Easy Running is a Moderate Exercise

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What is the first thought when you hear “moderate exercise?”

Do you think of hard, intensive workout or something else?

Well, if you think it is hard, intensive workout, well, you are just overestimating yourself. Amy Rushlow explains in this article, called “How Hard is Moderate Exercise? Not as Hard as You Might Think”, on how moderate exercise is actually much simpler than it sounds.

After reading the article, has your thoughts changed about moderate exercise? If so, good. If not, here are some examples that you can do as a moderate exercise: walking for an hour, running at a relaxing pace for about an hour, or even riding your bike around your neighborhood. Exercising is just simple to do. Spread out the word to have people to exercise better without having to  feel that you have to go hard. Hope you found your exercise that is moderate.

Exercising is the Prescription for Depression

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Scientists are finding out that exercising reduces the amount of depression and stress that people would have. What they started with was with mice that has a high level of stress and depression. What they ended up was result with something that we could for ourselves. Check out this link that consists an article about the scientists’ finding about finding out how exercising can be our new prescription for depression.

Exercise: Prescription for Depression

Changing the Way of Trash (Including Dogs)

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New York City is changing their way on collection trash and recyclables. Since the 1800s, the people of New York didn’t care about where the trash would end up, such as the ocean. In 1934, Secretary of State places a law that no trash are allowed to be dumped into the ocean, so trash is now being places in landfills, which takes up space. This video explains how the trash system has changed to this day and how they want to make it better that saves money for their company, the environment/land, and the sanitation level for the people to be healthy. Also, below it is an article below the video that explains about how letting dogs pee on trash bags and recycling bins is not a great idea for the garbage people.

Why the Garbage Man Might Dislike Your Dog

That would really change the way of living for the people of New York City, but in a good way. Just think about what you could do in your state that is similar or the same as the people of New York City are doing.

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Cleaner Wins, Litter Losses

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Recently, we found a video that shows a woman in Russia, who gives litterbugs a taste of their own trash by doing an action that most of us would not even think about doing: throwing litterbug’s  trash in their face.

‘Girl vs. littering’: Motorcycle-riding vigilante takes sweet revenge on litterbugs 

What do you think about that? Would you have done that kind of action if you saw someone littering in front of you face? Or would you have done something else? You could do a similar action by cleaning up the mess that humans provide and share with people about what they can do to help you and other people out there to clean up the mess.

Article: A Restaurant that Never Waste a Thing

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My dad  found this article and showed it to me the other day. It talks about a restaurant called “Sandwich Me In” that “hasn’t taken out the trash in nearly two years.” Meaning that “there isn’t anything to take out” and send it to the landfill. Justin Vrany, the owner, has a goal to become a “zero waste restaurant in mind.” So far, it is coming true and they make about “eight gallons of waste” per year.

For more details, here is the link to the article:  This Restaurant Hasn’t Taken Out the Trash in Nearly Two Years

 

Blog: Running as Therapy

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I found this blog post about a young woman named Jen  A. Miller, who has experienced a few hardships in her six months: her boyfriend left her for another woman, bought a house and her grandfather died. In her story, she guides us in her changed life through running.

She started running in 2007 after the six months. 5-kilometer races were the only races she ran, until she started to train for longer, more challenging races like 10 milers. Other problems does come along the way, but how she explains about how running has helped her in general could be connected to everyone. Even I could connect that running sets my mind off of negative things in my life.

Here is the link to the article if you want to read more about it: Running As Therapy

Run for One Planet

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I recently posted a message about the “Run Daren Run” initiative where Kalamazoo resident, Daren Wendall, will be running 100 marathons in 100 days to raise $100,000 for his and his wife’s Active Water initiative. In letting colleagues know about Daren’s initiative, one my colleagues replied back to let me know one of her friends did something similar. That initiative is called “Run for One Planet“.

Run for One Planet “is an ongoing run endeavour focused on ‘Inspiring Environmental Action, One Step at a Time'” [ the “one step at a time” part of their tag line is similar to the Pick’n Run’s tag line: “cleaning the world one run at a time” ].  Matt Hill and Steph Tait started the “Run for One Planet” initiative in 2008 when they ran across Canada and around the perimeter of America. They ran a total of 11,000 miles in over 420 marathons as a duo.

Their vision is to motivate 1 million people to take to 1 new action that will help the environment.  These 1 million actions can be in the form of 10 different environmental-helping actions:

  1. Eat Local and Organic
  2. Turn Off Your Car
  3. Eliminate Plastic Bags – Bring Your Own Bag
  4. Use Green Cleaners
  5. Turn Off the Lights
  6. Turn Off the Tap
  7. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  8. Compost
  9. Bring Your Own Bottle
  10. Teach Your Children Well

Source: from the Run for One Planet web site

It is great to see this initiative, as well as Daren’s!!

 

Run Daren Run

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Kzoo Uncaged, in our hometown of Kalamazoo, posted their interview with Daren Wendell this week. Daren is looking to run 100 marathons in 100 days, an initiative he is calling “Run Daren Run“.  He is looking to raise $100,000 for an initiative he has been working on with his wife for the past 5 years: Active Water.

Active Water is “a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses the athletic lifestyle and grassroots campaigns to bring clean water and sanitation projects to needed communities throughout the globe.”

The crew at Kzoo Uncaged (Andy, Carrie, and Sydney) did a great job with Daren’s interview.  You can read it via the following link:

Article: For Fitness, Intensity Matters

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Who do you think lives longer?  The person that runs a 17-minute or less pace or a person that run a mile in over 17 minutes on average?  The answer is in the following article:

…more specifically in the following sentence from the article:

…people who walked briskly, at a pace of 17 minutes per mile or less, generally lived longer than those men and women who strolled during their walks, at a pace of 20 minutes per mile or slower, although the study was not designed to determine why the intensity of the exercise mattered.

Be intense, and immerse yourself.