Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Victory!




It can be something to strive for or...a moment in time that makes you realize that you can do it.
Today was my day.
Some battles are futile and others are worth it every step of the way, even the baby steps.
Exercise is quite personal in that is to say in building endurance and many who have been involved in it know that is the key.
Anyone, who cares to indulge in the physicality of the effort know that’s what it is all about the prize at the end of what you are seeking…
Whether it is to be healthy or for weight loss or just knowing that you are doing something that will keep you to keep on going…
Victory, I do know most say when all is said and done…in the win of some amazing feat or a conquest or triumph, a success.
Increments in a steadfast program with increases in repetitions are also small victories and I am happy to say today was my day!
Although, I will be going one more day this week to the gym/rehab I have increased my slant board reps all the way up to eighty, two forties and my arm cycle up to twelve minutes, six in each directions!
Oh and on my days off I began using my own free weights; I have increments of two, three and five pound colorful ones that I bought years ago. Yesterday, on my day off from the gym/rehab I started with thirty simultaneous armchair reps, relaxing and a beginning.
Every few weeks or months I will up the weights weight?

A plan, oh and I forgot to tell you Hubby is my trainer, between you and me, though I know my way around a gym and rehab facility better than he does. But he is taking on the responsibility seriously and with love and nothing beats that! We are a team and as we all know there is no ‘I’ in team!
Any-who, getting back into the saddle with exercise does make a gal feel capable and on the road to VICTORY!
Every-time I finish my routine on the slant board I give the sign of victory with my fingers, interestingly enough the same as the ‘Peace Sign’.




Moving on…
More good news: people with many cancers survive today when years ago they would have not!
Two out of every three survive and that may be with extreme measures but they do survive. And medication and methods and surgeries are trying hard to simplify all that it takes to survive with newer better ideas happening daily!
The fight against cancer was started one hundred years ago.
Although, it sounds like it has taken too long, remember that science has been moving as fast as it can and these last few decades have been significant in finding so many methods and even some real cures.
Organizations like Stand Up to Cancer: http://www.standup2cancer.org/ and all the individual cancer groups have been largely responsible for the amazing strides in ways to handle any of the cancers that were once thought not to be curable.
St. Jude Hospital in Memphis Tennessee: http://www.stjude.org/waystohelp
Helps families with children with cancer and other diseases that once were thought to be incurable and with all their research and free care for anyone under the age of eighteen, a child, they have been doing incredible work for over fifty years.

I’m just saying, since so much has been in the news lately about celebrities with cancer threats/scares what-have-you.
Yes, determining by blood tests if you are more likely to get cancer is a great concept to perhaps prevent it and that is an individual preference or perhaps just someway to try hard to not leave your children without a parent and that is wonderful to insure that for the folks you love.
And perhaps it will be a common test available to all someday, we can only hope for that to be the case.

On that note of an up note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share all you overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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