Active Lifestyle – Your Ticket to Fitness

Active Lifestyle – Your Ticket to Fitness

The reason as to why Americans today are not as fit as previous generations is because of the rampant use of so many labor saving devices. Under such a scenario, it might come off as a surprise to know that simply putting everyday activity back into your life will keep you fit and trim. This can be started off by doing simple things like walking or biking to visit neighbors or friends. You can also work manually in your yard or garden by cutting your grass with a push mower and raking your leaves.

Even normal household work such as washing the windows or vacuuming the floor is a good way to lead an active daily life. You can also get active with kids and enjoy their activities by playing along with them. Make sure you take small walks with family or friends after dinner and on weekends. In case you visit the mall or movie theaters on weekends, then it would be a good idea to park further away and walk across the parking lot.

In addition to living an active lifestyle, it would be good for your health if you could incorporate some moderately intense activities as well. These activities can be done with or without joining the gym. Some examples of this may be brisk walking or jogging, daily cycling etc. What ever you do, start slowly and listen to your body at all times. This will dramatically increase your chances of having a successful fitness plan. In case of pain, dizziness or shortness of breath, you should stop exercising and assess whether you need to visit a doctor before continuing with your daily fitness regime.

Perhaps the best way to start on an active lifestyle is by going on a daily walk. This is something which can be easily incorporated into your daily life by simply waking up a little early in the morning. Walking is perhaps the easiest way to reap the benefits of moderate endurance exercise. As the weeks roll by, simply increase your walking distance and also start to time the entire walk. You can gradually work towards increasing the pace or speed of your walks.

Once you’re satisfied with the performance of your body then it’s time to add a few basic stretching exercises to your daily routine of walking. Stretching your body in this way increases your flexibility which will significantly improve your endurance in going through your regular day. After doing this for approximately a month, you can add a five minute vigorous-intensity workout three days a week. For example, you can speed up to a fast walk or a slow jog for a total of five minutes, on three of the days that you work out. Remember, that you can change this according to your own convenience but make sure that you’re making some kind of progress.

After two weeks, you can increase the higher intensity portion of the workout to 10 minutes and continue adding additional 5 minutes every two weeks. This is sufficient activity which will help you immensely in finding more pleasure and vigor in your daily life.



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    will cycling make you lose weight in the butt and thigh area or should i hop on the treadmill?

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  22. jenneitz on Thu, 8th Sep 2011 1:06 pm 

    speculation and extrapolation on my part, mind you, so please take this with a grain of salt. I in no way wish to give anyone the impression that they should abandon their training.

    Another point is motivation. If your goal is to run 13.1 miles, then train all you like and head out to the track for ~53 loops and call it quits, you've done it. But if you goal is the Half Marathon Experience, then why potentially spend the final triumphant miles in complete agony and having to finish 'at whatever cost'? Again, this may or may not happen regardless as a result of some unfortunate or unforeseen happenstance, but eliminating as many variables that could detract from the enjoyment seems the wiser choice. If both are the goals, then stop your longest training run at 12.5 or 13 miles; you'll still preserve the distance, and your body will be prepared for the Experience.

    Then again, just getting out there in any capacity is a triumph in itself, and probably shouldn't be over-analyzed like this!

    Jay]]>

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  32. biastran tate on Tue, 10th Jan 2012 5:14 pm 

    Now let me share with you my thoughts about the main questions you raised

    I think you do not address any of the points or questions I meant to raise! Obviously I was very unclear!

    I’ll address the two parts of your reply in order.

    1.

    By “the lack of clear definitions of key terms and the absence of linear arguments …[is] a requirement of the kung fu orientation,” I was not downplaying the significance of clarity and linear arguments, but rather that that they have limitations.

    I took that statement to mean simply that the lack of clear definitions of key terms and the absence of linear arguments is a requirement of the kung fu orientation. You had said that these absences are a feature of classic Chinese texts. Your claim that the gongfu orientation requires these absences was the key point in your argument that those absences reflect a strength of the Chinese tradition. Have I misunderstood? (In response I tried to offer reasons to think such absences from a tradition or from its main texts are not a requirement of the kung fu orientation, but amount to a grave weakness, and are a sign of other grave weakness. I meant to suggest that they are a sign of grave weakness in the tradition’s kung fu project.)

    After the above statement, you argue (in ways I strongly disagree with) that
    (1) clear definitions and linear arguments do not have limitless value,
    (2) the pursuit of truth should not be allowed to eclipse all other aims, and
    (3) we shouldn’t always have our minds on clear definitions of terms and linear arguments.
    I am not sure what I or others could have said to suggest that we needed correcting on any of these points.

    2.

    The rest of your reply argues for the claim that deliberative inquiry is more individualistic than the instructional tradition.

    As for whether “deliberative inquiry” (as you call it) is more communal and the instructional tradition is more individualistic, I think one can argue exactly the opposite way.

    I’m not sure what it is that I am supposed to have called “deliberative inquiry.” I didn’t use the phrase. I’m happy to use it here (assuming that it means inquiry as part of deliberation, rather than merely slow and careful inquiry).

