Release the Hope Molecules!

Why should you… Exercise? Strength train? Move your body?...

You get strong.

You get sexy sexier.

You crave healthier food.

You improve your mobility.

You can carry all the groceries in one trip.

Your clothes fit better (and you look better when they come off).

You increase bone density and reduce the risk of osteoporosis (studies show strength training can play a role in slowing bone loss, and several show it can even build bone).

American Psycho

That’s bone.

You’ll move well as you age and be able to pick up your great-great-great grandkids.

You enhance your overall quality of life.

You become powerful…

Elaine

He is so powerful! He can lift 100 pounds right up over his head!

You get the feeling of cumming…

Arnold

"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. It feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home; I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage; when I pump up, when pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so l am cumming day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven."

You release the Hope Molecules!

“I think THE most interesting finding of the last decade in all of science— this is the insight that your muscles are basically an endocrine organ that secrete hormones into your bloodstream that affect every system of your body.

And from a health point-of-view, your muscles will secrete hormones and other proteins that fight cancer cells and that are good for your heart health.

Your muscles secrete chemicals and proteins when you exercise that are also really good for your brain health.

When you contract your muscles they literally secrete these proteins into your bloodstream that make you resilient to stress and can protect you from depression.

The scientists called them “Hope Molecules.” This idea that literally your muscles are manufacturing antidepressant molecules, and the only way to get them into your bloodstream where they can then travel to your brain, is you have to contract your muscles. That’s it! It’s like a pharmacy in your muscles. Anything you do that contracts them—walking, hiking, running, dancing, weightlifting, swimming, anything—you are going to be dumping Hope Molecules into your bloodstream.”

— Kelly McGonigal (health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford)

Why should you… Exercise? Strength train? Move your body?

Why shouldn’t you?


Feel Great

Legally Blonde

I just don't think that Brooke could've done this.

Rock a Nice Little Bod

Mariah

The Holiday Season is here! Keep making deposits into your Health Savings Account. Grow your nest egg!

Don’t live like a sloth for the next two months telling lying to yourself that you’re going to “start on January 1st.” It’s holiday! NOT holiweek or holimonth!

Enjoy Life

Enjoy the holidays, but don’t let a not-so-healthy meal turn into a not-so-healthy day or not-so-healthy week or a free-for-all where you end up cruisin' down Santa Monica Boulevard offering handjobs for a crack rock.


Nice Little Body of the Week

Ricky Jervais

“Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now.” — Ricky Gervais

Fit Jervais

Eargasm of the Week


Thank you for reading.

feel great. rock a nice little bod. enjoy life.

steve