Have you ever watched a marathon race? When you see the runners who cross the finish line first, what do they look like? Then after all of the elite runners cross first, and you wait long enough (almost until traffic has been allowed again, and it’s been at least 7 or 8 hours) what kind of runners do you see cross the finish line?

They seem to get heavier, and certainly most of them don’t even look like they could have been mistaken for a runner or even in shape for that matter. They aren’t lean, they don’t look fit. So, what’s my point? It certainly isn’t to make fun of people who run marathons, quite the contrary. I’ve run a marathon and a half-marathon, and I certainly admire, the strength, dedication and focus it takes to conquer such a feat–which is why I’ve only done one of each.

I certainly also realize that it may not be the goal of everyone who takes on such a challenge to become fat-burning machines (although it couldn’t hurt), but to enjoy the challenge and the ride that comes with it.

My point is this: once your body has adapted to a certain exercise, especially at a certain mode (same speed, same route etc) your body adapts to it quickly. After this has happened, you’ve virtually eliminated it as a fat loss tool. This is why running at a steady state becomes useless as a fat loss tool. You burn fewer and fewer calories every time you go out to do something your body has become a sufficient “expert” at.

The key here is sufficiency. You don’t want your body to become sufficient at anything. Here is a week’s worth of ideas that I’ve taken from a week’s worth of my own cardiovascular exercise program:

Monday: Stair exercises:Running up 6 flights hitting every step, walking up 6 flights hitting every other step, jumping rope in between flight, step wide onto each step, walking up steps with a 12lb medicine ball overhead, turn to the side and walk up (laterally), double feet hops up the step, every other step doing double-foot hops with medicine ball.
Tuesday: Treadmill 15% incline @ 3.5mph for 40 meters, and alternate with sprints @ 5 – 7.5mph
Wednesday: Sprints outside on a neighborhood track: alternate between sprinting 100 meters and skipping 100 meters- alternate each for 1 mile, alternate backward running lunges with buttkickers 100 meters each for one mile
Thursday: Rowing machine as fast as your body will allow for 1 minute, then slow your row, for 30 seconds, and speed it up again. (this was fun, but hard as hell, I don’t know how those olympic rowers do it!)
Friday: I just go for a brisk 40 minute walk (this is a challenge for me because I hate walking, I’d prefer to run, but my body has become too accustomed to it, so I look for variations in my running such as on Wednesday’s workout).

So do you get the gist of it? You are only limited by your imagination. You can change the intensity of anything by speeding it up, adding resistance, or weight (just don’t add ankle weights for running or walking-it can mess up your knees, it is okay for leg lifts when you are lying down). For instance, I could go back to Wednesday’s workout and put on a weighted vest and do, not the same workout, but some variation.

Do I look like an idiot doing some of these things? Absolutely! However it gets me where I want to go.

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Part 2 – Relaxation with Elasticity & Suppleness

In part 1, I described rhythm as the first step in the Training Pyramid of Dressage. I explained the hoof fall in the different gaits and how important rhythm is as the basis of the training of your horse.

The next building block is Suppleness & Relaxation. The same rule applies here; Practice Makes Perfect and a good coach on the ground will help you hind your shortcomings and work through them.

It is important to continually and gradually put a horse through a series of gymnastic exercises in his flatwork. This will not only quietly and gently supple the horse, but will increasingly engage the hind quarters as they build muscle, strength, and energy. This will result in bringing the horse more and more on the bit and ultimately result in collection.

This is not done overnight. A horse is an athlete. Just like you, when you start a sport or an exercise regime, you start slow. You jog 1 mile at first and work it up till you can run the marathon.  You stretch, a little at first, and become more limber when you keep it up. That is the same for the horse.

There are two types or suppleness for the horse: longitudinal and lateral.

Longitudinal suppleness is the looseness of the horse’s haunches, back, neck, poll, and jaw. The suppler a horse is longitudinal, the more adjustable he becomes in his length of stride while maintaining rhythm. We accomplish this through repeated changes in length of stride, forward and back while maintaining forward motion and rhythm.
Lateral suppleness is the degree to which a horse can ‘bend’ his body and neck around the circle. It really has more to do with balance than actual bend. A balanced horse learns to stay on a 20m circle without leaning his shoulder to the inside of the circle or swinging his haunches out. It is accomplished by lateral exercises including leg yields and shoulder-in. These types of exercises increase the flexibility and movement of the hocks, stifle, shoulder, back and neck.

