Parkrun at Albert Park was on today and every  Saturday at 8:00am

parkrun is a free weekly timed 5km run in a park. parkrun  is open to anyone, of any age.
All you have to do is register beforehand at www.parkrun.com.au.

Participants receive their own unique barcode, which can be printed out and used at any parkrun event. The barcode records each runner’s time and finishing position. Weekly results are posted on the parkrun website.

parkrun is for people of all abilities. You can run, jog, or walk the course. It’s just you against the clock.

From November 19 2011 parkrun will be held every Saturday morning at Albert Park.

When:19 Nov 2011 8:00am
Cost:Free
Booking info:Registration required. Event organiser > http://www.parkrun.com.au

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This is being hailed as a great motivational quote by many of my fitness interested friends.  In hindsight I feel the absolute reverse when I see this sort of comment. 

That is the attitude that caused me to have a stroke at age 32.
I do believe in overriding the negative backtalk you get that tells you, you are too tired to go on, but I just have to say that my motto these days is to actually listen to my body and trust it to give me the right messages.

Hope those of you who love this picture and quote, don't mind my saying this. All my mistakes regarding my body have come from not listening to its needs. Nothing wrong with knowing when it is time to rest. That's not laziness or quitting and some of us (me for instance) have been on the opposite side of some of you...we have driven ourselves beyond our ability rather than been under performers and we have to learn to balance back 'the other way.'

"Balanced life', that is the real mantra - motto, I strive for now :-).
I think that would be what you are striving for too, just some people need to stretch forward to achieve it whereas I need to draw back and not over do things, to achieve the same balance of caring for our body and being the best we can be.

A beautiful spring day here in the northern Goulburn Valley and I began my day working towards a financial goal of paying for my new computer though downsizing sales. I listed a few more items on EBay.  Sedentary work which will not help my body fitness, however it is a part of peace of mind fitness to be responsible about money. It is a goal of mine to replace the funds I invested on my novel writing equipment and refurbish in the bank account with the money I spent on my new iMac computer. I am all about, 'balanced lifestyle, and not just a fanatical body fitness freak.  Fitness is the mind, body and spirit. All things in moderation.  Even with my physical fitness I strive to do this in a nature environment where my mind and body is being nurtured.  Every time I walk near my home here in the Goulburn Valley I see wonderful bird life. like the White Egrets in this photo. This is a wonderful area to walk with your slr camera always ready to use.

Now for the afternoon goal 'Active Afternoon,' is the action plan and specifically Reg and I will be heading out to the Goulburn River where I will walk and he is going to fish. 
Walking in nature is one of my favorite activities and I am sharing this WALK IN A PARK, information.


Park Walks

Park Walks encourage people to enjoy themselves in their local natural environments including conservation parks, recreation parks, beaches and botanic gardens. Walking and national parks go hand-in-hand, so as part of the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Healthy Parks Healthy People campaign, we are able to offer you a new walking experience in a great location.

Green Walks in the Park Program

Explore new green spaces each month with guided Green Walks in different parks across Victoria. An initiative of Bushwalking Victoria and the Heart Foundation, Green Walks aims to get more people walking more often in local parks.

Funded by Parks Victoria, Green Walks is a fun and active way to spend time with family and friends in parklands and open spaces. Green Walks are free and suitable for all ages. To find out what's happening in your local park click on Victoria below. For more information on the program, including green walks hints and tips, go to the Green Walks web page.

Other Events

A range of other group walking events are held throughout the year open to Heart Foundation Walking members and the general community. These events may be run in partnership with the Heart Foundation or one of our Area Coordinators. For more information about what is happening in your area please click on your state and territory below for more information.

Call 1300 36 27 87

Active Ideas
Walking Events & Park Walks
Walking groups
Walking Tips

10,000 steps plus trips to the gym, it'll make you and the boss happy www.theage.com.au

EMPLOYEES who walk 10,000 steps a day and work out in the gym three times a week can give their employer an extra $2500 worth of productivity a year, an Australian clinical trial has found. In addition, they can add five years to their lifespan in the process.

WOW! I work for myself. Can I give myself $2,500. more a year while finding the time to be away from work walking the ideal 10,000 steps and the three half days I would need off to go to the gym?. I love the idea of living 5 years longer, that's 5 novels in my today way of thinking, lol, and 5 tours of Australia with Reg :-), 5 lovely summer seasons with the family. Worth aiming for, though not always easy to meet that ideal.

