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Fit After 40: 3 Keys to Looking Good and Feeling Great

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Professional Fitness Coach Don Nava presents a fun and unique program that enables every person to achieve a totally fit life. The 3 UNIQUE components of this program-The Team of 3; Dictums; and the Ten-Week Cycles of active follow-through-are a powerful combination that will help readers to have and sustain wholeness.

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Bio of Don Nava

Don Nava is a coach with passion and vision for launching a health and fitness movement. He has been involved in sports, athletics, and fitness for most of his life and has been a fitness coach for 25 years. He received his BS degree in Physical Education from West Texas State University. Don worked with professional football players for 18 years, training with such notable players as Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, and Jerry Rice. He started Fitness For Life in 1991, in Silicon Valley. Fitness For Life participants stay in the program for and average of five years, compared to the national average of 6 months. Since starting Fitness For Life he has designed over 800 different exercise routines; Don and his coaches have never done the same workout twice. The routines evolve with the participants' progress, creating a stimulating environment that never gets boring. Don has developed several programs for young people. A program addressing child obesity, an Anti-Bully program in elementary schools and a positive message based program addressing teenage drinking. He enjoys the process of influencing people by discovering the need of a work team. Don designs a program or system to address specific work need, resulting in the team becoming a High Performance Team. Don has also developed a dynamic on line accountability system called the Team of3(r), built on Relationship and Accountability. This simple yet effective system creates Contagious Camaraderie(tm) among members. Don has built a very successful Team Building Program called Team Fitness. Don and his coaches train such reputable companies like Cisco Systems, NIKE, Silicon Graphics and ATT. Don has taught high performance team building principles throughout United States, Australia and Europe. He has trained corporate Senior Executives how to be Highly Effective Leaders by modeling and tapping into the power of Servant Leadership. To celebrate the fact that life really does begin at 40, on his 40th birthday, Don worked out for 40 continuous hours, to showcase the importance of fitness and living a healthy lifestyle in his local community. Finishing on the exact minute he was born, 40 years earlier. When Don turned 50, he ran up and down 5,000 bleachers, in 54 minutes, at the Stanford University football stadium. He believes that chronological age doesn't have to be a barrier to physical accomplishments. As a public speaker, Coach Nava relates to his audiences. He speaks with such zeal, enthusiasm and conviction. His audience's walk away feeling they have been ignited with "New Hope" and a "Yes I Can Attitude." Don's says, "We improve the quality of people's lives through a powerful combination of relationship, accountability, motivation and wellness. This results in individual development and behavior modifications. My desire is to help people improve the quality of their lives through enhanced physical and emotional health. In my heart of hearts, there has always been a passion to be a catalyst for creating continual improvement in the lives of individuals, companies and organizations." Don lives in Northern California (Silicon Valley) with his wife Becky and their three children. He founded and currently manages The Prevail Team Inc., a Fitness Think Tank. The Prevail Team designs and develops programs and solution processes with the emphasis on wellness and high performance individual and team development.

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Imprint

Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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387.50 KB

Number of Pages

240

eBook ISBN

9781418577216

Excerpt from: Fit After 40 by Don Nava

Chapter 1 The Magical Milestone Birthday Midlife is real. Nobody seems to know the exact age range it should cover, but everybody I know has a sense about when he or she is-or isn't-in the middle of what they perceive to be a normal life span. People seem intuitively to know when they are in their early years, when they are in their later years, and when they are someplace in between. Midlife crises are also real. Again, nobody seems to know exactly when a midlife crisis normally hits. But everybody seems to know that there's an unseen moment when the light comes on and you say, consciously or unconsciously, Yikes, I'm not getting any younger! The trigger point might be a little pain or stiffness that wasn't there before. The trigger point might be a failure to do something that was once so easy. The trigger point might be an "Oh, Dad" or "Oh, Mom" roll of the eyes after you say something that seems totally rational and normal from your perspective. The trigger point might be the day a clerk asks if you qualify for a senior-citizen discount (and you thought that day was ten years away); or the time you hear yourself say, "Kids these days--" with an exasperated sigh; or the time you begin to remember with fondness the "good ol' days" when you were thirty-something. The trigger point might be the wrinkles you see in the mirror, the gray hair that suddenly seems to be multiplying, or the nagging thought that you probably should go see a doctor more frequently, but have less and less desire to do so out of fear that something bad might be discovered. The trigger point can be any one of a number of physical or emotional cues that are unique to each person. The "crisis" is, in part, a facing of one's own mortality. The crisis also occurs, in part, because the person recognizes that there are still things he or she wants to do, accomplish, or experience. Stop and think about it--if you've done or are in the process of doing everything you dream of doing, and are as happy as you want to be, there's no real sense of crisis! The crisis can be a slight moment of panic or a major period of panic--either of which is rooted in an unhappy, unfulfilled feeling. The crisis often prompts a person to make an attempt to regain, recapture, or re-exert some sense of control over his destiny, or some sense of control over his "happiness level." Not every person openly acknowledges or even recognizes that a crisis is occurring--some people just have a nagging, persistent feeling deep within that if the time is ever going to be right to make a move or make a change, that time is now. Reactions to a midlife crisis vary, of course. I'm in the total-fitness business and I've seen some people go off the deep end.Some people go a step or two beyond crazy and immediately try to dress and act twenty years younger. I put emphasis on try because they rarely succeed. The clothes of the younger generation look a little silly on them, their hair dye is never quite color-perfect, the "teen" phrases coming out of their mouths sound very odd, and their behavior at the "in places" is usually regarded by the younger set as both obvious and bizarre. I have nothing against motorcycles or skydiving, but if the purpose is to prove that a person is still young, the end result is more likely to be raised eyebrows than sincere applause. At the other end of the midlife crisis spectrum are those who plop themselves down to await the arrival of the grim reaper. In doing so, they begin to act and think much older than their years. They curl up in an overstuffed recliner before inane television programs and gorge themselves on fast-food specials. They stop taking risks of any kind and cease to foster their own curiosity or sense of adventure. They conclude that they've "been there, done that" about virtually everything fun or meaningful in life. And