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A recent article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/health/12heart.html?bl&ex=1227070800&en=0fd3c2f76367617a&ei=5087%0A) got me thinking.  We target the 40-60 crowd here at Body for the Ages.  Are we focusing on the wrong group?  Don’t children need the help more?

The thing is, we teach our children through our example.  If we let it be OK for us to be dangerously overweight, we demonstrate to our children that it’s OK for them too.  If we constantly reach for the cookie over the celery, we tell our children it is OK for them too.  If we spend every afternoon on the couch, we tell our children that’s OK for them too.

If we die early from heart disease, is that one lesson enough to undo all the others?  Maybe.  But why bet a child’s life on it?

The great thing about our example is that it works in all directions.  If we turn around ourselves, we show our kids that they can do.  That’s one of the great things about Pax, he shows that you can come back from nearly being dead to become National Bodybuilding Champion.  It’s one of the great things about the President-Elect, he shows that any child can grow up to be president.

And that’s what you got to be for your kids.  You got to be the example that anybody can get fit.  That anybody can achieve the body of their dreams, and reduce their heart risks in the process.

And we will help you do it.  Join us here.

Here is a secret you may not want to know about. You obviously can accelerate muscle growth through the use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, insulin, or a combination thereof. So far, that’s good if you aren’t afraid of drugs, and the fear of the gendarmes arresting you.

However, the secret that you should know about to offset more rapid muscle growth, is that men’s testicles shrink up and become non-functional, while the individual is taking the anabolic steroid. Usually the testicles will become active again, but after cessation from anabolic steroids, there is a window of time before your natural body’s ability to produce semen and generate erections. The reason is that the body will become reliant on the anabolic steroid to produce semen, and the male’s testicles got lazy and became inactive.

I will share some negative secrets with you women. Yes, the drugs I referenced will reduce fat and increase muscle mass, and shape your body moderately or to the extreme. An anabolic steroid is synthetic testosterone, or male hormone. So, you women should think twice before using an anabolic steroid. Here is a real Insider Pro Secret: you women will suddenly get a lowered voice, like a male. A little more aggravating, but not quite so obvious to the world at large, you will get hair on your nipples, and your clitoris will become oversized.

So, there are some positive secrets, and some negative secrets.

“Pax, why isn’t the scientific Body For The Ages Online Wellness “type” Program common knowledge?”

That is a question I hear all the time.

It’s simple. No one has created a program based on a synergistic effect, like the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program: bringing together cardiology, exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, pharmacology, and a programmed total commitment type of effort based on psychology…and delivered collectively and concurrently under one “umbrella” for the good of the patient.

The Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program relies on a synergistic affect: Best described as 1+1=3.

I’ve been in the medical profession for a third of a century, and I’ve never (not once) seen or heard of a meeting, where all these disciplines were brought together under one roof to collectively (and Synergistically) coordinate a wellness program for patients, Never!

The Body For The Ages Wellness Program reverses that non-functional professional format of only “my profession, or no profession”, which yields sub-par healthcare.

You see our health care is not a dysfunctional system.  It’s worse.  It’s a non-system.

I used to think that I was quite fit, afterall I am a great gardener, played tennis for 40 years and could beat just about anybdy at the Club, in doubles!  Also I used to snack on doughnuts and other bad foods just to feel better, and the pounds crept on.  But now, after becoming a member of Body For The Ages and having  the awesome inspiration Pax Beale and using his method of  Weight Resistance Training I no longer snack mindlessly on ‘comfort’ foods and really know now what great fitness and real weight loss feel like.  It feels great!  I workout regularly, eat well and have taken off 26 lbs.  Since this is the only body  I am going to have I have decided to love it and the fact my friends tell me how great I look helps.

So living well is the best revenge at any age and I am 82.  I have always had a gym to work out in , but now.  I have the most important  ingredient  -  Motivation!  Make the commitment!!

Weight training is more art than science.  Aerobics is no more than putting one foot in front of the other to make certain you don’t fall on your face.  To ensure maximum exposure to the art of building a body of your dreams, change trainers periodically.  No one trainer has all the knowledge of the sport’s infinite number of techniques.

Having been active in the field of medicine for a third of a century, I can tell you the art of weight training is not commonly known to medical professionals.  To exacerbate the problem, most know not, that they know not.

