2011 - October Newsletter

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We offer three advertising connections: Website ad, Banner Ad or Meeting Announcements

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When: Every First Tuesday from 5-7 pm

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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
~Tony Robbins

by Kristie Lemon

Do you know what the main ingredient in physical fitness is?

The 5 factors of fitness are sleep, water, food, aerobic conditioning, and weight-bearing exercise. If you are looking to improve your fitness sleep 8 hours; drink 1 gallon of water a day; eat low-carbohydrate, high protein food; do aerobic conditioning; but weight bearing exercise is the most overlooked and important ingredient to women’s physical fitness.

Here are 3 important statistics taken from the International Osteoporosis Foundation:

• 1 in 3 women over 50 will experience osteoporotic fractures.
• In white women, the lifetime risk of hip fracture is 1 in 6, compared with a 1 in 9 risk of a diagnosis of breast cancer.
• Between 1990 and 2000, there was a nearly 25% increase in hip fractures worldwide.

This trend in hip fractures should send a shudder through all of us, as it is a radically increasing marker of a decline in our health as a population.

I have a prediction: In the next 5 years, every doctor is going to prescribe a minimum of one weight lifting workout per week, it may be called, The Owners Manual for the Body ™. It will be the new diagnostic standard measurement for health. It will become the most important vital statistic, even before blood pressure, and the standard question will be, “How many times did you work-out last month?”

According to the CDC’s Recommendations Regarding Selected Conditions Affecting Women’s Health 95% of hip fractures are caused by falls. Falls are preventable. Weight-bearing exercise helps improve balance. Knowing where our bodies are in space and the resulting balance come from the stimulation of our proprioceptors, both sensory and motor nerves. Our proprioceptors send and receive information about balance, coordination and agility. We can walk upstairs without looking down at each step because of our proprioception.

We used to carry our babies on our hips, dig for roots, run from predators, even hunt, and now we play on the computer, talk on the phone and drive our car from here to there. Just for giggles, try parking in the farthest spot of the parking lot once in awhile. Give yourself a challenge to explore new ideas about what being physically fit means to you. Stand on one leg in the grocery store line. Walk backwards upstairs, carefully now.

Instead of hoping for the magic pill (when you find one please let me know), it is important to be realistic about our approach to health. There are so many diseases we can avoid; why wouldn’t we? If I said, “Go to the store and pick up a box of heart disease,” you would laugh – except that is exactly what we are doing. We are rolling the dice with our quality of life.

The amazing thing is how easy it is to take charge of our fitness. It may not seem like it is, but when given the correct motivators and enough information, everyone can trend in the right direction. I like to think of fitness as a spectrum; we are all on it somewhere. It is important to focus on tipping the teeter-totter in our favor. If you have “tried everything and nothing works,” you need to keep trying. I am not callus, just seasoned. There is a way to make exercise fun and feel good.

Women who do two weight-lifting sessions per week can reduce their body fat by 3% in 10 weeks, according to an article in Women’s Health magazine. I still see women who think they can sweat their fat off on the treadmill. It doesn’t happen by cardio alone. In 2010, 17% of children and 1/3 of adults in the US were obese. Clearly, what we are doing to address this epidemic is not working. The truth is we need to embrace working our muscles with weights before our weight wipes us out.

If there are 5 factors to fitness and you start with addressing just one, you will make progress. If you start with the most important one, you will move mountains. Try one weight-bearing workout this week. If done correctly, you should feel a good kind of soreness in the leg muscles, the chest muscles, the middle-of-your-back muscles and your abdominal muscles. Maybe you already lift weights. Good job. But the statistics say you are probably among those people who are waiting until next Monday to start your lifting program.

We can gain and retain balance, strength and bone density, eliminate obesity and reclaim our health all with one small change. Lift weights, and not the 3-pound dumbbells. Lift heavy-enough weights to challenge your muscle strength. If done correctly, you will encourage muscle gain.

Science has proven muscle tissue burns more calories than adipose tissue. Think about it, muscle burns fat; fat doesn’t burn fat so when you are at rest the added muscle burns fat. Muscle takes up less space, so you fit your clothes better. Muscle gives us coordination, balance and ability to open our own pickle jars. Finally, muscle contributes to your overall health, and obviously fat does not!

Your health matters. See you in the gym!

Kristie Lemon brings numerous degrees and certifications and over 20 years’ experience to her work in the fitness and nutrition industry. She and her husband, Scott, own High Desert Oasis, a private fitness and swim studio in Bend, where they find tremendous joy in helping people reach their goals and live healthier lives. She can be reached for any questions at 541-317-0741 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Check out www.HighDesertOasis.com for more information on how you can give yourself the opportunity to discover what is really possible.

We are very excited to welcome our newest members joining in the last month. Welcome:

• Katie Brandow - School of Enrichment, Inc.
• Michelle Freeman - Aquarian Lifeworks & Pure Romance
• Justine Gibb - Peaceful Heart & Soul
• Vicki Johnson - Transformational Coaching
• Debby Mandeville - Bowen - Bend Pilates
• Joan McOmber -Bridges Academy
• Jennifer Martin - Success Strategies Business Consulting