Girl enters roller rink, turns 90
If you’ve been following my home blog for a while, you might remember a while back when NBC Universal offered me my own video series. They called it “Big Life,” but we never shot any episodes beyond the pilot.
I was supposed to be scripting my own episodes for the show, but it didn’t take long for NBCU to start nudging me in the direction of things that didn’t ring true for me. When it came time to talk about Episode 2, I was encouraged to write a script that took me into a Crunch gym for a workout with one of the network’s preferred fitness experts — a personal trainer.
I wanted nothing to do with the idea, because there was nothing about it that felt organic or true to me. I never did enjoy going to a gym. Historically, I’ve found gyms mind-numbingly boring. I’m much more interested in finding engaging activities — like biking and swimming and fencing and tennis – that make fitness feel more like fun than drudgery.
In fact, one physical activity I’ve loved since childhood is roller-skating. As a teenager I frequented roller rinks the way oily hustlers flocked to discos. Rinks were underage nightclubs with cardboard pizza and flat soda, where controversial romances took wing during “slow skates” and where New Wave girls like Dina Adams and me begged Flock of Seagulls requests at the DJ booth. (more…)
HIV and Exercise
People with HIV can slow down their HIV infections and improve their health by doing four things: eating a healthy diet, managing stress levels effectively, getting sufficient sleep and getting some regular exercise.
A study by the Department of Health and Environmental Control in South Carolina showed that HIV patients who exercised three to four times per week were less likely to develop Aids than those who did no exercise at all. It not only slowed HIV progression, but increased blood counts as well. (more…)
Healing Moves promotes exercise with radio PSA
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Click and listen to the Healing Moves Foundation’s radio public service announcement! The PSA was presented to all of the radio stations throughout the State of Nevada and played June through September this summer. The Nevada Broadcasters Association estimated 600-800 play times per month! It was a great way to get our message out to encourage people to move a little more for better health. We would like to thank the Nevada Organ and Tissue Donor Task Force for joining us in our mission and sponsoring this campaign.
Promoting up-to-date exercise guidelines
The Healing Moves Foundation has become a founding member of the Federal Physical Activity Guidelines Coalition to ensure that the Department of Health and Human Services regularly updates and promotes the Guidelines at least every five years, as is done with federal dietary guidelines. Our organization relies on the latest scientific research concerning the preventive and therapeutic effects of exercise. Over the years, recommendations for physical activity have changed drastically. It wasn’t too long ago that a patient’s treatment plan after most surgeries was days of bed rest. Now, it is common knowledge that most patients who start moving sooner, speed their recovery time.
We support and encourage members of Congress to approve H.R. 3851 in the U.S. House and S.1818 in the Senate, stressing the importance of having regularly updated Physical Activity Guidelines that reflect the latest scientific and translational breakthroughs about the role of physical activity in promoting health and preventing disease.
To view the current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, click on the tab “Exercise Guidelines” at the top of our website. View the ACSM Advocacy Coalition.
Healing Moves Volunteers Meeting
Please come to the Healing Moves Volunteers Meeting on August 18! Our vision at the Healing Moves Foundation is to help people who are facing health challenges by giving them the opportunity to participate in specialized exercise programs. Compassionate people, like you, are who we need to help fulfill our organization’s mission! We will be discussing all of our new and exciting programs. We will also be recruiting for volunteers to work on the upcoming Pink Ribbon Program for breast cancer patients.
- Date: August 18, 2010
- Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
- Location: 985 Damonte Ranch Pkwy, Suite 320
Reno, NV - Contact: (775) 852-8793