Best Fitness Tips
Whether you are a major company or a small business entrepreneur, an
important long term goal should be to maintain your own health and that of your employees. Health
benefits are now the leading benefit expense in corporate America. Moreover,
employee (good) health is a major contributor to corporate productivity.
The
proliferation of fitness fads heralds the advent of a new era in fitness. Larry Nachman's
21st
Century Fitness® captures this change -- and
his formula provides the steps we can take to achieve the 21st Century's "Fountain of Youth."*
I
am going through the program
myself and can attest that it has given me a new understanding about fitness and
conditioning. While contrary to my previous thinking about conditioning and
fitness, Larry's formula
works! It takes you beyond Pilates, yoga and
all other approaches to fitness to which I have been exposed.
I developed
a commitment to fitness at
West Point. During my four years there my classmates and I
learned lifetime fitness sports such as golf
and tennis. I was a member of the varsity swimming team. I was totally sold on the idea of
fitness for lifetime.
In
my middle-aged years my favorite exercise was jogging -- I even ran in three Marine
Corps Marathons. In my mind I was a
model of fitness. Then in the early 90's I developed a lower back problem.
It persisted in spite of a special exercise program reportedly followed by President
Kennedy. Nothing worked until I started the
21st
Century Fitness®
program.**
My worst symptoms evaporated
almost immediately! Today I get out
of bed in the morning without an aching back; no longer have to steady myself when stepping into my trousers
and enjoy many other benefits of fitness and youth!***
I've always thought that in physical
conditioning that more was better. Not so in
21st
Century Fitness®. Less, done correctly, is better!
Here are some
things anyone -- regardless of age -- can do today to benefit
from
21st
Century Fitness®.
Dr. John Tickell, a noted
international stress management authority, advocates frequent breaks, stretching and deep breathing.
****
Here are two
21st
Century Fitness® exercises you can do during such breaks.***** Both involve a body
position you need to understand by doing. It incorporates an
essential ingredient of
21st
Century Fitness®.
You-Do-It Activity! Position
yourself leaning against a wall, your feet about six inches
forward, shoulder length apart, knees slightly bent. Place your back and neck
flat against the wall and with arms extended in front of you; with palms down
grasp your
hands by the thumbs and arc you hands above your head toward touching the wall above your head.
Keeping your back and neck against
the wall and your arms fully extended -- think of stretching upwards until your knuckles touch the
wall. The exercise is moving beyond your current position upwards and
rearward.
Exercise
1. Keeping your back and neck against the wall,
in a single swinging motion release hands outward and downward to your
sides then bring them upward in front of you over your head reaching upward
toward the wall (eventually you will be able to touch it). Repeat the
same movement several times then reverse the direction. Breathe
normally during these motions (you soon will begin taking deep breaths
automatically).
Exercise 2. Away
from any wall, stand with back and neck straight -- think of reaching up with the top of your head
to the ceiling. With your feet shoulder length
apart, looking straight forward, reach up with your arms and hands straight
above your head (same arms position as Exercise 1), repeatedly pinch your buttocks
together in rapid succession. Then change the position of your hands by
interlacing your fingers and moving your hands
straight overhead with your
knuckles facing downward. Continue looking ahead, stretch your hands upward and repeatedly pinch you
buttocks as before. Your goal should be 100 pinches per day in each of
the hands-over-head positions.
With
21st
Century Fitness®
stress
reduction exercises you can stretch your way to new levels of fitness.
Just get started, and don't stop.
Best regards,
President, Best Managers on the Net, www.BestManagers.Net
We
are a business consulting, training and development company dedicated to helping
good managers and their companies prosper by reaching for the top.
*Larry's
21st
Century Fitness® formula (covered in detail
in his book) takes you step by step through the exercise and nutrition (he
includes
many tasty meal recipes too!) program you should follow to achieve the elements of
youth throughout your lifetime. Although you may not live longer, you certainly will
enjoy the time you do have better.
**In his book Larry explains why one's apparent fitness
evaporates after reaching what he terms as the "crossover years." The
key is to adopt a fitness program geared to keeping your youth through
negating aging symptoms such as in lower back pain, arthritis and other noted
maladies. The pursuit of measurable fitness -- which Larry spells out in detail
-- lets your body sustain your youth naturally without drugs or other artificial
stimulants.
***Over two years ago I adopted a nutrition program to control
my weight. The results were highly encouraging yielding the following blood
stats: Total Cholesterol 189; HDL (good) 83; LDL (bad) 93.2; and Triglycerides
64. These are excellent. With my weight the same, here are what they were after
just 4 months of Larry's program: total Cholesterol 168; HDL (good) 82; LDL
(bad) 73; and Triglycerides 62! Not only have the stats improved considerably --
even better than my age 25 numbers!!!
****Click
here to review one documentation of the bottom-line benefit of
reducing stress in the workplace. Needless to say, these benefits also
accrue to individuals and their families.
*****Note: since I wrote this review Larry included these stress
reduction exercises at his website
www.21st-Century-Fitness.com -- click on the Stress Reducers tab.