If you are rehabilitating from a medical condition or physical injury, consider the following.  You are not interested so much in how a muscle works, but how to work the muscle.  At BackPax (”peaceful backs” in Latin) Medical Center, the medically-oriented back rehabilitation clinic I founded, we gave up on physical therapists and instead hired registered nurses and nurse practitioners.  Not only were these nurse professionals more open to creative ideas about rehabilitation, they were generally more involved in their own back health and general fitness programs.

The nursing profession couldn’t be better represented by anyone other than my colleague, best friend, tower of power, and wife, Sophie “Super Soph” Taggart…Ms. America, Ms. World and Ms. Universe.  I think if you looked up “commitment” in the dictionary you would see her picture.  Yeah, I’m biased, but the credentials and the body warrants it.  Actually, “Super Soph” is a step above the level of a registered nurse, as she is a registered nurse practitioner.  The latter in many cases can prescribe drugs and diagnose medical problems, just like a licensed medical doctor, while the more common registered nurse does not have those options.

The typical physical therapists’ inherent deficiency, besides not knowing the art of the game, was that they wanted to control you, rather than train you.  This is a sensitive area with me.  When I scanned client results at BackPax I found, without exception, that individuals who were allowed to take responsibility for their own rehabilitation garnered infinitely superior results.

For some inexplicable reason, in my vast travels from one gym to another throughout the world, rarely do I see registered physical therapists as members, but the gyms always seem to be loaded with registered nurses and nurse practitioners

Some credentialed exercise physiologists and kinesiologists in licensed medical environments are quite knowledgeable about rehabilitation through weight-resistance training, but currently their work in this field is not routinely reimbursed by insurance companies.  They are frequently regulated to monitoring treadmill stress tests, while weight-resistance training authority reverts back to the ill trained physical therapist.  Nevertheless, given the option, I would choose an exercise physiologist or a kinesiologist with weight-resistance training experience over a physical therapist or medical doctor any day.

The best personal trainers are those that are independent business professionals (not employed) in the gyms, and the best personal coaches are likewise independent contractors in fitness-oriented health centers, not the hospitals.  Period.  End of report. Many personal trainers are not even college graduates, but a lot of them are so dedicated they have taken any one of a host of available educational weight-resistance training programs and become certified trainers.  A registered physical therapist degree or a medical shingle hung on an office wall does not represent a person qualified to teach the art of weight-resistance training.  I can’t say it with enough emphasis: If you are a stabilized heart rehab patient, and are allowed to exercise, get out of the hospital rehab center as fast as you are medically able. (Note: I emphasize only if you are a stabilized heart patient).

Find yourself, a personal trainer, or personal coach, and turn your rehabilitation into a fun wellness lifestyle…and yes, even an anti-aging lifestyle.  Stop feeling sorry for yourself.  Don’t think you are going to find a medical professional who will solve your rehab problem, once you have stabilized from surgery.  Don’t think the solution is only a prescription for a drug.  Don’t think of every breath as your last.  Ultimately, we all have a last breath.  Move on.  Get yourself a personal trainer, or preferably the more broad-based, multi-faceted personal coach, who knows the art even better than the science of weight-resistance training, and who will coach and encourage you. Understand results are your responsibility and involve your practicing the Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy, then you will experience a real anti-aging, rejuvenating lifestyle.

After reading about the post debate polls, I found a link to this article describing ways for people to reduce their health care costs.

http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/02/4-ways-to-save-on-healthcare-no-matter-who-wins-the-election/

Not only do I find some of the suggestions disturbing (splitting your medication in half!?!), they miss one of the most important things one can do to reduce their healthcare costs: improve your fitness.

Pax has developed a program to help you reduce your heart risks, and lose weight. Both obesity and heart problems can lead to expensive doctor visits and medication. It helps you by providing a specific method of training, a nutrition system, and inspiration.

So if you really want to reduce your healthcare costs, build the body of your dreams, and have fun doing it, check out bodyfortheages.org.

For members of the nation’s workforce, it can be difficult to conjure motivation to hit the gym after putting in a long day’s work.  The convenient temptations of vending machines, takeout lunches and sugary, caffeinated drinks loom within arms reach.

