In 1994, my youngest son and daughter had just begun running on a local track team. I have always
been a parent that likes to be involved with my children’s activities. The sport of running would prove to
be one of my biggest challenges and one of the most rewarding from a physical and wellness
standpoint I have ever had. Once I turned twenty-five, I had pretty much stopped any kind of exercise
including pushing myself away from the table. I wanted my children to be healthy and I wanted them to
be involved in something wholesome that would keep them from wanting to get into mischief. In some
sports, children don’t really get the quality of exercise they need and some sports are not safe for
Children. I had not idea that starting my children in the sport of running would impart my life so
dramatically from a wellness standpoint.
At this time, I had just broken an all time waistline record; I had surpassed a 50 inch waistline. I am only
5 foot 7 ½ inches tall and 267 pounds. Obviously I was a bit short for my weight. I had not planned an
exercise program for myself. All I wanted do was to help as a parent and be supportive of my children.
So I volunteered to help the coach in whatever area or task he needed me to do. It seemed that every
parent that was involved in this team must have either been starving themselves or ran every waking
moment of every day. I became concerned that my weight may become a point of embarrassment to my
children. Not to mention that my wellness and quality of life was slipping away the older I got without any
exercise.
Although my children did not say that my weight and involvement in the running club was embarrassing,
I didn’t want to take the chance. Exercising was not on the top of my list of things I was wanting to start
just then. Exercise was something I thought maybe I would start later. I decided that I had better not put
an exercise program off any longer and began training myself and walking a half mile a day. A half mile
walk may not seem like a long distance for you, but for someone in my condition, it felt like a marathon.
After my first day walking, my legs were sore everywhere. (I sure wish I had know about Arginine and
Citrulline back then). But, I had been listening to the running coach and knew that soreness was part of
the package.
Tip: Health care professionals and Arginine In the eleven years I have been running, working out, and
training, I have learned a lot about the physiology of exercise and running. It is my hope here to help
you to train and exercise so you too can have a better quality of life. It is my personal opinion that
running and walking is one of the best ways to do that. What is often missing even in a good exercise
program is supplying the body with nutrition it needs to optimize performance and recovery. However,
before you engage in any physical activities, make sure you check with your doctor or health care
professional so he or she can evaluate your ability to exercise.
For the two plus years I trained for the Boston Marathon, I consulted a medical doctor who specialized in
the cardiovascular system, exercise and other challenges I had. He did blood work and had me do a
treadmill test to make sure I was fit enough to do the kind exercise I had elected to do. He also did a
treadmill test a couple weeks before I actually ran the Boston Marathon. I found out just how skilled my
trainer was at that point. At 49 years old, my Medical Doctor said that my heart and cardiovascular
system was in the best shape of anyone that he had tested except for one other marathon runner who
was about 30 years old. My resting heart rate at that time was about 43 bpm.
In 1996 when I ran the Boston Marathon, the Noble Prize in Medicine had not been awarded for finding
the Nitric Oxide(NO) pathway that demonstrated the reversal of cardiovascular disease through the use
of Arginine with Citrulline. I had no idea how many athletes die each year from cardiovascular
disease. These are not people who have not trained; these are people who have done everything they
knew to do and still died anyway. You don’t have to be as risk for a cardiovascular event!
For the next couple of months I went through various stages of soreness, progress, and some failures.
After about my third week when my mind was telling me that this was not going to work, I began actually
walking faster. I started out walking my half mile in about eight or nine minutes. I dropped a whole
minute after my first couple of weeks of workouts. That small victory made me feel pretty good inside. As
I continued, I began to add some distance to my half mile.
TIP The rule of thumb for increasing your running distance is never increase your weekly workout
distance by more than ten percent. In my case, I was walking a half mile or 800 meters per day. I
walked five days a week to start. That would be 5 X 800 meters or 4,000 meters, which is two and one
half miles. Ten percent of 4,000 meters is 400 meters or a quarter mile.
I learned, just as many of the beginning athletes, that if I increase my workout too fast, I was going to
start having physical outcomes I didn't’t like. One of the major problems that develop from pushing
themselves too hard is shin splints. Another problem that often occurs is joint pain; others may
experience tears in ligaments and tendons in extreme cases.
