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Be Simply Fit
by James Burns
Being simply fit involves more than than the physical component, we all need to be fit mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well. Those who are have a better outlook on life and are more apt to treat others with kindness and respect. Secondly those who are fit in the four areas mentioned have a much higher self esteem and love themselves. Those who love themselves love others much more freely. For the record my name is Jim Burns and I am a NASM Certified Personal [email protected] Bully Proof ClassroomMusic - https://www.bensound.com/
Episodes
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The Exercise Prescription That You Can't Out Source
We live in a world of prescriptions. If your blood pressure is high, your doctor may write a prescription. If your cholesterol is elevated, there may be a medication to help. You take that prescription to the pharmacy, they fill it,and you take it home.But today, I want to talk about one...
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Exercise Is A Rehearsal For Life
When we exercise, it’s important to understand more than simply how to perform a movement. We should alsounderstand why we’re doing it. Which muscles are working? How does the exercise improve balance, strength, mobility, or posture? Most importantly, how can it help us perform everyday…
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Practical Fitness For The Everyday Body
In this episode of Be Simply Fit a discussion takes place regarding the benefits of using The Be Simply Fit Store's Products The Be Simply Fit Store offers a diverse collection of fitness and nutrition guides specifically designed for older adults and those seeking practical wellness solutions....
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The Change Process
Change is not easy. In fact, it can be extremely difficult, especially when we have spent a lifetime climbing theladder of success only to discover, after years of struggling, that the ladder may have been leaning against the wrong wall. Understanding change can help us appreciate the process and...
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Silencing Food Noise: Strategies For Mindful Eating Habits
Food Noise: Are You Really Hungry? Let me ask you a question. How often do you think about food when you aren't actually hungry? Maybe you just finished dinner, but you're already thinking about dessert. You're watching television and suddenly you want something salty. You walk into the kitchen,...
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The Three Kinds of Pain: Know What Your Body Is Telling You
When something hurts, what do youdo? Do you stop exercising completely? Do you try to push through it? Or do you assume that because you're getting older, pain is simply something you have tolive with? The answer depends on why you're hurting. In today's episode, we're going to talk about what I...
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Creeping Obesity: The Pounds You Never Notice Until They Add Up
How does someone gain 20, 30, or even 40 pounds without really noticing it? Usually, it doesn't happen overnight. It happens a pound at a time. In today's episode, we're talking about something I call “creeping obesity”—the gradual weight gain that can occur when we add just one or two pounds a...
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Playground Politics
This episode gives the listener the tools necessary to help prepare their children or students for the true game oflife. Playground politics is about preparation for life. Children need safe opportunities to experience winning, losing, negotiating, cooperating, disagreeing, making friends…
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The Power of Consistency: Building Strength Through Routine
You know There is real power in simply showing up. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Leaving the house.Going to work. Exercising. Talking with other people. Doing the ordinary things that make up an ordinary day. They may not seem important, but repeated day after day,these simple actions…
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Managing Spinal Stenosis: Why Movement, Strength and Persistence Matters
Spinal stenosis can change the way you live your life. I know because I am dealing with it myself. For someone who believes strongly in exercise, strength, and remaining physically independent, being told that the spinal canal has narrowed and may be putting pressure on nerves can be frustrating....
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Exercise and Cognitive Dissonance
When Did Movement Become Optional?Cognitive Dissonance, Exercise, and a Culture of Comfort We all know exercise is good for us. We know movement strengthens the heart, preserves muscle, supports mental health, and helps us remain independent. Yet millions of Americans continue to live…
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Heavy Lifting, Muscle, and Weight Loss: Why Strength Matters More Than You Think
In today's episode of the Be Simply Fit Podcast, we're going to talk about why heavy resistance training becomes increasingly important as we age—and why buildingand maintaining muscle may be one of the best investments you can make in your future health. Muscle isn't just about looking strong....
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Let's Teach Kids How To Play Again
Before we dive into today's episode, I want you to think back to your own childhood. Can you remember the feeling of racing your friends down the street, climbing trees, riding your bike until the sun went down, or spending an entire afternoon outside without ever looking at a screen?We didn't…
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Training for Quadruple Bypass: Why My Starting Line Wasn’t My Finish Line
What if your greatest health challenge became thebeginning of your greatest comeback? In this deeply personal episode of the Be SimplyFit Podcast, I share the story of how I prepared for quadruple bypass surgery at the age of 68—and why that experience forever changed the way I think about...
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Focus On What You Can Do, And Not What You Can't
Welcome to the Be Simply Fit Podcast,where we help you build strength, improve your health, and enjoy life at every age. My name is Jim Burns, and I am a NASM Certified PersonalTrainer and Behavior Change Specialist, and today we're talking about something that every one of us will eventually...