There are many other exercises you can do to accomplish basic suppleness and balance. When done right, a rider can through repeated, appropriate work–accompanied by reward, never harshness and force–turn a stiff and uncooperative horse into a supple and obedient horse.

These exercises are simple, based on circles, turns, up- and down transitions, and lateral work. The more up- and down transitions you do, the more responsive your horse becomes, making him softer, more balanced on the hind quarters, obedient and energetic.

Ultimately we are looking for the horse to start using the big muscles that go over his back and through his neck so he can start engaging his hind legs more and carry the energy from his hind legs over his back and into your hands.

Most of the work and training in this stage is still done in the trot. The better the trot work – (1.) rhythm, (2.) suppleness & relaxation with balance-the better the canter will be. The trot can help you lay the foundation for the next levels in the Training Pyramid of Dressage.

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Women’s Necklaces and Men’s Watches
Most women prefer to wear necklaces, wealthy woman who frequented jewelry store, is to find your favorite necklace. Feelings of pure gold that will last forever; agate that rich and elegant; diamonds that will be strong. All in all, women have a thousand reasons to buy into the jewelry store necklace.
Many men like to wear watches, in fact, this is not the man to see how important the time, but the man to watch as their status symbol. Because men generally do not like a woman free to wear and a ring associated, nor too much modification in the face on their own, even the “wealthy” man will not “money” hanging in his waist, so the man likes to watch shows on their own.
Many women are concerned about those who wear the necklace on the banquet, because only in that casual dinner seem more serious that people admire a woman’s necklace, so the “party” has become a woman necklace “Fair.” Women’s clothing based on their characteristics to wear a necklace, dark clothing, usually wearing a beautiful necklace, which would allow men in the “beautiful” necklace to find the owner of the thinking and quality; if it is light-colored clothing, women would wear a dark necklaces, which would make men feel the calm of a woman being assertive, it will be by women to regulate their own image of the necklace.
Maybe the women are too concerned about their image, and for the use of necklace almost to the extreme level, so let the feeling of a man on the necklace is not too deep. Many men on the woman’s necklace, and do not have much impression, every time a woman and a woman meet and then the necklace do not remember too much about why women and men necklace, men seem to not have any feelings. This is because men appreciate a woman looks beautiful, the most concerned about the connotation of a woman, but many women have this little thing around his neck to see anything more than their own importance.
For the interpretation of men who are willing to watch a woman can not wear a necklace, a deep understanding of, many women think men wearing the watch is to “was a blessing”, they are often of what a man wearing a “gold” watches; which a man wearing a Swiss watch “really boring”; even if they would simply ask a man to wear a watch price worth?
Have a career it is easy to wear men watch, because the watch is a part of their life and work. They are generally complying with the time, to comply with the time as an important aspect of their approach to work, so there are business men to watch. There are those who will be the cultivation of a strong man to watch the use of vivid, in time with a woman, no matter how much a woman of their romance, they need to leave the woman and they will explain their ideas using the watch, they will inadvertently see of a watch, and then natural to himself to say “time off really fast!” which means that they have to retreat.
Women with valuable necklace, as if there is a stable psychological foundation; but a woman forget the necklace can not be valuable and thought sentiments in the same breath, necklace allows women to meet with the material, but such splendid value Sometimes it will make things a woman overshadowed the content, so that women want to earn their own wrap necklace, then be careful “fair without” consequences, track from the “foul within” will be exposed with the image of a woman .
With the narcissism woman necklace, men will still watch all the time to find their own, but do not put myself in any man’s watch to fasten the woman’s necklace. Men have their own world, they would not be a woman too much attention to the necklace, the time to cancel their attention. So the wise woman will not spend in the necklace of the world their feelings, because men do not have the necklace, “brilliant” to focus on in you. Men valued a woman’s noble sentiments and deep feelings, rather than a woman with a gorgeous necklace shines out appearance.
How many women would like to converge on the desire and pursuit of necklaces, men are still willing to walk in wearing at the time of their own watch, because both men and women, good quality in a real spent every day is the most important

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Once you have had a couple of practices and have had infield and outfield practice you can venture to the next step working on game situations. You set your 9 players in their positions. Have your spare players as base runners. Have them stand behind home plate and you hit ball. This is so important it enables you to practice your pitchers and position players real situations. You will have to have patience. At first they will throw the ball around and be out of positions. Below are two drills that are very important in teach the fundamentals of defense.

