Peaceful Warrior

I recommend everyone go and watch this movie! I just watched it and thought it was great! very inspirational and maybe even life changing some say. Just google it on the search button to the right or watch the clip below.

The Best Week Ever!!

I've recently recieved some questions on how much and what to do for exercise in a week span. So here is a littl tid bit just to follow up with that question. It is recommended that everyone engage in at least 30-40 minutes of cardiovascular exercise (continuous activity) at least four times per week and resistance training (moderate to intense strength training with periods of rest between sets) for 20-40 minutes at least three times per week. Cardiovascular exercise and resistance training can be performed on the same day but it is recommended that resistance training occur before cardiovascular exercise in order to better maintain glucose stores (as glycogen) for increased energy and greater muscular response during and after exercise. This equates to a minimum of 180 minutes to as much as 280 minutes or more total exercise time per week.
--NSCA, Nov. 2007

What Your Birthday Mean: Try this out, it's pretty interesting and fun!

Your Birthdate: June 7

You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy. And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you. Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights. You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice! Your strength: Your self sufficiency Your weakness: You despise authority Your power color: Maroon Your power symbol: Hammer Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Enjoy Your Coffee!

I know it's been a while and I do apologize, but I was just recently doing some research and came across this article that I thought everyone should ponder upon. It is about philosophy and Life following the wellness realm of my blog...enjoy!
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Philosophy

A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING = PHILOSOPHY

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, go together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
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and to give credit where it is do, I found this article published on this site: http://www.spiritualize.net/content/category/1/71/58/ : to an unknown author.

New Blog!!!

Check out my new blog thats in the process of being built, but I will be covering different aspect of wellness such as Nutrition and Cooking!! I'm excited!
http://NickReyes2.blogspot.com

Fitness Calculators

These are links to some Fitness Calculators that will help you to in achieving your fitness goals!
Finding your BMI
Finding your Body Fat Percentage
Finding your BMR
Finding your Resting Heart Rate
Finding your Target Heart Rate
Finding your Max Rep (1 Rep Max)

Learning Journal #1: Individual and Ecological Approaches to Health

This was just a very interesting topic that I had to write about in one of my classes that many people, as well as fitness professionals, tend to forget. Thanks for taking the time to read.
-Nick Reyes

Learning Journal #1: Individual and Ecological Approaches to Health




       In certain ways people develop subconscious judgments about one another. When someone’s sees another person that is overweight, they almost instinctively think of that person as lazy, unsuccessful, or maybe even that they don’t care about themselves. Leaving out the many factors that play into one life. In this nation we have a tendency to stick to our “Everyman for himself” way of thinking when it comes to individual responsibility. As if it’s a way of being mature. When we are young are parents take care of us, as we grow older we learn to do things on our own. So in a way, we seemingly connect an immature connotation to being unhealthy as said “That person cannot take care of themselves.” Some beliefs and values that I have about individual responsibility of ones health is the seeking of knowledge, or of a professional. If you don’t know anything about your health, then wouldn’t you either read up on it or seek a professional’s advice? I believe that if a person truly wants to do something, then they will do it. However this is not being sensitive to a person’s individual situation. We commonly relate respect to achievement when it is acquired by a person who can do it on their own. Just like in the business world, such as an entrepreneur develops a business and goes from rags to riches, I think the same connotation applies to someone that goes from extremely overweight to a healthier new them that is at or below their suggested normal weight. And in our age today, we are becoming more well off and knowledgeable than our generations before. Information is becoming more readily accessible for people; a great example would be the internet. Anything you would like to learn about most likely one can find it on the internet. So for one not to take advantage of these opportunities can be labeled lazy, but its up to us to put ourselves in their shoes to find the real true reasons individuals continue with unhealthy actions and behaviors, and becoming more knowledgeable about how their social and environmental health is a perfect perspective to acknowledge in order to do so.

      My response to the idea that social conditions and arrangements play a substantial role in individual health choices and status would be that I agree with it totally. If a gym is one mile away or seven, if there are safe streets to get their or are they crowded with gangs. If somebody has enough money to eat organic food, join a gym, have a lot of free time, makes a huge difference rather than someone that can only settle for the dollar menu at McDonalds and maybe do push-ups at their house once a week. As you have stated that we are socially determined, our relationships, environments, and economical status influence the lifestyles that we lead. Such that you have stated on ecological level, that “Unhealthy behaviors are acquired as part of the socialization and cultural forces within groups.”