Healing Kinetics

Sorry been extraordinarily busy the last two days, unable to post. However I think you have the idea of what my exercise schedule is like.

Everyday I wake up and do breathing exercises, then depending on the day is what the rest of the workout is if any.

Monday - High intense workout using Matt Furey’s Combat Conditioning, cool down with stretching
Tuesday - Light workout and stretching
Wednesday - calisthenics, specific body areas - upper body or lower body, stretching
Thursday - calisthenics, specific body area opposite of Wednesdays area, stretching
Friday - Hill Sprints and high intense workout, cool down with breathing exercises and stretching
Saturday - day of rest which means breathing exercises only
Sunday - light workout and stretching

And there you have it. Although I will post a few of my daily routine exercises occassionally we will move on to other ways to keep healthy such as nutrtion.

Stretching Do’s and Don’ts by Rowell Bulan, MD

An internet acquaintance of mine Dr. Rowell Bulan has written a post on his blog that I must give kudos.

Here’s his list -
DO think about where you should be feeling the stretch.
DO stretch anywhere, anytime - in front of the TV, at your desk or in the car.
DO use a partner or tools to further or modify stretches.
DO dynamic stretches - ie. stretching the muscle through movement - for muscles you’re about to use in your workout.
DO static stretches (where you hold the stretch) for most of your stretching routine.
DO stretch as part of your cool-down.
DO hold stretches for at least 10-30 seconds, more if you’re advised or you’re conditioned for stretching.

DON’T stretch for longer than 60 seconds.
DON’T ‘bounce’ your stretches.
DON’T hold your breath; practice deep breathing to boost oxygen to your muscles to assist relaxation.
DON’T stretch in pain; stretch until you feel tension and hold this position.
DON’T over-stretch if you’re pregnant, because your ligaments are more prone to injury. They’re more lax due to the release of the hormone relaxin, which loosens your ligaments to prepare your body for childbirth.I hope this info could be of help to you. Feel free to ask questions, and/or share with us some helpful tips you’ve tried yourself and found to have made some difference.

Notice the emphasis on not holding your breath but rather do deep breathing exercises. I wonder where you can learn about that - OK here —>Breathing Exercises

For more on his post check out his blog - medcarehealth.com

You also need to check out the hilarious video on his post!!

I am in the internet marketing business and so many of my mentors and associates are internet marketers. One of my favorites that I have really pushed here is Matt Furey, his Combat Conditioning Program has really helped me get back to some of the exercises I used to do when I was young and studying martial arts. His internet marketing techniques - he likes to claim that he is different than all the so called gurus. Many of the gurus have implemented some of the ideas he has such as almost daily emails to his list and also to reveal personal stories about himself and his daily life. SO he has been an innovator or at least one of the first to really talk to his list.

Now one of the best traffic builders that is up and coming is video blogging (TV for the internet). I am all for it. I plan on doing some myself; however it is already becoming a jungle out there everyone wanting a little piece of your attention, so gimmicks are coming out. One of the gimmicks is the use of characters. One of the best used is Sal who is actually Harris Fellman. Sal is a sterotypical Italian American with the accent the phrases etc. He uses him to sell his product called Site Stealer.

Well many of the other internet marketers have seen the success that Harris has had with his characters and are implementing characters as well. Personally I think it is stupid! Can’t you have an original idea or are you not interesting enough to just be yourself when you are trying to sell products? Well Matt has launched his new Video blogging site today at www.matthewfurey.com and I am going to be brave here and call him uninventive and un-original. the man who as my mentor I loved because he did have no nonsense marketing has just ranked himself and lumped himself in with the rest of the follow me video blogging world. Please a character calling himself Matthew Furey who has a client called Matt Furey??? He even sent out an email to his list proclaiming the same that a different guy owns the video blog. I do hope it is a joke and that he is spoofing the other internet marketers out there. You are more original than that Matt, get off the character bit.

The only reason I am even giving you the link to this video blog is that I know the information will be fantastic. The first video is about the perception of money and it is spot on. So go ahead and watch his video at www.matthewfurey.com

Yesterday I was feeling a little guilty because I had two days of rest instead of my one day of rest. I do not want to make that a habit. I am pretty insistent that the way to stay healthy is to do at least fifteen minutes of exercise a day. It does not have to be intensive or even very difficult, just some form of calisthenic exercise.

If you are overweight and/or out of shape, it is vitality important to do something everyday. The breathing exercises I give away for free are chosen because almost anyone can do them. They have a great effect on your metabolism and the oxygenation of your body, basically they help you burn fat along with helping to improve your breathing which a vast number of overweight people have major problems.

Now back to myself, in order to get my fifteen minutes of exercise in yesterday I decided to do the breathing exercises throughout the day when I had some down time, such as after my sons soccer game (still beaming with pride on that one), we went over to my in laws to watch the Bears Game (not so proud there) - I did some breathing exercises while watching the game, not as focused as if I was quiet in my room but still doing some activity while I was sitting there.

Another time was at about 7:30 last night the kids asked if we could all watch a movie together, so “Happy Feet” went in and we sat and watched the movie. During the movie I was able to quietly do some breathing exercises, for a good five to ten minutes. The core breathing exercise is usually not quiet but it still can be done just focusing on the contraction a little more while quietly exhaling. I was able to multitask, spend some time with my kids and only quietly without there knowing use five minutes of that time to get some exercise in. The rest of the one and half hours was all theirs as it rightfully should.

