Walking is good for you / article from the Daily Apple

15 OCT Why These Nine Famous Thinkers Walked So Much A couple weeks back, I wrote about how integral walking is to being human. And over the years I’ve written about the health benefits of walking, how and why you should walk barefoot, and even a definitive guide on the subject. In other words, I’m a huge proponent of walking and I think just about everyone who’s able should do more of it. But I’m not the only one that finds daily walks critical to health, energy, mental clarity and, ultimately, at least in some part, my success as a human being. Many of the most accomplished and creative people throughout...

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Day 2 Primal Blueprint

Day 2 of the Primal blueprint Did really well 12500 steps yesterday Did CST this morning plan to get on bike tonite!  read Mark Sissan everyday! The daily apple!!  weight ( down 2 pounds )&nbs...

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Day 1 Week 6 P90X

Ok Week 6 Day 1 P90X  CST tonight !! Wanted to share the program where I work: • MONDAY September 29th from 7:15am-8:00am - TCC Gym training demo with personal trainer. RSVP to Calendar Invite. • TUESDAY's September 30th - November 18th (8 weeks) - Walk and/or Run Club 5:15pm-5:45pm at TCC's Office with personal trainer. For those looking to go from the Couch to 5k or walkers and runners at any level. Sign-up here. • TUESDAY's September 30th - November 18th (8 weeks) - Boot Camp 5:45pm-6:15pm (strength, endurance, agility and fitness training). Whether training for the Spartan Sprint on Nov.15th, trying to lose weight, tone or just get fit, joining this group session with TCC's personal trainer can help you reach your goals. Note: You may join us on Tuesdays for either or both session(s)....

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Day 29 Week 4

Happy Monday Day 29 (already) !! up at 4 m and banged out CST Chest, Shoulders and Triceps – A phase 2 and phase 3 workout you won’t see this until after your first 30 days of p90x but it is worth the wait! Your body is now building muscle mass and burning the fat and now you need some muscle confusion to keep it going and this workout does it. You can expect the following moves in this workout: Slow Motion 3-in-1 pushups, In&out Shoulder Flys, Chair Dips, Plange Pushups, Pike Presses, Side Tri-rises, Floor Flys, Scarecrows, Overhead Tricep Extensions, Two-twice Speed Push-ups, Y-Presses, Lying Tricep Extensions, Side-to-Side Pushups, Pour Flys, Side-leaning Tricep Extensions, One-arm Push-ups (so hard, don’t worry do what you can), Weighted Circles, Throw the Bomb, Clap or Plyo Pushups,...

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Day 13 Legs and Back

Okay Day 13 Legs & Back Hanging in there Yoga last night feeling good and sore! Time for an hour walk with the dogs  before work, Put on reflective collars and blinkers for them and a headlamp for me, it is eerie when I see the four green eyes in the distance when they play ball! Legs and back afterwork, Wife comes home tonite been in New York all week miss h...

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Day 5 Legs & Back

5 :30 am Going down for P90X Legs and back and some walking Dreya will show us how it is done , oh my! Legs and Back – This workout was mixed in difficulty some found it the hardest and some not so hard so it will depend on the strength of your legs and back already, and you can expect the following routines in this workout: Balanced Lunges, Calf Raise Squats, Reverse Grip Chin-ups, Super Skaters, Wall Squat, Wide Front Pull-ups, Step Back Lunges, Alternating Side Lunges, Close Grip Overhead Pull-ups, Single Leg Wall Squat, Dead Lift Squats, Switch Grip Pull-ups, Three-way lunge, Sneaky Lunge, Reverse Grip Chin-ups, Chair Salutations, Toe Row Iso Lunge, Wide Front Pull-ups, Groucho Walk, Calf Raises, Close Grip Overhead Pull-ups, 80-20 Seibers Speed Squat, Switch Grip Pull-ups and then Ab...

