Tag: fitness

Finding Friends 😊

by Rick Roop

Everyone likes to have friends a lot of friends, and everyone likes company.

Friendly relationships helps us to feel loved, liked, and often creates happy thoughts within ourselves. Helps us to assemble around others, to blend in with the group, and do so most emphatically.

As an example, we gather around sports teams, hobbies, musical performance, concerts, and fitness groups just to name a few. There are many more to be mentioned but these shall suffice.

Friends

We like to be around individuals who strengthen and encourage ourselves. We tend to search out persons who accommodate our same likeness those that share and confirm our same standards. Relaxed relationships that support our desired feelings. The company of conviction from friendly conversation.

Have you ever noticed that most sports teams have a following fan base who all wear matching clothing signifying who they are cheering for. Some fans wear just a t-shirt. Some fans may wear a t-shirt plus decorative matching pants. Some go all out with a complete makeover. Where is the person behind that extravagant costume?

Some schools of choice specialize in different categories of education. Students can decide to specialize in medicine, law, engineering, veterinary, and vocational skills just to name a few.

Brilliant minds seem to think alike and excel when matched together with similarities. Ideas about new technologies new treatment are found when students and professors share their united thoughts with each other. Diseases have been cured lives saved lessons learned by aspiring staff scientists and doctors.

If we desire weight loss and fitness, it’s helpful to have the same affinity for friends who also share the same enthusiasm for weight loss and fitness. Sports fans teachers and health professionals assemble all of the same characteristics when it relates to winning. We all need good friends.

Opportunity is available to find weight loss and fitness walking running groups in your area on Facebook, instagram, and Strava.

Runner’s market from Knoxville, Tn is great. Bike shops have group rides or group running walking available every week. Able to accommodate the beginner to the novice. People just like me and you are there waiting for you to come and hangout.

One of my favorite places to go is the Barley Run Club in Cumberland Gap, Tn meeting on Monday & Thursday @ 6:30 in front of Angelo’s.

Please join in I will be so glad to see you!

Being comfortable with Uncomfortable

by Rick Roop

I enjoy finding friends making new connections, and embrace those who enhance positive attributes. This is especially true when it comes to weight loss and fitness. You see it takes more than just willpower to see sustained precision weight loss. Its takes a repeated process long term effort to being slightly inconvenient on a schedule. I have found many informative cycling and running clubs throughout East Tennessee and as a result, have met many incredible athletes in the Tennessee Valley. It’s astonishing to witness the inspiration imitating from those individuals who reflect the breath and culture here. To see those persons endure the hardship of running a marathon or riding a century bike ride (100 miles) is truly inspiring and impressive. One common theme for those who have experienced success with weight loss and fitness is the ability to endure discomfort. Not just for a season or a interruption during the week but, a common everyday systematic occurrence.

How to deal with the uncomfortable feelings associated during life style change is important if we want weight loss and fitness. The ability to cope with feelings of physical adversity is vital when it comes to conquering weight loss. It’s up to you to cope with your success seeing that you are more competent and qualified than anyone to control your own success destiny.

Our flexibility during these times of mental and physical exertion is important! That means staying in your lane on the interstate while driving, dark alley walking, or avoiding traffic while bike riding, it’s smart to make quick and precise life changing decisions. Like yoga exercise in the workout center or in your home it’s an inquiry to make you more adapt to make changes to your body and to your environment. It’s not unusual to see people stretching when getting out of bed first thing in the morning, after clocking in at work or first thing at school or taking a test at the end of class. Without proper flexibility sudden body movement can cause muscles cramps ligament injury and cessation of necessary transportation. Flexibility occurs in everyday life, and without its practice we could not experience life in it’s fullness.

However, it’s easy to avoid change. All I have to do is change the channel and begin to digest a program that is more cautious.

Sometimes it’s easier for myself to withdraw from participation rather than signing up for application. To hold my hands over my eyes and pretend is so imaginative. Whistling while walking down a dimly lit path seems to soothe my restless fears.

Many of the aforementioned rituals have worked for me, but they did not resolve my real conflict. That’s because our society sometimes wants us to be who it wants us to be not who we actually are. We were made to be resilient and inventive able to withstand obstacles that are placed in our way. To detour our direction in the wrong way to craft our person modeled into a perfect instrument for profit. As a result, I became complaisant with the order that I must adjust my goals to be ordinary. Not seeing my intricate value found within myself.

You see within everyone is a Marathon Runner a Tour de cyclist a Ironman a weight loss winner. It all begins with rebuttal of the current system and you making the decision to be comfortable with uncomfortable 😳

Company Matters 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚵‍♀️

by Rick Roop

Finding weight loss and fitness is fun when you find friends that join in for your fitness journey. Furthermore, the strenuous process is much easier in the company of enthusiastic persons. Strength comes from those who are experienced. Guidance is directed from others just like you. Cyclist, runners, walking enthusiasts healthy nutrition folks who have gleaned much information long term. Connecting with these groups can be the determining factor when it comes to much weight loss success!

There will be many trying to hinder your efforts to connect with good company. Groups that are inspirational, positive, and motivated about the community and your weight loss purpose are the voices to be listened to the most.

Never let naysayers, obstacles, or negative predictions delay or derail your destiny.

Sometimes we need to disconnect from detoured voices who are negative towards your inspirational goals. Maybe for a short time change the crowd of distraction that tries to inhibit your progress. Make a change in voices that you now listen to. Tune to new input from new communication. Travel to a new destination to a new location for company affirmation. You are ready now for new appointments!

Within every person there is a lean, trim, and skinny athlete really to accomplish any 5K, marathon, or century ride.

It’s not a question of whether you can accomplish your set goal it’s when. The alignment of paths crossed that will steer your traffic in the right direction. You have all of the ingredients to succeed in weight loss and fitness. You have the right DNA the right physical stamina the correct stance. The right look!

Look for those who have overcome obesity, substance abuse, health issues, tragedy just to name a few. Search out stories where people have traversed extreme situations, and come out with successful outcomes. This is the company that you need to keep up with on social media. These are the mentors to follow.

Consequently, your are on the edge of starting a successful weight loss fitness journey. Maybe this is the missing link needed to complete your personal makeover. Remember Company Matters!