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Post by X factor on Nov 30, 2013 10:03:49 GMT -5
The last thing I feel like doing this morning is working out...so yep...that's exactly what I'm going to do, workout...get the blood flowing, oxygenize the blood stream...feed those stiff muscles, flush out and destroy bad toxins by flooding them with oxygen.
I'd rather just sit around and drink wine (just a metaphor)...but I can't...won't.
My personal moral and stamina mean more to me right now...are more of a use to me, than bad health.
As soon as you sit around, and start drinking, your immune begins to suffer, you start getting colds, the flu, strept throat...
The main prevention to all of that is working out...which boosts your immune by making you sweat, and oxygenating your blood stream, like scrubbers that go in and kill off toxins.
Enough talk, time to go exercise...
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Post by X factor on Nov 30, 2013 21:32:18 GMT -5
Feet health... Muscles are important...even the muscles on the bottom of your feet. Muscles are not bad...muscles are good...even for your feet... The stronger your muscles...the better your posture. The stronger your muscles...the less pain and wear and tear on your joints and ligaments... Back pain, nerve pain has a lot to do with lack of muscles... Muscles are important...take care of your feet and it will go a long way towards your health... .
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Post by X factor on Dec 12, 2013 18:37:07 GMT -5
Nothing like a good short, yet intense, power workout...short, but constant...where you move from station to station or exercise to exercise...without a break...
Like say treadmill, to curls, to push-ups, to sit-ups, back to treadmill...none stop. And do that like 3-6 times...short and intense...
Cause running or jogging is flat out boring to me, expecially on a treadmill... Running through forest is fun, cause terrain is constantly changing...but just running around a track or treadmill is like torture to me.
I kept in shape while not working...and glad I did...cause I'm in better shape now than when I left...and that makes me feel better...that I didn't let myself go.
My cardio is better, and over all muscle tone and strength is better...as such my energy level at work is higher than usual...that plus vitamins...and no booze as of lately.
All of us might not be able to afford a sports car, but at least we can shape a sports body...later
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Post by X factor on Dec 24, 2013 14:36:55 GMT -5
While everyone else was shopping for food today, I worked out, ran, played sports... But truthfully, there's not a lot of obese people where I stay...most are slim and trim...maybe cause they're younger and poorer, where I stay...walking a lot on sidewalks, riding bikes ect. Maybe on the other side of the city there may be more fat folks. But over here, you don't see a lot of fat folks. In fact, I rarely see 'Fat America' adds, and TV commentators, and magazines love to say America is full of. I just don't see a whole lot of fat folks walking around...cause I think most are very conscious of weight now days. But then again...like I said before, a lot of that may have to do cause I live in area of town where most are 30 or below. Now if I lived in a more effluent part of town, I might start seeing more overweight types...but here I do not. If anything, most of the females are undersized and petite, do to malnutrition, eating the wrong kinds of food...and the males...the males...just younger and street. So metabolisms are still high. But the older you get, the harder it is to stay thin. The more money you make, the harder it is to stay thin. Just depends. I've never been fat...and don't know how it feels to be fat...but have been heavier at times, than I'd like. Fat people tend to be nicer...at least the ones I run into...at least the males...fat males behave better than thin or sculptured ones...fat males are just more mellow. Fat females...I don't know. Again, around here you just don't see a lot of fat obese anything. I knew a married couple once, and both the male and female were super fat...and as nice as could be...like Mr Mrs Santa Claus. I still miss them...think they moved to Michigan or something. Around here, most people, expecially the women, are short and scronny, do to poor diets, poor inner city diets...fast food, milk, and everything else your not suppose to eat... Here's why you shouldn't drink milk...Inner city folks are short, like dwarves, many are turning into midgets, do to lack of nutritional diet...and potato chips, fast food, candy ect. Dwarfs...black dwarfs...do to bad diet, lack of vegetibles...fruit...and instead scarf down soda, hamburgers, cheese, milk, chips... But I guess we all did that at one time, but usually was supplemented by good home cooking food. After hearing radio show last night, from here on out I'm going to start eating way more rice, and potatoes and beans... Go back to eating what ancients ate...no milk...no more milk...or cheese...except a pizza every now and that...doubt I could ever totally give pizzas up... I'm in good enough shape where I can absorb junk food every now and then... And no sodas... While at home, it's easy for me to resist bad food, but while working, and out there, always passing convient stores...It's harder to resist junk food...cause that's all stores sell. Every single item in a convient store is junk food...accept maybe the nuts. All the drinks are junk, chips, junk....candy, junk....sweets, junk....nothing but junk. They should just call them junk food stores... gotta run...
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Post by X factor on Jan 4, 2014 10:47:19 GMT -5
I force myself to exercise now, when most, including myself, would rather stay in bed, or like after a night of being wild, the next morning the last thing on most peoples mind is a workout, running, jogging...but I've conditioned myself to expect it.
