Posts Tagged ‘Fitness’

• A Little Good.

  Date: 2011.04.21 | Category: Bible, Christian, Encouragement, Fitness, God, Health, Life, Photos, Scripture | Response: 0

  ^“For physical training is of some value (useful for a little), but godliness (spiritual training) is useful and of value in everything and in every way, for it holds promise for the present life and also for the life which is to come.” (Amplified Bible)

  In 1 Timothy 4:8 The Apostle Paul writes that physical training is of some use then contrasts that spiritual training is useful in all things.  I agree completely, I couldn’t live a productive life without spiritual training.  I wholeheartedly believe that my life would be useless if I hadn’t found God.  I don’t even know if I would have been alive.  I have been a Christian for more than 17 years, in that time I didn’t just accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour then just do what I used to.  No I began a journey of renewal and change that has gradually improved me, my attitude, thinking and behaviours.  This will not end until I leave this body and go to be with Him.  There is no way I could do it without input from solid biblical teaching and taking up my own responsibility to further learn about what it is to follow Christ.  This is Spiritual Training.

  Physical Training is useful for a little.  It’s not saying it’s completely useless and does nothing.  It’s saying it does something.  I want to highlight the fact that Paul was writing this in the first century.  Life then was different to now.  What would have benefitted them a little, would probably benefit us a great deal more.  The household duties alone of a woman would have been an entire workout.  Think of it, carting water, grinding flour for bread, beating clothes clean, not to mention the processing of animals for food.  So you can see how physical exercise would have been of little use.  NOW, in my house water comes out of a tap, flour comes from the shops (that I drive to), bread is baked and ready to buy or otherwise I use my bread machine to make it.  Clothes are cleaned in a washing machine, a few pushes of a button and they’ll be ready within an hour to hang out.  We skip the processing of animals in our house, I process vegies, but still I buy them from a shop and could easily pick up a few prepacked slabs of meat from that section if I wanted to.  Gee – how hard is that?  Not hard enough.

  

  So I add exercise to my lifestyle.  To offset the calories I take in and don’t use and to add strength to my muscles to support my ligaments and bones as I age.  I hope that I won’t have any wasting diseases that effect our western societies as people age.  I don’t want to be bedridden and unable to support my own weight because a bone might snap.  I want to be strong and healthy in body, mind and spirit so I can continue God’s work until the day He takes me home.

• Training for…?

  Date: 2011.04.12 | Category: Fitness, Health, Life | Response: 0

  Lately I’ve taken up exercise to compliment my healthier eating. I’ve always admired triathletes so I thought I’d do a modified training program.

  Swim – Bike – Run

  I don’t enjoy swimming in recent years and I don’t have a pool I can do laps in, so I do a weights workout to work the whole body. For the Bike component I do bike riding, usually on my exercise bike, but now that it has cooled down I do go for the occassional ride with the family. For the “Run” I don’t. I walk. Sometimes I’ll take the dog for nice meander around our local park, which now has nice paths around it. Other times I’ll leave him at home so I can walk at a faster pace. I went into town once (2km there and back), but to keep up the pace I looked a bit loony so I don’t think I’ll do that again, maybe just a casual walk for there.

  So I “train” (for what I don’t know, but it’s fun.) Monday through to Saturday then rest on Sunday.