No Easy Ways to Stop Global Warming

There are no easy ways to stop global warming. It all boils down to the personal choices that you and I make everyday. One of the building blocks and best ways to stop global warming is by starting a personal fitness program.

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If the choices we make- driving our car to work, leisure activities that use gasoline engines etc. all affect global warming… why not reshape our lives so that we can make other choices.

Fitness is one of the best ways to stop global warming from getting worse. Here’s how..

Jane and I have found that the higher our fitness level the less we drive the car. We ride the bike, we run , or we walk instead. In short we make healthier environmental choices when we are fit.

Granted we can’t always walk to work and you can’t either most of the time, but what about once a week? What about on the weekend, when you drive the car to run errands? How about walking instead?

That is where fitness comes into the picture. You will have to be fit to make those choices work for you.

Dr. George Sheehan, one of my favorite authors said that we should all ‘return to play’ for at least an hour a day. He recommended that we become children for that one hour a day, and that any fitness program that wasn’t designed as ‘play’ was destined to failure.

Do children hold the answer for global warming?

What does this have to do with ways to stop global warming? Let me explain

Have you ever watched children playing? There is no watch, no schedule, and no priority list… but they do keep score- always.

We have to keep score on ourselves everyday if we are to find better ways to stop global warming. If we are ‘playing’ on the bike, or on a run, or even just walking then we aren’t driving our cars, are we?

Try it and you will see what I mean. Replace that 10 minute commute to the store with a 30 minute bike ride today. Suddenly that half an hour becomes your time again, not the car’s time.

Soon it will be your most cherished time of the day. It will.

Yes, at first it will be hard work to get in shape. Every spring it takes me about a month before I am at a fitness level where my daily run is ‘play’ again.

That’s right, I am speaking from my own experience here. It does take hard work and determination to become ‘children playing’ for even an hour a day. But the results…

You will begin to make healthier choices in all areas of your life. The first place to start is by finding the time to devote to fitness. And a system that will work for you.

What better place to start than by eliminating car driving time in some way. One of the best ways to stop global warming is to reduce your driving time. And one of the best ways to do that is to get fit.

When I tell people that getting fit is one of the best ways to stop global warming they look at me kind of strange. How do I know that getting fit works? Well, I have been running daily for almost 30 years.

I see the choices that I make on a daily basis when compared to an average North American and I know that fitness does go a long ways towards stopping global warming. I walk or run instead of drive a car, or I ride my bike. It all makes a difference, a measurable difference everyday.

Promoting healthy choices for individuals – ways to stop global warming

It doesn’t take that long to get fit either. A couple months of 4 times a week , about 30 minutes a day and you will see results that are not only physical , but in your attitude.

Do you want to make a difference in global warming?

Well, get fit and make those healthy choices.

If I was starting today, I would choose the best program I could find . A program that combined diet and exercise for fast and long sustained results. I would choose this program