Sifu Slim short version Michael Phelps Challenge Two.
The Michael Phelps Challenge:
Part of Sifu’s marketing and wellness awareness platform to reduce sedentary/neurotic behavior.
In 2009, as part of The Aging Athlete Project, Sifu Slim produced a friendly yet vital challenge to the then age 24 Michael Phelps. See (https://youtu.be/XkHJdGLDImk)
The Video called for then two-time Olympian Michael, to brake the sedentary and excessive lifestyle cycle of the typical aging athlete. To do this, he should stay physically active and add new forms to his fitness program. He would thrive if her learned physical movement that is Recrea-tional, Rehabilitative, Playful, and Maintenance Oriented and also get out in nature and avoid being sedentary for long duration.
During the Rio Olympics, Sifu Slim watched The Evolution of Michael Phelps (https://youtu.be/BVgTYmBMBD8)
and saw that Michael had experienced a physical and emotional breakdown that was partly rooted in sedentary behavior.
On 8 12 16, during Michael’s fourth Olympics, Sifu shot a new video challenge. Sifu comments on the life of an aging athlete and compares physical performers and their unbalanced, sedentary behavior that contributed to their early exit from this planet.
A common result of sedentary and abusive lifestyles is depression, apathy, and being unfulfilled. Many people then binge on food and alcohol and begin using other addictive substances. Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley died young after long-term use of substances–their attempts to stimu-late and sedate their biochemical makeup which had gone awry.
Sinatra and Fred Astaire lived long lives (died in their 80s) largely because they received regular stimulus from their active lives. The multi-talented Astaire was always physical and always en-gaged in projects.
Sinatra, a driven person, continued to work, advance his skills, and perform. Sinatra also report-edly took an anti-depressant (Elavil) which caused weight gain. Not a wellness-oriented person, Sinatry was almost always engaged in stimulating activity and kept his life full of projects, per-forming, and travel—all of which are not exercise per se but are substantially different from Michael Jackson’s later years which included sleeping during the day, disconnecting from society, dealing with biomechanical breakdown (back problems, etc.) and frequently staying inside his hotel rooms and various homes.
The goal is to learn what works and what doesn’t. Sedentism and being disengaged will drag us down.
Jack LaLanne had the way to overcome obstacles–and he had many. He rarely sat still and he never gave up on us or himself.
Keep moving, find projects, help others and never give up.
See SedentaryNation.com
See TheAgingAthlete.com
