Archive for March, 2012
Running halls leads to success on Tech's track
Posted: March 11, 2012 at 9:22 pm
FORT WAYNE Ask any principal or teacher, and theyll tell you one of the standard rules in any school is to not run in the halls.
Sometimes there are exceptions.
Our high school didnt have a track, Indiana Tech junior sprinter Adella King said, recalling her time at Detroit Finney. We ran in the hallways. It was wide enough for one person at a time. But we ran through the halls, up the stairs, back down, and through the halls again.
It was pretty frustrating. I got discouraged to the point where I stopped going to practices and kind of showed up at the meets and ran.
And her coach allowed her to do that?
Our program wasnt really a program, she said.
King has not only found a program at Tech, but Tech has found one of the top sprinters in the nation in King.
In the recent NAIA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Geneva, Ohio, King finished second in the 60-meter dash with a personal-best time of 7.43 seconds, finished fourth in the 200 with a school-record time of 23.90, and ran on the 1,600 relay team that was second with a time of 3:41.32 third-fastest in NAIA history.
I had seen her run at a couple meets and worked with a family friend, Tech coach Doug Edgar said of King. He said, This girls going to be really good.
Shes been more than good. With 12 All-America awards to her credit, King with a year and a half left in her career is already one of the more decorated athletes in Tech history.
Personal Training Franchise Chain Fitness Revolution Now Offering International Licensing
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Fitness Revolution, the fastest growing personal training franchise in the world, is now offering International Licensing.
Elizabethtown, KY (PRWEB) March 10, 2012
Founded in December of 2010, Fitness Revolution began offering its first territories in January of 2011. By the end of the year, it had expanded to over 100 different franchises and had been registered in over 40 different states; including Illinois, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The personal training franchise chain is now expanding beyond opportunities within the United States. Quality personal training is something which knows no borders, said Fitness Revolution co-owner Pat Rigsby. Fitness Revolution is really becoming an international brand.
Fitness Revolution has positioned itself as a new model for personal training businesses that stands opposed to the traditionally inefficient health club and one on one training models prevalent in the United States.
Instead, Fitness Revolution provides clients with an international network of like-minded fitness entrepreneurs, Award winning coaching and support, an internal and external marketing program, and an operational system that supports organizational freedom.
The purpose of the international licensing currently underway by Fitness Revolution, said Nick Berry, Rigsbys partner and co-owner of Fitness Revolution, is to provide entrepreneurial personal trainers with a sustainable business system, without infringing upon their current brand.
Indeed, the new international licensing program gives licensees the option of maintaining their current brands while still receiving support, training, and marketing systems from Fitness Revolution.
Moreover, Fitness Revolution is ensuring new licensees exclusive rights to their specific territories. This means that no other Fitness Revolution franchises will be able to compete within the same market.
There is no doubt that obesity and lack of physical fitness are problems currently faced across the world, said Rigsby. Fitness Revolution wants to give enthusiastic fitness professionals the tools to make a difference in their communities, wherever they may be.
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Words of Wellness: Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
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Thanks to technology, we have access to informationand our jobs24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, this can lead to information overload, where we have multiple things to do, and not enough focus on any one task to get it done well. Margaret Moore, Founder and CEO of Wellcoaches and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, teamed up with Dr. Paul Hammerness to share tips on how to clear your mind and be at the top of your game in their book Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time.
Q: What inspired you to write this book? A: Theres a lot interest in neuroscience and how we can apply it to our daily lives. This book came out of the idea of translating the science that weve learned from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) studies into helping everyone organize their minds. It was a partnership between psychiatrists at Harvard and wellness coaches. My job was to translate the science into self-coaching solutions. One of my visions is to bring forward the partnership of physicians and wellness coaches to help people make lasting changes, so it was a natural for me to work with a doctor. A doctor gives you your diagnosis, and thats all very nice, but now what do you do? How do you actually implement this? So, its a team effort.
Q: How does disorganization affect peoples lives? A: When your brain is full of negative emotions, frenzy, distraction and just overwhelmedyoure multitasking, and youre running aroundwhat happens is that you get very distended. Your brain gets worn down because its not designed to do all of these tasks. In todays world, weve got more distractions that take over our brain than ever before. You end up in this state of chaos and frenzy, and that makes it hard to get things done. Also, youre really tiredyoure too tired to even take care of yourself. So were kind of wearing out our brains, and that creates the disorganization. So, if you can have an energetic and organized mind, then everything goes better.
Q: What are some of the biggest distractions we face today? A: Well, I think the first would be that we have to-do lists that are too long. We think about the 32 things were not doing when were doing the one thing we need to focus on. The second thing is with all of these new technologies, you dont leave (the distractions) ever. Even when we go for social dinners, we cant leave our cell phones behind. So you think about the amount of distractions we have, its never been greater. Were all kind of hyper-distracted. The back of the brain was built to be looking for distractions all the time, so when you have too many, you overwhelm the front part of your brain. (The front part of the brain) is the thinking part which mitigates brains ability to cope and set distractions aside to get calm and focused and creative. The third factor is that all of these factors cause a downward spiral, which leads us to not have the energy to exercise and eat well and make good choices, and then our brain works even less well because our brain needs good fuel, rest and exercise. The brain works far better when we exercise regularly. When we dont do all those things, then we make it even worse. So I would say those are the three big things: getting overwhelmed, the amount of distraction we face, and the fact were not taking care of ourselves.
