Your Fitness Revolution

Looks like I'll be starting a new website in the first quarter of the new year and I'm excited. I began thinking about how people continually try to achieve some illusive measure of fitness in their lives. For many, it's driven by the commercials they see on TV for new products - exercise equipment, diet supplements - the list goes on. During the month of January, the fitness centers are literally packed with resolution-makers.

While fitness must start with volition (intentional choice) and resolution, it is only a REVOLUTION that will upset the existing structures in a person's life - schedules, routines, habits, thoughts, movements, etc. Revolution is characterized as radical, enabled by upheaval, and identified by shift. Revolution is normally started where/when conditions have become intolerable. Existing ineffective structures are overturned. Anger is involved - which means there is emotion. Anger is an acceptable emotion as long as the outcomes can be directed postively. A fitness revolution can take place in YOUR life through a radical shift - usually in thinking first, but definitely in changing intolerable conditions - eliminating distracters and obstacles to fitness.

More to come this week as I write press forward with the VOLITION-RESOLUTION-REVOLUTION-EVOLUTION model of embedding a fitness mindset at a genetic level - within the fabric of a life.

Get Angry and Get Fit

I have been making horrible choices in the last week, both in food and in the amount of sleep I've been getting. My energy levels have been so low that I haven't felt much like power-walking or strength training. With an average of 4 hours of sleep a night and eating pizza and deli sandwiches served to the class I was teaching each day

On my way home at the end of the week, I stopped in at Dairy Queen (bad choice), and got 2 chicken wraps with one free (a worse choice) and extra sauce (the worst choice). I was so angry, that I decided to take action. I immediately walked around the parking lot, then proceeded to several other locations to top out the day at just over 10,000 steps.

TAKE-AWAY:  Here's the thing - sometimes it's OK to get angry at yourself for doing something stupid - like making repeatedly poor food choices - as long as it moves you to positive action. Emotion is an important part of fitness. Drive yourself fit.