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Trading Gym Machines For Physical Autonomy
In this episode Jim discusses how we can trade gym machines for physical autonomy. When most people think about working with a personal trainer, they think about motivation, accountability, or getting a great workout. But there’s another form of supportthat’s just as important—instrumental…
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Why Are My Running Shoes So Heavy
What if your running shoes aren't really the heavy part? In this episode of the Be Simply Fit Podcast, we explore the invisible weight that so many people carry into every workout. For many, it's not a lack of motivation, discipline, or willpower that makes exercise difficult—it's years of...
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The Butterfly Effect and Exercise
What if one small decision today could completely change your future? In this episode of Be Simply Fit, Jim Burns explores the powerful concept of the Butterfly Effect and how it applies to your health and fitness journey. Just as tiny events in nature can create extraordinary outcomes over time,...
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The Power of Deadlifts
What exactly is a deadlift? The deadlift is a compound exercise where you lift a weight—usually a barbell—off the ground until you’re standing tall, then lower it back down. It sounds simple, right? But don’t let its simplicity fool you. The deadlift recruits multiple muscle groups at once,...
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Stress Management Through A Balanced Life Pod Course
This 90 minute Pod Course provides you with ways to achieve balance in your life and help manage the stress that everyone seems to experience. Understand that some stress is good and kids need to experience it at age appropriate levels. It’s the management of the stress that seems to elude us and...
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Life In The Blue Zone
Today, the average life expectancy of an American is 76.4 years, and in 2023 over 70,000 Americans reached their 100th birthday. But in the Blue Zones, or regions of the world where people live exceptionally long lives, individuals are ten times more likely to live to 100. These…
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Meet Forest Bronzen
Forest is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder/CEO of Camplight and board member of Digital Detox where he leads global initiatives for digital wellness. With a customer base in over 90 countries and a deep passion for improving the relationship society has with technology, Forest travels the...
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How Much Is Enough?
Exercise is great for staying in shape and maintaining your health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The problem is as we get older we are never sure of the volume, or the intensity of the exercise and we can over or underdue our routine leaving us either exhausted or…
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Food For Life
The content in this podcast is for informational purposes and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice. Please consult your doctor regarding any dietary changes. What to eat, when to eat, and how to eat, all questions that people ask when considering weight loss, longevity, and...
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How To Get Kids Moving, NOW!
Don't get me wrong any activity is beneficial organized or not. But when kids come home after dance class and lay in bed and stare at their phone they don't understand that the dance class just wasn't enough. Our children need to understand the benefits of lifelong fitness and movement. Chores…
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Meet Jenna Edwards
Are you an Aggressive Optimist? If not, read Jenna's new book, Aggressive Optimism. In her early twenties, Jenna set off for Los Angeles, to make her dreams come true. She even landed a role on the legendary "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" show. Imagine inheriting Buffy's powers! But then, a terrible...
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Staying Alive
How long do you want to live? I mean really live. Those that live to numbers like 100 or better don't have a recipe they have a lifestyle. A lifestyle that they have been working on their whole life. Here are just a few things that I gleaned from reading about these centenarians. Oh, I throw in…
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Meet Stan Gibson
Corporate Executive turned Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Success Coach, Stan Gibson has become a sought after speaker throughout the US for his message that both inspires and engages others to greatness! Stan is a long time corporate real estate executive with over 35 years of leadership…
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Compound Exercises
A compound exercise engages several different muscle groups to perform a lift or movement. For example, a squat engages the muscles in your glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves and core. Compound exercises are a form of functional strength training, building strength for the motions you perform…
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Avoiding Confrontations
Let’s face it. No one likes a confrontation. Often, confrontations come out of the blue, and we can find ourselves in a very uncomfortable position where we need to quickly find the right words to defend ourselves. I’ve been a teacher since 1977, and I have experienced my fair share of unpleasant...
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How To Handle Estrangements
Well the holidays are here again and we are going to feel that gnawing anxiety in the pit of our stomach when we have to get around those that we don't speak with all year; that would be our parents or even our children. Give yourself an early holiday gift and start the process of reconciliation....
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School Health For Students And Teachers
Systemic Health is critical for the wellbeing of family, place of employment, politically, schools, and yes the world. Unfortunately many of these systems are not health, but we are going to focus on schools for this podcast. This episode of Consistently Fit is designed to help teachers become...
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 12: Purpose and Concluding Thoughts
Well it’s good to have something to do every day for sure but more importantly it’s good to know what you are going to do, how you are going to do it and how long something will take. This is known as setting goals, and with every goal there are objectives. The objectives are the baby steps we…
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 11: Listening To Understand
We all like to be heard; and some of us like to be heard a bit too much. We can have a tendency to inundate a conversation with our own interests and just love communicating to people how smart we are or how we solved some large scale problem at work. If you happen to be with someone when this is...
