Do Something! – 4/26/2012

Who has ever gone skydiving?  What about B.A.S.E. jumping?  To do something so exhilarating has many beneficial effects.  Between  adrenaline, fun, to just flat out getting in shape, there’s so many ways to have fun and get some healthy exercise out of it.  For example, adrenaline/extreme sports.  It’s been found that utilizing your adrenaline can actually make you happier.   Adrenaline, once initiated, raises your blood pressure and makes your heart pump at a much higher rate than before the “rush.”  Though this could be detrimental if you have high blood pressure, it actually starts to positively affect you after the adrenaline wears off.  Once it’s worn off your natural feel-good hormones (including serotonin) are released throughout your systems to create a sense of calm and peace.  That’s why there are the thrill seekers in the world aka the “adrenaline junkies.”

One person that I can think of whose a world class adrenaline junkie is Felix Baumgartner.  Felix is one man whose not afraid to get out his front door and exercise.  He’s an extremist to say the least.  From B.A.S.E. jumping to skydiving, whatever makes his heart pump he does, needless to say he is a supporter of the outdoors.  In fact, he supports the outdoors so much he actually went SKYDIVING…  FROM SPACE!  Yes, the adrenaline junkies over at Red Bull and Felix collaborated together and pushed the edges of extreme sporting to go outside the stratosphere.  Felix is an international inspiration to get out the door and push the limits.

The morale of this post was to get everyone to get out of your house and do something!  Whether you’re going biking with friends, playing some basketball, or going spacediving….  The fact is that people (on average) aren’t exercising as much as they used to.  We all, with the exception of a small few, could gain a lot from going out for a run or maybe even on a treadmill.  Just run!  People on average only spend according to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) Americans spend approximately 90% of their leisure time sitting down, and on average over 80% of the time people have in their day is spent inside!  People of America, lose the chair, put on a pair of running shoes, and go outside!  Skiing in the winter, wake-boarding in the summer (it’s a blast,) and in the fall romp around in leaf piles your dad spent so much time on.  Well, besides that last one, seriously get out and enjoy some sun.

Put best by poet Carrie Latet, “Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving.  And movement is life.”