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Day 3 Shoulders & Arms

Day 3~ P 90X round 8 Did my 3 mile power  walk this morning before work, 17000 steps on the feet so far, went up the 8 flights of stairs to the top floor piece of cake only mildly winded. Now it is time for Shoulders and Arms, Had my Nox oxide,time to go down and get crazy with Tony and Bobby. Shoulders and Arms – This is very similar in “style” to chest and back but we all found it to be a much easier workout and that makes sense as it is working two small muscle groups as opposed to two large muscle groups. The workouts you will do TWICE are: Alternating Shoulder Presses, In and Out Bicep Curls, Two-Arm Tricep Kickbacks, Deep Swimmer’s Presses, Full Supination Concentration Curls, Chair Dips, Upright Rows, Static Arm Curls, Flip-grip Twist Tricep Kickbacks, Two-Hand Shoulder Flys,...

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Day 2 Plyo X!

Day 2 - P 90X  Pylometrics Round 8 It has been along time since I have done this and it was great@! Missed this Video with Pam the blam , the one legged man (amazing) , and Tony and the Dominic (leap frog) • Plyometrics – This is by far the hardest workout and is mostly cardio of the lower body and often referred to as jump training. You are run through a series of grueling high impact moves, but if you have knees or back don’t worry there are alternatives shown. Everyone in our test group has herniated discs in either the lower back (2 of us) or neck and we adapted easily. Some example moves are jump squats, Heisman side to side, and lunges. Your thigh and calf muscles will be pushed to the max but after 90 days you will be amazed at how it adds to your fast twitch muscles and endurance.!! Love...

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P90X Round 1 Week 1 Day 1

http://www.dailymile.com/people/mwetzel394/entries/30175722 P90X Round 1 Week 1 Day 1 Love Chest and Back and being with Tony and the kids at 5am !~ Gave Platelets at the Red Cross tonight and it was hard to not move for 90 minutes arms were sore, they stopped it a few minutes early for me! You have to pick out a movie to watch as your arms are tied down you cant read a book, they go in one arm  and out the other , filtering the platelets and then putting the blood back. Good news was the bloodpressure was 120/80. Watched Kill bill Vol 1, go figure all that sword swinging how could I sit still LOL Tomorrow Pylometrics !! M...

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Lean Gains

Lean Gains Busy weekend , Concert on Friday at the Blues Hills pavilion,  Doobies Brothers and Peter frampton, Fn incredible.Went with neighbors wife , long story we were good! I had 68000 steps for the three days , F,S, S! 34 miles. Feet are tired LOL Had to work on my weight this weekend,  clothes are getting tight so I fasted both days Sat & Sunday no food till 6pm, then a large meal! Based on the walking and work I did i burned a lot of calories right! It worked shirts and Pants are loose again! That said I am going to focus on Lean gains to loose the 30 pounds that have been dogging me ... Here is the schedule from Martin Berkum's blog , specific to me! I work out at 5 am Early morning fasted training Here's a sample setup for a client that trains early in the morning...

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Week 4

Been keeping up with the programs P90x / T25, loving both T25 is not long enough LOL i usually go to the next disc if I have 10 minutes...Been loving the fit bit ( One) tracks sleep etc, little competition with friends on there who are keeping similar numbers, one night a girl messages me I was at 11450 and she was at 11508, she says cmon Mike!It was 1000, I said I am going to bed you win LOLYou can taunt people too its all good fun!Just trying to get to 10000 steps every day it helps with the diet/ weight issues...If I get out of work be 5:00 and get home it is still somewhat light out, I walk the dogs across the street good for them good for me ..I have been getting up and riding my bike at 4:30 am just to get in a good 1/2 hour cardio, above and beyond the workouts, 25 miles on deck...

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Week 3

Good day hiking and skiing at Whitehall reservoir about 4- miles total in the heavy snow. Going down for a 30 minute bike ride NOW<to Loosen up the legs, What ARE YOU DOING TODAY!P90X Chest Shoulders and Triceps after wo...

