in a full length mirror. To change anything, you
first must see yourself making those changes.
I can show you a way to get healthy in three months with a do-able exercise
plan to strengthen your heart muscle for thirty minutes everyday while you watch
TV.
This can be done quite comfortably, using light hand weights to raise the heart
rate instead of running or walking. The upper torso, arms, abs, and shoulders
are relatively untrained in relation to the legs.
Exercise is work, more accurately, good exercise is overwork. Since most of us
are either sedentary or moderately active, our hearts and other muscles rarely,
if ever, get a chance to live up to their inborn capabilities. Exercise today is
a kind of elective addition to our usual chores, calculated to make us healthy.
The work we heap upon ourselves when exercising is called workload, meaning,
beyond what’s typical in our lives. All workloads are composed of two
elements – intensity, how hard we work, and duration, how long we can stay
at it. Clearly, intensity and duration seem to see-saw somewhat, increasing
intensity will probably shorten the duration. This is an important principle.
When training for improvement to the heart, it is better to train longer
duration than harder intensity.
Longer is better than harder.
It takes less effort to raise your heart rate by using untrained muscle over
trained muscle. Trained muscle, like your legs, is more efficient and tends to
conserve energy, or burn fewer calories when working.
By working the upper body, we can burn more calories with less effort; thereby
we can work longer and condition the heart and lungs everyday.
Deep breathing is in our control, when we exercise we must take advantage of
that control.
How to Deep Breathe
Take in a deep breath through your nose, fill your lungs and hold that breath
for a few moments then exhale all the way until all the air is out of your
lungs, hold that for a few moments. This is a deep breath, all the way full,
hold, then all the way empty, hold.
Deep breathing is a simple step on the path to a healthy life.
Breathing deeply is a simple, effective addition to a healthy lifestyle.
Chronic stress leads to quick, shallow breathing which then becomes a habit.
Prolonged exhalation helps get rid of stale air and toxins in our lungs.
In her book, “Jump Start Your Metabolism: How to Lose Weight by Changing
the Way you Breathe” (Fireside 1998) author Pam Grout says shallow
breathing impoverishes the cells of the body and slows metabolism. “
Without enough oxygen, your metabolism automatically slows down,” says
Grout. One way exercise increases metabolism is by increasing the oxygen to the
cells.
Make deep breathing a healthy habit. If you concentrate on deep breathing you
begin to love the feel of instant relaxation it brings.
Take a Deep Breath.
You’re already improving!
Keep it going.
Enjoy.