Dive, then save lives

A swimming school and some female volunteers have joined in Piura City, Peru, for raising funds against cancer. They’re Berenson Academy and the Association of Ladies Supporting the Patient with Cancer.

The idea is gathering much money as possible to help patients with cancer but without resources. Also, it looks for educating on prevention of this disease, and sports are one of the most effective, cheapest methods to achieve it.

The procedure is simple – every 100 meters or 330 feet you swim, you have to donate 10 soles (about US$ 2.70). If you don’t know to swim, the promoters look for a swimmer who represents you for swimming the equivalent distance to your donation. The participation can be individual or in group.

The activity began in 2019 but it had to pause because of Covid-19 pandemic. 300 people in Piura, Chiclayo, and Trujillo swam that year, covering about 200 km or 150 miles in total. For 2022, the activity was called for May 28^th from 10:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night.

Peru’s National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases detected about 17,000 new cases of cancer across that nation in 2021. Only in piura Department, Regional Direction of Health counted 2930 new cases of cancer in 2019.

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Lánzate al agua y salva vidas

Una escuela de natación y un grupo de voluntarias se han unido en la ciudad de Piura, Perú, para recaudar fondos contra el cáncer. Se trata de la Academia Berenson y la Asociación de Damas de Ayuda al Enfermo con Cáncer.

La idea es reunir todo el dinero posible para ayudar a pacientes con cáncer que no tienen recursos. También se busca educar sobre la prevención de esta enfermedad, y el deporte es uno de los métodos más eficaces y baratos para lograrlo.

El procedimiento es simple: por cada 100 metros o 330 pies que nades, tienes que donar 10 soles (unos 2 dólares con 70 centavos). Si no sabes nadar, los organizadores buscan a un nadador que te represente y nade la distancia equivalente a tu donación. La participación puede ser individual o grupal.

La actividad comenzó en 2019 pero se tuvo que suspender debido a la pandemia por la Covid-19. Aquel año nadaron 300 personas de Piura, Chiclayo y Trujillo, quienes cubrieron unos 200 km o 150 millas en conjunto. Para 2022, la actividad se previó para el sábado 28 de mayo entre las 10:00 de la mañana y las 7:00 de la noche.

El Instituto Nacional de enfermedades Neoplásicas del Perú detectó en 2021 unos 17 mil nuevos casos de cáncer en todo ese territorio. Solo en el departamento de Piura, en 2019, la Dirección Regional de Salud contó 2930 nuevos casos de cáncer.

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Tips before your retirement

If you leave to work out or compete for the lifetime, don’t slam on the break – program how to manage the transition.

 

Although it seems, nothing’s eternal, and for some bodybuilders and athletes this means they decide to stop their training somewhen in their lives whether to hold the body shape or being prepared for a competition.

Almost never it’s Good news but the reasons bringing them to choose that must be respected, accompanied whether by a cheering message or the simple fact of being beside as the same times of achievement, or even glory,  as much as possible

However, it’s not about stopping and staying in a dead point neither like it would be about a finished playing. Actually, it’s about a transition. There are some details you must be aware to do that in the best possible way – coming next, some helpful tips.

 

Design and apply a plan what doesn’t put your health in risk

When you train constantly, and much more if that’s about a competition, the metabolism trends to modify naturally for having the best results – the body stands programmed by the next charge of activity. If the training stops suddenly, the body Will last assimilating it, it will continue to hold an optimized metabolism for the muscle to grow and getting ripped.

It’s almost like the inertia effect which an object trends to continue its movement although the power causing it has ceased. That movement is called potential energy. The trick in the transition time from training to leave training consists in the process goes doing progressively less intense.

As you set up little goals to grow weekly, monthly, now you will have to do it reverse in the same time lapses so the slowing-down doesn’t cause injuries to your health. For example, heart, kidney failure, sudden increase of body fat, digestive problems, and especially overweight and even obesity.

Ask a specialized medical doctor to design a slowing-down plan for your training rhythm and metabolism that includes you, follow it down .with rigor including the periodic visits to evaluate results. Remember that worked other person does not necessarily will work with you because every organism reacts within its own particularity. The same happened when when you started to work out.

 

Design and apply a plan for your professional or commercial future

The mandatory question is what you will do when you leave working out and contesting. If your answer is you have no idea, this is a good time to think seriously about the issue, especially if you are a professional bodybuilder or athlete and your job was basically dedicating to your discipline.

If you have saved money and you want to invest it in some business that makes you profits, have a careful advice with somebody who has proven experience in personal finance. If you want to run a gymnasium (or if you already own one), assure the business model allows you to control every step and every cent to use (“the master’s eye makes the horse,” the quote says).