    I didn’t mean to propose that deliberative inquiry is more communal, less individualistic, than the instructional tradition. The comparison doesn’t make much sense to me, for obviously deliberative inquiry can be purely individual or deeply communal. But I would like address here your argument for the opposite judgment of comparative degree: that deliberative inquiry is more individualistic than the instructional tradition.

    You argue by comparing a successful or excellent instructional tradition to some possible deliberative inquiry. That is: you propose that (a) deliberative inquiry can occur without collaboration, and (b) a wise instructional tradition depends on community in the sense that it takes generations to develop. (I think that’s a very minimal sense.) Obviously, (a) and (b) together have no implications about the comparison you promised to argue for.

    You don’t argue for (b); but you do argue for (a), as follows:

    Aristotle’s view that contemplation is the most “self-sufficient” activity and Kant’s famous article on “What is Enlightenment” (which practically denies the value of tradition) both seem to entail that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community (though it can benefit from communal collaboration),

    I think it’s uncontroversial that, say, Robinson Crusoe can investigate whether a certain fruit is poisonous, toward deciding whether to eat it; in that sense it is uncontroversial that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community. (Some Western philosophers have argued that thought essentially depends on language and that language essentially depends on community. I didn’t mean to be raising any such subtle issues.)

    The premise of your argument is the philosophical authority of Aristotle and Kant. But surely you reject that premise? I was not appealing to their authority, so I think you are not arguing dialectically in that way. I do not understand your purpose in this argument.

    In my view, Kant’s essay on Enlightenment is not concerned with the uncontroversial point that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community. Rather I think he is concerned with a kind of “cowardice” or “immaturity” that consists in thinking very little, and instead mainly just adopting one’s views from others. He says it is caused mainly by a mistake in community organization: specifically, by over-authoritarian government; and that authoritarian government thus stands in the way of various kinds of collective progress in understanding that comes when we share our ideas with others. (In that essay Kant speaks of a “public” becoming enlightened, and of an “age” increasing “its” knowledge and enlightenment; and he says the “essential destiny” of human nature is such collective progress. I see nothing in the essay that “practically denies the value of tradition,” unless by “tradition” you just mean blind followership.)

    In praising collaboration on deliberation and inquiry, of course I was not saying that individuals should not think much.

    Aristotle notoriously seems to contradict himself about contemplation versus the political life, for humans, and the extent to which self-sufficient contemplation is even possible for human beings; and scholars disagree about how to resolve the contradictions. (His term “self-sufficient,” applied to activity, does not in general imply being doable by an individual alone. “What we count as self-sufficient is not what suffices for a solitary person by himself, living an isolated life, but what suffices also for parents, children, wife, and in general, for friends and fellow-citizens, since a human being is naturally a political [animal]” – EN i.7.§40, Irwin’s translation.)

    What the scholars do tend to agree on, I think, is that the “contemplation” Aristotle is talking about is not a kind of deliberation, and not a kind of inquiry.

    Aristotle does comment on deliberative inquiry. Regarding deliberative inquiry toward state decisions, he says, for example,

    “The view that the multitude rather than the few best people should be in authority would seem to be held, and while it involves a problem, it perhaps also involves some truth. For the many, who are not as individuals excellent men, nevertheless can, when they have come together, be better than the few best people, not individually but collectively, just as feasts to which many contribute are better than feasts provided at one person’s expense. For being many, each of them can have some part of virtue and practical wisdom, and when they come together, the multitude is just like a single human being, with many feet, hands, and senses, and so too for their character traits and wisdom. That is why the many are better judges of works of music and and of the poets. For one of them judges one part, and another another, and all of them the whole thing.” (Pol. III.11)]]>

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  37. ewakuo on Fri, 23rd Mar 2012 9:30 pm 

    Now let me share with you my thoughts about the main questions you raised

    I think you do not address any of the points or questions I meant to raise! Obviously I was very unclear!

    I’ll address the two parts of your reply in order.

    1.

    By “the lack of clear definitions of key terms and the absence of linear arguments …[is] a requirement of the kung fu orientation,” I was not downplaying the significance of clarity and linear arguments, but rather that that they have limitations.

    I took that statement to mean simply that the lack of clear definitions of key terms and the absence of linear arguments is a requirement of the kung fu orientation. You had said that these absences are a feature of classic Chinese texts. Your claim that the gongfu orientation requires these absences was the key point in your argument that those absences reflect a strength of the Chinese tradition. Have I misunderstood? (In response I tried to offer reasons to think such absences from a tradition or from its main texts are not a requirement of the kung fu orientation, but amount to a grave weakness, and are a sign of other grave weakness. I meant to suggest that they are a sign of grave weakness in the tradition’s kung fu project.)

    After the above statement, you argue (in ways I strongly disagree with) that
    (1) clear definitions and linear arguments do not have limitless value,
    (2) the pursuit of truth should not be allowed to eclipse all other aims, and
    (3) we shouldn’t always have our minds on clear definitions of terms and linear arguments.
    I am not sure what I or others could have said to suggest that we needed correcting on any of these points.

