October 30th, 2007 Milan
1. Acknowledge your defeats, then let them go
2. Answer all compliments with “thank you”
3. Constantly affirm your positive self-concept and create a positive system in other people
4. Actively pursue goals and declare your vision and your mission
5. Share your vision with friends and coaches
6. Support your friends who play, work out, work on something hard (verbally and non-verbally)
7. Model yourself after someone successful, especially one who did well through hard work
8. View negative and destructive criticism as a statement of a critic who may be somewhat jealous
9. Be a dreamer and dream great successes, harness the ultimate power of your imagination to reach your goals
10. Constantly acknowledge the fact that the only person you have control of is yourself and you will take your positive and negative qualities wherever you go
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October 27th, 2007 Milan
A good trainer or coach has the ability to get people to do things that they don’t want to do in order to have things that they want to have. -Tom Landry
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October 26th, 2007 Milan
“The one thing that seems to deteriorate quickest with inactivity is insulin sensitivity,” says Ben Hurley, a professor of kinesiology at the university of Maryland at College park.
Type 2 diabetes by far the most common kind occurs when the body becomes insensitive, or resistant, to insulin in the blood. When insulin stops working, blood sugar level rise and diabetes sets in.
Regular exercise reverses the damage.
“It increases insulin sensitivity and makes the cells better at taking in glucose and processing it,” explains I-Min Lee, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
“The data are striking ,” says Hurley. And it’s not just and issue for adults. “Type 2 diabetes used to be a disease of middle age,” he adds. “But now we’re seeing it in young people. It’s a sedentary disease.”
Hurley sounds like researcher Steven Blair talking about the metabolic syndrome, which raises the risk of both diabetes and heart disease.
Doctors diagnose the syndrome when people have a large waist, low HDL (“good”) cholesterol, and elevated (though not necessarily high) blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglyceride.
“The metabolic syndrome is misnamed,” says Blair, who is president of the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas. “It ought to be called the inactivity syndrome.”
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