If you’ve studied for a career and you wish to practice it after your retirement, don’t wait until your training’s finale to start to look for a job. Send your resumes since before so you get engaged in the less possible time. Even if you want to work freelance, its ever good to have a connections network those turn your new clients.

Using your legacy as athlete or bodybuilder adds points to get a job that has nothing to do with the sports world? Yes! Many forms admit you to include these facts and many employers or headhunters are beginning to rank it positively because we trend to be more competitive, especially at the time to assume new challenges. Then, the upcoming later could be as favorable for you as what you had to leave behind.

 

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Consejos antes de retirarte

Si dejas de entrenar o competir de por vida, no frenes de golpe; programa cómo administrar esta transición.

 

Aunque parezca, nada es para siempre, y para algunos fisicoculturistas y atletas esto significa  que en algún momento de sus vidas decidan detener sus entrenamientos sean para mantener la forma física o para prepararse ante una competición.

Casi nunca es una buena noticia, pero las razones que les lleven a optar eso deben ser respetadas, y, en la medida de lo posible, acompañadas sea con un mensaje de aliento o con el simple hecho de estar al lado del mismo modo como en los tiempos de logro y hasta gloria.

Sin embargo, tampoco se trata de parary quedar en un punto muerto como si se tratase de un disco que se acaba. En realidad, se trata de una transición. Hay algunos detalles que deben tenerse en cuenta para que se haga de la mejor manera posible, y a continuación te damos algunos consejos que pueden serte de ayuda.

 

Diseña y aplica un plan que no ponga en riesgo tu salud

Cuando se entrena constantemente, y mucho más si se trata de una competición, el metabolismo tiende a modificarse naturalmente para conseguir los mejores resultados, y el cuerpo se queda ‘programado’ para esperar la siguiente carga de actividad. Si el entrenamiento cesa de golpe, el cuerpo demorará en asimilarlo y seguirá manteniendo un metabolismo optimizado para que el músculo aumente y se defina.

Es casi como el efecto de inercia, en el que un objeto tiende a continuar su movimiento aunque la fuerza que lo produzca haya cesado. Ese movimiento es llamado energía potencial, y el truco en la etapa de transición de entrenar a dejar de entrenar consiste en que el proceso se vaya haciendo menos intenso de forma paulatina.

Así como te estableces pequeñas metas para crecer semana a semana y mes a mes, ahora tendrás que hacerlo a la inversa en los mismos lapsos de tiempo. De ese modo la ‘desaceleración’ no crea perjuicios a tu salud; por ejemplo: fallo cardiaco o renal, incremento súbito de grasa corporal, problemas digestivos… y especialmente sobrepeso o hasta obesidad.

Consulta a un médico especialista que diseñe contigo un plan de ‘desaceleración’ de tu ritmo de entrenamiento y tu metabolismo, y síguelo con rigurosidad incluyendo las consultas periódicas para evaluar resultados. Recuerda que lo que le funcionó a otra persona no necesariamente te va a funcionar a ti porque cada organismo reacciona dentro de su propia particularidad… lo mismo que pasó cuando comenzaste a entrenar.

 

Diseña y aplica un plan para tu futuro profesional o comercial

La pregunta de cajón es qué harás cuando dejes de entrenar y competir. Si tu respuesta es que no tienes idea, éste es un buen momento para pensar seriamente en el tema, especialmente si eres un atleta o fisicoculturista profesional y tu trabajo básicamente ha sido dedicarte a tu disciplina.

Si has ahorrado dinero y quieres invertirlo en algún negocio que te produzca rentas, asesórate cuidadosamente con alguien que tenga experiencia comprobada en finanzas personales. Si piensas montar un gimnasio (o si ya tienes uno), asegúrate que el modelo de negocio te permita controlar cada paso y cada centavo que va a utilizarse (el ojo del amo engorda al caballo, dice el refrán).

Si has estudiado una carrera técnica o profesional y deseas ejerzerla tras tu retiro, no esperes al día final de tu entrenamiento para comenzar a buscar un empleo; envía tus hojas de vida desde antes de tal manera que te enganches en el menor tiempo posible. Incluso si deseas trabajar a destajo, siempre es bueno tener una red de contactos que se conviertan en tu nueva clientela.

