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4/20/2012 12:21:48 PM EST
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Your Health and You
diet, exercise, nutrition
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We are all on the internet trying to make our dreams come true. We spend hours upon hours on our computers. We sit in a chair for many many hours. Most of us don't realize that the human body was not meant to sit for such prolonged periods of time. We humans must move or a plethora of probllems will be in our future.
I grew up sort of a short pudgy fellow and ended up becoming a fairly good athlete and playing 4 years of NCAA Div. I Football. But I went through a lot to get to that point. I became aware of the need to watch my diet very early in life. I urged my parents to let me try out for Pop Warner Football at the age of 10. Little did I know that a strict weigh limit was imposed on all players. There was as much attention paid to those underweight as to those overweight. The weight limits were 85 lbs. to 117 lbs. for ages 10-13. At age ten, I weighed 110 lbs. So, it was pretty much a given that at 10 years old and 110 lbs, this would be my last first and last year in this league. I played that year and fortunately we won the Championship. During that winter, spring and summer, my mother would always remind me that if wanted to play the next year, I need to skip the candy bar, popcorn and deserts that she made every weekend.
Let's go forward to the next summer and it was time to go to tryouts and that long awaited weigh-in. I can remember as my Dad drove up to old Jim Black Field and I got out of the car, I could hear the jestures indicating that I would not make it this year. As a matter of fact, I did not weigh before I went to the weigh-ins and had no idea how much I weighed. Finally, I did step on the scale and to the surprise of all including myself I weighed 112 lbs. Most of those there that day wondered how I had done it. I told them that my mother had prepared my food without extra fat and I had stayed away from junk food for the entire year. This experience taught me that discipline must be exercised in all aspects of our lives including our diets.
I am going to fast forward to the early 1990's. At this time I was an avid weighlifter and trainer. I did not know much about nutrition and bodybuilding. At about this time, I befriended someone who became a good friend and a training partner. His name was Dr. Victor Poletajev or Doc Vic. Viictor was a chiropractor, power lifter and bodybuilder with a degree in Nutrition. Victor help heal many of my ailments from football and weight lifting and showed me how to not get injured. Victor taught me how to maintain a great diet and what supplements to take.
During this time Victor convinced me that I had the genetics and structure to compete in bodybuilding. To make a long story short, I went on to become the 1994 WV State Masters Bodybuilding Champion, the 1997 Upper Ohio Valley Masters Champion and the 1998 Natural Pittsburgh Masters Champion. I will be the first to admit that diet and nutrition are about 75% of the sport. What you eat is the biggest factor in how you look.
There were several things that Victor taught me that keep me healthy even now.
1. Don't consume soda. Sodas are worse for you than alcoholic drinks. They cause your body to leach calcium. I wonder why most auto repair shops use a certain soda to clean batter cables and terminals.
2. Stay hydrated. Drink water all day. Most people walk around dehydrated. You muscles are 70% water.
3. Eat 5-7 meals per day. Grazed like cow. Don't eat 2-3 large meals. This will slow down your metabolism.
4. Stay away from processed meats. They are full of nitrates and sodium.
5. Eggs are good for you. Especially the farm, vegetarian eggs.
6. Eat hormone free chicken, steak, turkey. Do a little experiment. Get a vegetarian raise chicken breast and a chicken breast that has been raised in the normal commercial process. Grill them both. You will find that the vegetarian chicken breast can be cut easily with your fork. It will take a knife to the cut the commercial chicken breast.
7. Find a top grade multi-vitamin capsules. Capsules only. Tablets will not dissolve in the body.
8. Stay away from cheese, whole milk and most dairy products. Cows milk was not made for humans.
9. Exercise at least 30 minutes, 3 days per week minimum. You should do this every day.
These are just a few of the pointers that you can use to help maintain and improve your health. Just remember that if you don't have your health, all of the money and material things will not mean much. Get up and move and fuel your body. Also check with your physician before starting any exercise or diet program.
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 | | Great information which we always believed was just common sense. The human body was meant to be used, and break down sooner if they are not. |
| | |  | | | |  | | A great personal story and information for keeping fit and healthy, Jesse! I enjoyed reading it. |
| | |  | | This is all very good advise! TWEET |
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