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Survival of the Fattest

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:02:02 +0100

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who reads this. I’m sure you’ve heard it in just about every media outlet over the last decade, but America is, for lack of a better term; fat. Waistlines everywhere are expanding despite efforts put forth by governments, schools and one very popular NBC show in particular. What’s the deal America? How did we come to this? And better yet, how do we change it?

We’ve long enjoyed our reign atop the socio and economic peaks, but now it seems more true than ever that history may indeed repeat itself. You work hard, you struggle, you get ahead, you succeed, you get fat and lazy, you fall off. If this pattern holds true, America is at the cliff’s edge and teetering. Our own obesity is not only a matter of personal risk it has become an issue of national security. In a recent study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they found that nearly 1 in 4 military applicants are rejected because they are overweight or obese. I wonder how much McDonald’s stock Al-Qaida owns?

All Jokes aside, there’s nothing funny about what’s going on in this country. When did America adopt this “Someone Will Take Care Of Me” mentality? What happened to taking care of yourself? The truth is you have to start insuring your best asset; you. Change is never easy, but it’s nothing you can’t do. Follow a few easy steps to get started.

1. Eat To Lose

If you’re starving yourself to lose weight think about the message you’re sending your body. Essentially you’re telling your body to store fat because it will naturally go into starvation mode, which can work short term, but as soon as you eat normally again the weight will come back twice as fast. Eat at least 5-6 meals (including snacks) per day and space them out every 2-3 hours. Every meal should have a protein of some sort included. Usually each meal will be between 200- 400 calories of good clean foods. Yes, it takes some work, but your metabolism and waistline will thank you.

2. Protein Power

It’s the building blocks of your body, it helps you recover, it keeps you feeling fuller longer blah blah blah. What does this mean? What it boils down to is that protein is a wonderful weapon in the fight against flab. Muscle is really the key here. Muscle, from a calorie standpoint is very expensive, which is why people who are typically very muscular often eat more than the typical person and don’t gain. The more muscle you have the more protection you have against storing fat. What sustains muscle though? You got it. A basic rule of thumb for how much protein you should take in is 1 gr. of protein per lb of body weight. This figure needs to be adjusted according to how you exercise of course. Personally, I use 1.5gr./lb of body weight, but I know how my body reacts to that measure and it’s in line with the intensity of my workouts.

3. Your Mom Was Right

Eat your breakfast already! It truly is the most important meal of the day, why? Overnight your body is still using calories to operate necessary functions, like breathing, digestion etc. Where are these calories coming from if you haven’t eaten in 7-8 hours because you were asleep? Typically, your body will actually break down muscle tissue to suffice. The answer, don’t sleep, ever. Ok fine ya sissy, sleep but when you wake up start with a big healthy breakfast. Think of the word itself “Break” and “Fast”, literally the word means break the fast. (fast·ing - abstention from all or certain types of food.) So eat breakfast for heaven’s sake and give your muscles the calories they need to burn fat. Don’t have time for breakfast? Here’s my advice, make time for it. Capiche?

4. Plan Ahead

Simply going through the day and expecting good choices to be around you when you need them isn’t going to cut it. Again, quit depending on others to make it happen for you. Remember the quote “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”? Well, it’s pretty famous for a reason, because it’s true. I’m too busy, I don’t have time, I’ve got a lot going on…….welcome to club. If you really want the change you’ll find time for it. It might be a hassle to learn a new way of cooking and eating, but you’ll be surprised that when you’ve got your system down it becomes much easier and faster than rummaging through cabinets like a raccoon in a dumpster looking for something to eat.

By no means an exhaustive list, but it’s a few important basics to any weight management plan. What’s the most important thing you can do right now though? START! Your plan won’t be perfect from the start, you won’t have the best workouts to begin and you certainly will stumble from time to time, but stop worrying about it. You learn as you go, but you certainly know what’s in store if you never get off the starting blocks. Think of us as those guys that give you those little cups of Gatorade during a marathon. We can’t run the race for you, but we can do our best to keep you going. The rest is up to you!

Yours In Fitness & Health,

Jesse Rooney

Healing You From The Inside Out

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:15:15 +0100

Healing You From The Inside Out isn't just an expression it's a promise. We've seen such amazing things here at Pikes Peak Hyperbaric and the stories keep coming. Our latest comes from Kim R who is a semi-pro golfer and broke his Patella more commonly known as the "knee cap". Kim had heard of Hyperbaric Therapy as a treament for athletic injuries and decided to give it a shot. Sounds like he's glad he did. Here's his words...

