Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with
Bryant and Anita Hewitt
Wednesday
March 13, 2013
Food
To Chew On:
Wednesday
– Broken Open and Poured Out
John
12:3 (NKJV)
Then Mary took a pound of
very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet
with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Thought
For The Day:
True
prayer is to break open our hearts and pour them out in Love and Adoration to
our Lord. Caring for the spiritually and physically poor comes naturally after
that.
Weary
Wednesday, I know it looks like it is taking too long to see the results, but
don’t give up!! You will see the results and love it …Galatians 6:9 (NKJV) And
let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we
do not lose heart.
Hang
In There You Can Do It!!! J
Balance
Exercises For Elderly And Seniors
Balance
exercises for seniors and the elderly can greatly improve the risk of falling
at home. These exercises should focus on building up the strength and endurance
of especially your lower body including your ankles and hips.
Below
I have made a great balance video that is fun and easy to do. All you need is a
chair, comfortable loose fitting clothing,
and a pair of smooth bottom shoes to wear so you won't catch your feet.
Read on then give it a try.
Working
on your balance can be fun and playful. Just see a show by a traveling circus
act and you will see just how much we can improve our balance.
Remember
that to have good balance we must keep our center of gravity over our base of
support which is usually our ankles.
When
we are walking we are working on and improving our dynamic balance or
"moving" balance. You can
select a moving balance exercise below to work on this skill.
When
we are still, say standing on one leg, we are working on improving our static
or "standing" balance.
In
the balance exercises for elderly below we are using the balancing wand. This
can be anything you can find around the house that is long and light. An
umbrella, baseball bat, cane, wooden dowel or even a long wooden spoon.
Try
this balance exercise below and see how much better you can become!
The
7 Worst Training Mistakes I’ve Ever Made…
7.
I Stopped Training for a Month
It
happens to everybody…you hit a patch where there are lots of things going on in
your life and training just seems to take a backseat.
For
me, it happened when my wife and I were in the process of moving to a new
house…in order to best show the townhome for buyers, I had to disassemble my
gym so the basement/family room showed like a room and not a gym. I moved all
my equipment over to our new place, that we hadn’t yet moved into.
Well,
with everything going on and not really having a gym to train in, I basically
just stopped training…I didn’t even do bodyweight stuff.
And
THAT was a BIG mistake.
By
the time I got back to training, I had lost muscle, gained fat and felt
depressed about not training or doing anything really physical.
You’ve
just got to realize that sometimes life gets in the way, or sometimes you do
need a break from heavy training (especially if you get injured). Not every
workout has to be a blockbuster…sometimes it’s enough just to go in and do a
“punchclock” workout to maintain what you’ve got and keep the habit.
Even
you’re injured, you can quite often work around that injury. If you hurt your
shoulder, train your legs and work the non-injured side of your upper body.
If
you’re short on time, do a 5 minute bodyweight circuit of push-ups, lunges, or
other bodyweight exercises.
The
Lesson:
Training
should be a constant in your life. Even just doing small things can go a long
way towards maintaining strength, health and sanity.
And
one last lesson from me…if you do slip, when you DO get back into training and
training hard, hold yourself accountable by taking a “before” picture. It’ll
give you the motivation not to let it happen again.
After
2 Rounds of
Metabolic Surge
So
even if you DO fall off training wagon, don’t feel like you’ll never be able to
get back to where you once were…it’s actually going to happen FASTER for you if
you’ve been there before.
Conclusion:
Everybody
makes mistakes…the key is to learn from these mistakes and grow…and hopefully
not ever make them again. And I hope you learned from MY mistakes!
A
Healthy Menu For
Wednesday
Repeat
the cereal breakfast, but have a sliced small banana in place of the berries. For
lunch, stuff a whole-wheat pita with 1/4 cup of hummus, 1/4 cup of feta cheese,
sliced cucumbers and sliced tomatoes. At dinner, stir fry 3 oz. of shrimp with
1 cup of snow peas and 1 cup of sliced carrots. Have over 1 cup of brown rice.
For your snacks, have 1/2 cup of low-fat cottage cheese with 1/2 cup of
drained, canned pineapple and later, have 20 almonds.
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