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Heart health is in the news again – actually, it’s there just about every day – but now, the message has really hit home for me. Not just one, but two of our culture’s pop icons are gone, each of them lost to the nation’s Number One killer: Heart Disease.

Cut down in the prime of life…. Tim Russert and his wife just celebrated their son’s graduation last month, and now, in the prime of his career, he’s gone in a heartbeat. Literally.

The sardonic wit of George Carlin is another voice that has been silenced by this deadly disease.

And last week, in a newspaper no less prestigious than the New York Times, an article appeared about how to help your heart stay strong and healthy with weight resistance exercises…

Here is the link to this article.

This article states the case clearly:
“Regular participation in aerobics, strength training and balance and flexibility exercises can delay and may even prevent a life-limiting loss of physical abilities into one’s 90s and beyond … Recommendations for older adults from the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine … are expected to match new federal activity guidelines due in October from the United States Health and Human Services Department.”

This is the exact message that Pax Beale has been delivering all along… for more than a decade!

Pax is walking, talking, living, breathing proof that his Wellness Philosophy works. It is exceptionally well written in his detailed book, Body for the Ages: From Heart Surgery to Bodybuilding Champion (ya gotta read this book! It’s empowering!), and it is also readily apparent online at the comprehensive website: http://www.bodyfortheages.com

This 412-page hard cover book is a veritable bible of health care, and provides detailed explanations as to how to strengthen your own heart (after all, the heart is a muscle, you know), has a message whose time has come — once again.

I urge you to take a look at the easy-to-follow, step by step plan that Pax Beale has so carefully put together on his website, and then let me know if you find it as great as I do!

They say, “a thousand mile journey begins with the first step”. But when approaching wellness, or any worthy endeavor, you have to take the second step, the third step, and so on….

That’s why we believe in Total Commitment.

We can all “wish” for something. Everyone can take that first step. But every successful athlete, dedicated actor, corporate president, or elected politician is a driven person. They have the commitment needed to take the next step on the path to their goal.

A wellness program in your mind is only halfway to success. You must take action, and continue to take action. Achieving the goal requires you to commit to not just to the first step, but to the thousandth too.

Total Commitment doesn’t allow you to give up when you “slip up.” We all “slip up.” Even Pax eats pecan pie occasionally. Total Commitment also means getting back on track afterwards, and not excusing yourself from your goals because you failed to follow your plan.

By practicing Total Commitment, you can transform yourself into the agent of progress in your life. You will empower yourself to leap off the couch, to refine your athletic prowess, and to alter your nutritional habits. You can achieve Team Body for the Ages’ Wellness goals of Heart Health, Weight Loss, and a Body of Your Dreams.

Total Commitment, and the Effort it demands, brings success. A lack of total commitment guarantees failure. Simply stated, the quality of our effort yields the quality of our lives.

Please take the first step with us today, and we will do what we can to help you stay committed all the way to your thousandth step.