Messenger of Change (Part 1)
Biologically speaking, we are the only animals to retire or even think of the notion of not working and relaxing and perhaps for some… boozing it up, until they take their last breath. Well perhaps not everyone takes this road of debauchery, but I’ve seen my fair share here: sitting in public places, drunk as a skunk and looking older by the moment. I often wonder why they are not taking better care of themselves and instead seem to foster this attitude of “chasing death” instead of “chasing life.” It’s no wonder that we as Americans were only producing 10 centenarians for each 100,000 people ( 2005) as compared to the citizens of Okinawa (between the Japanese Islands and Taiwan) who had 699 people out of a population of 1.3 million. What is the radical difference in our cultures?...
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2013 Resolutions? Disillusioned?
In my 25 years as a personal trainer and fitness instructor, I have always looked forward to each new January, the month when couch potatoes get off the couch and go to the gym in droves. We in the industry always see an influx of new students right after the first of the year. But as everyone in my business knows, after January 15, ninety-five percent of the newbies never return, while a mere five percent remain firmly committed. Why the disparity, when losing weight tops the chart at number one as the most common of all New Year’s resolutions? Disillusioned with your resolution? Why? Time certainly can’t be the factor, when the majority of you are retired. Lack of resources is understandable, but not if you live here and experience Body Sculpting, the best bargain in this pueblo....
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Let’s get Crystallized
If working out were an easy thing to do, then most of us would be in the gym getting healthy and looking fit. The reality is we often find exercising an unpleasant task; monotonous, boring and sometimes even painful. Without proper guidance, few of us find much joy in what we do at the gym and can inevitably lose sight of our goals. The time has come for you to find a fitness routine that is rewarding and effective. Crystal Calderoni will transform your time at the gym into something you are going to look forward to. Her positive energy and lust-for-life is contagious and as a personal trainer with more than 20 years of experience, lights the way for her clients and students better enabling them to get back to their original and authentic self. Crystal assesses...
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Love Yourself to Life
I really enjoyed reading the August 3 weight-loss article written by my colleague, Liz Montes, in which she drives home two salient points which are key to maintaining any successful weight loss battle: AEROBIC: regularly maintaining a cardio program of moderate (30 minutes of brisk walking/swimming x 5 days per week) interspersed with vigorous (1.5 hrs jogging/aerobic class) intensity. ANAEROBIC: Strength training twice per week (using machines or any other weight-resistant object.) She mentions BMR (basic metabolic rate) and shows how the relation between our ancestors (hunters/gatherers) and our modern day metabolisms are intertwined inextricably by the myriad of cellular activity much like furnaces which need nutrients to burn more efficiently at higher rates; which is like saying people who have higher metabolisms are burning more calories in a more efficient manner. The inverse is also true: those who...
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Cancer: Embracing Your Twist of Fate
Communicating as we do from time to time via Facebook, catching up on the trivial, arcane and sometimes the trials/tribulations of life as we live it, has continuously bound Wendy and I together although separated by countries and borders. Borders never existed between us. If we didn’t reach out or “touch in” within a block of months, as soon as we emailed, our dialogue was as fresh and provocative as the first time we met, as most of my experiences have been with Wendy. I had only seen Wendy one time in the last seven years since moving to San Miguel de Allende and that was for my 20-year-high-school reunion. We ate Sushi together with Kenneth of course and I introduced them to my novio at the time, Greg, outside of my social obligations. Kenneth and Wendy seemed to...
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You’re Never ALONE but ALL One
Here I am again, in my solitude and thoughts, trying to avoid feeling anything which provokes the inevitable from happening. The inevitable is that I have just turned 43 (January 23) and I am still single with no kids, (SWNK), I am paying off someone else’s mortgage, I am still working full-time (and not more efficiently.) I am fiercely independent, obstinate and extremely open-minded while at the same time I live under constant emotional turmoil; dying inside because I feel like what and who I am is not good enough. I want more but I can’t be filled with less. Quite simply… I am feeling DESPERATE and super-needy. I feel “blacklisted from the private parties and jet-streaming adventures of the “rich and famous” here. I am ever becoming the hermit I’ve always feared of becoming and shirk having to...
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