I have been going though my blogs and found this gem :-). A message sent to me two years ago. It is what I was looking for the other day when I slightly 'overdid it.

‘Don't over do it. Keep it fun. More healthy that way. Remember hugs and cuddles are exercise too.' ` Bob Herdsman.

Thanks Bob :-). I love that advice

"There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key. "
-Steven Blair, Art by Kathy Shell

This motivational fridge magnet features a watercolour image of Anna Bay,.
View more at fridge magnet art.



"If you exercise, you call into action nearly every body system including your heart and lungs, and molecules and hormones dash madly around the body"
-Steven Blair,


I am looking to redesign this website to focus on my new way of thinking where the accent is on a balanced lifestyle of creativity, eco therapy good healthy eating and exercise habits and self nurture.

Images of Australia in the Paintings and Writing of Artist Author

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Happy I made the effort to drive to Kingaroy and power walk around the shopping center yesterday instead of using the rain as an excuse to stay in the caravan and get no exercise. I plugged the Bodymedia fIT I wear into the computer to charge tonight and it said I hit a personal best (for the month) for calorie burn. It also told me I did a personal worst of 4hrs sleep. It keeps me on 'aware' and accountable.

Seize the moment fridge magnet is from the original oil painting of a tiger-lily.
See:- fridge magnet art.

 

This weekend I'm exercising my brain muscle.

Best wishes to my 12WBT friends doing a mini milestone.
I'm going for one too....a two day long mind blitz working on my novel following two days of being healthy and active plus doing the little paid non fiction writing jobs.
Monday might be prepare to move on day. Reg dropping hints he is ready to move on from our absolute riverbank frontage dream spot.

Muscle burns twice the amount of energy as fat.

To increase your fat burning metabolism, you need to increase your muscles, by exercising them. 
Taking pills, fat blasters and metabolism boosters will only make your savings smaller over the long term, not your body.   Start off gently, like I did, having a medical check up before you begin exercising is wise and ask your doctor to give you your test results for cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugars, etc that you can use as markers to see how you are improving. 

We know how to make slow metabolism, fat building bodies....slow down, don’t exercise.

We know how to rev up the metabolism,..exercise.

It is supposed to be harder to lose weight as you get older, but that is only because most people as they get old, are losing muscle every year.

Muscle is a dynamic energy burning part of the body.

Even when we are at rest muscle is burning energy, fat is inactive and burns no fuel. That's why when we begin to lose muscle, most people begin to gain weight. 

The only reason people lose muscle as they get older is because they slow down and stop exercising.   I see people sitting around in the hot springs for an hour or so, talking, some think I am strange because I exercise.  Just when I am thinking I am alone in being in my 60's and making an effort to be fit, along comes some sprightly seniors and they join me and exercise with me. 

I can see these exercising seniors are leaner, more muscular and can walk back up the hill more easily than those who seem to feel retirement means take it easy. I see these, make no more effort than we have to, group of seniors then struggle to make it back up the hill from the pool.

Next year or the year after, they have to just give up even trying to go to the pool.  I can say this, with no feeling I am being too critical, because I was once inactive like they are.  I was once the one having difficulty getting up the hill.  

Life is EASIER now, and more enjoyable because I exercise. This would be true at any age, but especially at my age. 

No one achieves very much until they start thinking in the positive.  I need to think in the positive. 

Life gets easier, when I exercise. 

My metabolism increases when I exercise..

I do not want tools that make me think about things being harder, tools like, unresponsive scales and weekly weigh in days, that’s in my past now.  I am thinking, in the positive. 

It is becoming EASIER to achieve all my goals.

It is easy to be naturally slim

I am beginning to think that each time I go back to my doctor to reassess  test results is soon enough to hop on the scales again, when I seek to find out if there have been  improvements gained in cholesterol levels and a halting of the journey to lifestyle disease as a result of my  increased fitness by exercising  and intuitively eating for heath. 

How my clothes fit, is the best indicator of my slimness and how I feel is the best assessment for my fitness.   I am happy with this weeks effort even if I doubt I have lost any weight, other than weight off my mind, from releasing even more of my past dependence on a set of bathroom scales as a judge of my progress.

I am becoming fitter as I age.

 © 2011 K.J.Shell

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