This X-ray is after 19 days. Notice the lower breaks are totally filled with bone and virtually gone. The upper break is filled with bone almost 50% it seems. I am no doc but after 7 treatments in the chamber they released me on this day to play golf and do anything else I could do minus squats and running. While they did not say it out right, you could tell the doctor was very surprised at the healing. He asked me how many days it had been since I broke it a number of times. Almost confused. This is normally a very long healing process. Three weeks later I was released to resume full activity. I am at 6 weeks 3 days today and I have no pain and I have been doing more than 1 hour a day on the elliptical machine and I have golfed 10 / 18 hole rounds in the last three weeks. All walking. Thanks for the help. Nothing short of amazing.

Kim R

Pikes Peak Hyperbaric "Healing You From The Inside Out"

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:01:28 +0100

Over the last few months it's been a wonderful gift to meet those who have chosen to use Hyperbaric Therapy as a go to source for healing. From fractured bones to nearly amputated limbs and everything in between we've seen quite the variety of injuries and conditions. There is truly no greater feeling than to help those who need it and feel as if they've lost hope. I'm here to tell you personally, hope is very much alive and if you haven't tried Hyperbaric Therapy, I'm very excited to show you why! Take a look at www.PikesPeakHyperbaric.com and check out the many conditions we treat. Then bounce over to the testimonials. We're getting wonderful results and we stand behind that promise 100%. In fact, that's our guarantee. If you don't get results, you don't pay. It's as simple as that. I'd like to say a very warm-hearted thank you to all of our wonderful clients that have been so good to us. It's an honor and a pleasure to help treat you and your support is what has made a job a passion. Here's to health!

Sincerely,
Jesse Rooney
Pikes Peak Hyperbaric
www.PikesPeakHyperbaric.com
866-674-6070

Pikes Peak Hyperbaric - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:22:16 +0100

The Hyperbaric Chamber provides up to 300% more oxygen saturation, allowing wounds to heal faster, swelling to be reduced much more quickly, restoration or increased blood flow to injured areas therefore hastening healing, aiding in detoxification and promoting general wellness. Furthermore, bacteria, viruses and yeast cannot survive in an oxygen enriched environment and the pressurized environment of the mild hyperbaric chamber allows many to recover much quicker from surgery or injury.

Reasons to use hyperbaric chambers vary. We treat many individuals with a wide range of symptoms as well as those suffering from chronic diseases and debilitating conditions such as ASD, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Lyme Disease, Cancer, Parkinson, Fibromyalgia, MS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, allergies, gut issues, sleep problems, just to scratch the surface. At present there are around 66 conditions that are being treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Location: 695 S. Colorado Blvd, Suite 210 Denver 80246
www.pikespeakhyperbaric.com
866-674-6070

Truly Inspiring - Small Miracles in Georgia

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:35:05 +0100

When I first put a blog post on this site I wasn’t sure if I would use it all that much. The thing is I enjoy writing, but I’m not one who writes just to write. Usually an event or experience spurs something inside me that’s significant enough for me to feel like I need to let it out. If I write I hope you know it means something. As I’m writing this I find myself sitting in the spacious confines of economy class row 12, seat C. Between the jarring for elbow space and almost seizure inducing ads for Direct TV flashing on the screen in front of my face I feel an overwhelming sense that I’m incredibly lucky to be where I am right now. Much to your dismay I’m not on this flight for the gourmet peanuts. A few days ago my father asked me if I would like to join him in coming to Georgia to meet a man by the name of Bill Schindler and learn about HBOT, otherwise known as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. I didn’t know anything about Bill or much about HBOT, but I did know that I had a “gut” feeling that this is something I wanted to know more about. My father had contacted Bill a week or two earlier and without even knowing who we were invited us to come to Georgia and not only that, he wanted us to stay with him and his wife. At this point you could say this might be a great experience or the next episode to the Saw horror movie saga. So we did exactly what you shouldn’t do in a horror movie; we went into the unknown.

