Looking for guest authors

I've decided to ask a few folks to contribute and so far one has accepted!  So I'm putting a public call out for anyone who would be interested in writing one or more articles that I could post here in the Creation Fitness blog.

I don't mind you including links to your blog or website as long as you don't link/advertise products not in keeping with this blog.  Pretty easy there-no illegal drugs/supplements, no prohibited links, and please keep in mind I view fitness through a Christian worldview.  Does that mean I would exclude good advice from other viewpoints?  No, but does limit what I post and what I would look for in guest columns.

I owe one of you a follow-up e-mail and will send that later today. Other interested parties can comment or let me know via Google+ or Facebook.

Thanks for reading-

More on the Presidential Fitness Champions Challenge

Just a couple of quick points.  Last night while looking at the results for the 2013 Platinum Champions list (1,000,000 points-wow!) I saw a name that looked familiar but wasn't who I was looking for.  Off to FaceBook and sure enough, it was a FB friend who is a powerlifting Lutheran pastor!  So I shot him a quick post and yes, he's now on his way to a second million point award.

And that leads to my second point.  As you can see by looking at the various "exercises" that you can earn points doing here there are some weird events.  Since I can juggle, I've logged a few minutes juggling when I tried teaching some co-workers that important skill, but exercise?  How come "snowmobiling" is an approved activity, as is moto-cross riding but not regular motorcycle riding?  The only logic I can think of for "skydiving" applying as exercise-1 step, then falling, then a few seconds of pulling your chute in so you don't get dragged away on the ground or in the water-the sheer terror factor, could apply the way some of us ride!  Yes I am a motorcyclist with a blog and am a little biased but some of the exercise choices are truly bizarre.

Enough for that rant, and I am one-third the way to bronze and about 1.4% to Platinum!

Presidential Fitness Challenge log

I almost completely forget that a good friend I worked with in Afghanistan had been working on his gold Presidential Fitness Challenge Award, so we all signed up.  I hadn't logged any workouts in over a year and have been a pretty big slug since getting back from Afghanistan.  Sure I've worked out here and there, but nowhere near as consistently as I should be.

So last night I found my old screen name and log in and went to the website.  Once logged in, I tried to remember recent workouts and noticed you can only go back 2 months.  But that's ok, because you can get points for work-outs, but also things like walking around, yard work, and "hauling and lifting".  Considering I helped two people move in the past two months, that was definitely some hauling and lifting!

Still got a long way to go to Bronze, the first award at 40,000 points and Gold at 160,000.  I only have just over 10,000 points, but the good news is that's in only a few months of logging work-outs and activity.  If I consistently log what I do, and work out a little more consistently I hope to get between 800-1000 points a week.  Do I have time and the discipline to get the 1,000,000 point Platinum award?

We shall see!