[Nfbmo] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO

[Gary Wunder]

I find it interesting that as children we often chafe under the rules that
are parents set up for us, but when we are adults and can make most rules
for ourselves, we are the victims of bad choices. My physical education
teacher used to make me do calisthenics. I swore that when I got to be an
adult I wouldn't do them. Now, of course, I do them to create or retain some
limberness. But, because I was so obstinate about not wanting to do them, I
had to pay good money to go to a physical therapist and re-learn what had so
freely been given to me.

I agree that we have to make time for those things that are important. With
my job I find there is never a clearly delineated quitting time. There is
always one more thing to read that might be helpful either as an article for
the Braille Monitor or as background as I consider others. There is always
one more thing I could go over to see if I got the punctuation written
correctly. So, at some point I have to force myself away from the chair and
simply do what I know my body needs me to do: move, move, move. This is what
I love about the national fitness challenge: it has made me enter into a
promise, one that is made not just for myself but to help others.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Randy C via Nfbmo
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:09 AM
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Cc: Randy C
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] National Fitness Challenge NFCMO

Well Gary, I liked your joke anyway.  Maybe Missouri humor doesn't work so
well in Maryland.

One tip that I have heard is from the sighted community but could easily be
modified for the non-sighted community. "Every time you go to any store, you
should park at the furthest away parking spot."  If you don't drive, you
could simply just get off of your public transportation of choice, one, two
or even three blocks before hand.

I know that my step count is NOT where it should be but Jenny and I have now
started to make time for a daily walk and it should be starting to climb
some.  I think that is the key, you simply must make time for the things
that are important to you.  We all (especially me) should move getting/being
healthy nearer to the top of our list of priorities.

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks,
Randy Carmack

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Gary Wunder via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Recently I was at meetings that ran from 8 o'clock in the morning till 
> 9:00 or 10 o'clock at night. These were at the Jernigan Institute, so 
> I felt at liberty to move around a bit more than I would at some other 
> place such as Microsoft or Expedia. One of the things I did was walk 
> in place. Thinking it would be funny, I told the person sitting next 
> to me to grab my hand and walk with me. She did. I said, "this is a 
> great way to get steps, but I have to tell you that I have gotten lost 
> three times today. She grasped my hand a little harder to convey 
> sympathy and said, "I know the old building pretty well, but I can 
> sometimes get lost in the Jernigan Institute myself." Of course the 
> joke was supposed to be that I was walking in place and there was no 
> way I could get lost.
>
> I decided that this joke was still funny and needed to try it again. 
> So I asked a second person to grab my hand and join me in my in place 
> walk. I repeated the comment about getting lost three times that day, 
> and this time the response was, "oh, yes, when you walk in place you 
> sometimes drift. I can understand that you might get lost."
>
> Moral of the story: it doesn't matter how many times you tell a thing. 
> If it's not funny, it's not funny!
>
>
>
>
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