by Dan | Dec 31, 2013 | Exercise, Family, Goals, Motivation, Wellness/Health
The New Year is upon us! Lead by example…prove to friends and family…and yourself…that you are serious about your health. Take control of it! Work together, and encourage each others, support each other, exercise with each other! You can begin a new year by trying to learn from past mistakes, and make the coming year better the last. Here Sarah and I are with part of the Hauck family when we were at Disney last January for the Half Marathon and Marathon. We are going back again in a few weeks, but will have 2 of my 3 kids along as well. The families that workout together, stay healthy together. You don’t need it to be January 1 to make that new resolution. It can be anytime, just do it! Believe in yourself. But remember to have fun along the way, and you can create memories for a lifetime! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 2289
by Dan | Dec 23, 2013 | Exercise, Family, Holidays, Motivation
My girls are home from college! I don’t know who was more excited, Sarah and I, or my girls. They were racing across the waiting area of the airport to get at each other. Tears flowing by all. It has been good having us all back together again for the holidays.
The girls were very excited to see each other. It had been 4 months since they saw each in person. As a parent, it is nice to see that you did something right that they get along that well, and actually missed each other. Nick was happy to have them home too.
Mom had the tears flowing too! We will have a good month together, as that is how long they have off before going back to school. Now, we just have to get used to everybody being home at the same time. I have been going in to Anytime Fitness to workout when it has been so cold out, and everybody else is fighting to use the equipment at home. Also, nice to see everybody still thinks working out and staying in shape is important. Again, we must have done something right! Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 2281
by Dan | Dec 6, 2013 | Equipment, Exercise, Family, Goals, Motivation, Wellness/Health, Winter
The cold has been terrible right now to try and go outside and run. I can put up with a lot of extremes with the temperature, but when it gets this cold, with windchills -25 degrees or worse, then it becomes more an issue of safety as well. That does not mean you cannot find alternatives way to exercise.
This morning was the perfect time to ultilize my membership at Anytime Fitness. Warm environment, with plenty of equipment to use, and other people working out at the same time. This works great during the cold, but not everybody has this ability. There are different types of exercise equipment you can purchase that is very inexpensive, or that you can even create/make on your own. We teach this also in our Strive 2 Survive program. I have equipment of my own that I utilize as well.
I have built this up over the years, and it is equipment that either I, or someone in my family utilizes frequently. Even though we have this, sometimes you just need to do something different in order to keep the interest and the motivation there. When the weather is not like it is now, I will be outside. I love looking around at everything when working out. It takes your mind off what you doing, and it goes by so much faster. You can also go indoors at the mall and go walk around. You have a long enough route to be making laps. Just leave your money at home so you are not tempted to spend every time you do this! Whatever it takes, there is always a right time for fitness: Anytime! It is up to you as to how and where you want to do the exercise at. Good luck! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 2264
by Dan | Dec 3, 2013 | Exercise, Goals, Motivation, Wellness/Health
You have heard many times from me about the importance of having training partners to help keep you on track exercising. It is a great way to help stay motivated, and to keep you moving. Well, these two are both nurses, and they have both worked for me. Chris has been with me since day one, and I am now starting my 20th year here. Susan worked for me for about 6 years, and now is at Glacial Lakes Orthopedics. They have remained close, and good friends. So, they decided to do this event together.
Here they are prior to the start, all smiling and ready to go Finishing time was not going to be of any concern. Chris has been doing a lot of walking, and Susan really took off this year working out and getting fit. Here they are after they are done…
Still all smiles and happy! They did it together. They both know about staying fit, but more importantly, how much friendship means. They remain close. I would like to think that after listening to me day after day, talking to patients of how they need to exercise and keep track of their health, that some of this wore off on them. But they did all the work! Good job to both of you! You did great!
Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 2261
by Dan | Dec 2, 2013 | Exercise, Family, Goals, Heart Health, Holidays, Motivation, Wellness/Health
This week had a lot of things going on, both personally, and community wise. My mom celebrated her 80th Birthday, the 28th of November, Thanksgiving day! We had gotten together a week prior because is was easier for us all to get home to celebrate. Here we all are!
…All of us, except my brother from Sturgis. We all had been out there the week prior, but not for a good reason. His wife of 32 years had unexpectantly passed away. We never know when our time is. We tried to celebrate this day for my mom, but our hearts were still all wondering how he was doing.
The kids and grandkids all had a good time helping her celebrate! Besides having her birthday on Thanksgiving day, Watertown had its annual Turkey Day run/walk. There were almost 400 people there!
As they stated at the start of the race: “Before we go stuff our face, we must first run a race!” It was a good day, and a great turnout! Here we all are at the beginning of the race taking off.
Then, friday night was the annual Lighted Parade through downtown Watertown. This too was a good turnout, will many pretty amazing floats! We walked alongside the float and handed out candy to the kids as we went.
As our float states: Wishing you Health and Happiness this Holiday Season! Take care of yourselves! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 2260
