CONSIDER THE SOURCE OF YOUR INFORMATION WHEN THE INFORMERS SPREAD MISINFORMATION OR WORSE, DISINFORMATION

In the 1930's and 40's it was commonplace for advertisers to use physicians to promote the use of tobacco as a product which could cure just about anything that ailed you. It was typical to see ads such as "Smoke For Your Health!" in movie theaters and on billboards everywhere. However, by 1954, industry strategists deemed physician images in advertisements no longer credible in the face of growing public concern about the health evidence implicating cigarettes. Think of how long it took for the "NO SMOKING" campaigns to be in full force while so many Americans suffered. 

Fast forward to today, 2015. We continue to suffer despite all the so-called health and fitness "talk" across multi-media platforms. We, as a nation, are the unhealthiest we have ever been. In addition to physicians, we now have celebrities, athletes as well as self-proclaimed and self-absorbed "so-called experts" who are PAID to endorse and promote questionable if not dangerous products, services and "modalities." Prolonged static stretching, non-weight-bearing activity designed for patients in a rehabilitative setting during WWI as well as extended time spent in a praying mantis position going nowhere CANNOT YIELD THE RESULTS THAT A COMPREHENSIVE ON YOUR FEET CARDIOVASCULAR AND QUALITY WEIGHT-LIFTING PROGRAM WILL. You may of course engage in any activity you like, but when optimum health and fitness become your top priority, then it will be time to engage in the following:

FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH TWO FEET, STAND ON THEM AND LIFT YOUR OWN BODY WEIGHT AS YOU WORK AGAINST GRAVITY TO CLIMB, BE IT ON ACTUAL STAIRS, A REVOLVING STAIR MACHINE, HILLS OR MOUNTAINS.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH TWO HANDS, PICK UP THE FREE WEIGHTS AND LIFT. LEARN TO CORRECTLY PERFORM COMPOUND MULTI-JOINT EXERCISES INCLUDING SQUATS, LUNGES, DEAD-LIFTS, CURL TO PRESSES, ETC.

ENGAGE IN THE ABOVE FOR THE FOLLOWING EVIDENCE-BASED BENEFITS BELOW:

1)DECREASED BODY FAT SINCE MUSCLES BURN FAT. 

2)REDUCED DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY.

3)INCREASED BONE MINERAL DENSITY AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE UNAWARE, YOU LOSE BOTH BONE MINERAL DENSITY AND MUSCLE EVERY YEAR AFTER AGE 30 UNLESS YOU LIFT WEIGHTS SO STOP THINKING YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EXERCISE.

4)IMPROVED AND ENHANCED PERFORMANCE IN YOUR SPORT OF CHOICE.

5)IMPROVED DAILY FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES.

6)LOWERED RISK OF DIABETES.

7)IMPROVED HEART HEALTH AND INCREASED BLOOD FLOW THROUGHOUT THE BODY FOR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF OXYGENATED BLOOD AND NUTRIENTS TO ORGANS, LIMBS, MUSCLES, BONES, NERVES, ETC.

8)IMPROVED BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL.

9)DECREASED IF NOT ELIMINATED BACK PAIN BY STRENGTHENING YOUR BACK AS WELL AS YOUR ENTIRE CORE MUSCULATURE BY LIFTING FROM A STANDING POSITION USING PROPER FORM AND TECHNIQUE.

10)IMPROVED BALANCE BY WORKING YOUR STABILIZER MUSCLES WHICH ASSIST YOUR PRIME MOVERS.

11)IMPROVED AND ENHANCED FLEXIBILITY SINCE WEIGHT-LIFTING MAKES YOU JUST AS FLEXIBLE IF NOT MORE SO THAN JUST STRETCHING WHEN YOU ENGAGE IN THE FULL RANGE OF MOTION WHILE LIFTING.

12)IMPROVED COGNITIVE FUNCTION AS WELL AS CONFIDENCE AND ALERTNESS AS YOU BECOME STRONGER.

13)IMPROVED ENERGY AND OF COURSE YOU WILL LOOK AND FEEL BETTER.


If you are wondering why more men and women, but particularly women, do not engage in comprehensive on your feet cardiovascular and weight-lifting programs the answer is simple. Understand the "bottom line" and therein LIES the truth. RIDICULOUS CLAIMS AND THE NON-STOP BRAINWASHING ACROSS MULTI-MEDIA PLATFORMS THAT "CERTAIN PRACTICES" YIELD NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE RESULTS are to blame. Then add to that the fact that it is more cost-effective to "squeeze" as many bodies as possible into an empty room and "cram" as many bikes as possible into a given space rather than actually provide what really works in both the short and long term. Revolving stair machines are taller, wider and cost more than stationary bikes (not to mention that it is easier to just keep sitting and/or displacing your body weight onto your hands). Additionally, Olympic bars, curl bars and adequate amounts of dumbbells in all the necessary increments are few and far between in most venues. Stay tuned for my next post when I will show you how to circumnavigate the systems in place which are NOT designed for optimum health and fitness. It is easier than you might think to safely achieve health and fitness success for a lifetime.

​Until then,

CLIMB, LIFT AND EAT WELL...