By Robert Schwander, Owner, Fitness Counseling, Inc.
Once again that wonderful time of year has arrived with sprouting flowers, blooming trees, and birds singing. Springtime is a time for renewal—glance outside your window or take a nice walk and you will see change all around you. For many people, springtime is a new beginning and a time to change things in their life. Many of us, myself included, acquire a new desire to organize closets, junk drawers, the garage, the yard, and more. Although conquering these tasks are very important to our emotional and psychological well-being, they give very little to our health and physical well-being.
This springtime, let us all take the opportunity to do something wonderful for ourselves. Let’s see if we can become a little more focused on our physical well-being. Now that winter has packed its bags until next season, it is a great time to also go into the pantry, cabinets, freezer, and refrigerator and pack up anything and everything that we know is not the healthiest choice for a healthy lifestyle. The wonderful thing about springtime is it enables us all and allows us to generate a good excuse to create something new in our lives that can make us feel better, and also through the right choices of nutrition can make us healthier.
Springtime is also wonderful time to dust off that piece of cardio equipment that you may have in the basement or the garage and with the advice of your physician slowly start using it. Springtime also means warmer weather and if you don’t have any type of cardio equipment at your disposal, if you are able take a short walk, enjoy the fresh air and at the same time you will be getting your body moving again. If you feel that you can do more and you need more, than find a fitness course that will fit your specific health needs.
Springtime is a time for renewal. You have a wonderful opportunity to create a change that may benefit you for the rest of your life. Take this wonderful opportunity to not only organize your house, your yard or your garage, but also use it towards your advantage to create a healthier lifestyle for yourself. Remember it’s a simple thing—let go of nutrition that doesn’t benefit you and also apply different forms of exercises that will benefit you.
Robert J. Schwander is the owner and a certified personal trainer at Fitness Counseling, Inc. located at 1020 W. Detweiller Dr., Peoria. Call 309-692-6533 for more information. Visit Fitness Counseling, Inc. on Facebook, and please click “like.”