As we drove through winding little roads past neatly kept houses on this overcast day one couldn’t help but wonder what we were getting into. We rang the doorbell and watched the door swing open to Bill and his wife. If there were any suspicious feelings lingering they were quickly washed away with Bill’s contagious energy and fist pound handshake followed by the hand explosion. (That might go right over some of your heads, don’t worry) With the scent of a wonderful meal wafting through the house perched over a private lake nestled in pine trees, Bill dives into what would be 24 hours straight of what I can only describe as passion in it’s purest form.

So who is Bill Shindler and why did we fly all the way from Colorado to Cumming Georgia to meet him? It’s weird to think that in 2010 pioneers still exist, but Bill is exactly that and he has essentially put Hyperbaric Therapy on the map so to speak. HBOT is something that’s been around for many years, but only recently is it starting to become recognized for the wonderful things it can do thanks to advances in technology. HBOT is a way of super-saturating the body with oxygen. So what’s so great about that? Have you ever heard of an NFL player by the name of Terrell Owens? A few years back Terrell Owens was a star receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles heading to the Super Bowl when he suffered what was supposed to be a season ending ankle injury. With such a devastating injury it was impossible for T.O. to play the game so he enlisted the help of Bill Schindler who had Terrell Owens not only walking again, but playing in the biggest football game in the NFL and what’s more is he had a great game. Bill Schindler runs a modest clinic in an unassuming medical building, but as as you walk through the doors you’re inundated with the stories of people whose lives have been irreversibly changed by what Bills doing. In this building, diseases such as Parkinson’s, Diabetes, M.S., Cerebral Palsy, Cancer and Autism are not only being treated, but conquered.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is essentially the equivalent of taking a dive to the bottom of an 11-foot pool and staying there for an hour or so. The only difference is you’re breathing pure oxygen and lying in a Hyperbaric Chamber. Why is oxygen so important? To figure that out just hold your breath! Simply put, no other element in this world is more necessary to our lives than oxygen itself. Just take a look at stroke victims who lose crucial functions of their brains after just a few minutes without it. The great barrier to treating these conditions is crossing the brain/blood barrier that only allows certain substances to cross it. Think of it like a guard who tells you that you can’t come in. You try to come in different disguises, but unlike Tom Cruise, you’re not sneaking in this time. There’s a simple law of physics that states that gas becomes a liquid under a certain amount of pressure. What HBOT does is pressurize the body so that the oxygen you’re breathing is absorbed into your red blood cells, the carriers of oxygen in the body and also the plasma that the cells are suspended in. With super-saturated oxygen red bloods cells floating through the body it’s like kicking the body’s immune system into overdrive. This is why burn patients, injured soldiers and the likes are treated with HBOT. The body simply is getting the element it needs most to do the thing it does best; find a way to survive!

I could spend a page upon page recanting stories that Bill told us, or the hundreds of signed footballs, baseballs, boxing gloves, racing jerseys, posters, hats and other memorabilia that I saw from today’s top and most influential athletes, but the thing that touched me the most is that Bill could care less about it. Bill never paid the $80,000 dollars per race cost to have his logo plastered on the fastest funny car in history. Bill never charged a dime to the more than 20,000 special needs children he’s taken sailing through his program Hearts For Sailing. The interesting thing is Bill isn’t independently wealthy or backed by private funding. These miracles he’s pulling off are a direct result of people being so moved by the work he’s doing and the results he’s getting that they are willing to donate it all.

Looking back on this trip I realize it was much more than just a trip to Georgia. I learned lessons that hopefully I can take with me for the rest of my life, both personal and professionally. Follow through on your word, treat people with respect, give people more than they expect and go the extra mile. Show people that good in the world is still very much alive and it lives in each and every one of us. Do what’s right and do it well, the rest will take care of itself. Until Next time guys, thanks for reading!

Yours In Fitness & Health,

Jesse

Welcome and Thank You For Your Support!

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:44:12 +0100

Hi Everyone,

First of all let me thank you for taking the time to visit a little piece of my world. I hope you've found everything you're looking for. This website is meant to be a guide, resource and a way for me to connect with you even when I can't be with you. Let's try and bridge that gap and give you a place to come for help. I've made a promise to myself and to all my clients that I will always try to evolve and give you the best service possible. No excuses or I wish I would have done that better. Let's start now and make that change we've always wanted. So welcome and thank you for coming along for the ride and making Jesse Rooney Fitness a success. Here's to a prosperous and healthy 2010!

Yours In Fitness & Health,
Jesse