"The first wealth is health." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since I read about health and fitness so voraciously, I figured I might as well organize my thoughts about it and share it with all of my friends here. My interest in this stuff makes me question why I didn't go into the medical field instead... It's so interesting! Enjoy! Facebook - Twitter - Instagram LinkedIn - LegalShield SERVED var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10052976-4"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

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The elevator to success is out of service. But the stairs are always open.

Zig Ziglar

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

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In practice, strictly making health #1 has real social and business ramifications. That's a price I've realized I MUST be fine with paying, or I will lose weeks or months to sickness and fatigue. Making health #1 50% of the time doesn't work. It's absolutely all-or-nothing. If it's #1 50% of the time, you'll compromise precisely when it's most important not to.

Tim Ferriss, Tools Of Titans pg. 392

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A healthy body is one of life's most precious possessions. It's so easy to ignore our health; but without good health, the other blessings of life can't be enjoyed to their fullest. I know you're saying, 'Art, I don't have time for all that exercise stuff.' Please take time. You can't afford not to. When you abuse your body, everyone around you suffers because you aren't your best.

Art Williams, All You Can Do Is All You Can Do pg. 269

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Sleep can determine whether your body is printing out the cells of a sexy beast or the cells of a wildebeest.

Shawn Stevenson, Sleep Smarter pg. xxiv

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Thank you @inbodyusa for measuring my body composition at @thefitexpo! Bioelectrical impedance analysis is a convenient way to track your muscular development and fat loss journey. A small alternating current is applied to your body and gives you these numbers based on your resistivity. After looking at my numbers, the guy pretty much said to keep doing what I was doing lol. Definitely going to use InBody at every Fit Expo to track my improvements moving forward. "Success is a numbers game, and the numbers tell us the whole story." - Jim Rohn. Thanks @tam3.0 for making us do this haha #inbody #fitexpo (at Anaheim Convention Center)

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Finally broke my half marathon pr at 1:55! America's Finest City Half is usually the hottest race of the year in San Diego, but that was not the case with today's overcast! The biggest nugget I learned this season was, "if you want to run fast, you have to train fast." Many of my runs were HIIT this summer and it made all the difference. Looking forward to running all of my halves at sub 2 hours! #afchalfmarathon #triplecrown #hm22 #sub2club (at Balboa Park)

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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.

Joan Welsh

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If life is truly important and meaningful, then health must be a top priority. Health, not gold and silver, is wealth! Health is not merely the momentary absence of disease or injury; it's the best possible physical and mental state of a human being. Everyone who ever became fit did so through a thousand simple decisions - decisions they made every day to move, to exercise, to purge their imperfections, to eat the healthiest foods, and to structure their lives in pursuit of important goals.

Joe De Sena, Spartan Fit! pgs. 9-10

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The look on your face when you know you PR'd! #runnershigh #theneedforspeed #crowncityclassic (at Tidelands Park. Coronado Is)

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Congratulations to my parents on running their 1st half marathon! Sister ran her 6th half, and I ran my 3rd full. The biggest thing I learned my 3rd time around was to "respect the distance." I didn't PR because I neglected to maintain an optimum running schedule since the LA Marathon last February. I'd have long runs on the weekend, but on a typical weekday I prioritized the lift life for a little over an hour and then finish with a 5K. The problem with this is: not enough miles! Now I know to start having days where I priorize the run and then finish with a cool down lift. This way, I'll also have more energy for HIIT!#sometimesyouwin #sometimesyoulearn #fitlife #fitfam #outliftarunner #outrunalifter (at Rock 'n' Roll San Diego Marathon & 1/2 Marathon)

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Thanks again for the free obstacle race @spartan_tammy ! #beepic #epicseries (at Dusty Rhodes Park)

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If you own a sports car, a power boat, or any highly tuned machine, you know to be v-e-r-r-r-r-y careful what you feed it. Yet these are simple devices compared with the human body. If you want optimum sports performance the first rule is: Don't put junk fuel in your Maserati. Your muscles, bones, organs, even the enamel in your teeth are all rebuilt continuously out of what you eat, drink, and breathe. Over 98% of the you that is reading this page is entirely reconstructed from the substances that entered your body during the last 12 months, including the man-made chemicals, particulate matter, and toxic gases in your air. The quality of your body structure and its performance is dependent on the quality of what you put into it. To the degree that the air you breathed was polluted last year, so is your flesh today.

Dr. Michael Colgan, Optimum Sports Nutrition pgs. 8,56

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I think of the swimming pool as the perfect metaphor for the human body. Each pool has a pump (heart), a filter (kidneys), water (the body is about 60 percent water), and a liner (skin). If I pumped gallons and gallons of coffee instead of water into a swimming pool every day, it would soon get sick, and the pool would turn green. The filtration system of a pool is designed to remove leaves, sand, sweat, and bacteria; it wasn't designed to remove coffee. Your body's filtration system was designed to metabolize foods found in nature, not to process the residues from laboratory-engineered substances like high-fructose corn syrup or most of the processed foods we eat. The human body is much smaller than a swimming pool, and to avoid contamination, you must eat healthy and less, drink healthy and less, sleep long enough and well enough, exercise daily, stay committed, and maintain a great attitude. A pool without that approach is not a pool you want to swim in.

Joe De Sena, Spartan Up! pg. 102

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Only healthy engineers work here lol #aprilfools (at Digital Force Technologies)

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Your body will always function better if your daily calories come from clean, wholesome foods, prepared as close to their natural state as possible. Think about it. All that butter, lard, mayonnaise, french fries and candy going down your throat is like pouring a bucket of mud into your bathroom sink and expecting the drain to work right.

Bob Paris, Flawless pg. 255

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"We do not stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we stop exercising." - Dr. Kenneth Cooper #californiamania #fitcon (at Hyatt Regency Orange County)