My pastor Tom Hugill of the Family Worship Center, Bealeton, Virginia, delivered an awesome message of committing to “live” the Christian life not only a quick convenient decision  to follow in “fair season”.  I agree and learned how this carries over to many areas of live.

In the fitness area deciding to get in shape and committing to get in shape follows the same principle. The initial motivation to get in shape may be to wear a particular dress or a swimsuit at the beach. But the commitment to get in shape is necessary. The no turning back commitment, hints lifestyle.

I suggest to examine your initial “why”. Finding your initial why will help you make the commitment instead of the quick decision to do it.

Your Why is your motivation.

Motivation is a like a Nitrous oxide boost to an engine, it would provide a tremendous burst of energy to get you started but it is not long sustaining. Eventually the gas burns itself out leaving you with only the regular fuel in the tank.

Committing and continuing to go in the direction that you know will work will benefit your health with many unseen blessings.

Family is tremendous blessing that comes from being in shape, but NOT only being in shape, but allowing The Holy Spirit show you where the Strongholds are in your life. Whether it’s food, alcohol, drugs or what have you.  The point is the few Strongholds we have the more abundant life we will enjoy.

Thank God for His wonderful mercy!

 

Gold’s gym located in Culpeper, VA is a very spacious gym especially with the new addition just recently opened.

I would like to introduce my new friend Alex, who is a personal trainer at Gold’s Gym Culpeper. This young man is a big encouragement to me and, obviously a knowledgeable trainer of building muscle displaying his whopping 17 inch guns hanging from his barn door wide shoulders.

 

Our conversation was very refreshing this morning as Alex & I swapped fitness ideas, however my favorite “take-away” was the point of how Alex stresses to his clients(& this old fitness nut) how important of the quality of our food intake dictates ANY workout routine.

“You can’t put rotten gas into a old classic sports car and get the top performance.”

If anyone is looking for a personal trainer, stop in Gold’s Gym Culpeper and ask for Alex.

The human body is a quite remarkable machine of flesh and bone however it still has limitations.

Human Body can go 32 days without sleep (Everson et al. 1989), but how long without water. Please read the statement from Randall K. Packer, a professor of biology at George Washington University regard this question:

 It is impossible to give an answer to this seemingly simple question because many variable factors determine a person’s survival time. Under the most extreme conditions, death can come rather quickly. For example, a child left in a hot car or an athlete exercising hard in hot weather can dehydrate, overheat and die in a period of a few hours. An adult in comfortable surroundings, in contrast, can survive for a week or more with no, or very limited, water intake.

 

References:

Everson, C.A., Bergmann, B.M., Rechtschaffen, A. (1989). Sleep deprivation in the rat: III. total sleep deprivation. Sleep, 12(1), 13-21.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-the-average/