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 10: Practice Self Control
No one has self control. Have you looked at the condition of society? 1 in 4 homes are in foreclosure. I guess we can blame the banks, or can we? Everybody wants something bigger and better. To get bigger and better the money has to be made to get it, unless the bank doesn’t care. But, in the…
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 9: Read Something Inspirational; Anything
I made the mistake of having a couple of newspapers and other news outletsdeliverer headlines and breaking stories to my inbox daily. I must say I keep in touch with what is going on in the world. The problem is that 90% of it is so negative, sad and at times slanted based upon the political...
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 8: Stop Spreading Rumors and Gossip
Let’s say you have a piece of wood, a nail, and a hammer. Pretend the wood is a person, and the nail is a nasty rumor about that person. If you hammer in the nail, you’re obviously hurting him or her. If you then pull out the nail…well, there’s still a hole in the wood, and the damage has been...
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 7: Stop Trying To Multi Task: You Can't Do It
For some reason people believe they can multi task. Well guess what; they can’t. Brain research tells us that we can’t focus on more than one task at a time. Think I’m crazy? Well try singing Amazing Grace while the car in front of you is doing 20 miles an hour on a major highway. You see good…
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 6: Start Writing Letters
Whether we want to believe it or not, as adults, we are significant to others right now. It’s time to realize how much we mean to our children, our spouse, and other friends and family members. How much does it really mean to you to mean that much to another person? It doesn’t matter what you…
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 5: Do One Household Chore A Day
It is important however to do one thing every day, and ifeverybody does one thing a lot will get accomplished. I am not talking about large scale projects I am referring to daily things that need attention. As an example I empty the dishwasher every morning. I know my wife appreciates it, so when...
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The Power of Consistency Chapter 2: Do 5-10 Minutes Of Exercise In The Morning
Let me share an interesting workout with you: Micro Workouts. To be very honest up until recently I never heard of this before. Basically it’s doing 5-10 minutes of exercise throughout the day. Oh, you can do a more general workout say for 30-45 minutes for sure. But often after these long…
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The Power Of Consistency Chpt. 4: Do something nice for your spouse, children, or your parents
Chapter 4; Do Something Nice For Your Spouse, Your Children, Or Your Parents. Don't wait until you feel like doing it, just do it and the good feelings will come. The Power Of Consistency Donate on Patreon
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Meet Dianne Kosto
Dianne Kosto Dianne Kosto is a mom on a Mission and a leading expert dedicated to making Neurofeedback accessible to all. For over 14 years the profound impact of her work has brought hope and healing to families struggling with ADHD, impulsivity, anxiety, depression, and many other mental…
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The Power Of Consistency Chapter 3 Eat Healthy
Exercise and diet go together. Jack LaLanne the late fitness guru from the 50’s and 60’s once said thatstaying healthy is 90% diet and 10% exercise if you want to remain healthy. Wecan’t exercise to eat more or reward ourselves with food after exercise. The truth is we can’t out train a bad diet.
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The Power If Consistency Chapter 1: The Benefits Of Rising Early
Rising early has it's benefits. Join Jim in chapter one of "The Power Of Consistency" and discover what you can do when you put your feet on the floor a bit earlier than you might be used to. The Power Of Consistency
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Consistency Intro
For the next several podcasts I will be posting an audio version of my book "The Power Of Consistency." This will be done a bit at a time so todays short podcast is only the intro. My goal is to get you 12 things that when done consistently can really change your life. I am attaching a link to…
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Meet Dr. Eric Recker
Dr. Recker spent the first half of his life doing what he thought he had to do. Puttinghis nose down and enduring the grind. But it was never quite enough. Through experiences with triathlon, mountain climbing, owning a dental practice with a team of 20, becoming a pilot, and extensive travel, he...
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Where Is Your Faith?
Change is a step of faith and with more faith change may come a bit easier. But, that depends on us and our patience because truly God my have a few lessons to teach us before he answers our prayers. Join me as I get vulnerable with you and share my faith and how I discovered what faith can…
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How Many Steps?
Well if you weigh more than you should you need a few more steps in order to lose those extra pounds. Any activity is good but if you are trying to get rid of some body fat this is a case where more is better. 10,000 is nice but 15,000 steps might be the number for you. It's Not 10,000 Steps...
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Parents Need Parenting: Now More Then Ever
From a parents perspective it is critical to deal with their child using rules and regualtions and compassion and understanding. From an adult child's perspective the same needs to be accomplished with our parents and visa versa. From the schools perspective at times parents have to be managed…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Being simply fit involves more than than the physical component, we all need to be fit mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well. Those who are have a better outlook on life and are more apt to treat others with kindness and respect. Secondly those who are fit in the four areas mentioned have a much higher self esteem and love themselves. Those who love themselves love others much more freely. For the record my name is Jim Burns and I am a NASM Certified Personal [email protected] Bully Proof ClassroomMusic - https://www.bensound.com/
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