To fight, when you least feel like it...I'm trying to build a frame of thought, attitude, a attitude that maybe will help me survive when things go south.
There's something about having decent health, even when things go south around you, that helps your self esteem.
And other people can see that. If you look sickly, bloated and out of shape, it can even effect someone decision to hire you.
Health and appearance to matter to those who often times decide our long term or short term fate.
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Post by X factor on Jan 4, 2014 10:54:16 GMT -5
I've had so many symptoms over the years of this or that...but simply over come them through staying fit and eating right, or less.
If I were like health care babies, going to the doctor every other week for this symptom or that symptom, I'd be $20,000 in debt.
As long as I've been alive, no doctor has ever really healed me of anything, well, maybe when a baby and get the flu or something, anti biotic type stuff as a youngster.
Not saying that won't change...cause it could tomorrow.
What I am saying though is the body is capable of healing itself, if you feed it right, and stay away from bad habits like heavy drinking, smoking, drugs ect.
I haven't given up drinking, but counter it with working out...if I drink, I punish myself the next day by running, jogging.
Spirituality and a sound mind are more important than staying physically fit though, but there's no reason the two can't go hand in hand.
Not sure why religious leaders always got to look fat or puffy...why can't a spiritual leader, or pastor, ever be like a body builder or something?
That would be cool.
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Post by X factor on Jan 6, 2014 18:11:07 GMT -5
Muscle is way better than being overly thin
Having muscles is way more healthier than being supper thin...I know, I've been both...
I've never been medically thin, nor have I ever been body builder type muscular...but I've become thin enough were all muscle tone goes away, and muscular, or toned enough, to make the cover of a fitness magazine.
And cause I've been at both extremes, I can say with confidence that by far, being muscularly toned is far healthier for your body than being a pole.
As I've said before, muscle is what holds your body together, keeps bones, ligaments, joints, all aligned properly, and from rubbing one another.
The less muscles you have, say in shoulders, the more joint pain you'll experience...or take the knees...
The less muscles you have in knees, the more likely one is to develop knee pain, from knee joints rubbing together.
When legs were thin, no muscle tone, I experienced such discomfort if knees bent below a certain angle, like climbing stairs or something. But as soon as I started jogging, working out again, pain went away.
Everything eventually goes away, went muscles once again properly align your body like a chiropractor does.
I use to think being thin was 'exotic and soxy'...not anymore...now I see that having a muscularly toned frame is much more benefiscal to ones health, and doesn't look bad either.
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Post by X factor on Jan 26, 2014 7:27:50 GMT -5
I've concluded some things about my personal health, based on my own performance and environment. 1. Stress lowers your immune system, being unhappy lowers your immune system. 2. Milk and Dairy products lower your immune system, consuming Milk and dairy products opens you up to all sorts of illnesses you normally wouldn't get, mainly do to the pathogens that fester inside of milk and then go on to infect the human body in a variety of ways as red links show. 3. Working long hours on any job, particularly manual labor jobs, is also bad for health and moral. You never realize how much of a toll it takes on you until Saturday morning when you wake up feeling totally spent and exhausted. With myself, it's not until Sunday morning that I start feeling energized again. Working long laborious/stressful jobs makes you neglect self throughout the week, you snack on junk food while at work, or working or driving around, neglect working out, cause once you get home, to wore out, dirty, to want to work out or it's to dark and cold. I'm actually more healthier when not working, cause I eat right, and exercise right, and don't stress. At work, you're dealing with stress all day long, and of course that varies a lot depending on what it is one does. I can't imagine how those working in frigid cold oil fields in N-Dakota even begin to cope. To work outside all day in minus degree weather, touching pipes that instantly drain heat out of body, or climbing in and out of trucks, machinery, connecting valves that have frozen ice all in the threads, having to chip or chisel ice away, eating bad junk food all day long while doing this, working 8-14 hour shifts ect, can't imagine the stress that exerts on the mind and body for the ground labor. A lot of these activities we would not be doing, if not for industry. So we're in environment, work enviornments, that common sense and nature, our own bodies, would tell us to flee from in order to preserve life, but industry, the need to earn an income, over rides that common sense. So we hurl ourselves in unnatural enviornments, risk injury and illness, cause everyone needs a pay check. Some jobs, maybe many, depending on nature of work, are indeed bad for your over all health. Where as winning the lottery, freeing ones self from slavery, allowing body proper rest, while engaging in activities that bring joy, instead of hazard, I conclude is much better for your health, good day.
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Post by X factor on Jan 28, 2014 17:04:12 GMT -5
The odd thing about energy
The odd thing I notice about energy, at least when it comes to personal health and fitness, is that you have to spend it, in order to get it.
What I mean by that is you have to exercise more than the energy you spend all day at work, or college ect ect, in order to feel more energized.