Q: So, if youre a naturally disorganized person, how do you start getting organized? A: Well, first, I would build on what you already know works. Think about the combinations of things that put you in a calm statesay first thing in the morning. And rather than try to have really good focus for eight hours a day, set a goal for 30 minutes. Put yourself in the right frame of mindwhether you work out or do deep breathing or look at a picture that makes you feel good. Whatever you can do to get yourself into a good place. Set small goals. So, if you have a day now where every five minutes you change your focus to a different thing, give yourself a half-hour of complete focus. Turn your phone off, turn your wireless off, close your door and just enjoy getting into one thing. When you do that, youre creative, and you get the big picture. Q: How does getting organized improve your life? A: When you scatter your focus across a lot of things, nothing gets done well. You dont connect the dots and see patterns, and get to this strategysort of above the tree. And when youre sitting in the trees all the time, with all the distractions, youre not feeling great about how youre doing on a project or how youre relating to your spouse or your child. Everything feels not quite right, and that leads you to be more down at the end of the day. The advantage to having these high-quality focus times, even though you still have the 32 things to do, is that every day you get a few things done really beautifully. You feel like youre at your own level of brilliance. Also, you can let go of all the other things (on your to-do list) when you know youve done a great job with a few things. That puts you into a whole different frame of mind, and you then begin to steadily knock things off the list, do a great job, and everything gets done. It gets you into the calm, thoughtful, strategic, energetic place. You have a lot more energy, and you feel a lot better about your life. Youre more alive. Your energy is more alive because youre using it well.
Q: What tips can you offer to people who already feel like theyre organized? A: Even the super organizedbecause Im one of those people toowere still overloading with too much to do. One thing that happens to people like us is that were able to focus, but we have trouble stopping our focus and take a rest because we can sit for hours. So what happens is we get ourselves depleted without realizing it. We actually have to make ourselves get up and take a break and change focuswhereas other people are always taking a break. So focused people dont have that, but then we dont stop, and we burn ourselves out. And focused people still get distracted: I was recently doing a workshop on a Saturday morning, and I got up at 5 am. I decided I was going to take 15 minutes for coffee, looking out at the ocean. Im sitting there, and next thing you know, Im sitting at my laptop, writing an e-mail to my client at 5:30 in the morning on a Saturday. I looked at myself and thought, what am I doing here? My brain was hi-jacked. It takes nothing. We all are subject to distraction. All of us, organized or not, have negative frenzy, and so we all have to look at managing the frenzy, so that it doesnt impair or ability to do things or to be creative.
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Sometimes you just have to laugh at life and all its strange turns.
Roger Crebs has spent the last 19 years of his life coaching wrestlers through Lycoming's program.
And he's done so with plenty of success. Enough, in fact, to merit an induction into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Hall of Fame. But therein lies the strange turn taken by life on what appeared to be a straight road with no turn-offs.
Lycoming, with a 7-8 dual meet record, finished with a losing mark for the first time in 25 years. And with that mark came Crebs' predicament until Warrior wrestler Stephen Hinton qualified for the NCAA?Division III?tournament this weekend in La Crosse, Wis., site of this weekend's NWCA coaches' social and induction ceremony.
"I wasn't planning on making the trip. This is a time to recruit and my personnal endeavors don't come ahead of the team," Crebs said. "Stephen was great at the ECWC Championships. It was a huge tournament for him and it paid our way to come here."
The tournament might have paid for the trip, but it was Crebs and Hinton's long hours of work that ultimately punched the pair's tickets.
Hinton entered the ECWC tournament as the fourth seed and trampled the competition to secure the eighth seed at NCAA Division III Championships. He finished the tournament 1-2 on Friday, falling in the consolation second round.
"His career has been full of ups and downs," Crebs said. "He came into the school as a 103-pounder and overtime he's grown into the 125 weight class."
Hinton, from Montclair, Va., has shown steady improvement each season with the team.
In his first season, one of major adjustment, Hinton, stumbled to a 5-11 mark while trying to fit into his new weight class.
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Retirement plan fees in focus
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By CHRIS FREEMAN - cfreeman@shawmedia.com
By this summer, companies and employees will be able to find out more information on their employer-based retirement plans than ever before.
New regulations from the Department of Labor are going to require employers and retirement plan providers to determine whether the money paid to retirement plan servicers is reasonable and to disclose the feeds that are being charged by the servicer.
And that could provide transparency that the industry has not seen on a grand scale before, said Clear Financial Strategies Global Wealth Manager Allen Bronton.
[The new rules] say corporations must gather what the fees are for the retirement plan, and its their responsibility to do it, not the plan providers, Bronton said. Once they have the information, they have to be able to make a decision on what the participants are paying, and whether thats reasonable for the service they receive.
The final rule implementation has been pushed back by the Labor Department to July 1, and all companies must be in compliance with the regulations by that date.
The common-sense rule that we are finalizing today will shed light on the true costs of 401(k) accounts and ultimately reward those working hard and saving for retirement, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis said in a news release last month. This rule, and its companion participant-level fee disclosure rule, will greatly increase the level of transparency in retirement plans.
When businesses that sponsor retirement plans, and the workers who participate in those plans, get better information on associated fees and expenses, theyll be able to shop around and make informed decisions that will lead to cost savings and a larger nest egg at retirement.
The three most common fees that plans charge that generally are not announced, Bronton said, are the 12(b)-1 fee, the Shareholder Service fee, and the Sub-TA fee.
The 12(b)-1 fee covers cost for advertising, marketing, and distribution of the plan. For larger companies such as Fidelity or Morningstar, that would cover the cost of promoting the plan inside and outside the workplace.
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