Your Fitness Resource CenterThis is your fitness resource center. This page and, indeed, the entire site is intended to be just that. Here we will provide additional information and links to information not normally posted here. For those who sign up for our newsletter and/or RSS Updates, we will try to keep you current on breaking happenings in the fitness world. Perhaps a few words about my own perspective -- the reason I think you need this fitness resource center. The bottom line is that I am convinced that everyone needs to be pursuing a lifelong fitness program -- and you cannot start too soon. I can reflect upon the various fitness phases I went through in my own lifetime. In my grade school days I played tennis and football (I played line, being just below the maximum weight for the league at the time). In high school I played basketball, baseball and swam (team captain). I started lifting weights in my junior year and that helped develop my physique and strength. At West Point I played squash, Lacrosse and was on the varsity swimming team. In my early Air Force years (I was a pilot, flying both fighters and bombers in the Vietnam war) I played golf -- and would do spurts of running and dieting when my cholesterol got too high. While teaching at the Air Force Academy I took up skiing (my three sons were avid skiers and soccer players -- until their knees gave out). After returning from Vietnam I gave up smoking and resolved to regain my health. So I returned to playing squash (a great 45 minute workout) and started to run. I can remember my run of about 500 yards from the Pentagon Athletic Center -- and being completely exhausted. In my next Pentagon tour I started running 13 miles to and from work (and pioneered a minor revolution there by pestering for a separate locker in which I could store my work uniform). During that period I entered and completed 3 (Marine Corps) marathons. After retiring from the service I continued to run and it was my only exercise in our several years in West Virginia -- where every run seemed to be uphill. After two Cooper Bridge runs in Charleston, SC, my knees started to balk. I tried using a rowing machine (a great exercise workout) but was halted by a recurring back problem induced by "rescuing" a large path stone from a pool construction tractor some years before. And I could not play golf, tennis or squash because I had injured my right shoulder shoveling snow in the early 90s. Without a total fitness program in place, the inevitable occurred. My health started to deteriorate (read that to be that my aging process started to accelerate). As my weight approached 200 pounds and I started to experience chest pains, I knew I had to do something. The rest of my story is recorded at the Fitness Profile tab, and throughout this site. Fitness Resource Center The information and supporting programs listed throughout this site are intended as recommended resources. Your physician is your best source of assessment of your overall health. I've included a fitness self-analysis at the Rate Your Fitness tab. Also included there is a link for a free online fitness analysis from Chad Tackett and his fitness team at Global Health and Fitness. Here are some other fitness resource items provided by Global Health and Fitness:
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