Fitness is a Great Path to Happiness

Fitness is a Great Path to Happiness among all the things in life we search to make us happy. We often look to extremes when something is at our door step. Fitness greatly improves our lifestyle and without us realizing, it often transforms our perspective into great gratitude.

Fitness is a path to health and they go hand in hand. They lead to feeling better and then to feeling great. There is a different energy that flows from our body when we are feeling great. We can’t help but be happy, but even more that that, we are grateful we found this path/secret.

The Basics of Getting Fit and Happy

I have always been an exerciser. When I was young, I didn’t much watch what I ate. When I hit my 30’s and in the midst of working long hours to raised a family and eating to satisfy my hunger, I put on weight. While attending the gym several days a week, it occurred to me my diet was leading to weight gain .

I decided at 225 pounds, I wanted to be at my high school graduation weight of 175 pounds. I was patient and took 4 years to hit that goal. More recently, after my pandemic weight hit 202, I was less patient and lost 25 pound in 90 days. I know how to lose weight.

On the first path, I found that I was transitioning from addictions and fatty foods to more natural foods. I started losing weight quickly. I continued my several days in the gym and a few days hiking or mountain biking. In the process, I realized that I was feeling better and better. The path was obvious. Eat healthy and get fit and Nature rewards us.

I started to feel great gratitude for the fact that everything we need to feel like we want is readily available on earth. Nature is not hiding anything. As I felt better, I wanted others to find this path. I started to blog and soon had 25,000 monthly followers. Evidently I was not along.

Some Easy to Follow Secrets

Strangely, they should not be secrets. What has led us down the wrong path is city life. We work long hours for a pay check and eat what is convenient or a rational for our suffering. When we start monitoring what we eat and get our bodies moving, feeling better comes easier than the effort to punish ourselves with bad habits; sugar, alcohol, carbohydrates, drugs.

We need some discipline. We need to eliminate the bad habits one at a time. We need to up our conditioning. Sedentary can begin with walking ten minutes a day and build it to an hour 5 days a week. Adding some weights helps our muscles absorb the carbs that were flowing straight to fat.

As I dropped to 200 pounds, my ability to exercise increased. My desire to increase my intensity of exercise increased. It is a wonder what progress does to our mind. It gets on board and stops trying to sabotage our efforts. At a point, our mind starts screaming at us when we think of something not healthy and off our path.

This is a path of happiness. We feel great. We look great. People respect people that have the discipline to get fit. We look fit. We have energy. We now have discipline. We now know we could accomplish anything we set our mind to because we can control our mind. We are the masters of our lives. There is a lot of happiness in that.

Read a new book to get ready

Below are some new books I have written that involve getting fit to surf. Getting fit to surf is a full body experience that works for any recreation. It is a path to a new lifestyle.

See my new website Get Fit to Surf.com

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Get the Learn to Surf Guide Course in Kindle, Paperback or Audio

A great 29 page course on the fundamentals of catching waves, doing beginner and advanced pop ups, riding real waves, how to do maneuvers on real waves, which surfboards to ride, and how to progress. Great for lesson preparation, after lesson review, or learning on your own.

Kindle price $2.99 on Amazon. Paperback price $6.95 on Amazon. Audio download price $7.95

Get Fit to Surf

A great guide to strength, flexibility, stamina, and leanness for surfing. Beginner strategies for getting stronger, more flexible, stronger cardiovascular system, and nutrition to lose weight. An improving surfer or one who wants to prepare must meet the whole body physical demands of surfing. Getting stronger improves ones ability to perform better.

Buy on Kindle for $5.99 or the Paperback for $7.99

Every Body Can Surf

To read a great book for getting in shape to surf or getting in better surfing shape, read my new book Overweight People Can Surf, a Health, Fitness, Nutrition, and Surfing Adventure

Description:

Get healthy and fit to surf or set a goal of surfing to improve weight, fitness, nutrition, and health. This guide by a surf instructor/health coach/personal trainer gives the short version of how to lose weight, get strong, build stamina, develop nutrition, and learn to surf. Surfing is a lifestyle enjoyed by millions and so is fitness. Fitness creates opportunities to enjoy life through lots of different kinds of recreation. No need to stand on the sidelines while others are having a great time. Start your program to health with easy steps and progress at your own pace. That is the secret to maintaining a lifestyle. Do it at your pace. This book will start you on the path.

Buy the E book on Amazon for $5.99

Buy the Paperback on Amazon for $7.99

Seniors Get Fit to Surf

Description:

Seniors often ask if it is too late to learn to surf. Age is functional not chronological. If people have been exercising and maintaining body strength, surfing can be accomplished. If people have not been exercising, then getting in shape to surf could be a life changing move. Learn how to develop strength, flexibility, and stamina to learn surfing. If you are in surf shape, you could pursue most any recreation.

Buy the E-book on Amazon for $5.99

Buy the Paperback on Amazon for $7.99