Covert Bailey is a retired author, television personality and lecturer on fitness and diet. He wrote the best selling book Fit or Fat. He has a way of simplifying the complicated biochemistry of weight loss and fitness in his fun and motivating video. Take a look.
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Len Kravitz, Ph.D. professor at the U. of New Mexico summarized relevant research published in the early 2000’s in an article titled “Exercise Motivation: What Starts and Keeps People Exercising”. (Kravitz, ND). He contrasts the process and attributes that lead to exercise participation and the factors that cause exercise dropouts. Research shows that 50% of
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This article appeared in the AZ Daily Star newpaper here in Tucson recently. I have had several friends die early from mainly lack of self care, or in other words they thought they were indestructible. For instance, one of my deceased friends was a great high school football running back that could have had a
Mayo clinic has 6 tips for exercise motivation – Mayo Clinic Minute: 6 tips to keep you motivated for exercise – Mayo Clinic News Network. As a world renown organization for health it is always interesting to see what they advise.
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One of the best books on weight loss is The 9 Truths about Weight Loss, by Daniel Kirschenbaum, PhD. (2000). Kirschenbaum was director of the eating disorders program at Northwestern U. Medical School, where he was professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. He grew up with a weight problem as a kid and so became
This article on fitness benefits appeared in the Arizona Daily Star 1/30/23 here in Tucson, AZ. It is thorough and concise.
This article appeared in the Arizona Daily Star 7/28/98 on p.1 section C, “Laying down the laws of motivation”, by Jeff Herring of Knight Ridder Newspapers. It does not have references. However, it is very good in my opinion. So rather than summarize it I present it mostly verbatim. “Here are the universal laws for
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1.Learn to relax with the physical effort. Time, distance, amount of weight and repetitions are important. However, focusing mainly on finishing the exercise makes exercise less than fun. After getting fit many runners learn to monitor their exertion level and consciously relax. In other words, they associate and/or adjust their effort level according to the
https://youtu.be/gUF2ptVA-eE Eric Heiden was a gold medal Olympic speed skater and later became a medical doctor, MD. See you tube video of his skating above. Speed skaters have to be pain merchants, in other words they deal with the pain/discomfort of exercise. So who would be better than Heiden to discuss the adaption of the
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Stretching is important for before and after workouts because as noted by Anderson (2020, p. 11) “Why stretch – Reduce muscle tension and make body feel more relaxed-Help coordination by allowing for freer and easier movement-Increase range of motion-Help prevent injuries such as muscle strains (A strong flexible, pre-stretched muscle resists stress better than a