Situations

Backing up 3rd base and home plate.

With nobody on base and ball is hit into gap pitcher should line up in between third base and home plate.
With base runners on first base and ball hit into gap they should do the same and watch and see where the play may be and make their decision which base they should back up.
With men in scoring positions and ball hit into the gap they should back up home. You have to make sure the pitchers have good distance from the foul line so they are not to close and have a good angle to go between third and home. The Pitcher must have depth behind the base so they get overthrown ball.
The mistake they all make is getting to close to base. Explain, they are backing up to get the overthrow. If they are to close they can’t make adjustments. This defeats the purpose of them backing up the base.
Covering Home Plate on Pass BallThis drill is very important because you will have passed balls at this level. Providing the backstop is not to far back it is an excellent way to get what I call a cheap out.
You can have signals for the pitchers to call out to the catchers. Most of the time the catchers will not be able to pick up which directions the ball has traveled.
You can use one, two and three. One being right, once he has turned to retrieve the ball. Two would be middle of backstop. Three would to the left.

Organizing your practice set up your schedule and rotate your days you do the drills. You will find that some of the drills they will pick up quicker than others. The biggest thing is you cannot have marathon practices. By keeping the practices short and crisp you will keep players motivated. I found if you have a practice schedule and post it will show the players approximately how long each drill will be and what to expect.

Practice makes perfect.

By: John R. Di Nicola

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Well, there I was after 145 miles, and I had completely “bonked” – the cyclists term when you can’t peddle another stroke, it’s like hitting the wall for a marathon runner. In marathoning it generally comes after the 17 mile and for the super trained runner about the 20-mile marker or so. Anyway there I was with 60-miles to go to get to the next city. A long-distance cyclist’s worst nightmare, perhaps besides getting clipped by a truck and ending up in a ditch alongside the road with a broken collar bone that is.

What kept me going that day, while I rode against the wind was simple, I pulled off under a tree and broke out some protein power bars, and rested, I was too sore to get back onto the bike, and I felt as if I was dead, my motivation drained, I was peddling on guts, nothing else for the previous twenty to thirty miles – it was just a blur. Unfortunately, I was so tired I forgot to eat, and I’d burned up all the calories from the stellar pasta dinner the night before. After I recouped and those power protein bars hit my system, I was able to continue my ride.

Why the story? Well, because it was one of those days that challenges the will, and strength of character of even the most dedicated of men, and on that day it was me, and there I was. Now then, the other day someone was discussing this issue of protein power bars with me, and we got to discussing the reality of their nutritional value. Okay so, here is my comment; they are not all created equally, some have lots of sugar, which is probably not a good idea for an endurance style athlete.

And really I am not so sure such a high-sugary power protein type bar is really what one needs to get through the day or to supplement their diet. Do snacks such as protein bars really provide a powerful punch? They can, but it depends more on who makes it, and what’s in it. I guarantee the power protein bars that the top cyclists in the world eat, are much different than what I had in my little pouch on that day, even though it was a quality product.

My advice to you is simple, and here it is; look at the ingredients and only consume the best protein bars, as there is a world of difference. Indeed, I hope you will consider my warnings and real world experience in this regard. Please make a note on it, and think on this.

Additional Reading:

1.-“Encyclopedia of Sports and Fitness Nutrition – The Ultimate Guide for Peak Performance,” by Elizabeth Ann Applegate, Three Rivers Press, CA, 2002, 432 pages, ISBN: 0-76151-378-7.

Lance Winslow loves chocolate! And this article was sponsored by MXI Corp’s Xocai Healthy Chocolate; http://www.adampaulgreen.com specializing in High Antioxidant Dark Chocolate products. http://www.MarketingChocolateInternational.com

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You can increase your finances and indeed anything in your life if you follow this effective goal achievement system through.