    2.

    The rest of your reply argues for the claim that deliberative inquiry is more individualistic than the instructional tradition.

    As for whether “deliberative inquiry” (as you call it) is more communal and the instructional tradition is more individualistic, I think one can argue exactly the opposite way.

    I’m not sure what it is that I am supposed to have called “deliberative inquiry.” I didn’t use the phrase. I’m happy to use it here (assuming that it means inquiry as part of deliberation, rather than merely slow and careful inquiry).

    I didn’t mean to propose that deliberative inquiry is more communal, less individualistic, than the instructional tradition. The comparison doesn’t make much sense to me, for obviously deliberative inquiry can be purely individual or deeply communal. But I would like address here your argument for the opposite judgment of comparative degree: that deliberative inquiry is more individualistic than the instructional tradition.

    You argue by comparing a successful or excellent instructional tradition to some possible deliberative inquiry. That is: you propose that (a) deliberative inquiry can occur without collaboration, and (b) a wise instructional tradition depends on community in the sense that it takes generations to develop. (I think that’s a very minimal sense.) Obviously, (a) and (b) together have no implications about the comparison you promised to argue for.

    You don’t argue for (b); but you do argue for (a), as follows:

    Aristotle’s view that contemplation is the most “self-sufficient” activity and Kant’s famous article on “What is Enlightenment” (which practically denies the value of tradition) both seem to entail that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community (though it can benefit from communal collaboration),

    I think it’s uncontroversial that, say, Robinson Crusoe can investigate whether a certain fruit is poisonous, toward deciding whether to eat it; in that sense it is uncontroversial that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community. (Some Western philosophers have argued that thought essentially depends on language and that language essentially depends on community. I didn’t mean to be raising any such subtle issues.)

    The premise of your argument is the philosophical authority of Aristotle and Kant. But surely you reject that premise? I was not appealing to their authority, so I think you are not arguing dialectically in that way. I do not understand your purpose in this argument.

    In my view, Kant’s essay on Enlightenment is not concerned with the uncontroversial point that deliberative inquiry does not essentially depend on community. Rather I think he is concerned with a kind of “cowardice” or “immaturity” that consists in thinking very little, and instead mainly just adopting one’s views from others. He says it is caused mainly by a mistake in community organization: specifically, by over-authoritarian government; and that authoritarian government thus stands in the way of various kinds of collective progress in understanding that comes when we share our ideas with others. (In that essay Kant speaks of a “public” becoming enlightened, and of an “age” increasing “its” knowledge and enlightenment; and he says the “essential destiny” of human nature is such collective progress. I see nothing in the essay that “practically denies the value of tradition,” unless by “tradition” you just mean blind followership.)

    In praising collaboration on deliberation and inquiry, of course I was not saying that individuals should not think much.

    Aristotle notoriously seems to contradict himself about contemplation versus the political life, for humans, and the extent to which self-sufficient contemplation is even possible for human beings; and scholars disagree about how to resolve the contradictions. (His term “self-sufficient,” applied to activity, does not in general imply being doable by an individual alone. “What we count as self-sufficient is not what suffices for a solitary person by himself, living an isolated life, but what suffices also for parents, children, wife, and in general, for friends and fellow-citizens, since a human being is naturally a political [animal]” – EN i.7.§40, Irwin’s translation.)

    What the scholars do tend to agree on, I think, is that the “contemplation” Aristotle is talking about is not a kind of deliberation, and not a kind of inquiry.

    Aristotle does comment on deliberative inquiry. Regarding deliberative inquiry toward state decisions, he says, for example,

    “The view that the multitude rather than the few best people should be in authority would seem to be held, and while it involves a problem, it perhaps also involves some truth. For the many, who are not as individuals excellent men, nevertheless can, when they have come together, be better than the few best people, not individually but collectively, just as feasts to which many contribute are better than feasts provided at one person’s expense. For being many, each of them can have some part of virtue and practical wisdom, and when they come together, the multitude is just like a single human being, with many feet, hands, and senses, and so too for their character traits and wisdom. That is why the many are better judges of works of music and and of the poets. For one of them judges one part, and another another, and all of them the whole thing.” (Pol. III.11)]]>

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  41. dundesemat on Wed, 9th May 2012 3:43 am 

    speculation and extrapolation on my part, mind you, so please take this with a grain of salt. I in no way wish to give anyone the impression that they should abandon their training.

    Another point is motivation. If your goal is to run 13.1 miles, then train all you like and head out to the track for ~53 loops and call it quits, you've done it. But if you goal is the Half Marathon Experience, then why potentially spend the final triumphant miles in complete agony and having to finish 'at whatever cost'? Again, this may or may not happen regardless as a result of some unfortunate or unforeseen happenstance, but eliminating as many variables that could detract from the enjoyment seems the wiser choice. If both are the goals, then stop your longest training run at 12.5 or 13 miles; you'll still preserve the distance, and your body will be prepared for the Experience.

    Then again, just getting out there in any capacity is a triumph in itself, and probably shouldn't be over-analyzed like this!

    Jay]]>

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