You know how sometimes when someone asks you about how you are and you just feel like saying to them that it is none of their business or really shocking them and saying that you are not well instead of being polite and saying with a non-expression that you are fine, thank you!
Well what about saying: "I am happy, feeling good and having a awesome day and in a business of infecting my awesomeness to everyone around me?" Not only that, but you do it on Monday!
Rowena Szeszeran-McEvoy stands in front of the eager audience from the Westside Business Women's Breakfast gathering at Springfield Hotel and urges us to spread the message of health and happiness like if it was "telling the truth in advance." It is not lying; it is about resetting yourself with a new program! It is about deciding your own future by choosing how you feel right now.
She heads the MAX International College for Fitness Professionals and is at present apologizing for her business which of course is the fitness profession. She is inspiring us into choosing a new and simple approach to health and fitness that can really make a difference.
Rowena explains that since she started in the fitness business at the age of 14, it has become obvious that the model the fitness industry is advocating to the public is not working. It is proven as we all know that people have become fatter and unhealthier in the last few decades. The complicated equipments and the confusing nutritional advice we have gotten from the industry is not showing expected results.
She stresses that we are also in a need of an attitude shift about aging. We now know that it is not about slowing down but maintaining and keeping up.
We were given a 'high performance vehicle' at birth, she says. It needs 'high performance fuel' to be maintained in good condition. We do it with our car, why not with our body!
At the age of 20, we have a jet engine, at 30 a V8 engine, at 40 a V6. Then we have a 4-cylinder and as we age it declines to a lawn mower. Her tips are about maintaining the size of the engine. It is a simple plan:
1. Change your attitude - Be Happy! Sing it with the beat!
Rowena urges you to look in the mirror every morning telling yourself that you feel good. With the song. This actually makes you feel good and happy and works on resetting your attitude about the day ahead. Good fun!
2. Drink more water till you got clear wee.
According to the industry advice we need 1 liter of water per 25kg of weight. The easy way is to check your wee and if it is clear, you are doing great.
3. Eat more fruit and vegetables.
How you know that you are not getting enough of fiber? Every child knows it. You need to be doing number twos in the toilet, once or twice a day. If not, eat more fruit and vegetables. How simple rule is that.
Rowena urges us to eat "for performance and for pleasure": the rule is to eat 3/4 out of the ground and 1/4 whatever. It is not that anything is really prohibited. It is about the portion size. Too much of the good stuff makes you feel uncomfortable, like 3kg of broccoli makes for a really bad day, she says demonstrating with an example.
4. Human body is meant to move - get buffed four times a day for a minute.
The easiest attitude for everybody to pick up on fitness is the "as little as possible" attitude. We are better off getting smart about it.
According to Rowena, we do not get fit unless we 'buff'. Instead of walking 30 minutes, get buffing. This is not to say that walking is good for you. Implementing the same attitude to getting fit as brushing your teeth gets you started. For a few times a day (she recommends four), run in one place with high knees until you buff. It takes only four minutes of your day. For it is not in the length of the exercise but in the effectivity of it.
5. Muscles respond to overload - lift heavy things once a week.
A few decades ago, 1/3 of women had osteoporosis at the age of 65, now 1/3 of women have osteoporosis at the age of 45.
According to Rowena it is like fine tuning your engine. It is about maintaining the size of it. This is where we need the change of attitude about aging.
The easiest thing for falls prevention is to stand on one leg. We should do it every now and then to test for balance. The other thing is to lift heavy things once a week. It forces the muscles to get stronger. Lifting your own body weight by doing push-ups once a week is suggested.
Rowena concluded with urging us to take the common sense attitude to fitness and health. It is all in the attitude and making yourself believe in yourself and your own capacity to make your own decisions about your own health and aging. How inspiring is that!
So, girls lets put on a new attitude and change our lives. Lets get what we want and surprise the doctors and the world.
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