So when you do these breathing exercises do not just focus on doing them in a quiet place and saying you do not have time to do them, because everyone has five minutes somewhere duing the day, even if you have to multi-task to get them accomplished it is better than nothing. Obviously it is better if you are in a quiet place and you really focus on the exercises, but if you are crunched for time anywhere is good. The car ride or better yet the train ride to work, a meeting a work, your 30 minute break at work - 5 minutes could easily be used for breathing exercises, and as I said before one of the best places to do breathing exercises is in the shower. You have 5 minutes and many of us have 5 minutes several times a day that you can do these breathing exercises, just get started. Worry about the calisthenics when you do have time to spend 15 to 30 minutes in one sitting.

OK I was feeling a little guilty from resting two days, so I had a ferocious energy to get some major work down in my workout this morning.

So - After the 5 minutes of breathing exercises after I woke up, down to the exercise corner for a high intensive calisthenic workout.

1 minute Hindu Squats
1 minute Hindu Push ups
1 minute crunches with my legs out stretched and about 12 inches off the ground
1 minute rest
Repeat 3 times
Rest for 5 minutes doing controlled breathing exercises
1 more set of Hindu Squats, Hindu Push ups, and crunches
Rest for 1 minute
Finished off with a few pull ups then stretching.

Up for a shower and the start of my day.

OK time caught up to me and I had to have another day of rest.

I was up very late last night we had some people over. So today I woke up this morning and did my five minutes of breathing exercises and then went to church, no time for anything else. As long as this does not become a habit there is no problem with having two days in a row off.

On a personal note…We had a soccer game today for my oldest son. He is on a travelling team for the soccer club we belong to. The head coach could not make the game. Since I am the manager for the team I had to coach my first ever travel soccer game. We won! 5 to 2. There is no better feeling than taking a team to victory and your son scoring a goal on top of it! Granted it is only 9 year olds and not the world cup, but I am proud enough to post it here.

Also I want to take this time to thank all of you that read this blog and ask is there anything you would like to know about me or know more about? Just click here and leave me a message

An inspirational message from Johnny the Bagger.

You really need to watch this video, it will make you cry and brighten your day.

Click on —>Johnny the Bagger

Today is a day of rest!

Breathing exercises and stretching today. Just remember to do a simple warm up either a few hindu squats or jumping rope for 1 minute. Just enough to warm your body. I chose to jump rope for a minute then did some stretching exercises. My day of exercise was 15 minutes.

I have a soccer game to coach today. It is a beautiful day so I’ll get plenty of sunshine and fresh air to make for an even better restful day.

It is Friday again - time for a run and no not long distance running. Hill Sprints!

There is a reason I do hill sprints, actually there are a couple of reasons I do hill sprints on Friday.

Firstly I only do them once a week because it is such an intensive exercise that my body especially my quads and gluteals need some rest. Now I have been doing them for awhile, so I could possibly do them twice a week. Lets get to the reasons I do them at all in comparison to say jogging or running for a mile.

1.) The intensity of this exercise stimulates the Human Growth Hormone and increases your metabolism, so not only are you burning off calories just from the exercise but you will continue burning calories because of the stimulation of the Human Growth Hormone. It is similar to why I do breathing exercises, it improves your entire health system by changing the way your body is functioning.

2.) I have a bad knee. Yes I was gored in the knee by a boar when I was in veterinary school and although I am capable of performing any physical feet I wish, my knee will ache after long periods of time doing the same activity. Now what has improved this achyness the most - Hindu Squats and Hill Sprints! Now you would think that these two exercises would destroy my knee. Oh I can certainly dispell that myth just from my own experience. If I tried jogging for a couple of miles my knee would be aching afterwards. Even bicycling which is suppose to be the “best” exercise for your knee - well after about 5 miles my knee would start to ache, not enough to make me stop just a general achiness. I could live with it, but it was definitely telling me something. As for hill sprints and Hindu Squats - my quads give out before my knee does. It is such a high intensity exercise for such a short duration that I never feel any pain in my knee. In fact, because of the increase in muscle tone and strength in my quads and hamstrings, my knee hardly bothers me at all anymore.

So people might wonder about endurance, well I can tell you because of my breathing exercises I have tremendous endurance. I can go longer at sporting events than some of the people I know that do run longer distances on a regular basis. Endurance is not a problem for me, except for that achy problem in my knee that since I have been doing Hill Sprints and Matt Furey’s (www.combatconditioning.com) Hindu Squats does not seem to be a problem anymore either.

So today was a short day. I did not have a lot of time, so..

6:30 Alarm - Breathing exercises
6:40 Out the door and I did 10 Hill Sprints
6:50 In the house cooling down with breathing exercises and stretching
6:55 in the shower and starting my day.

In fact, I was so rushed this morning that these times are estimates. I did not take the time to notice the exact time so I could post it today. I just remember the alarm going off doing my breathing exercises (usually 5 minutes) then doing my 10 Hill Sprints and Stretching, in the shower and I was done at 6:59 AM.

Still hurting a little from yesterday?

Today I worked on upper body -

6:37 AM - Breathing Exercises
6:45 AM - Downstairs in workout area - 25 Hindu Squats and 25 Hindu Pushups for a warm up
6:48 AM - 2 Handstand pushups, 10 pull ups, 10 Hindu Push ups, 10 tricep dips off a chair, 30 secs rest repeat 3 more times (OK 2 more times and then a fourth try at some of the exercises)
7:10 AM - Cool down with breathing exercises and stretching
7:15 AM - up for a shower and the start of the day.