Love, Dating and Relationship

Chances are very good that each day you drive by the river pathway on the way to or from work, you see someone running. Somehow you find it intriguing. Soon you become to look for them as you pass by every day.

They look so relaxed, fit, and almost serene as they run easily along the path. Soon you start recognizing some of the same people over the course of any given week. It seems that running has become part of their routine and they have developed a running habit.

“Why couldn’t you do that?” you wonder. You have the time. The time that you spend on the computer or watching T.V. could easily be cut down.

Well , you can do that. Be honest, what do you see when you look in the  mirror? Are you a long time executive who has made the climb up the corporate ladder? Complete with all those lunches, dinners, and business cocktails covered by your expense account. Is the good life directly related to the spare tire you seem to be carrying around? Or possibly to your doctor’s warning last visit that your cholesterol was approaching dangerous levels?

Or perhaps you are a housewife who has devoted most of her adult life so far to being a super mom. Well that’s great.

For everyone else.

When you look at yourself, do you look tired? Do you feel rundown? Do you feel that you need something to provide a physical and emotional spark in your life?

If you are one of these people, or anyone else for that matter, it is never too late to change what you see when you take a long, hard look at yourself. Mostly it’s about telling yourself , enough is enough and you want to start doing something for “you.” For your “own” health and well-being.

So you decide you want to take up running. It seems the one physical activity that will conform to any schedule you are on. All you need to do is invest in a well-fitting pair of running shoes and appropriate running clothes for the time of the year.

Have a talk with  your doctor about your plans. I’m sure he will be thrilled.

Remember, the human body is remarkable. Often, I think of it as the first wonder of the world.

Think about it. If a person becomes relegated to a wheelchair, they develop stronger arms in order to propel themselves. If a person becomes blind, their body responds by fine tuning their other senses. They become more adept at understanding the world around them by touch, smell, and hearing. The ticking of a clock or a dripping faucet, sounds we often ignore, will be directional indicators for them. An acute sense of smell will warn them of smoke. Their touch will tell them hot from cold.

In other words, our bodies will adapt to what we ask of it. We are the masters, and our bodies do all everything possible to meet the demands we place upon it.

If you begin running and do too  much too soon, your body will let you know. It is sensing that you are taking it somewhere it’s not used to being. You are waking up muscles, joints, and sinew that has been in a slumber for a very long time.

That initial pain that new runners feel is often enough to make them give up before they even start.

That’s why it’s crutial to start out very cautiously. Even by just walking at a fairly quick pace for the first few weeks would really help wake you body up to the fact that something new is beginning to happen. Walk 15 minutes no less than 3 times per week, and preferably 4. Even with that, you may feel some aches and pains where you never felt it before. You may find yourself huffing and puffing.

That’s 0.k.!

Don’t give up. Once your body knows this is for real and this is what is going to be expected, it will eventually accomodate you by strengthening those aching muscles and breathing new life into your heart and lungs. That’s why it’s important to have a consistent plan that has you testing your body several times a week.

Every  week, add a little to your walking distance. Even just 5 minutes. In a month you will find yourself walking 30 minutes, 3 or 4 times a week.

Now it’s time to pick up the pace a little. Add some running to your walking. Run 3 minutes–walk 2 minutes. Repeat this 3 or four times. Call it a day. See how it feels the next day. Take a rest day and  do it again. Well, you get the picture. Every week challenge your body a bit more. Run a bit longer and walk less with each passing week.

Go slow. It’s taken a lifetime to get out of shape. But it will take much less to get into shape if you are patient.

Another month passes and now you are running 10 minutes non-stop, taking a short walking break, and running 10 more minutes.

About six more weeks pass and now you can run 30 minutes non-stop and one day a week you add 5 minutes to that and call it your “long run” day. You continue to have rest days at frequent intervals and always run 3 or 4 times per week.

Your long run day reaches 45 minutes another month down the road.

And something remarkable is beginning to happen. It doesn’t hurt anymore. You don’t huff and puff hardly at all. Your body has responded to the new demands you have placed upon it. Now your heart is fine tuned to pump blood at a moments notice to your working body. It begins to beat stronger and with less effort. Your lungs are expanding more easily to take in the influx of air running exercise requires.

Look at you!

What do you see in the mirror now? Do you see a few pounds that have gone missing? Or a brightness in your eyes that has been absent for so long? Do you see a happier, more confident person looking back at you?

I bet you do.

You do because you took up the challenge and became a runner. Despite your own doubts, you challenged yourself and now have a better understanding of what you are truly capable of on so many levels.

Instead of being a watcher, you became a doer. Instead of being a dreamer, you began to live the dream.

The dream of taking control of your life. Of feeling and looking better, and maybe for the first time, realizing you really do control your own destiny by the decisions you make.

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my wife and i were friends for six years before we got married. to make a long story short we thought it would work out even though we are opposites in almost everything. i am a homebody who has a passion for the gym, the outdoors and games. she is the opposite on that. i plan for the future and would like to save more for a good retirement. she spends everything and says everything will work itself out later on. basically we have few things in common. i dont mind living a simple life and she can't stand it! we both like movies and i tried to use that but she is still unhappy. we are in a different state since i am in the military and our plan was to not spend much money so she can go to school and i could save a little to transition out next year. well she is extremely unhappy here and has even said she has nothing here for her. i have been belittled from time to time and i couldnt take it anymore. i told her that if she has nothing here for her then to make a decision on us. i guess being friends for a while isnt good enough. sorry for the ranting i am just wondering if anyone has gone through this or has known anyone who has…..outcomes?

it is also difficult to talk to her because she gets angry very easily. she is very sensetive on any subject. for example she says she wants my advice on diet and exercise. whenever i tell her in a nice way "honey how about you get this instead of that" she will say "but i really want this" then she will say "well right now i dont want your help!" she explodes over anything as if she was pregnant…….by the way she isn't pregnant !!!

i am timid and would like to walk away and talk later if an argument gets bad she gets real loud and angry and wants to end it right then and there. it is hard to find any common ground with her. most of the time it seems like i am living the wrong way. i had about 15,000 saved up before we got married and i was saving 1,000 more every month until we got married. by the time she realized what i was saying about finances made sense we only had 1,000 left in the savings!!!
one last detail. she feels as if she is my personal maid around the house. i always told her i am not expecting her to be a housewife forever but if she isnt working or going to school she should do the majority of the housework. i would rather do house duties 4 hours a day than work a 15-16 hour day on base as security. we have no kids
the big spending came from her visiting me often and lots of stuff for the house, marriage and her habits of wanting to go out or buy stuff. she is a shopaholic for anything (whatever store from walmart to the mall). we have both said bad things to eachother and i think it is because we are getting on eachothers nerves
oh and will she be able to get alimony if we have only been married for about a year?
thanks to her i have no savings left. i feel very resentful towards her for that

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