Focus on Fitness
A good workout can do wonders for your body, mind, and spirit. By incorporating at least a moderate amount of exercise into your daily life (thirty minutes, three to six times a week), you can experience a wide range of benefits, including a stronger heart, increased energy and alertness, lower stress levels, less anxiety and depression, lower risk of disease, increased self-esteem, and better performance of everyday activities. It doesn’t really matter what type of exercise you do, but if you do something you enjoy, you’ll be much more likely to keep doing it. Also, setting specific and measurable goals can help you stay motivated to keep moving.
My Five-Year Plan Goals List five fitness goals you would like to achieve in the next five years.
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What can you do today to start working toward those goals?
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How I Will Achieve My Fitness Goals Now write specific things you can do to implement the changes you listed.
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Within 1 – 2 Years I Will _______________________________________
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Within 3 – 4 Years I Will _______________________________________
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Create a visual representation as indicated below. You can draw, cut out pictures (magazines and catalogs are good sources), or use your own photos.
Take a Look at Toxins
A toxin is a poison that can affect any part or system of the body, internally or externally. Drugs, including the drug alcohol, when used excessively or for purposes other than those prescribed to treat a medical condition, are classified as toxins. Toxins can be natural or man-made.
Toxins can enter the body through food, water, air, or physical contact with the skin or mucous membranes. They can also be produced inside the body through normal metabolic processes or through the decomposition of foods in the small and large intestines. Under normal circumstances, the body is able to eliminate toxins from the body via urine, feces, exhalation, and perspiration. Thus, the major organs involved in elimination are the kidneys, liver, colon, lungs, and skin.
The liver is the organ primarily responsible for breaking toxins into harmless byproducts, which are eliminated in the feces or through the kidneys into the urine. Often, in persons who have abused drugs, including the drug alcohol, these organs of elimination have been stressed.
Toxins I Take in Take a look at some of the common toxins listed in the column on the left and put a check in the appropriate box to indicate whether or not you currently use it.
Ta-Ta to Toxins If you are concerned about some of the toxins listed (or any others), use the space below to plan ways to decrease and/or eliminate them from your everyday life over the next five years. What is your five-year goal with regard to toxins?
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