Showing posts with label Health Mind Body Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Mind Body Collection. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Doing Workouts In The Face of Anything

Our mind is very powerful when it comes to working out. We may wake up very excited some days and all we think is "I got workout now". However, sometimes we feel so tired and bored that we don't want to workout at all, "I don't feel like exercising today".

We have set clear and specific small workout goals such as "I will do 5 push-ups". We have to tell our mind and act upon it by doing the 5 push-ups. Then, out the sudden we will motivated and encouraged to do more than 5 in the next sets.

There is no limit to how many hours we can workout a day except the limitations that our minds set. A great way to encourage our mind to exercise is early in the morning. I am setting a 21-Day Athletic Focused Commitment to wake up every morning at 5:00 a.m. after sleeping for 8 hours, visualize in advance the success of your workout day routine, and get prepared for jogging, stretching all your parts of your body, and then THE FUNDAMENTALS: push-ups and abs. Keep it very simple and basics on the first days and then step-by-step you can start going to the Gym for muscle-building (if that is what you intend to accomplish).

You will have all your personal fitness goals met sooner than later if you built that habit of working out everyday. It is amazing how little steps makes a big deal at the long-run. Never, ever, ever, ever give up on your daily workout!

José Angel Manaiza, Jr. is an author in the Digital Era within The Pop Culture crowned with his nickname "The New All-American Boy."

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Eat Pray Love, and Why I Can't Get Over the Cheesiness

Granted, one can't argue with success, and in that Eat Pray Love is one of those freakish successes that will obliterate any other books that its author dares to publish after it. It will eclipse generations of chick-focused novels over decades to come.

The story is nothing particularly clever or overtly exceptional, but it does nail right what's missing in girls' lives in our desert called contemporary post-modern post-industrial world. Things used to be simple, but now we've realized that we might not have a next life and the flow of information through every crowded space we have causes emotions to flood in forcing us to accept we want more. We're afraid of getting old and dying, because we don't live. We can't live.

This sort of thinking is what causes women like the one in the book to drop everything and just move to Bali.

This sort of self-awareness, or in other words awareness of one's own mortality, is what made me try to sell my car for free just so that I could be free from the responsibility of taking care of it.

School and work and then the screwed up relationships that we tend to engineer our lives into are killing whatever fire we have. I guess this book was focused on women because they seem to be less prone to staying in a situation just for the sake of it.

The problem with the cheesiness of it... namely: three cities and three verbs. Jumping from one relationship to the next and then finding some Brazilian guy who is also divorced and hurting!? This kills whatever possible identification any man could ever create with the characters (probably gay guys too).

Is like searching the Internet for a cool letters generator instead of choosing a new font on Word. Not only a buzzkill, but very likely a dealbreaker. Can't have it. I should write the male version of Eat Pray Love.
The author enjoys storytelling, and thus cannot bear the perception of a perfectly good story being wasted.