Example, whenever I stop working out for prolonged periods of time, my over all energy level begins to lower.
It's only when I work out, jog ect, does my energy level go up, even though workouts can feel like torture.
It almost seems cruel, in order to feel energize, you have to workout above and beyond what daily activity you do.
But daily activity, work, school, ect, isn't enough activity in and of itself, to keep you in optimum health.
And maybe that changes as you age, as metabolism changes or slows down.
So basically if you want to stay in shape, have more energy than you need, you have to work out.
Not sure how or why it's that way...maybe I'll google it, do some research and share what I find out.
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Post by X factor on Jan 28, 2014 17:55:05 GMT -5
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Post by X factor on Jan 28, 2014 18:14:10 GMT -5
Exercising creates energy, continuedHere are a few blog links, from more traditional bloggers, and what they, and their respondents have to say about exercising and energy... Why exercising gives you more energy: LauraThis comes from the website 'Heavenly Homemakers'...and it's mainly orientated towards women, but the principles apply to all... Exercise fights fatigue: WebMDThe above link here provides more clinical reasons of why exercising generates energy in people. And let's see, one more I will pick by random... Avoid 'SparksPeople' website, full of pop ups...they screwed themselves, I'll never ever ever promote a site that's full of pop ups that clog up my browser or other peoples browser. Bloggers had better decide if they want readers or dead blogs that no one reads do to annoying pop ups. What kind of slime blogger would sneak pop ups on their blog site? As if you won't notice. Anyways, my mood has changed after trying to look at 'SparksPeople'...can't stand pop ups...we'll continue this later.
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Post by X factor on Feb 1, 2014 16:22:36 GMT -5
When you use yourself as a labUsing yourself as a living biological lab can sometimes take weeks to see the results of change, for the better or worse. Lately though, I've been loosing weight again, and the main two things I've cut back on are Dairy products and store bought red meat.
Another interesting note is I've been exercising less do to schedule.
And my consumption of alcohol products has only gone down slightly.
I find this interesting that milk (and all the fat contained within it), and red meat, and even salt, almost have more effect on weight loss and or gain than does exercising.
10 ways to cut down on meat and dairy toxins (blog link)
The above link is a very interesting read full of stuff doctors never seem to warn people about.
Anyways, good day.
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Post by X factor on Feb 2, 2014 7:51:41 GMT -5
My weight loss continues to hold steady. And again I contribute it to cutting dairy out of my diet, and other foods. The hazards of dairy products, you'll be shocked!Also, even though I'm loosing weight, exercising is still important...exercising is like a natural medicine to the body, why? Because when you exercise you take in a lot more oxygen to the blood stream, and oxygen kills disease, destroys it, kicks it out of your body, and parasites and other harmful agents. So for instance, when you jog, you're inhaling more oxygen which oxygenates your blood stream, muscles, stomach, brain, whole body, and as such you get a cleansing, a natural one.
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Post by X factor on Feb 8, 2014 9:42:48 GMT -5
Funny or sad how ones face is the barometer of their over all health.
If you drink heavy, your face shows it, not your arms, or chest or calves, but the face...same with drugs, same with depression, same with aging...the face reveals all.
The skin on face seems to react to what we do more than any other visible part of body.
Accept hands and feet.
Many have 18 year old bodies, until you look at face, then face reveals 36 year old.
Same with some hands, some peoples hands, the skin on the hands, seem to age 20 years ahead of persons age. This probably has to do with sun, type of work one does ect.
But ones face is the primary barometer of ones over all health.
You can look at someone face and tell if their happy, sad, been drinking, or doing drugs, if their sleepy or energetic.
And maybe that's another reason why the face seems to age quicker than rest of bodies skin, cause it's so active.
Also direct sunlight hits the face all the time, sunlight, and general weather...where as rest of body is clothed, shielded from the elements.
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Post by X factor on Feb 17, 2014 8:16:51 GMT -5
I continue to loose weight, even while consuming beer from time to time...which proves that beer, within itself, does not cause weight gain, rather it's all the stuff you eat along with beer, that causes the weight gain. Drinking beer does not cause you to gain weight unless1. You don't exercise. 2. You're eating foods with lots of fat and sugar in them, in addition to #1. And that's basically it, like I said previously once I cut dairy products out of life (98% out), and once I cut way back on sugar in take...the weight loss started occurring naturally....amazing. I wasn't eating 'sweets' per say, but yet sugar was still sneaking it's way into my life...how? This is how, sweetened drinks, and not even soda, but other non carbonated sweet drinks that have natural flavoring, and so fool you into thinking somehow it's healthy... This is why many can't loose weight, cause we're pouring mounds and mounds of sugar down our throats daily! Sugar, disguised in sweet drinks is the culprit. Run from the drinks as I did, and you'll start loosing weight more easily.
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