Physical fitness

Well, folks, Sitting here beside me at the microphone is one of baseball's greatest and most colorful ballplayers.

I'm speaking of Captain Hank Greenberg, formerly of the Detroit Tigers and now Assistant Director of Physical Training for the Army Air Force's Training Command down at Fort Worth, Texas.

Well, how's it, Hank? It's

swell, Red.

There's three types of health.

We have our social health, our physical health, and our mental health.

Our physical health we talk about all the time.

Our physical health is how we exercise, how we eat right, and take care of ourselves.

Because when we do that, that's the starting point.

And if we miss that, a lot of times we miss that.

If I haven't been able to exercise all week because I have a lot going on, my book is coming out and I got a lot of things going on and I'm trying to exercise and get everything done, but I'm also trying to get all my work done.

But I'm recognizing when I do take care of myself and go for my morning walk and hit the weights for just a little bit, it just changes my state.

Welcome to the I Work For Him Power Thought of the Day with Jim Brangenberg of I Work For Him, the voice of the faith and work movement.

I learned something new talking with a physical fitness company owner in Nashville.

The only gift God has given us that we can control 100% is our body.

What we eat, how we take care of it, what we feed it, if we're exercising it, reminds me of Luke 11 36.

Well, hi team.

I'm Fitz Koehler, your incredibly bossy fitness pro from fitness.com. And welcome to the fitness show today.

I have so much fun stuff to talk to you about, but the theme of the show is stopping things and starting things to become more fit.

That's right.

This is Life 2.0. Let's talk about it.

Your physical health is the foundation for everything else that you're going to do in your life.

It affects your mental health.

It affects your appearance.

It affects your ability to get up and walk around.

I mean, it affects everything.

So without your physical health, nothing else is possible.

So if you are unhealthy, if you are overweight, if you have not been physically fit, you are not dead yet.

Okie dokie.

As humans, especially as women, do you think that we underestimate how connected our physical health and our mental health actually are?

Yeah.

Sometimes I feel like people think they're not correlated to each other, but I feel like they're constantly influencing one another.

and green and i never touched the blue ones because it makes my tongue blue but yeah so all the other ones were gone

and i'm like i can't have see i don't fear the blue tongue i don't either and they delicious okay

so in correlation with our physical health and our mental health what do you think it is that people get wrong about using exercise for their mental health

I think they put pressure on like what our bodies should look like rather than like the feeling what movement gives us in a sense.

Key significa acá clave.

Fitness es la condición de estar en forma.

La clave está en darse cuenta que la aptitud física...

The key is to realize that physical fitness...

And you're also concerned that your team depends a lot on you, and you're very concerned what happens if you're not helping them and not driving the direction.

And it doesn't help either, because how are you going to be promoting your team if they're all depending on you? And another thing is, maybe the last one, but not the least, maybe I should have made it the first one, is your mental and physical health.

You know that you're overworked because both of them are suffering.

You're stressed, you're going to bed stressed, and you're waking up stressed.

So you know that you need to take care of yourself.

Because to focus on yourself and being able to work and get things done and to focus on your teams, you need to be able to do that.

And without mental and physical health, that is impossible.

What can you do? Now, the good news is that this problem is not new.

Okay.

It's titled, uh, "Effects of Creatine Monohydrate Loading on Sleep Metrics, Physical Performance, Cognitive Function, and Recovery in Physically Active Men: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial."

Like you said, a total mouthful, but it is so important because the sports science community has frankly cornered the market on creatine monohydrate for over 30 years.

Oh, easily 30 years.