12 Habits for Sustainable Fitness.

12 Habits for Sustainable Fitness.

1. Exercise even if you only have 10 or 15 minutes to do it.


2. Invest in a fitness tracker or journal to help determine your activity level outside of the gym.

3. Mix up your routine. Just do different activities: Walking, Hiking, gym circuit training, Zumba, swimming, football, salsa & social dance, bowling, weightlifting, yoga, cross-fit, core blaster, tai chi, running, dancing, biking, etc.  

4. Instead of skipping a workout, focus on how great you'll feel after you have moved your body a bit today.

5. Don't wait for an occasion to get in shape. Fitness is a lifestyle. Waiting until an anniversary, reunion, etc. will just create unrealistic expectations and make you feel unsuccessful when you've actually made great progress!


6. Eat NUTRITIOUS FOOD. Everything in moderation. Fresh Veggies, Fresh Fruits, Greens, Color, Water, Minerals, Vitamins! More plant protein, more lean protein and rich fibers. Less simple sugar, corn syrup, and processed foods.


7. Keep weeknight drinking to a minimum. Save it for the weekend when you have more leisure time and energy.


8. Work out at home if you can't get to a gym. A walk around the block or sweating to a workout DVD is great!

9. Exercise when you're sore. You don't have to go crazy and do heavy weight-lifting, light cardio can help soreness. Movement helps bring much needed nutrients to the sore areas with increased blood flow, aiding repair and healing.


10. Focus on how you want to feel rather than how you want to look.


11. Remember that the main goal isn't to run 10 miles a day, it's to do something physical. If you can just get to the gym, you'll probably end up staying longer than you originally thought. And isn’t that great!


12. Get sleep. Get LOTS of sleep. Proper rest is crucial to see the results you want. Sleep and physical activity charges your body with clean energy for the next day to come.


13. Celebrate your progress and don't beat yourself up when you still have more work to do! Fitness is about the journey, not achieving perfection.

​Adapted from: http://article.riffsy.com/article/12-habits-of-people-who-always-stay-fit-number-5-is-so-smart-1​

the need for love

More and more I just see a need for love studies.....our system needs to integrate love into its programming, policies, and procedures. 

In other news, my degree in CSRE at Stanford finally makes sense to me. All that is happening with this issue an others is old news to me-- all terms and happenings I'm extremely aware of and well versed in.... But to move forward, we need Ethnic Studies Scholars, Advocates, Organizers, Visionaries, business people, and Artists to empower love to flourish!!! To stop the violence and provide opportunities for peace and equality!

It is no longer fair or okay for our society to allow destructive (masculinity, femininity, behavior, diets, language, systems) forces to exist and assume they will be repaired como nada.

The lack of a love culture in our world is no longer okay.


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Goodnight

As I go to bed I leave you with this: 

The basic bitches will remain basic bitches. No death of a legendary will change that. No poem, wisdom, story or blessing will change them from basic bitchary to civilized eruditeness. Only they can change themselves. Only they can want it and put in that work. Hope that the process for transformation is instantaneous and swift is juvenile. Hope and faith and work that we put forth many paths for growth and loving collaboration for peace is the necessary effort. 

Goodnight lovelies.

morning coffee in 4 directions

With a mind and habits of an old man: I wake early, sip my coffee, and talk to the birds and trees. I see the elders of the community as my close friends, I love being awake and alive! 
With a heart of a little boy, I play with my feet in the sand and reach to the clouds born out of sunlight. I laugh and smile to the strangers others forget are their friends.
With the body of a young stud-- I dance I run I prance I spin and I lift. Kissing and touching aya onde de platique -- pleasuring lovers of the mist on the dawn.
With the spirit of a god, glitter pours from my lips and eyes, fingertips up in smoke, peaceful sage surrounds my embrace, as the earth tells me softly, you are home my dear, azucar!

#inside

There is an art inside me.

A dance inside me.

Which I do not control.

It exists on its own.

And it makes itself know.

It is larger than me.

More powerful than me.

And will live longer than my flesh could ever dream to withstand.

The test of time and space bow to this art, dance, energy’s greatness.

I too bow down to it.

I wish I could be something else.

I have tried to be like other boys.

And in some ways, I was very successful at “out doing” other boys most precious talents.

But I always failed to continue their road.

I fell off their tracks.

Landed in the smelly mud.

Tasted defeat, mixed with the glory of hole most dark and mysterious.  Precious. Disgraceful. Necessary.

Light.

There I found the light of myself.

Indestructible goodness.

Wings.

Arms.

Legs.

Thighs.

Core and lonjas.

KA-BOOM: baby I am here to shake the earth, and blow your mind!!!!!!!!

…hissss.

…haaaaaaaaa.

…ohhhhhhhhhhhh.

…muahhhhhh-hhhhhh-hhhhh.

Art Provides

Sometimes artist provides us with the answers to our greatest troubles... 

The problem though, is that the art we see, are not "usable" or "practical" answers. 

Art just provides us the esteem or "sense of knowing" necessary to enact change, or continue with the mundane task of living.

Well then, maybe art provides us with the esteem to evolve into the practice of a vibrant life of happiness and joy by the virtue of love....

I don't know....

What we must do....

I always found this very curious about dance:

Often, in music, now, with its industry, the goal is to produce and perform as much as possible. Make, perform, and sell music everywhere!

With poetry, the goal is to write, publish. Make more poetry, write it down, and sell it! Perform it, sell it…

But with dance, the goal is a little different. With dance, the goal is to dance: to be dancing. You are not evaluated on your product, but on your ability to dance, or more importantly, your dance practice. The goal, then, is to dance everyday – and as much of the day as possible.

If you produce dance, then you are enacting choreography. If you are performing, then you are a performer. If you are thinking and writing about dance, then you are a critic or theorist. But, in dance, we do not really make something to sell. We are players in the artistic existence of dance.

The possible product, “the performance”, requires immense amounts of work and strain—and is organized by many players. (A solo show is rare and strenuous…)

The dancer is a kind of artist, like a classical musician, who is a player in a larger game of art. He is not a necessarily a producer of a product.  And his practice must continue to grow and evolve—his practice must be expansive and prolific. The accumulation of accomplishments, of shows and collaborative work, are artifacts of his practice. But what is important, is not that he has performed great roles, but how those roles have evolved him, and how he continues to work with himself and others.

The dancer is not “about” the accumulation of “paintings, poems, or shows” – but, he is “about” his practice. Dance is a nonverbal endeavor of the soul, spirit, intellect, and physical virtuosity—it is not a product, but a task.

The task is to keep dancing, as much as possible, and keep evolving.

The task is to dance—anyway or anyhow possible, by all means necessary.

Create a space and time to dance, performance, video, or just in a park or studio, and dance!