Becoming a role model for your friends and family can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. You have been practicing a healthy lifestyle and have experienced the benefits from it and want others to have a similar experience. Being a role model will help both parties become healthier and more positive.
Educate Yourself First of all, you will want to do the research. You need to know what new studies and trends are out there about health and fitness. You will want to understand the different kinds of workout programs and routines and how they help people become fit. For example, lifting in order to bulk up is very different from lifting in order to be toned sculpted.
Continually educate yourself and stay informed. Workout programs and dieting trends change often and you will want to understand them in order to explain them to others. As a role model, you should be knowledgeable.
Passion, Drive and Motivation Secondly, you need enough passion, drive and motivation to be a role model. If you are not motivated to wake up and jog in the morning, why would your friend be motivated? Role models are the ones that motivate and help others stay on track.
Living a healthy lifestyle should be important to you; that is why you decided to become a role model. Having the passion to eat healthy and work out on a regular basis can be inspirational to others.
Stay Positive Along with motivation, it is important to maintain a positive attitude. Once negative feelings come into play, you and your friend will lose momentum and find working out and eating healthy not very important.
Focus on the successes of your friend or family member you are helping. Keep them positive and show them they are making strides.
Follow Your Own Advice If you tell your friend he or she needs to run three times a week, then you should probably run three times a week. If you suggest cutting out cake and cookies, then you should not eat those sweets either. If you do not practice what you preach, others will not take you seriously and will not follow your advice.
This advice can be helpful to parents as well. If you are concerned that your child is not active enough or is eating unhealthy foods, don't just tell them what to change, change yourself as well. As a parent, you should be active and eat healthier foods. Give your child someone to model after.
Be There and Be Supportive When your friend wants to go to the gym for a swim or lift, go with them. It can be hard going to a gym alone for the first time. As a role model, you can offer comfort and support. In addition, you will want to be at the gym to help demonstrate proper form while running, lifting, etc.
You might even want to help plan workout routines for each day or week. Your friend will need direction and advice. Also, if you go to the gym on a weekly basis, encourage your friend or family member to join you. Help him or her incorporate working out during the week.
Provide Feedback and Other Resources As role model, give positive and encouraging feedback. People will want to know what they are doing well and what they can improve on. Also, provide resources such as literature on what types of food to eat, what kinds of exercises could be beneficial, and even information on healthy weights and heart rates. Being a role model means having the answers to questions and concerns.
Being a role model is beneficial for all. The key is to stay positive, motivated and have fun. Beginning a new lifestyle is usually more enjoyable and easier with a friend and a role model.
However, I'm not sure she's a great role model for older women. This is why: Judge Judy was sharing her wisdom on the Larry King show, and the conversation turned to computers. Judy and Larry admitted they had never used a computer, and that's okay. When you have people who can do what you don't want to do or can't do ? that's fine.
But here's the thing. Judy implied that she was too old to learn. She didn't say so in so many words, but that was her message, loud and clear. It should not have surprised me ? on her show, she often makes comments about ?getting old? or ?being old.? As smart as she is, she seems not to understand that you are what you say you are. Chronological ?old? is one thing. Mental ?old? is something else. You can't control the former but you are in full control of the latter as long as you have your wits about you.
Here's what really bothers me: Her comment about age being a deterrent to learning new information compounds the widely held myth that old (or older) people can't learn new things. Judge Judy is an extremely influential woman ? we listen to her and accept her wisdom. While she was speaking I could just picture older women who have given up on themselves, silently assenting that they too are too old to learn to use a computer, thankful to Judge Judy that she has given them permission to continue to vegetate.
She often chastises miscreants on her show, suggesting that they need an ?epiphany.? An epiphany, according the dictionary is a sudden realization, ?a sudden intuitive leap of understanding, especially through an ordinary but striking occurrence.?
Judge Judy is not old, but her comments and demeanor make one think that she's older than her reputed 56 years. She needs an epiphany. Not just for herself, but for the countless women who look to her as a role model.
That she has others who do computer work for her is great. It frees her up to do other things. However, I suggest that she keep her brilliant super-charged brain firing on all cylinders as she enters her older years by learning to use a computer. Other than doing crossword puzzles, I can think of nothing more challenging than doing battle with a dumb machine that makes you think far more intensely than you can imagine.
For example, remembering passwords is a major pain. I keep a log of passwords for handy reference, but I don't refer to it until and unless I am stumped when trying to log into a password protected page or program. I constantly surprise myself that I can remember so many different passwords. For me, that is a major benefit of using a computer ? the constant challenge to remember what I want to remember.
Age be damned, Judge Judy! You are too old to learn only when you say you are. Get a new attitude, Your Honor!
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