Fitness: The art of staying in good enough shape to stay ahead of the ravages of old age!

  • best workout schedule

    Although you can find many different workout schedules on line, all which will claim to be the best, there is actually no “Best Workout Schedule” no cookie cutter workout schedule Determining you goal Each of us is an individual and our bodies all react differently to the stress of working out. We are all on different portions of our fitness path and each of us have different goals. Our workout schedule will be determined by what our goals are. We also need to know where on the fitness continuum we are. As well, our abilities and the amount of time…

  • Prayer Doesn’t Work

    By Gary Yendall Suppose you have entered a high class restaurant. The hostess has seated you and the server has introduced themselves. They ask if you would like something to drink and you reply, “I don’t know. Maybe a glass of water” The server gives you a menu and advises they will be back shortly with your drink. The server gets busy with other customers but eventually comes back. Then they ask if you are ready to order. A thought goes through your head … “Where is my water?” Who is to blame? Whose fault is it that you didn’t…

  • Hope after death

    Is there Hope after Death? I attended a funeral of a friend and mentor today. Wally had been my mentor when I entered the ministry and he was my pastor. Then he came down with brain cancer. He had a brain operation where they were able to remove most but not all the tumor. The doctors gave him five months to live. It seemed like there was no hope. That was five years ago. Healing when there seems to be no hope We were a praying church and I had succeeded Wally as the pastor. We prayed and prayed but…

  • My Nutrition Plan Sucks!

    How come I am not seeing results? Is this you? You starve yourself by just eating lettuce so that the rabbits are starting a petition. You run on that horrible treadmill for days and when all is said and done … the scale hasn’t budged. What is your strategy for weight loss? When trying to lose weight so often we either don’t have a strategy. We follow a nutrition plan that is going to work for a short time but then becomes unsustainable. Many of the “fad” diets out there are only short term solutions yet we seem to want…

  • Using % Body Fat to Monitor Progress

    My Meal Plan and Exercise aren’t Working! Have you ever cried the above statement out. You have almost stopped eating, you are running six days a week but you are not losing weight. Your body fat is expanding. But … are you getting fitter? Using weight to measure your gains is an ineffective method of tracking your progress. Our body weight fluctuates throughout the day and things such as eating or drinking affects the weight. Did you know that a 500 ml bottle of water weighs around 1 lb? So how do I and how should you monitor your progress?…

  • Workouts for September

    I started my exercise routine and workouts on September 1st and this blog will follow me until the end of the month. September 1, 2024 Today I went on my stationary bike. I have a road bike that was at my son-in-laws house but I was able to get it back. I had an indoor trainer but it was almost as old as I am so I bought a new trainer. This is the type that hooks onto your back axle and uses a magnet to change the resistance. There are five levels of resistance but at the moment I…

  • How old is old

    When I was young, sixteen was old and if someone was thirty they were really old. Of course my parents were old and my grandparents were from another planet! When it came to fitness, it seemed that once you hit thirty or thirty five it was time to start preparing for the grave. Still Going As I got older though, I grew up in a new generation that didn’t really put a limit on how old a person was before they had to be put out to pasture. I was thirty three years old when I joined the Emergency Response…