Health is Your Greatest Possession

Time goes by quick and so can health if it's not nurtured as your Health is your Greatest Poessession. Ever own a plant that you were given and not water on a regular basis? It slowly but surely begins to wither. When you begin watering it though - it begins to perk up, get green and fill out and look happy! Health is a something that you were given as well and whether you give or take from it, will show on how it gives back to you. You are worth giving to and the time, resources and effort, you're worth too! You're a good person, you contribute to people, things and places in your life, and giving to yourself through education in fitness, motivation and accountability are incredibly helpful tools that a Fitness Coaching provides you, for you to own and use for the rest of your life.

I appreciate when I see a client smile based on the work and Faith that I ask them to have in themselves, through the vehicle of strength training and flexibility training, two of which make you a better version of yourself in health, and in wellness.

If there's one thing to remember, the body is a temple, not a warehouse. True fact.

So, this week, believe in yourself, I believe in you, and won't give in or give up on you when you might feel like doing that yourself, nope, not me. I trust in the Hope of things I cannot see, then the belief can come true.

Be well, live life with a warm love of the hope of the future and use weights to strengthen that journey along the way, you'll be glad you did.

Thank you, Coach Dan : if you ever need help in fitness, let me know, be great to help you. 503.332.0026 or dan@fitnessintraining.com

Yo Fitness Fans, yo...

So you want to get fit I understand, well do ya - mmm? In order to do this, simply apply one ounce of invention, and two ounces of effort, and three ounces of movement and bam, you will be fit!

After 30+ years of pumping Iron, I have discovered one simple fact...you can, you must and you will.

I don't have all the answers, but I do possess many questions. What is it and why is it that you want to be well? Are you afraid of your own future, so you easily forget how to care for the very body God gave you? Assuming you can simply be excempt from ill health? I don't think so...

Choose to be kind to your temple and it will reward you - even if illness has stricken you. The mind and heart are a very powerful team which can heal by the sheer will of it all. So, act upon the grace and goodness that you have within your grasp and get and stay well.

Thank you, Dan Hoering

Be Tenacious not aggressive in the game of life! Crocs or Goats?

The word aggressive comes to mind when you go after something! But is it really the right way to go about it? Let's take a looksee!?

• Aggressive is: [obtrusively energetic especially in pursuing particular goals with a forwardness or brash self-confidence or assertive; pushy, characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives Origin: 1815–25; Aggressive+ -ive, noun]
• Tenacious is: [dogged persistence in maintaining, holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold, holding together; cohesive; not easily pulled asunder; to endure or seeking something valued or desired, Origin: 1526, from M.Fr. ténacité (14c.), from Latin, tenacitas "the act of holding fast," from tenax (gen. tenacis) "tough, holding fast," from tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Tenacious first attested 1607, te·na·cious·ly, adverb
  te·na·cious·ness, noun]

When I read those two definitions, I feel quite different as they relate to everyday life and people. Aggressive is too much, short winded and there's a real sense of no follow through or keep on keep'n on to it which cannot be sustained or can't last or endure. On the other hand Tenacity is quite different. It denotes a stick to it approach with an ongoing lazer like focus that never fades, never stops and a hope that is good, real and sound! Recently these words came to light as they relate to my life, my fitness and the people in my life. Discover what it means to get and be fit and the usage of tenacity versus aggression, as both play a role in fitness and life success. I admire people that go for it! But how do they do that? Aggressively or with tenacity? Aggression isn't without merit, it is needed, it would just be the ignition switch to tenacity. Once tenacity is ignited via the aggressive spark, there's a continual ongoing focus that is not subject to any element of being doused or put out. It is a fire that glows red hot and cannot be extinguished by any thing or anyone. It does not relent or give up, it cannot be put down or put away. It would analogous to the core of the Earth, a molten red hot glow that burns whether you see it coming out of a volcano or knowingly realize it is deep below right where you stand or sit as you read this.

Tenacity as an animal would be a heartily horned Mountain Goat. A Mountain Goat that skitters along, heavy hoofing its way along a steep pitch on a mountain cliff, teetering at the edge of a fatal fall on those steep cliffs. Yet that strong, hearty persistent Moutain Goat will not let go of the moutain as if affixed like some unseen super-glue that oozes from its pores to keep its hooves grounded on the mountain. The Mountain Goat not only survives but strives and lives in an environment that most animals would fall as a death drop! The Mountain Goat survives, strives and flourishes in this harsh unforbidding place on that steep mountain side. The Mountain Goat is high atop the mountain where the sun shines, the air is clear and the brightness of the Earth can be seen for miles and miles, a good place to have a great vantage point to see and do everything. A Brilliant Existence!

The Crocodile however would be a very aggressive animal! It waits and doesn't work to survive like a Mountain Goat must do. The Crocodile is an opportunistic creature, conserving energy and food as it is a huge lumbering animal compared to a Mountain Goat. The Croc waits and lashes out at its prey when an unsuspecting bird or or varment creeps too close to the waters edge...and the Croc strikes in a massive burst, all at once! It has one good chance to get the kill, and all of its energy is used up in one huge wave at its victim. The odds are low that the Croc will get the kill. The Croc loses often times and recedes back into the cold murky blur of water that it calls home. It waits again, without much toil or spin...just waits and waits for another kill; a loner it is. Although a survivor the Croc for millions of years, exists alone, abandon by all and hides in the water away from life and the living, as if dead. A Dark and dim existence.

So be a powerful Mountain Goat, live your life with a seething boldness and learn to use your hooves and hold on tight, adapt, learn, persist, strive and skitter along lifes pathways that are often steep or forbidding! Though every now and then you'll find a plateau to take safe haven on and rest and recoup. Then onward and upward again you go, into the battles of life but with a secret weapon, Tanacity! Tenacity wins! Tenacity is at the very root of what it takes to succeed in life and in fitness! Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainly that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Oswald Chambers.

Thank you, Coach Dan

How many reps have I done you ask? 116,5.8880 reps thus far...
How much weight have I pushed pulled you ask? 82,944.000 million pounds pushed and pulled thus far...

* 32 years of workouts... 3 sets average per muscle group, 50 pounds average per set, 15 reps average per set, 4 exercises per workout, 6 workouts, per week, every year, for 32 years.

Add : Jump Ropes : approximately 4,000 a week since 2007...

millions of reps : millions of pounds : Coach Dan

> How many reps have I done you ask? 1,339,200 repetitions

> How much weight have I pushed or pulled in 31 years you may ask? 66,960,000 pounds

3 sets average per muscle group, 50 pounds average per set, 15 reps average per set, 4 exercises per workout, 5 workouts, per week, every year - all workout and no play makes Coach Dan a very strong boy!

See this link on sodium...and please don't take it with a grain of salt!
http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100155296&GT1=9033