Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Your Top Excuses NOT to Exercise: Busted
Everyone knows that regular exercise is good for you. Exercise is not only a key ingredient in maintaining a healthy weight, it also helps many of the body’s systems function better. It can ward off heart disease, help control blood pressure and cholesterol, fight type 2 diabetes, and even keep certain forms of cancer at bay. Plus, exercise has been shown to improve energy, boost libido, and alleviate anxiety and depression. So, what’s your excuse for not breaking a sweat? Here are some common reasons guys use for not exercising and why you should keep from falling into these ruts.
“I’m too tired.” Whether you drag yourself out of bed an hour earlier to exercise or make yourself get to the gym after a dog day at work, you won’t be sorry. Once you lace up your running shoes or get through the front door of your health club, you’ll feel the rush of exhilaration in no time! Working out improves muscle strength and bolsters endurance by getting blood flowing to your heart, lungs and other tissues. The more oxygen and nutrients you get into your system, the more energy you’ll have.
“I’m hurting too much to exercise.” When your body is hurting you’ve got to pay attention to it, take care of it, and if necessary, consult your doctor. But when done right, exercise is a perfect remedy for most daily aches and pains. Yoga, stretching, water aerobics and walking can greatly strengthen muscles that support your joints. Light weight training at any age and almost under any condition can help preserve lean muscle mass, improve flexibility, and maintain healthy bone density.
“Exercise is boring.” Sure, an hour on a tread mill can be an intolerable bore. Maybe pumping iron in a crowded gym is not your idea of a picnic in the park. But exercise doesn’t have to be tedious. Swimming in the ocean, yoga classes, Zumba, even walking your dog are all popular activities in South Florida. If your program is more structured and centered around doing regular cardio and weights, make sure to change it up every 3 months or so. Keep a journal to assess your progress, set new goals, try new routines and equipment. Don’t be afraid to raise the bar and challenge yourself to achieve greater and healthier heights.
“I’m too busy.” We all have work and commitments and stuff that take up time and attention. But your health and well-being cannot be placed on the back burner without paying heavy consequences later. Schedule your gym time, walks or runs, exercise classes, and any other form of activity that tickles your fancy into your day. Don’t let meetings, conferences and other work take away the great fun and healthful benefits you’ll accrue from an active lifestyle.
So, what’s your excuse for not exercising? Shoot it to me in a text or e-mail and I’ll put holes in it and have you back into a routine in no time!
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2019/04/23/your-top-excuses-not-to-exercise-busted/
Bryan Fischer: ‘It’s Not the Equality Act—It’s the Homosexual Supremacy Act’
While scrolling through my Twitter feed I stumbled upon a photo of Jonathan Van Ness walking hand in hand through Capitol Hill with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Van Ness, one of the stars of “Queer Eye,” was wearing a pink sweater and skirt, Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat representing New York, was wearing a magenta pantsuit. Someone had Tweeted, “THIS is the future Democrats want.” My first thought: Oh, hell yes. That future cannot come soon enough.
Van Ness, who was joined by three of his “Queer Eye” co-stars, also visited Nancy Pelosi’s office. But they weren’t there just for photo ops. The Queer Eye guys were in D.C. advocating for the passage of The Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Because even though Van Ness can twirl his beautiful brown locks through the halls of Congress, the fact remains that in too many states he could legally be fired for being gay. Marriage equality may be the law of the land (for now. You’d best believe that all of the right-wing judges Trump is getting rammed through are working hard to undo that), but legal discrimination is, too.
So it’s about time we right this wrong so that LGBTQ people can live their life with dignity and the protection they deserve.
Oh, but what’s that I hear? Somebody’s upset about the idea of LGBTQ people being protected from discrimination? Yes, yes. You, sir, in the back. What’s your name?
“Why my name is Bryan Fischer and as I wrote on the internet: ‘It’s not the Equality Act, it’s the Homosexual Supremacy Act.’”
Ugh. I should have known.
On April 7, Fischer, who is part of the American Family Association, wrote on the BarbWire site, “Don’t let the left and the Talking Snake Media (sic) lie to you. They lie to us all by the words they hope will drive and dominate the narrative. One of those words is ‘equality.’”
As Fischer points out, the left is just so darn tricky with their words since “equality” sounds like a good thing and makes people who are against it seem like bad people! It’s just not fair!
“If we oppose it they tag us as people who are against fairness and equal rights for all and as people who are nothing more than blackguards and bigots,” Fischer writes.
Exactly A guy who believes that LGBTQ people are not human and are thus incapable of feeling love or contributing anything positive in the world just can’t get a break these days!
“But the reality is that not all behaviors are equal in moral value and should not be treated the same,” he continues. “The behavior of a man engaged in the act of sodomy with a homosexual partner is not morally equivalent to the behavior of a man who is engaged in loving and conjugal union with the wife of his youth. It is moral blindness and even stupidity to pretend otherwise.”
Well, color me morally blind and stupid then.
What confuses me most about what Fischer is saying here is the use of the word “youth.” What is he saying? That only young people can get it? Can’t the olds get down? Right-wingers are so confusing.
“There is no equality in this bill for anyone who believes that homosexuality is non-normative sexual behavior and something that should not be promoted, subsidized and celebrated, especially in our schools,” Fischer writes.
Subsidized? Is there an LGBTQ tax break I’m missing here? Oh, wait. I think he means that he’s opposed to taxpayer money being used to enforce laws that protect LGBTQ people. Damn, he almost had me supporting the Trump tax cut (just kidding. I would never).
Also, boo-hoo, dude. You can think LGBTQ people are gross or immoral or whatever you want. But you don’t get to demand that your feelings trump another person’s humanity.
“I call this bill ‘The Homosexual Supremacy Act,’ since it elevates homosexuality and gender confusion above anything and everything else in the moral universe,” Fischer writes. “Everyone will be required to bow the knee before the Baal of Sodom or face punishment.”
Oh, please. Accusing supporters of the Equality Act of being “Homosexual Supremacists” is ugly and an especially ignorant thing to say at a time when white supremacy, an actual problem that does real, measurable harm to more than just feelings, is on the rise and supported by the White House.
“The reality is that in any circumstance covered by this bill, somebody is going to be discriminated against, either a Christian vendor or a member of the LGBT community,” Fischer writes.
Right now in many places in the United States, a lesbian can be fired for marrying her wife. Fischer is crying, when LGBTQ people have had every aspect of their lives policed. So as far as I’m concerned, Fischer can point at two women and their children and say, “Your family isn’t real,” but he doesn’t have a right to have his hatred enforced by policy.
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2019/04/23/bryan-fischer-its-not-the-equality-act-its-the-homosexual-supremacy-act/