This little piece about exercise was in the monthly health leaflet that the company Loren works for gives its employees, courtesy of the insurance company. The topic this month was stress.

You've probably heard it before, but exercise relieves stess. Activities like walking, stair climbing, in-line skating and skiing all strengthen your cardiovascular system, which keeps your blood pressure down. This reduces stress and makes you healthier overall.

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The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever.

Well, there is incentive if I've ever heard it!! Stress is something I could REALLY do with less of!!!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

Why do you think I am out on the trails every day? To do exactly that - get rid of stress.
Church related stress, so now you know why I need to hike for 3 hours a day! lol

It is also a wonderful opporunity not only to look at, enjoy, discover, but to talk with the Creator Himself.

I had the distinct urgency this week to go to a particular rock that you can sit in under.

The 3rd day I made it, and there was the biggest suprise waiting for me.

A beautiful head of bright yellow flowers growing out of the rock, away from any rain to water it.

I got the message. It doesn't matter how difficult life is, we can still flourish, still brighten someone's day, still smile in the gloom of the year 2001.

It kept a smile on my face all day, and I thanked God for His wonderful suprises.

Be Still,My Soul.
Zita

The answer to this question in a nutshell is that you don't find the time, you TAKE the time to exercise.

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In His Love, Mercy & Grace

Daryl

I can't believe this thread. First you advocate exercise, then you start messing with stress. Stress is what provides the incentive to keep on going at a reasonable breakneck pace. Is that what the deal is, no one has stress to provide incentive, so all that is left is walking around with no particular place to go?

Exercise daily -
Walk with the Lord!

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And the second is like it . . .

Way to go DrD.
Does this mean you will 'excercise' every day?

Do what you can, and like, for exercise in chunks of time you can squeese in and find the energy for.

For me sometime's it is pumping cables, barbells, dumbells. Sometimes - refrigerator doors & inhaleing leftovers. Sometimes reading tons & tons (terminal max bookworm). Sometimes jumping on MSDAOL and posting tons and tons till Daryl has to buy more server space.

Whether weather permitting - gardening - flowers to discourage the crime rate in "crack city" on my street, and setup future Brandywine tomatoes and peppers for me to cook with soon. Drives everyone else nuts & obliterates the kitchen, but I love it. (Except the cleanup.)

Lugging big tropical plants upstairs to put outside, using up all Linda's potting soil. Dragging the hose everywhere and getting everything soaked. Tracking it all over the house. Sleeping all day & working all night.

Then Sabbath Church duties and opportunities to meet & help folks and writing an alternative Sabbath School Lesson that "evolves" on the fly, Deaconing, running the sound system.

After Sabbath researching & improving my financial literacy.

Exercise is just a fun variation with payoffs later crammed into my ever changing week. I break it up int short blocks of time and still get as many or more benefits.

Oh yes jumping from the Forum spell checker back and forth to the word processor spell checker is also a form of "X-R size" (so are my comments at them - but we won't post those.)

Linda doesn't need a beagle & teenagers - she's got ME

Uh why is she running screaming down the street tearing her hair out after reading this post ???????

I am actually serious most of the time. But was this it????????

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Edward F Sutton

OK so this morning I set a goal of bench pressing 200 lbs strict, by 5/30/01

Took ten minutes or less went to the basement & tossed stuff out of the way.

Benched 115 - X - 5 (warm up)
then 135 - X - 3
then 185 - X - 1

Locked out off the racks without benching
205 X - 1 (start getting wrists & sholders used to supporting the weight + )

Spritzed the newly sprouted Brandywine tomatos & few peppers beginning to sprout & came up stairs in ten minutes. ?????? 15 Min 's (max).

That's how I squeeze in some exercise on the fly. I put my goal here so I would not back out on it, when the sweat starts.

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Edward F Sutton

Ed, Great idea - to post our goals here. I will post mine - as soon as I make one!

Actually, I am on the lookout for an audio exercise tape - apparently, they are not as easy to find as I thought they would be! Everyone is big into the video tapes. Understandable, I suppose, but I need an audio!!! I tried the one I have, but it is Advanced Jane Fonda, and a LOT out of my league!!

Of course, there are the people who tell me I shouldn't loose too much weight because I have to fit into my bridesmaids dress in December, but I figure I can always have it altered if I loose too much.

OK, once I post my goal, I expect to be held accountable for it!! Ed, I'll be checking in with you to see how you are doing too! God be with you in your plan!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*