Spring Break
Get fit by kicking bad habits
Alexia Lang
Issue date: 6/1/09 Section: Sports
"That's the best type for kickboxing," Brown said. "They want to be fit. Go to different activities like yoga, jazzercise."
Go-getter: Puts all of his or her energy into one activity like the treadmill.
"They run, run, run and never stop," he said. "Need diversity. Needs a change of pace that's more challenging."
No matter what type of person you are, Brown said it is important to remember the goal of exercising and eating right.
"I like looking good, but it's all superficial," he said. "You are shooting for something superficial that will go away some day. But if you shoot for health and self defense, then the six pack is easy."
He said for the past 25 years he has had the same advice for his clients.
"When it all boils down, it goes down to accountability and a desire," Brown said. "Start small and do something you want to do. Don't go out and try one thing and hope it will spark you. Do something you like to do and do it to the best of your ability and in the process keep trying to do new things."
Visit?www.shogunmartialartscenter.com for more information about the classes Renshi Brown teaches. Classes include, Okinawan Kenpo, Ju-Jitsu and Kobudo.
Finding motivation
Sometimes a desire to get fit is not the problem, it's staying motivated to keep in shape that presents a stumbling block.
Well, the Staying Motivated to Lose Weight or Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle workshop to be held June 10 might be just the thing for you.
Sponsored by Healthy for Life, the T.E. Atkins University of Missouri Wellness Program for faculty and staff, the workshop will present the basic steps required to lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Teresa Blanc, School of Nursing faculty member, Nurse Practitioner and author of "Beat Obesity: You Can if You Think You Can," is leading the event to be held on both UMKC campuses.
The free workshop will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. on the Hospital Hill Campus in the New Health Sciences Building, Room 4307, and from 12:50-1:30 p.m. on the Volker Campus in the Administrative Center, Gillham Park Room.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Laurie Goldstein at GoldsteinLJ@umsystem.edu.
- Alexia Stout-Lang
Go-getter: Puts all of his or her energy into one activity like the treadmill.
"They run, run, run and never stop," he said. "Need diversity. Needs a change of pace that's more challenging."
No matter what type of person you are, Brown said it is important to remember the goal of exercising and eating right.
"I like looking good, but it's all superficial," he said. "You are shooting for something superficial that will go away some day. But if you shoot for health and self defense, then the six pack is easy."
He said for the past 25 years he has had the same advice for his clients.
"When it all boils down, it goes down to accountability and a desire," Brown said. "Start small and do something you want to do. Don't go out and try one thing and hope it will spark you. Do something you like to do and do it to the best of your ability and in the process keep trying to do new things."
Visit?www.shogunmartialartscenter.com for more information about the classes Renshi Brown teaches. Classes include, Okinawan Kenpo, Ju-Jitsu and Kobudo.
Finding motivation
Sometimes a desire to get fit is not the problem, it's staying motivated to keep in shape that presents a stumbling block.
Well, the Staying Motivated to Lose Weight or Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle workshop to be held June 10 might be just the thing for you.
Sponsored by Healthy for Life, the T.E. Atkins University of Missouri Wellness Program for faculty and staff, the workshop will present the basic steps required to lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Teresa Blanc, School of Nursing faculty member, Nurse Practitioner and author of "Beat Obesity: You Can if You Think You Can," is leading the event to be held on both UMKC campuses.
The free workshop will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. on the Hospital Hill Campus in the New Health Sciences Building, Room 4307, and from 12:50-1:30 p.m. on the Volker Campus in the Administrative Center, Gillham Park Room.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Laurie Goldstein at GoldsteinLJ@umsystem.edu.
- Alexia Stout-Lang
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