Have you heard about the Funhog Family? Brian and Jodi Tuten and their five young children are doing the first part of their 50-State Challenge, spending three months this summer visiting and having adventures in each of the 39 states east of their home city of Phoenix, AZ. We were privileged to be one of [...]
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Here’s a guest post about obesity by RN and wellness coach Laura Crooks of You Bloom Wellness: Americans get fatter each year. We can be so accustomed to seeing overweight people we have lost touch with the problems associated with it. Carrying extra weight is not only uncomfortable but it increases the chance of developing certain [...]
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I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell‘s book Outliers. I had heard so many people talk about this book, so I finally picked it up at the Dallas airport to read on my flights back to Pittsburgh. It’s a great book, and as Gladwell is apt to do, he pulls together research and ideas that make [...]
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Last week someone mentioned made a reference to me regarding Monty Python‘s famous movie
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A few years ago I was teaching my daughter’s Sunday School class at church. The class for her age group was small: three girls that were 5 or 6 years old. Our lesson that day was about a paralyzed man that Jesus had healed. (Jesus had first said to him “Your sins are forgiven” and [...]
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You’ve probably heard this famous quotation from Jim Rohn: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Obviously, this is not a mathematical fact, but there is certainly some truth about how we are all influenced, for better or worse, by the people we spend time with. This is [...]
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Don’t you hate it when you see someone that doesn’t even have to work at something to be successful at it? Perhaps you’re working your butt off and another person just seems to coast along, achieving the same as you (or more). I knew a guy like this in college. A bunch of us in [...]
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In today’s The Virginian-Pilot newspaper there is a full-page article that says that we sit for an average of 9.3 hours per day. It also says a few other things that I’ve been saying and writing about for a few years. Here are the key ones: “The human body isn’t built to sit for long [...]
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Over the past few years, we’ve tried different ways of getting our kids regular exercise, with varying degrees of success. It takes a concerted effort to work around my writing and coaching, their homeschooling, piano lessons, church activities, and other family things. I get my exercise in the mornings to ensure that I get it [...]
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Last night was the premier episode of ABC’s new reality show Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition. This new show is very different from NBC’s The Biggest Loser. Both shows work with obese people, but rather than having a group of people come to a special “ranch” for a few months to get slowly whittled down [...]
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I'm a software engineer turned fitness coach. A lifelong athlete, my new mission is to help people begin and maintain physically active lifestyles. Read more...
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