Going Solo

By Don Otis –

I set out on a mountain bike ride recently on the back side of Pikes Peak in my home state of Colorado.  It was atop this behemoth of a mountain that Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful” in 1893, first as a poem. The peak dominates the west side of Colorado Springs and is the easternmost 14,000-foot mountain in the United States. Read more

Beating the Heat of Summer

By Don Otis –

I can remember the first time I flew into Miami from Los Angeles. It was 3:00 p.m. and time for a workout after sitting on a long flight, right? What a big mistake! Read more

The Stress Effect and Exercise

By Don Otis –

Who doesn’t feel some stress in life today? We struggle with unemployment, fear of terrorism, how to pay our mortgage, a bad relationship, or just the day-to-day pressure to get it all done. If we add ill health or fatigue to this list, any of us would be overwhelmed. Read more

How to Overcome Your Workout Excuses

By Don Otis –

I frantically dug through my workout bag in the locker room. Where was my workout shirt? (Have you ever kept looking for something in the same place even after you knew it wasn’t there?) Now, I had a decision to make that took some internal debate. Should I risk the humiliation of wearing a button-down shirt in the gym or use my shirt as an excuse to give up on my workout?

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Failure is Inevitable in the Quest for Fitness

By Don Otis –

How are you doing with your New Year goals? By February of each year, the average American (fifty percent of us) has already fallen off the wagon. By April, even more have given up on their goals.

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