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Week 1 Day 1 ( Restart new Hybrid program,)

New start  okay new start January was a bust other than getting through the P90x the way I like too, still eating bad , don't know what is up! Logged back into Livestrong, been gone a long time. I know it was Lances site but it is a good site. It is good for tracking both Exercise and diet, albiet my disconnect  I loaded the advanced P90X /T25 Hybrid and i plan to do it for 16 weeks it went longer but I cut it off, I even put the dates in there with formulas, 111 days!!! Day 1- P90x/T25 Hybrid , ( last night) 20 minute warm-up and then Chest and Back! good solid workout, does anyone know how to read calories on a Polar RS 300? so like i said Banged out 20 minutes on the bike and then P90X chest and back woke up about  3am and the back was complaining!Sore ( in a good way),...

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Week 4

Week 4 Hey team week 4, travelling for three days so no wo, but back to P90x , this week, a friend gave me T25 to try, Are there any good hybrids for me to combine with P90x?Week 4 Rest week but I need to make up legs and back so here goes tonight Legs and back and Yoga ( not x but at least FOY).felling good and ready to rock this place.Mi...

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Week 2

ok new week week 2!Chest and back tonight!Had a bad weekend eating, need to get back at it. Carry on pe...

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Day 5

Day 5 P90X Round 8 ( can you tell I love the original) Ok did 30 minutes on Bike ( 5 miles) and Shoulders and arms before 6 am felt good. I am behind this week, my wife had a very good friend found dead at home the other night, single( spinster) 55 lived alone , great woman no clue what happened yet , so that has impacted us to say the least.... Plan to do Legs and back tomorrow morning , and go Cross country on Sunday call it a great 1st week!  Diet has been clean except for a donut yesterday, focusing on elimination of the whites for now, no sugar, no breads, no pasta , been pretty good so far, wife is onboard! love yall!!! thanks for the inspirations and support heres to a great 2014!!!! Mikey :m...

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HEALTHY GRAINS

BY KAROLINE BOEHM GOODNICK | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Karoline Boehm Goodnick can be reached at kboehmgoodnick@gmail.com. The Boston Globe 8 January 2014 Every health professional you meet these days is touting the benefits of eating fewer processed foods and more whole grains. You may or may not be fully on board, but we think incorporating a variety of grains and legumes into the nightly routine can also be fun and lets you expand your repertoire. Keep serving the new dishes until one of them delights those meat-and-potatoes family members who are firmly in the “no!” camp. One way to try something new is to make it look like something you already know. Millet, familiar as birdseed, is gaining popularity on the supper table. Naturally gluten-free, it has been the base of diets in parts of Africa...

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Slimdown showdown challenge

ok here is the challenge  http://www.crowdrise.com/callahanslimdownshowdown/fundraiser/mikewetzel I am trying to get 50 cents to $1.00 per pound , it all goes to UNICEf no 40 % administrative costs.It runs until the end of Feb nowCan anyone help me out?M...

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Day 2/3 correcting mechanical issues( my foot)

Good MorningOk Day 2 /3Day 2 Did not happpenDoctor visit went wellXrays are "normal" small spurs from the PF , no major arthritis or anything.Gave me another shot in middle of foot at that toe joint.I gotta say it hurt and was swollen all night , so wo did not happen.He said to focus on shoes and orthotics for good support and we will go from there. It must have been a bad bout of bursisitis!Will make it up tonightSnowblower came at 7 pm , will check it out tonight.Tonight will be 45 minutes bike & S&AHow is everyones"clean" eating going this year?Mine is going well, cut out all whites, except potatoes, they are fine in small portions cooked healthy.So no sugar, no sweet, no white bread, no pastathese all equal to SUGAR/Turns to FAT!Eat more coconut in cooking and coffee.just got rid...

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Round 8

P90X Day 1, Done last night, good restart , pushups went better than I thought they would, man was my back on fire last night. So, I am going to the podiatrist for another visit today, xrays were done , so now he can tell me what is up with my foot, little sore yesterday after busy weekend , new boots, not limping just a little tender. Today is much better.  I have a good(broken in)work boot on and it does not hurt. So i rode the bike 21 miles indoors Saturday and took trevor for a 4 mile snowshoe Sunday , love the north in the winter, except for the excessive part( cold & snow). We were jumping over ditches yesterday at...

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