Childhood Obesity and Physical Fitness
Jay Wilbur introduced Ogie Shaw who gave an interesting and entertaining talk on fitness. Ogie is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and is currently President of Ogie Shaw Fitness in Beaverton, OR. He has spent 37 years in exercise and fitness. He was an athlete in baseball and karate, served four years in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and is an accomplished musician. He has given over 4,000 talks on Fitness Motivation.
He says the key to fitness is to exercise every day, first thing in the morning and work the total body. The objective of fitness is not necessarily weight loss. As a guide to good nutrition Ogie recommends the book "Nutripoints" by Dr. Roy E. Vartabedian.
History reveals that poorly prepared fitness and medical leaders have been placed into power positions influencing our attitudes about exercise. This has resulted in stifling of preventive health care and a fitness movement that has been suppressed except commercially. We're spending money but not much is happening.
Childhood Obesity is epidemic. "Adult on-set" diabetes is being found in kids as young as four years of age. At least a dozen countries have citizens that live longer than we do in spite of the fact that we spend more money on health care than anyone in the world.
From the question and answer sessions at the end of the thousands of fitness lectures that I have provided all over the country over the past 31 years I have learned what Americans think about fitness:
- We are confused about fitness and nutrition. Experts disagree constantly. The media makes a living by entertaining us with the controversy and disagreements in fitness and nutrition. Which expert do you believe?
- We don't have time. This is the number one fitness objection in the country yet fitness leaders have been trained to ignore it. Time is a legitimate objection and must be resolved.
- We don't know how to stay motivated to exercise. "Make exercise fun!," has been the main solution promoted by mainstream fitness. So now 70 percent of our heart attacks are being experienced by unfit Americans engaging in sporadic weekend bouts of "fun" exercise.
A recent report to the Oregon Health Policy Commission on "Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating among Oregon's Children," concluded, "Children's behaviors are substantially affected by the influential adults in their lives-parents, grandparents, and teachers. Efforts to address childhood obesity in Oregon will not be successful unless they also include interventions that influence the healthy eating and physical activity behaviors of adults as well as children."
At Ogie Shaw Fitness-Community Fitness Leaders we are dedicated to "Improving The Effectiveness of Exercise Programs" by providing the following solutions:
- Confusion - Educational fitness lectures and seminars. They may last from 30 minutes to a full day. They clear the air regarding misconceptions and destroy many popular fitness myths. I believe the worst thing a speaker can be is boring so my talks are entertaining as well as informative.
- Time - I demonstrate, market, and instruct Isokinetic/Rope Friction Exercise using the Isorobic Exerciser. I teach workouts that can be performed in 5-20 minutes a day. These exercises are so safe yet so effective that I have instructed everything from the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL to paraplegics at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon.
- Motivation - "People don't do what you expect. They do what you inspect!" The surest way to Get and stay motivated to exercise is through weekly fitness testing. So I provide a number of fitness testing services including the exciting new On-Line Fitness Testing Service.
Click on this link to the website to learn more: www.ogieshawfitness.com