When you feel tired and stressed from work or life in general, it’s hard to be a good father, mother, son, daughter, and worker or to enjoy life at all. You want to do things with your loved ones and to take pleasure from each moment, but if your level of fitness is just not good enough.

Instead of living in this disappointing manner, adding even a little exercise to your life can help raise your level of fitness.

In fact, moderate exercise, maybe something as simple as a 30 minute walk several times a week can increase energy, burn fat, improve your mental outlook, lead to better problem solving and help you sleep better at night.

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In composing any list of important people in almost any field, everybody will have his or her own favorites. Also, in weight lifting, body building, physical fitness, aerobics, just to name a few areas, there are so many people who have contributed so much that it is difficult to pare the list down adequately. I have attempted, however, to include people who have repeatedly come to my attention since my first contact with weight training at age 16 in 1961. I have tried to put the emphasis on people who I felt were somewhat pivotal in the areas of weight lifting, body building, aerobics or general physical fitness. I am sure that many readers will

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Perhaps it shouldn’t feel like suffering a personal wound when learning about the state of healthcare coverage in Dallas, Houston and throughout Texas, or anywhere else in this country but it does. In fact, for most of us, it really does.

It tends to shatter the ideals we were taught as American children that everyone is equal, no one suffers unwillingly, and working hard will get you somewhere when we learn that approximately 18,000 uninsured individuals ages 25 to 64 suffer excess” deaths annually.

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Motivation is of utmost importance in fitness training, and yet motivation is one of the hardest things to achieve. This can be particularly true for someone just beginning a fitness training program.

If you do anything over and over again, same thing, same time, day after day, week after week, you will get bored! Add to that the fact that exercise does not always show immediate results, and you can quickly see how easy it is to lose that motivation you had when you first began your new, or rapidly becoming old, exercise program.

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Read anything about weight loss and you will see something about exercise. It might be referred to as “physical activity”, but that’s just a codeword. They mean exercise.

Actually, many people have tried exercise and given up on it because it just didn’t seem to work for one reason or another. Here are some explanations of why someone might think that exercise ISN’T working, when it IS!

THE BEGINNING OF THE EXERCISE PROGRAM FOR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

Exercise is activity, movement you might say. People have been moving all their lives, so they know how to do it, right? Well, if you are just talking about “getting some exercise”, you might be right. However,

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