I love having a home gym set up for when I don’t make it to Planet Fitness. I have a HealthRider Cardio Rider, a Vitamaster Air Advantage exercise bike, and a Marcy Cardio Rebounder set up in the living room, next to my dumbbells and resistance bands. It’s next to the area I do my […]
I like the 6:30am crowd at the gym, only a handful of people. At 8:30am, folks are social, it’s crowded and may have to wait for a machine. The longer I wait after waking up, the less I want to go because my mind is working on all the projects I’m waiting to jump into. […]
As soon as I woke up this morning, I walked a mile up and down the street to psych me up for the gym. It didn’t really psych me up but I went anyway. On days like this, I tell myself to just go and walk the treadmill until I wake up then I can […]
It feels good to be back in the gym, doing more than just a quickie. It’s too easy to get out of the habit, to tell myself that I need to do computer work instead, or that my yard work constitutes a workout. When I do the gym first thing in the morning before I […]
I feel like a new person having showered and washed hair after a decent early workout: arms, back, shoulders and abs got it today. It’s so funny, I go to a gym to focus on my body, and they have a dozen tvs lining one wall and pop music blaring from the speakers. It’s like […]
I woke up with magazine work on my mind, thinking I had no time to work out. I had to run out to the bank and post office so I put my gym gear on anyway. I’m glad I did because it psyched me up for an hour at Planet Fitness. I’m figuring out where […]
The February 2024 Horizons is now online at Click here for the February 2024 Horizons. Here are the horoscopes: Aries – (March 19 – April 18) ARIES: MOOD You don’t want to limit yourself. You aspire to be noticed in society, at work, at home. But you must channel exuberance that worries those who observe and admire you […]
You can use your willpower to catch yourself every time you have negative emotion. Strengthening your will takes practice. You practice it every time you reject instant gratification in favor of a higher and better goal. One simple daily practice to develop will power is by refusing to satisfy trivial desires (like channel surfing, snacking […]
My brother knows I’m awake in the midnight hours so he texted me at 2 a.m. from the gym. He just joined a gym for the first time in a decade or more. He retired from Honeywell Aerospace in 2012 and spent the last three years remodeling his home and his kids’ homes and now […]
Question: My health, I have a lot of medical problems, like shortness of breath very frequently all tests on my lungs have come out ok and inhalers do not work. I am also on different medicines than I was a year ago when this started. The doctors cannot figure it out. It is hard to […]