¿usar tu legado como atleta o fisicoculturista suma puntos para conseguir un trabajo que no tiene nada que ver con el mundo del deporte? ¡Sí! Muchos formatos admiten que incluyas estos datos, y varios empleadores o reclutadores están comenzando a valorarlo positivamente puesto que tendemos a ser más competitivos, especialmente a la hora de asumir nuevos retos. Entonces, lo que viene después podría ser tan auspicioso para ti como lo que tuviste que dejar atrás.

 

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“I do it to feel good to myself”

One of the most becoming-frequent answers in persons who begin any type of training at gym, home, or outdoors, is “I do it because I want to fffeel good to myself.” And they mark aa very clear posture  compared to who go with the evident intention of building muscle or simply keeping fit.

 

The profile of the ones giving this reason is usually professional people with much job or family load, empowered during Covid-19 pandemic, which stress levels are high. In this bunch, there are also who lost relatives or quite beloved people due to the plague that passed away dozens of million lives around the world.

 

There’s no much to explain from the mental health’s perspective. The power of physical exercise as an emotional balance generator is pretty proved because of the simple reason that the training makes your hormonal segregation to be more efficient, especially that avoids or controls conditions like depression or anxiety, and rules your metabolism.

 

“I already sleep once now from 11 at night to 6 in the morning,” a 30-year-old accountant tells us in Tambograndé, Peru, requesting us to be anonymous. If he has played soccer during much time, the untreated anziety has betrayed him almost without warning. “I ate any time, I didn’t sleep good.”  From 154 pounds, he raised to more than 220 pounds! And he’s just 5.6 feet height.

 

After entering a bunch training gymnastics and functional, he is losing weight (he’s around 187 pounds), he has noticed his physical & mental health has improved, add to this that his mood passed from anger to laugh and calm. However, when we asked him to pose for some pictures, he declined: “No, thanks – I just do it because I wanna feel good to myself.”

 

It’s also like a media specialist in Piura, Peru, 31 years old, 6 feet height, who from 220 pounds, today it’s 198 pounds… and decreasing. “I don’t work out for the people to see me or to admire me but because I feel better to myself,” he repeats. And every morning, he attend to the gym for his dumbells-&-functional routine. And testimonials like theirs repeat.

 

If you’re a trainer, you’ve already noticed it. Perhaps it disappoints you that, unlike other pupils who really want to improve their physiques whether for competition or simple vanity, this bunch doesn’t put that goal foreward.

 

Don’t get wrong interpretating they are not interested in growing as visible, what they are really interested in growing inside. Your job, instead criticizing them for not being like the others or mistaking to compare them to the pretty muscled pupil of your class, is raising their personal motivation levels, encouraging them to be a better version of themselves. Maybe sometimes they need to talk to heal, so we remind you how to proceeed in these times.

 

As much as they receive this kind of feedback, it’s probable that you progressively  go stimulating their sport-competitive spirit, and themselves to be who go adding greater exigency levels until reaching similar or better results than your competition pupils or who work out to look fit. Don’t get surprised if someday themselves ask you to prepare them for the next tournament.

 

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“Lo hago para sentirme bien conmigo mismo”

Una de las respuestas que se están haciendo más frecuentes en personas que inician cualquier tipo de entrenamiento en gimnasio, casa o al aire libre es: “Lo hago porque quiero sentirme bien conmigo mismo”. Y con eso marcan una posición muy clara respecto de quienes van con la evidente intención de construir músculo o simplemente estar en forma.

 

El perfil de quienes dan esta razón es usualmente gente profesional con mucha carga laboral o familiar, que se potenció durante la pandemia de la Covid-19, y cuyos niveles de estrés son altos. En este grupo también están quienes perdieron familiares o gente muy querida debido a la peste que se ha llevado decenas de millones de vidas en todo el mundo.

 

Desde el punto de vista de la salud mental, no hay mucho que explicar. El poder del ejercicio físico como un generador de equilibrio emotivo está harto comprobado por la simple razón de que el entrenamiento hace más eficiente tu segregación hormonal, en especial el que evita o controla condiciones como la depresión o la ansiedad, y regula tu metabolismo.

 

“ahora sí duermo de corrido desde las 11 de la noche hasta las 6 de la mañana”, nos cuenta un contador de 30 años de edad en Tambogrande, Perú, quien prefirió no ser identificado. Si bien durante mucho tiempo ha jugado fútbol, la ansiedad no tratada lo ha traicionado casi sin darse cuenta. Comía a cualquier hora, no dormía bien, de 70 kg aumentó a ¡más de 100 kg!Y solo tiene 1,72 metros de estatura.

