Monday, May 18, 2009

Clarence F. Robison, “Keeping Physically Fit,” Ensign, Sep 1972,

I'm a little bit discouraged. I did my 2 week weigh in and I only lost 1 pound. oh well, I guess if I keep going at that rate I can make my goal but everybody knows the first few are and should be the easiest to lose. boo!

A good exercise program can bring about a physical rehabilitation. Greater than this can be a personality rehabilitation. With this comes a new lease on life, with an improved self-image and the ability to relax and live more freely with everyday problems and stresses. These are not mere speculation; they are scientifically proven facts with predictable results.

1. No one program will solve the needs of all. You must adapt to your age, present health condition, sex, available facilities, time, etc.

2. Get a physical examination before launching into any vigorous program. Follow your doctor’s advice about the extent of your exercising.

3. Start slowly and gradually increase your exercise over a period of many weeks. No crash program is desirable. You may have spent thirty years getting into your decrepit condition; do not try to correct it within thirty days.

4. Make it a family affair. After all, your children are the leaders of tomorrow. Do not neglect their education on fitness, as yours may have been.

5. Make it fun. To begin with, any strenuous exercise is going to hurt physically if you are grossly overweight and markedly out of shape. But stay with it until the original torture period is over, and then adopt those activities that are most enjoyable. If it isn’t pleasurable eventually, you will never continue with it.

6. This is a lifetime program. Don’t plan to get into good shape and then go back to your old sedentary way of life. You may change the activities as improved physical condition permits, but your need for exercise will never change.

7. You are competing against yourself only. Do not try to keep up with anyone else or his program. You are trying to improve yourself, not defeat your neighbor. Keep records, and measure your progress against only yourself.

8. Never run or perform to exhaustion. When you finish a workout, there should be something left. Overfatigue will defeat your whole program and can be dangerous.

9. Your workouts must be regular. If you cannot be regular, little or no fitness endurance will result. An occasional marathon of work is dangerous and foolish; it’s the steady, every day or every other day (no less than three days a week) workout that brings the desired results. If you miss a week or two, don’t try to catch up. Start easy and slow again and work up to your former regularity.

10. Watch for danger signals. Dizziness, chest pains or tightness, lightheadedness, or nausea are reasons for discontinuing the exercise program and continuing only after your doctor’s okay. One noted authority on fitness recommends that participants take their pulse rate after each workout. The pulse rate should drop below 120 within five minutes after the workout and below 100 within ten minutes. If it doesn’t, slow down—you’re overdoing it.

11. Wear loose-fitting clothes that are porous enough to allow for adequate ventilation. Don’t wear any rubberized clothing, and wear comfortable shoes with a wide cushion sole.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Be Excellent





Or






"Don't be a scrub! Rise to the high ground of spiritual mental, and physical excellence. You Can do it. You may not be a genius. You may be lacking in some skills, but so many of us can do better than we are now doing... We are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff your opportunities. Be excellent."
-Gordon B. Hinckley

I love this! I love how powerful it is.  Coming from the prophet makes me really not want to stay in bed all day but to get up, get out and actually do something. We CAN do it! Keep up the good work girls (and Ed)! Be Excellent!!! :D I love you ALL! 
we can either be like the girl on the left...... OR the girl on the right....... Its your choice ;D

Sunday, May 10, 2009

"We all fall down, it's the getting back up that really counts.
We live and we learn, to help someone up when it's their turn.
In life there's only one guarantee,
Your feet won't always be on the ground,
We all fall down." by diamond rio

I heard this song the other day and it made me cry thinking about
all of you and the hard things you were going through. When I was very young
I had a bishop tell me something that has always stuck with me. "Failure does
not come from falling, it's from not getting back up again" (bishop Muirbrook)

Whether it be this get fit goal we have set or more important, the things we are going 
through right now that makes us feel like failures, we are never failures unless we quit trying.
I love you all. And to quote one more little voice in my head, "never, never, never give up"(Avery Rogers age 3)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Jeffery R. Holland

In the Ensign Nov. 05 Jeffery R. Holland made the following statement:

"We should all be as fit as we can be—that’s good Word of Wisdom doctrine. That means eating right and exercising and helping our bodies function at their optimum strength. We could probably all do better in that regard. But I speak here of optimum health; there is no universal optimum size. 

Be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny. That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul and be fundamental to every decision you make"