Keeping fit

We typically sit all day at our jobs. Some of us travel in this line of work as well, eating on the road. Many juggle child rearing responsibilities with the job. Meals are often rushed or skipped. This stress leads to weight gain, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks and other lurking disasters.

One day we look in the mirror an unattractive stranger looks sadly back.

Speaking with some of our more fit colleagues I created the following list.

Diet

• Eat fresh
• Eat regularly to keep blood sugar stable
• If it comes in a box or is served by a teenager in a cardboard hat: don’t eat it.

Exercise

• Get a competent trainer, follow the plan
• Some do Yoga
• Speak with the doctor if it has been a few years since you did vigorous physical activity, before putting on the runners. I don’t what the next blog to be an obituary. :-)
• If it took twenty fives years to get in the shape you are now, it will take some time to remake yourself.

Work load stress

• This is a tough one for piano teachers

A wiser man than I said. “Don’t tell me you know what to do, tell me why you don’t do it.”

See you all at the gym and juice bar.

David Story
In the Saskatoon airport lounge