 

Tras ingresar a un grupo que entrena gimnasia y funcional, está bajando de peso (anda por los 85 kg), ha notado que su salud física y mental ha mejorado, y encima su estado de ánimo pasó de la ira a la risa y la calma. Sin embargo, cuando le pedimos posar para unas fotos, declinó: “Ahí nomás; solo lo hago porque quiero sentirme bien conmigo mismo”.

 

Igual pasa con un comunicador social en Piura, Perú, 31 años, 1,83 metros de estatura, y que de 100 kg ahora está pesando 90 kg… y bajando. “Yo no entreno para que la gente me vea o me admire sino porque me siento mejor conmigo mismo”, repite. Y todas las mañanas acude al gimnasio para su rutina de pesas y funcional. Y testimonios como los suyos se repiten.

 

Y si eres entrenador, ya lo habrás notado. Quizás te frustre el hecho de que, a diferencia de otros alumnos que sí quieren mejorar su físico sea para competición o por simple vanidad, este grupo no pone ese objetivo por delante.

 

No te equivoques al interpretar que no les interesa crecer de forma visible. Lo que en realidad les interesa es crecer internamente. Tu trabajo, antes que criticarles por no ser como el resto, o cometer el error de compararles con el alumno más musculoso de tu clase, es elevar sus niveles de motivación personal, desafiarles a ser una mejor versión de sí mismos. Quizás en algún momento, necesiten conversar para sanar, así que te recordamos cómo proceder en esos momentos.

 

En la medida en que reciban este tipo de retroalimentación, es probable que progresivamente vayas estimulando su espíritu competitivo-deportivo, y ellos mismos sean quienes se vayan agregando mayores niveles de exigencia hasta conseguir resultados similares o mejores que los de tus alumnos de competición o de ejercitarse-para-verse-bien. No te sorprenda si algún día, ellos mismos te pidan que los prepares para el siguiente torneo.

 

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Don’t do later the routine you can do now

If in your daily schedule, you have to work out right now, and you suddenly think that should wait without any reason than making it to wait, or because there was suddenly another type of lighter activities to do not meaning a priority, you are possibly procrastinating – leaving for tomorrow what you must or can do today.

 

No one is procrastinating-free on his physical training. The question you must ask is why you are doing it. The classic answer you could have is “I feel lazy,” what means you are discouraged. This littleword submit us immediately to our mind.

 

The choice of signing up in a training plan, attending the gym or waiting for the trainer, and especially accomplish the day’s routine, is a decision before anything. Amid many chances, you choose the most convenient, adequate, right, valid. You choose the optimal one within other such as good, regular, or bad  ones, anyway.

 

That is the rational path. What happens when we decide not to follow it up and we do all the opposite to what we have initially considered as the best choice?  In many places and many trainers can try many answers, but if we go in depth about everything, we could get focused on three those use to make us a short circuit at the time of starting to work out.

 

• The first one is the fear. It’s the sensation warning us about a real or imagined peril that can provocate two reactions: freeze us or going in reverse.
• The second one is the guilt. It consists in feeling responsibility about that was done or wasn’t done, and that ended into a negative consequence. The classic reaction is we are constantly blaming about that was or wasn’t and that should be.
• The last one, but not less important, is the shame. It’s basically about hiding us or make us little when we feel our point of view or many people’s seem to disapprove us in a fulminant or mocking way. Our reaction in this case is vanishing out of the map no matter the price.

 

Is there a solution?

Read again the concepts and the reactions of those three deep causes and you’ll notice the first two ones depend much on us as individuals. In the third one, what the rest believe or think about us contributes. Whatever, all can be part of something that uses to name backpack or these ballasts we carry on everywhere, the most of times like useless stuff because they don’t let we advance until assessing our goals.

 

So, following up the line, when you feel what you must or can do today begins to be postponed for any debatable reason or without a reason, push pause and analyze absolutely quietly  and in a very calm way if you are feeling fear about something or someone, if you’re feeling guilty about something or somebody, or if you are not able to hold on your own scrutiny or the others.

 

If you can do it mentally, you go good, but if that costs you much work, write it, read it, read it again, and ask yourself – can I solve it? If it depends on you, and it’s urgent, think of an action plan, or go working out and with a clearer mind, start solving it just later.

 

If you feel the solution depends on you but you are going to need some type of advice or orientation, look for somebody you rationally know to have a wide, balanced criterion  to light your way, or attend without scrubs to a mental health professional. Meditation or yoga also help, and much.

 

Finally, learn to organize your life in a realistic way, with times, tasks, and goals you know you’re going to reach into a determined deadline. It costs but remember your first training day – the better is felt when finished. And never, never leave for tomorrow what you must or can do now. Do we start?

 

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