I realized while on a 6-mile run
last Saturday, if I was going to stay injury free and have the stamina to
make it through the training required to run a marathon, I had to get someone to help me.
My sister-in-law has been an
aerobics instructor for over twenty years. Her best friend is a trainer. Donna
hooked us up, and I met with Pat Carlson on Tuesday. I already knew I had no upper body strength. I didn’t have to get
on the machines to find that out. We lose an average of 5 percent of our muscle
mass every 10 years after the age of 35. I’ve almost lost 15%. It’s possible to
regain your muscles by doing the following:
1. Ease back into exercising
2. Focus on specific muscle you want to
rebuild
3. Make exercise part of your daily
routine
4. Get more rest
5. Eat a balanced diet rich in whole
grains, fruits, vegetables and lean meats
6. Increase protein intake by including
eggs, lean meats, and fish
7. Drink water to keep your body
hydrated
8. Avoid supplements that claim to
build muscles
My goal for the next 10 weeks is to
focus on increasing
my body strength, which will protect me from injury and give me more power to run.
While thinking about my workouts
with Pat, I was reminded of the on-line classes I took with Margie Lawson. If you haven’t had the opportunity to take one
of her classes, run, don’t walk to her website and sign up for Empowering
characters’ Emotions; Deep Editing: The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and
More; and Writing Body Language and Dialogue Cues like a Psychologist.
Her classes are weight training for
the mind. The Empowering Characters' Emotions and Deep Editing class will “help
you get in touch with your characters' visceral reactions, and will show you
how to use characters' emotions to drive plots in compelling and evocative new
directions.” CJ Lyons, bestselling
author and former student.
I highly recommend Margie’s classes. They are addictive, much
like the adrenalin rush athletes get.
Happy writing and running, Kathy
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