I know personally that the thought of physical activity can be unappealing.  However, when I think of the relief that comes from working out (the mental wind-down, the increased energy, the sense of accomplishment) it motivates me to head to the gym even on my most sluggish days.

For some lucky professionals, it appears as if employer-funded access to fitness and wellness may become a nationwide blooming trend, gaining attention most recently in the town of Jackson, Michigan according to the New York Times article below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/smallbusiness/01HEALTH.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin

Now isn’t that a refreshing thought?  A mutually beneficial scenario in which productivity increases, company insurance costs potentially decrease and employees gain a better quality of life at no charge.

These proposed incentives provide the framework and resources for health betterment.

Unfortunately, employers can’t offer you motivation.  We have a gym here at Body for the Ages headquarters. I used it sporadically, until I started myself on the Body for the Ages Online Wellness Program.  Now I use it every work day.

If you find that you still need an extra push to get yourself on the health/wellness/self-improvement path, Body For The Ages offers a course of action for improving your fitness level, overall health and waistline through a comprehensive nutrition system, work out and lifestyle plan coupled with inspiring motivation and achievable results.

For more information, please visit us at BodyForTheAges.org.

I want to share with everyone this great, if some what morbid web find.

http://www.yourdiseaserisk.siteman.wustl.edu/

This site asses your risks for a variety of diseases and gives you specific actions you can take to reduce your risks.  For example, I could be eating more tomatoes to reduce my risk of prostate cancer, and have a low risk of melanoma.

Anyway, I encourage you to check it out.

Most books with a tough-love message want a true confession out of an overweight person - an admission that the individual is in a denial state and has an inner responsibility for being overweight.  I think that approach is wrong.  I think you have to put planks in a platform for success, and show the practitioner of the denial system how to move forward successfully, once that individual is out from under the spell of the denial system.  However, overweight people must acknowledge the solution starts at home from within themselves, not from an outside cause.  So instead of just beating you “denial system devotees” up, I will show you a practical system to defeat obesity, but damn it, don’t you dare quit on me!  I won’t accept it.  Stick with me and you’ll get the results, I guarantee.

In general, there are two types of lifestyles.  My system is a positive Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness lifestyle for success.  Those who are overweight, and don’t want to be, are living the other type - a negative lifestyle destined for failure.  When someone tells a person to pursue a positive lifestyle as an option, there is an assumption that they don’t have a lifestyle.  They do.  It is a lifestyle for failure.  No wonder so many find themselves in a position of a psychological dilemma.  Follow along with me as we lay several more key planks in the platform for the successful solution to the weight problem, and more importantly, the coping with the torment of failure.  Begin a positive lifestyle of quality eating habits, prescription exercise - that’s fun - and add proper scientific nutritional supplements.  There is your foundation.

Remember that if you start wrong, you finish wrong.  If you start right, you have at least a half-assed chance of finishing right.  And I assure you, with effort based on Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy and serious focus on a positive lifestyle, I will describe in detail in future blogs, weight-loss success for you is a sure thing.

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I heard a great line the other day- “Food is not an activity.”

I thought that was some great advice on how to keep from over eating.  I know that I sometimes do eat just because I’m bored during comericals.

I also try to limit my supply of junk food in my house.  I find if there are chips, I will eat chips until I run out or get full.  If there are cookies, I will eat cookies until I run out or get full.  I fall I have is salad, I will eat salad.  And I can only eat so much salad.

Do you have some tips for eating better?  Please share in the comments section.

Here’s some tips from Pax:

Establish “No-Eat Zones”: This teaches discipline which is a key component of success. Not trying yields tragedy, and effort yields triumph.

Do the “Savor the Flavor” Test: Learn the art of eating slower. Practice makes perfect.

Break One Habit at a Time: You can’t stop overeating, smoking, and drinking all at once. Your initial goal is to adopt the Body for the Ages Nutrition System of eating, the initial goal is not to weight loss.

Table Eating: Only eat at the table. (Never standing, or in a car.)

Don’t Fear Failure: Everybody slips off every course they commit to… sometimes. That’s not failure. You are human. Slipping off course and then quitting - that’s failure.

Make it Fun!: Maintain a positive frame of mind. You’re on your way to building the body of your dreams!

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