National Walk To Work Day
Give your car a rest today, get some clean air into your lungs and stretch your legs by participating in the annual walk to work day on Friday October 5th, 2007. Not only will you be supporting the environment, but also four charities in doing so.
Thousands of Sydney workers will be improving their physical and mental health, creating a cleaner environment, saving on petrol and reducing traffic by leaving their cars at home and walking to work on Friday 5 October 2007.
I got the alert from
Scott Bird over at
Straight To The Bar. Scott is passionate about the environment and has been contributing regularly on Former Fat Guy Blog with posts about Strength training and cooking. His latest contribution was
10 Ways You Can Help The Environment.
I have recently taken up
walking again, so I’m happy to pass along this information. The project is Australian based, but that doesn’t mean you cant participate. Friday October 5th, Walk To Work Day.
Labels: walking
Burn The Fat - Free Gift
I just got back from my daily walk and today I was listening to the an Interview with Tom Venuto of Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle. I've followed Tom's program for years now and you be following it as well.
As you know, I've committed to and am following this
10000 steps a day walking program that I was introduced to a few weeks ago. I've written about it and I'm talking about it in the
10000 steps a day walking forum.
I'm using the time to manifest what I want and create my goals for the day. I get a lot of good thoughts and this Scavenger hunt thing I just came up with was one of them.
I've been listening to the
Unstoppable Fat Loss interviews for the past few days but just a few days ago Tom sent an email to all the people who has purchased his book
Burn The Fat. In the email, he offered his recent interview in which he answers questions that were submitted to the interviewer.
How to lose the last 10 pounds
What do do about a plateau
What a trained athlete training 8 hours a week can do about busting their 14% body fat plateau and dropping into single digits.
Tom goes into great detail about the importance of mindset in achieving your goals as well as the commitment involved in this process. I agree with Tom that you can't just buy a book, read it and expect it to work like magic.. there is a lot of work, effort and commitment involved, but the plan is sound and if you're doing your due diligence, you will get results like thousands of others who've gone before you. I used it to get as low as 8% body fat, so
you can too!
What an amazing interview. If you've already got the book, make sure you download that interview he offered and listen to it. If you haven't, then get
Burn the Fat, read it and listen to the interview that he is offering for clients.
Great great great listening.
Load up your MP3 player and go for a walk!
Labels: Burn The Fat, walking, weight loss
10000 Steps A Day Weight Loss Program
My sister informed me about this
10000 steps a day walking program while she was visiting me the other day. I did some research about it and found that it's a popular walking program using a pedometer to measure your steps per day.
There are walking clubs doing it and a lot of people have gotten involved.
It was first mentioned about 40 years ago in Japan as a way to increase activity and promote good heart health. I had never heard of it before and I walked for years when I first began my weight loss journey. (click here to read my
weight loss story)
They say that
10000 steps a day is the number required to stay healthy and fit so I looked into it and wrote about it on my new blog at :
10000 steps a day walking program.
I'd love to hear your comments and have you join my
weight loss forum to post your thoughts and results with it. There's an entire section in the
10000 steps a day forum.
Your thoughts?
Labels: walking, weight loss
Walking Lightly and Yoga to Recover From Leg Workout
As I mentioned, my rationale is to take the day off immediately following my leg workout to help in the recovery process and to avoid overtraining.
My leg workouts are pretty killer and I had trouble walking for a few days last week after doing a morning run with stair running followed up with an afternoon leg workout.
So today, my morning cardio was just a light 35 minute walk in our river valley and then some amazing
Yoga at lions breath here in the city with
Jennifer Steed. She’s an amazing Yogi and I’m so glad that she’s moved from Calgary to Edmonton (and magically, a short 8 blocks from where I live). Calgary’s loss is my gain.
It was her first session here in Edmonton after having her first child in February and for the other students it was their first experience with her. I heard them all talking about how amazing she was after the class and a few stayed to just talk with her. Now, I’ve taken some
Yoga with Jen in years past and my search for a Yogi that I was just as happy with has not been too well until I met Eoin from
Vancouver Yoga. I was quite happy to be back for my first real Yoga session here in Edmonton with Jennifer.
Jennifer does
Yoga retreats that are awesome as well as having a
Yoga CD available. I highly recommend both. Her retreats include
mountain Yoga retreats here in the Banff area (Canadian Rockies and Kananaskis) as well as some
Costa Rica Yoga retreats. She even has some "women only" retreats. I keep telling her that those are the ones I want to go on, but she never lets me. Maybe I could just go as an advisor of some sort Jen? Sunscreen Lotion applicator?
Here’s Jen from a couple of years ago
And if you want to see what I wrote about her, visit
Wizard Training and Backpacking 2004 (current photo archive)
The class was late, 7:40 till 9:00 and what a beautiful way to end the day.. some stretching, some relaxing and then my favorite, the corpse pose.
Yes, I'm a big guy, a 240 pound bodybuilder and yes, I do Yoga.
I do Yoga because it makes me feel good, it stretches and lengthens my muscles and actually makes me stronger. I spend most of my time in the gym contracting my muscles and making them work harder so I like to balance it out with some stretching. I also find that my organs get worked in a way not possible by any other means. My energy is more balanced, I digest food better and my elimination channels are improved in function.
I have a very hectic life, and Yoga is a way for me to just chill out, calm down, stretch and take it easy for a bit. Plus, it's a good workout in itself, just different.
I’m so glad you’re now in Edmonton Jen!
So, to summarize, my traditional Wed’s will be light walking and then evening Yoga so that I can speed the recovery process in my legs.
Tomorrow? Arms!
Labels: peak-potentials, walking, wizard-camp, wizard-training, yoga