I’m going to use a personal experience of goal setting to demonstrate how you can decide, plan and achieve a goal despite obstacles in the way.

The reason many people don’t achieve their goals is they don’t make the decision to actually set the goal in the first place. Frequently this is because they have no idea how to achieve their goal as they can’t see all the steps at the beginning so they just don’t bother setting it. Another reason is it may appear too big, and too scary so they just don’t start.

Imagine a car with its headlights on at night. With the full beam on you can see a couple of hundred metres. Beyond the reach of the beam it is pitch black and you have no idea what is ahead, but as the car moves forward the beam moves forward and with it you see the next bend in the road the next turning you need to take. So it is with your goals too, subsequent steps are revealed to you as you achieve each baby step towards your overall goal.

The basics of goal achievement are shown to us by the mechanics of S.M.A.R.T. Goals =

S specific – Run the London Marathon 2002
M measurable – At the end of the run; I have either run it or I haven’t. You must be able to see you have achieved the goal
A achievable – Is your goal actually achievable. Mine was achievable providing I put in the training
R realistic – I have to say I don’t like the realistic tag, I think that holds people back I suggest that you go for big lofty goals, but that is another article another day. Given I was 44 when I set the goal, only ever run short distances and was already injured you could say it wasn’t realistic, get my drift
T timebound – Yes April 2002, London Flora Marathon

Do you see how my goal of running the London Marathon 2002 met the Smart goal requirements? Do your goals?

Let me share with you a tool that helps you visually

The Goal Pyramid
Draw a pyramid type shape on a piece of paper. In the same way that you saw the old Egyptian pyramids made up of stones draw lines across your pyramid shape from left to right. Then turn each of those rows in bricks by dropping vertical lines down. So each row will have less bricks in it as you move to the top of the pyramid.

Using my goal of running my first marathon, in the top brick the pinnacle of the pyramid write London Marathon.

NOW, when I set this goal in June 2001 I had no idea how to run a marathon… and in the same way you won’t need to know all the steps to achieve your goal either.

You just need to know the Final Outcome and the First Couple of Steps which you write in each of the bricks on the bottom row of your pyramid from left to right.

When I set my goal to run the marathon, these were the small baby steps I set for myself as that is all I could see at the time

Make an appointment with the doctor to get referred to a specialist ( as I was already suffering a slight ankle injury)
See doctor and get referred to specialist
See specialist
Buy new running shoes
Find out how to apply for the London Marathon
Download a Marathon Training Program off the internet

You see none of these steps were big steps, but it started me on the road to running a marathon? A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.

As I achieved each small goal I would mark it off using a coloured highlighter pen as that made me feel good, provided mental references that I could achieve goals and generated further belief in myself.

As I moved through the list marking things off as I achieved them I was putting new steps onto my goal pyramid. In my case I had reviewed the training program I had printed off and decided on a training program that fitted into my life style.

Running several times a week gradually building up my stamina, until my long run once week I was covering 18 -20 miles

Then disaster struck. I injured myself and was unable to train for 10 months, thus missing the London Marathon of 2002. I kept my goal of running a marathon in sight and I ran in the Flora London Marathon 2003.

My thoughts and How I Built A Sustainable Income Online Using This Technique

Set a plan and follow it. Sure you will have some bad days but keep on track
It is essential to keep you goal in sight at all times
You must persevere to overcome obstacles
Time scales may come and go through no fault of your own. Some sceptics will say well Graeme you failed your goal of running the 2002 London marathon. Injury stopped me running in 2002 but I kept focused and I went onto run two marathons in one year the London in April 2003 in 3 hours and 55 and the New York the same year in 4 hours and 26 minutes.

Achieving any goal is 90% mindset. You can train like mad for a marathon or anything but if you think you can’t achieve it, then something will stop you reaching that goal.

Successful people apply effective goal achievement systems to their lives and businesses and it is for this reason that some people can make five figure monthly incomes and others make nothing.

I now use this same methodology that enabled me to keep focused to achieve my goal of running marathons to achieve many personal and business goals and generate a sustainable income online and so can YOU.

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