Mr Aviance lost 250 pounds through walking alone.
While many people are desperate to lose weight they may not have enough motivation to stick to a permanent and tough exercise routine, nor do they want to go to a gym where they fear they’ll be surrounded by chiselled men and toned women arrogantly strutting their bodily perfections in front of them.
Taking A Different Approach To Weight Lose
However losing weight does not necessarily require such extreme exercise or indeed any financial outlay.An underappreciated form of exercise is walking, something that is free of judgemental eyes and financial investment. It is also a relaxing and social form of weight loss that can be easily customized to suit anyone’s weekly routine without breaking a sweat. Papa Joe is something of a local celebrity in Los Angeles; he is a teacher at Charles While Elementary School and has long been a campaigner of healthy living. And unlike personal trainers that push unimpressed people to tear up their lifestyle and everything about their diet and exercise routine, if any, Mr Aviance. He lost 250 pounds by simply walking five miles a day for 18 months and claims that this was done with, “No gym, no gastric-bypass surgery, no crazy diets.”
Papa Joe has since been campaigning about the benefits of an easy-to-achieve healthy lifestyle to members of his local community. He said, I’ve always been heavy all my life. And this is a great opportunity to get outside and show kids how exercise and eating right is a healthy way to live. I said, ‘What’s the easiest exercise that I can do?’ And walking was it.”
Beyond taking kids walking around the community to preach his born-again beliefs, he also works alongside the 99 Cent Store to destroy deeply cemented preconceptions that healthy diets are too expensive for the Average Joe. He organizes fun and interactive in store events with children to raise awareness about healthy living from a young age in the hope that any advice adopted will stay with them through life.
A Change of Lifestyle
Getting children to leave the sanctity of the TV and other electronic equipment and keep them fit has long been a challenge for modern parents but he seems to be having some luck. Some people will be motivated by the positive physical, mental and emotional benefits of exercise but others are put off by a process that appears too difficult or expensive to follow in the long term. He is living proof that beyond having a religiously followed routine a healthy way of living can be stress and sweat free. Building a healthy lifestyle is based on small steps rather than long strides and, while the elements he advocates are better by themselves than doing nothing, they are also a solid foundation on which further lifestyle changes can be added to later on.
Conclusion
Do you agree with the points made in the article? Or are you of the firm belief that weight loss should always equal hard work and exertion? Please let us know your thought in the comments below.
Mark runs www.livelifefitness.co.uk a Web site setup to help people get into shape, stay healthy and lose weight.