• Automatic Tracking: Records daily walking, cycling and running.
• Places: Recognizes places in your daily life.
• Storyline: Visualizes your day in an easy-to-read timeline.
• Routes on map: See the paths you took.
• Pedometer: Counts your steps, so you can set simple goals

This looks like a pretty cool iphone app.

via Matt Swanson – Move your feet.

Virtues don’t come through simply thinking about them. You have to “exercise them.” Aristotle’s promise is this: if you want a virtue, act as if you already have it and then it will be yours. Change comes through action. Act first, then become.
via How to Feel Like a Man | The Art of Manliness.

If you want to be thin, then act as you already are thin.

If you want to be fit, then act as you already are fit.

If you want to lose weight, then act as if you already lost weight.

How do I mean?  Basically, What do fit people do?  They exercise consistently.  What do thin people do?  They eat consciously and sparingly.

The body follows the mind.  Where is your mind taking you?

So, action must happen as well. I have been working out inconsistently. I have been eating too much food. I have been eating the wrong kinds of food. What happens with this type of action?

Weight Increases. Endurance and Stamina decreases.

I was getting down on myself.  Mentally beating myself up.  Then I read and contemplated this idea:  What kind of person do I want to be?

At the core, I just need to act, behave, and do the things I think good healthy people do.  The rest will follow.

What I mean by that, is if I think healthy people exercise consistently, then I should exercise consistently.  Just do it.  Change happens that easily.  Just take small steps.  Yes, you’ll have negative feelings.  Yes, some days will be good, others will be bad.  Just take small steps towards the person you want to be.  Change will happen when Action happens.

I am training for a standard olympic distance triathlon again this year.  Running has been a challenge due to leg pains, but Biking and Swimming have been awesome.

More to come…   What action is happening by you?

Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body – CNN.com.

The ideas ring true not just for triathlons, but for fitness, projects, and other things.

Here’s some quotes I grabbed from the article:

If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats. To plunder the words of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”

How do you train your brain to help you achieve your goals?

1. Have a mantra and/or a special song to repeat.
2. Keep a bank of positive mental images.
3. Practice visualization beforehand.
4. Break up the race into smaller, more manageable segments.
5. Remember that training is about learning to hurt.
6. Get people to support you.
7. Mentally recall inspirational people.
8. Consider racing for a cause that is bigger than yourself.