Rhiannon Turner

Stretching during workouts can prevent future injuries.

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Ways to Change Your Fitness Mindset

BY RHIANNON TURNER

Over the years, personal definitions of fitness have evolved, and I think too much importance has been placed on how we look over how we feel. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that our overall state of health must come first.

We need to re-evaluate how we look at fitness to have better outcomes for our health. I don’t mean to devalue wanting to look better, but that happens as a natural byproduct of reworking priorities.

Here are five mindset changes that help me maintain fitness, and you can implement them this year.

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Work out to feel good. Working out is therapy. It makes you feel good. And, when you feel good, you do good. When I haven’t had a good workout because I got lost in my work, my mood changes. I feel lazy, grumpy and sometimes depressed.

It is very easy to trick ourselves into thinking we are entitled to skip a workout, because we don’t feel great. But, more often than not, that workout will snap us out of a depressed mood. Working out is a brain booster. It produces all those feel-good hormones that keep the blues away.

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Work out to fight off sickness. If I put fitness first, even if I just get out and walk, I know I am putting my best foot forward, literally, to battle sickness. People who prioritize fitness position themselves to stay healthier. The little things do matter; daily walks add up. If you walked only 1 mile per day, you would have a 31-mile month. The small things we do each day build better habits.

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Don’t focus on the number on the scale.

You can have positive health outcomes without the number on the scale moving. People give up on fitness when they don’t see weight coming off. Fitness and weight loss are not the same thing. You can be fit and not be where you want to be on the scale, yet. But, if you make small changes in your life, that snowball effect will get you closer to where you want to be.

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Work out to prevent future injuries. I am 43 years old, and I have thrown my back out a couple of times. Let me tell you, I never want to feel that pain again. I could not move. It was awful, and when I hurt my back, I was not working out. I was stationary at a desk, and then, when I got home, I was stationary on the couch.

Now, with every workout I do, I make sure to work in some stretching. Or, I follow a 15-minute yoga video to stay limber. “Use it or lose it” is very much real and applicable to the condition of our bodies.

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Change the all or nothing mentality. I know one piece of cake won’t make me fat, and one workout won’t make me healthy. It’s what I do for most of the time that wins out.

As we start a new year, you can do this. No matter where you are in life, no matter what age you are, you can do this. Let’s go!

Rhiannon Turner, mom to five, is married to Dr. Daniel Turner, a Canton chiropractor. She is chief operating officer of Lightyear Funding and a fitness instructor at Onelife Fitness Holly Springs.

MOVING MEMORIES

A Trusted Choice in Transporting Personal, Commercial and Corporate Treasures

Page Relocation, a local moving company, has made some big moves of its own in 2021, positioning the company to continue to expand and grow in the new year.

With more than a decade of experience Justin Page, the company’s founder and CEO, has taken his initial vision to the next level. Justin is determined to provide his customers with their simplest moves ever, by focusing on high quality, efficient and caring solutions for transporting possessions while adding services and options.

Page Relocation’s expansion includes a new long distance moving division that offers customers a brand-new tractor-trailer that was built specifically for moving. This addition ensures possessions are safely delivered across the state or country.

“This is a strong addition to our growing fleet, allowing our customers to know that the movers who load their old house will be the ones who unload their possessions into their new home,” Justin said. “This ability is a definitive plus over the practice of packing multiple homes onto one trailer in the traditional long-haul moving business.”

With their new and always-clean fleet, Page Relocation moves residential and commercial clients locally and long distances, accommodating specific needs of customers to ensure a stressfree move.

How Training Makes the Difference

With a focus on making each move simple, employees train in a fully furnished home. This experience was designed with the most minute details in mind, including a wide range of furniture styles, sizes and ages, down to artificial trees and a turfgrass lawn.

“The training home is really what sets us apart. Our staff learns the ‘Page Way’ of moving,” Justin said. “We never use your home to train our staff. Our clients can feel comfortable knowing our staff has been professionally trained according to the most recent and trending industry standards.”

In addition to in-depth training, employees are screened to uphold the company’s values and to carefully handle each client’s possessions with the consideration they deserve.

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Other Perks of Page Relocation

NO STRESS. As a Christian company, clients can rely on their experience to be based in Christian leadership principles of integrity, compassion, caring and service.

A LARGE, VERSATILE FLEET. With multiple sizes and categories of trucks, Page Relocation can take care of any size commercial or residential move, whether it’s across town or across the country.

PROPER PROTECTION. Preparation begins by applying padding to doors, hallways, floors and anything else that needs to be protected. Each piece of furniture is wrapped, so clients know their belongings are safe.

RELOCATION SPECIALISTS. Page Relocation is more than a moving company. Employees carefully and expertly wrap and pad the home’s contents, relocate them in the new location, and unwrap and place items in the final destination.

CLEANING SERVICES. Whether it’s cleaning the old house or the new home or business, it’s another way the company works to make each move as simple as possible for the client. Justin’s experience in community ministry flows through all that he does. As a local pastor, Justin has always been involved in the lives of those he serves. Whether moving the smallest residential or the largest commercial client, the same standards and values apply: to provide a caring service with integrity and compassion. Each aspect of the company’s creed addresses concerns that clients may have in trusting personal and corporate belongings to a moving company.

› THE MISSION

“To provide high quality, efficient and caring solutions for the transport of your possessions from start to delivery with the reverence it deserves.”

› THE PHILOSOPHY

“We are based in Christian leadership principles of integrity, compassion, caring and service. Our staff is screened to uphold our values and to value your possessions."

› THE VISION

“To be the trusted choice to move your belongings, personal and corporate.”

› THE GOAL

“To relieve stress from the emotional challenge of relocation.”

Moving Toward a Bright, Busy Future

Page Relocation started with a small crew and two trucks and now is a regional company that offers diverse moving options to its clients – both residential and commercial.

“Through our Relocation Training Center, great team members, effective corporate leadership and wonderful clients, our plan is to be relocating families in every state in the next five years,” Justin said.

Justin Page wants to provide customers with a stress-free move.