Your Health is your Wealth!

You wake up in the morning, your back hurts, you have to slowly and carefully get up from your bed, you sit on the toilet and can’t help but notice those extra pounds laughing at you. Feeling like shit… this is how you start your day?

You have been working hard building up your career, raising your family and making yourself look good and eat well. Your doctor check up reports sucks - high blood pressure, overweight, high cholesterol, bad knees, fast heart rate too? The doctor has warned you. Time to workout dude! These are wake up calls…..

Your wealth without your health is useless. The World Health Organization recently declared depression as currently the world’s fourth most debilitating condition (behind heart disease, cancer, and traffic accidents) and predicted that it will grow to become the second most debilitating condition worldwide by the year 2020 with heart disease remaining at number one. What to do? Exercise is the best way! Everyone knows it! No time for it? You have time to watch TV and DVDS? If you want a quality of life, the more you put in, the more you get out! 10 minutes a day of any kind of excise can be a quick fix as long as you don’t stop. Exercise for one hour once a week, why not?

Make a good pattern and routine in your daily life just as you regularly put money into the bank. Don’t wait until it comes, the days never come, take action and be responsible for yourself. Remember PRIDE! (Personal Responsibility Is Daily Effort).

If all this doesn’t seem the right approach for you, then what? How about hiring a Personal Trainer for a kickass workout, why not? It’s not just somebody who shows up at your gym, but somebody who instructs you how to do these exercises and most importantly making sure you are doing the correct workouts that suit your needs and wants! Motivation plays a big part in it. You don’t have to just hire someone to stand right next to you and count, how about you partner up with a family member and do exercise Not only is even more fun but you get to spend quality time together with your loved one.

Here, I’ll show two exercise forms:

Russell Lee

Executive Director

Exercises
	Wall Pushups 1. Start by placing your hands on the wall at shoulder level with your feet approximately 2 feet away from the wall. 2. Bend your elbows so that your chest gets closer to the wall. 3. Once your elbows are bent to about 90 degrees then press back out to the starting position. 4. Repeat according to the required repetitions.
	Stationary Bodyweight Lateral Lunge/Squat 1. Start by placing your hands behind your head and your feet placed with a wide stance. 2. Shift your weight and hips to one side and squat down so that your hips drop down behind that foot. 3. Return to the starting position and repeat the same movement to the other side. 4. Alternate this movement back and forth until the desired repetitions are met.