Pick Up Your Feet (And Put Up Your Dukes!)

I’ve resumed my one hour morning “power walking.”

I have to walk -- years of dancing have made it impossible to run; my knees and ankles are just too taxed. Besides, you can burn as many calories in an hour of power walking as you can jogging.

The trick is to keep the pace high and constant. I make several tracks of my favorite songs and group them into different one-hour BPM (Beats Per Minute) groups on my i-Phone’s iPod so I can keep the pace constant and burn baby burn! I have Medium, Fast, and Ultimate Tempos…

This is not your morning stroll, this is at a comet's pace.

I begin my first power walk, navigating by the Adriatic Sea here in the Central East Coast of Italy. Spring is finally here.

I am reminded of an old Patty Duke movie called Billie, from the 60’s. She played a young athlete who had a knack for running fast. I mean really, really fast. Indeed, she was so fast that she was put onto the Boys’ Track Team!

When asked her secret, she told the team that all she did was play music in her head.(This was well before the iPod era!)

The faster the beat of the music she chose, the faster she ran. It was really quiet simple.

Today, with so much to do and start, I could easily begin to let the living of my life weigh me down.

OR… I could turn up the BMP in my head and get on with tackling the day and kicking some butt!!

Thanks, Patty, for the simple reminder that life is what YOU make it and for helping me turn up the beat and Go- Go- Go!!

So what are you guys waiting for?