Train Like?

What are you training for:  Get in shape, Run a 5K, Ironman, Time Trial, Sprint, etc

What to do? Emphasize your strengths, and work on your weaknesses.  Train for you, and your goals.  Break down your goals and training.  Make sure your training meets your goals.  Test to make sure you are on track and moving forward. Don't give up, track, review, revise, and renew, your plan.  It is "ok" to change the plan if you are not getting the results you expect or want.

e.i. It doesn't matter how fast you are in a sprint if you can't get to the sprint;  Getting in shape is more then just walking 3 days a week, it is movement and nutrition, a lifestyle.

What not to do:  Expect results, with out working for them.

This guy

Tom Boonen, power guy on the cobbles.

Doesn't train like this guy

Mark Cavendish, pure sprinter.

The Hulk trained like no one else.

Especially not:

Dara Torres, Olympic swimmer.

Take home: 

Train and prepare for everything, but be specific as well.

Test to keep you on track.

Have fun, Never stop.

Stay healthy my friend, Be great today.

Train like you mean it, Trainhard4life.

Be like Mike?

Well I'm already Mike, so I want to be like:

I bet this guy Kicks Ass everyday.  Yep, be Great today!

It's over!!!

2012 that is.  The new year at the gym, all the new grumpy faces that do not want to leave the comfort of there couch.  It was so easy watching Good Morning America from the comfort of your warm living room, where you watch the cat and dog play and joke about a healthier year.  Well it is time to do the same this year.  Renew your membership to the gym, take one class, get some muscle soreness, pay for the gym for the next 6 months, but never darken the door, quit in July, and wonder why you look, act, and feel the same.  As April Hartsook http://aprilhartsook.com/ would say "Want Different....Do Different".  Try something different, make it a habit in 2013.  Get out and enjoy.

Make 2013 the best. Inspire. Motivate. Live. 

What to do:

1. Set REALISTIC goals.
2. Find Joy and Happiness everyday.
3. Find new and healthy foods that you Enjoy.
4. Do exercises you enjoy not endure through.
5. Get busy Living.

What not to do:

1. Set unattainable long range goals.
2. Try to make others happy before finding your own Happiness.
3. Emotional eat.
4. You can follow fabs, but make healthy life changes and stay with them.
5. Get busy dying.

It is time for the new you.  www.trainhard4life.com

Fast or Fit?

Fast or Fit?

Oh Holidays, have you stepped on the scale?  Did you work out on Christmas day or are you waiting for the new year?  There is no day like the present.

Politics aside, lol.  What do you want to do in 2013?  Do you want to be fit or fast?

Fast:

1. Push your limits everyday.
2. Learn you need to suffer a little or a lot during hard training sessions.
3. Prepare a diet that provides energy and recovery.
4. Know when it is time to rest and recover.
5. Go Fast or go Home.

Fit:

1. Do some sort of physical activity every day.
2. Learn the difference between good pain and bad pain.
3. Eat to live, not live to eat.
4. There are very few good excuses not to exercise.
5. Get into a Good strength training program.

2013 starts today, get off your ass, it's go time. 

trainhard4life

The Stache.

 Can you wear a mustache in Sport.

1. Simple you're Dave Z.

2.  You could be last years MVP in the NFL.

3.  You're one on the best performers of all time.

4.  You're Prefontaine, enough said with a name like Prefontaine.

5. You're this guy.  Well, if you are this bad ass, you can also wear a shirt with your name on it.

6.  Look at the hair, love it.

You pick what these gentlemen have in common and decide if you are worthy of the Mustache.  Feel free to comments or add to the list.

Why is it?

I don't know, because of allot of factors.  I really want to talk about the Holidays, love them, hate them.  It is where America gorges itself and puts on the average of 2 pounds of weight, nice.

Why do you do this to yourself, it's not healthy.  The left overs will be there probably though the weekend, so make a promise to yourself, eat better and less.  Go for a walk between football games.  Run the grand kids around, be healthy this holiday season.

Enough, I wasn't even going to talk about the holidays.  The true reason for the tyred, was walking at the outside mall on Saturday.  America, look at yourself, you drive a block to go to the next store.  I probably know why, you haven't walk a 100 yards since you were 5 years old, and it shows.  Make a comment to your health right know, not on the 1st of January.  Eat better, exercise more and be healthy this December, this is your shout out.  Get busy living, not eating.

Being healthy is a time commitment, it starts with you. Break the cycle, for you and the next generation.  Look ahead not behind, be great today.

Back to the Fat

This is quoted from a article by Anne Allen MD "Your prescription for Health"

Regular physical activity can:

* Reduce mortality and risk of recurrent breast cancer by approx. 50%
* Lower the risk of colon cancer by over 60%
* Reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by approx. 40%
* Reduce the incidence of heart disease and high blood pressure by approx. 40%
* Lower the risk of stroke by 27%
* Lower the risk of developing type II diabetes by 58%
* Be twice as effective in treating type II diabetes than standard insulin prescription and can save $2250 /       person/year when compared to drug treatment
* Decrease depression as effectively as Prozac or behavioral therapy
* Lower, by 20%, the risk of mortality among adults with better muscle strength than adults with lower muscle strength.  It is better to be fit and over weight than unfit with a lower percentage of body fat
* Lead to higher SAT scores in adolescents, and , it can decrease discipline incidents involving violence by 59% and decrease out of school suspensions by 67%

Do I need to comment?  Of course, that is what I do. Can you say drop health care cost, which costs us more then defending our country and will be rising with Obama Care and as the boomers age, enough said.  Get out and exercise and be great today. Trainhard4life Mike

sorry just added the photo, holy crap, not even funny, just sad.  The new norm.