Hello All!!!
I know it's been a while since I have posted on here and I am sorry for that! I promise there will be more to come....beginning with this post in which I need to vent about some things I have seen going on recently!
So this begins with a movie that I saw last week....Grown Ups! It was a great movie, very funny, but it brought up a few things that have been pissing me off! When did kids get so scared of going outside?! Most of the training that I do is called GPP, or General Physical Preparedness. What the heck is that? Basically it's going back to the games and movements we used to play and perform as children. Pushing a wheelbarrow, playing any and every sport that we knew and ones that we made up! In the movie you see some of the kids sitting around playing PlayStation3, texting on their phone, watching STUPID reality television shows, and basically staying inside their cushy house with all of their entertainment being handed to them on a silver platter! I say GET YOUR CHILDREN UP AND GET THEM OUTSIDE!!! Want your child to be a better hockey, football, baseball, basketball or lacrosse player? Get them outside climbing, running, practicing, and increasing their cardio endurance! It's that simple....you just have to do it!
The second thing I need to vent about stems directly from the first. If we are allowing our children to be lazy....maybe it's because we have become lazy ourselves. I was at Costco the other day and watched as so many people pushed their huge shopping carts full of crappy food out to their cars. That doesn't really bother me! What does bother me is the amount of people who just took their shopping cart and pushed it onto the sidewalk right by their car! Really! You can't take the extra 30 seconds and 50 steps to take it back to the store, or even to the closest cart return in the parking lot?! Now that is lazy! I watched a man push a cart into the grass 10 feet from his car....when only 30 feet away was a young man collecting a whole line of carts to push into the store. People wonder why they are not losing weight or feeling good about themselves or are out of shape. I can tell them why! Here's a few hints. Take the steps instead of the elevator....walk your shopping cart back to the store....park and walk into the bank, pharmacy, cleaners, etc. instead of using the drive thru.....get yourself and your kids up off the couch and away from the tv and take them outside...for your good and theirs!!!! Stop buying every fast acting weight loss supplement you see on tv and EAT RIGHT!
I have some of my younger clients ask me what I think about this supplement or that one. I tell them......when I was diagnosed with diabetes 2 years ago I weighed 168lbs. Within 2 months I gained 32lbs and have stayed around that weight ever since. I did this without taking a SINGLE supplement! Not even a protein powder!!!! All I was eating was good carbs, low fat animals such as turkey, chicken and fish, and lots of veggies and fruit! There is a natural way to achieve the results you want, whether it be weight loss, weight gain, renewed health, or to excel at a particular sport, but don't forget that it does take some hard work!
So think about ways you can increase your fitness activity in small ways throughout your day, get you and your kids up off the couch and go outside and play, and stay away from those "quick unnatural fixes" you find on tv and eat naturally, and you will find that your goals are easier to achieve! Stop being so freaking lazy in your everyday life!!!
One final thing....did you know that when you exercise your body produces a natural fluid called synovial fluid which naturally lubricates your joints. So......in alot of cases....it's lack of movement that can cause pain and inflammation in your joints because of the lack of lubrication!
Yours in Fitness,
Joshua Berthold
www.symmetrydirect.com/jberthold
