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May 2012 May 2011 "Are you losing weight?" "You are starting to look to thin?" "How did you do it?" The secret is out: I must finally admit, I HAVE spent the last year transforming my body. Now, I am ready to share with our readers some of the methods I've used to achieve my goal. The disclaimer: I do NOT claim to be any type of nutritionist or doctor. I am only sharing small changes that have helped me. Everyone's body is different. 1. Shock your body I love to exercise. I grew up in the age of leg warmers, Richard Simmons and exercise videos. I spent years taking step aerobics. Running (specifically training for my half marathon last November) has been a way for me to shock my body into a new way of exercising. Your body will plateau if you exercise the same way and with the same intensity year after year. 2. Eat foods that decay I commit to eat a raw...
It's Fun Friday and I'm sharing some great workout tips. Fortunately I've never struggled with working out (it's the good eating that always throws me for a loop). I've always enjoyed going to the gym. So you can imagine when I moved to my rural community I was stressed with the fact that there wasn't a gym nearby. Needless to say, I had to get creative on staying fit. My business travel schedule, community and church obligations didn't make finding time to work out any easier. I realized that my creative juices would have to flow on a alternative way to stay fit. Here are some of my fun, no gym needed workouts: Walk/run intervals through the neighborhood Cardiovascular exercise is the foundation of most of my work- outs. The light posts in my neighborhood provide a great way to walk & run in equal distance from the back to the front of the subdivision. I will normally walk, jog, or sprint in intervals between each light post...
BEWARE: This is not your normal blog post It is not easy raising children. But raising one of our country's most hated members of society brings more complication into the equation. Let me clarify for you...raising a black male in America IS scary. The world easily looks at color on a male as a deterrent to any intellectual ability. Most men of color are viewed with the ability to only perform one thing - entertainment. It could be a stand up comedian, singer, runner, actor, football or basketball player. Black males, unfortunately, only see the world through limited lenses. Other races, ethnicities and gender can view the world with a vast amount of opportunities, but not if you are a black male. You walk into a room or a packed elevator and people grab their handbags. You walk next to their car and they lock their doors. It's the overwhelming amount of negative images that have plagued and are fed into mainstream homes ...