Well, after a month off the bike due to various climate reasons here in Maine, I hopped back on my trainer for a 45 minute spin. Boy was my butt sore! I figure I ride most of the year long with some days of 60 to 80 miles and some weeks putting in 200 miles. It should be a piece of cake to ride only 45 minutes. I learned an important lesson that we all should keep in mind. It's far easier to stay healthy than to get healthy! For me, in this instance, I probably could have ridden 30 minutes 3 times a week to keep my firm derriere, but instead I took a complete vacation. This can translate to any healthy habit. I see it all the time in chiropractic. Mrs. Jones comes in after not being seen for 10 months and says, "I was doing so well that I thought I'd take a little time off. At first it only got a little worse, but now it is just like before I started care." Mrs. Jones needs to learn the sore tush rule.
This is the bottom line. Our daily routines rarely see the types of physical activity we need to maintain good health. We need to actively pursue exercise and other healthy activities to keep us at our best. When we take a little time off, our health slides back to the state it would naturally be with the routine we live. For most of us, this is just not optimal!
So my butt was sore for a few days, but I hopped back on the bike quickly and rode for about an hour. It felt better much quicker. I now have a routine again established where I spin for an hour as I listen to a teleconference twice a week. Adding this to my winter gym workouts will have me ready to hit the road again when mother nature allows!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Health Care
So what is health care? Most people would say that it is seeing your doctor when you are sick, but I would assert that this is sick care or crisis care. Health care is care that is required to keep your mind, body and spirit at its healthiest level - that you can not do for yourself. It must be performed by a health care specialist. Most well known types of health care include: dental cleanings, massage, chiropractic adjustments, counseling sessions. It is funny that these professional services are not included with what we would often call "necessary". That is because our usual way of managing "health care" is really rehabilitation from crisises. If we define being healthy as having optimal physical, mental and spiritual health, then the rehabilitation form of health care simply doesn't work as the means of achieving health and keeping good health.
The most difficult part of participating or not participating with these forms of health care is that you typically don't notice immediate problems when you miss a visit. If you miss a dental cleaning, pain may not insue for several years, but often problems that arise are very difficult to reverse. The same is true for chiropractic care. Someone may be able to "heal" from a car accident and slowly feel better without care, but some years down the road, the effects are often still visible on x-ray. Even the effects of missed counseling sessions could be viewed by not seeing the change that was once desired. True health care is of the utmost importance to those that really want health and vitality.
The most difficult part of participating or not participating with these forms of health care is that you typically don't notice immediate problems when you miss a visit. If you miss a dental cleaning, pain may not insue for several years, but often problems that arise are very difficult to reverse. The same is true for chiropractic care. Someone may be able to "heal" from a car accident and slowly feel better without care, but some years down the road, the effects are often still visible on x-ray. Even the effects of missed counseling sessions could be viewed by not seeing the change that was once desired. True health care is of the utmost importance to those that really want health and vitality.
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