As my running distance increased and my time per half mile dropped, I noticed that some days I was
very sore after my walk and other days it felt like I was pulling a train as I walked. I decided that I might
want to ask the coach if he could help me along even though I wasn't’t on the team. His response was,
“this was a family sport” and he wrote workout programs for most all the parents. He told me the first
thing I needed to do was to get my own heart monitor like the one I purchased for the kids as part of their
required equipment.
TIP Heart monitors; there are many brands of heart monitors out there I am told, I have stuck with
the Polar Heart Monitor. It has serviced me well and I would never train without one. They sell from $50
to several hundred. The inexpensive heart monitor will work find until or if you decide you want to do
some more serious training. For those who are exercising for wellness, the inexpensive monitor will do
just fine.
What does an EKG heart monitor do? The most obvious thing it does is it shows and records your heart
rate. It will also give you a report of average heart rate over your workout time. One of my favorite
features is that these monitors also let you set a range so that you can keep a certain heart rate all
though your workout. Oh, one other small advantage to these watches, it will also give you the time of
day.
Heart rate monitor benefits: What are the training benefits of a heart monitor?: I asked the coach the
same question a million other athletes must ask every trainer they ever have, why do you use a heart
monitor for your workouts and why do you want me to use one? I didn't’t expect the logical insightful
response I got from this young running coach. He said just like the most highly trained athletes in the
world, I can not tell when I am over training my body. I told him right off I wasn't’t over training. He was
polite and firm and asked what I was doing with the elastic bandage on my knee. You mean my sore
knees were from over training? He said absolutely!
I learned that even though I was only walking about three quarters of a mile per day, I was over training. I
thought if my pace is that of a snail and my walking distance isn't’t enough to get me around the block,
how could I be over training? Coach’s response was encouraging. He said not even professional
athletes can be certain they are not over training without a heart monitor. He also encouraged me by
saying that I was out there working, I am making an effort; I am open to being taught and that is half the
battle. He said if I will follow his schedule he was writing for me, I would improve more than I could have
ever dreamed possible.
Well I surpassed any dream I have ever had for myself athletically. In April of 1996, I had dropped my
weight from 267 pounds to 163 pounds and successfully ran the Boston Marathon. One other thing,
Coach accompanied me to Boston where he also ran one of the most competitive marathons there is.
The Boston Marathon was my second marathon I had ever run. The Boston Marathon requires each
athlete to run a qualifying run the year before they run the Boston Marathon. I ran the Boston Marathon,
twenty-six plus miles, around 9:46 per mile average.
A lot of people will tell me they can‘t do what I did because of some circumstance they are in. I do
understand that some people have a lot to overcome to do something so foreign as daily exercise or
workout. I was no different, I had my challenge too. I had been legally blind since my 13th birthday. I
had to run my qualifying run in Tulsa in December of 1995 and the Boston Marathon with running guides.
I want to take a minute here to thank and let all who read this know how much the running community in
Tulsa and around the country have meant to me. Without them and the support of my wife and children, I
would have never even begun on this journey nor would I have stuck with it. Oh, by the way, I have also
learned that the human body is a wonderfully created living tabernacle of energy that houses our human
spirits. And has the amazing ability to heal and restore itself if we give it what it needs and craves. One
of those requirements for wellness is exercise another is a good liquid Arginine and Citrulline product.
It does not have to be running or walking but, those are two good ones and the same principles apply to
any aerobic exercise.
The first long term goal that anyone who wants to improve their health and wellness is to engage in 30
minutes of aerobic exercise. You may have to start slow, and/or divide out your workout, but, aerobic
exercise, according to all I have read, can assist the body in healing almost any ailment if you combine it
with proper nutrition. To see the chart for aerobic points CLICK HERE
In the last year I have learned about an arginine protocol that helped me get back to my running that I
dearly love. I live less the two hundred meters from the River Park running trail in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is
over ten miles long. When I look out my front window I see the runners all day long run past.
After my marathon and taking some time off to recover, I tripped and fell over my office chair. The fall hurt
my hip so that I could not run for a time. I was off for about four months then got a bad case of poison
ivy, which kept me from running for another couple of months. In my mind, this built up an excuse why I
couldn’t run. The truth is that I no longer had a goal in front of me. Without a goal, I lost my purpose for
running. My weight was down and I ran THE marathon, so I guess at some level I was done.
The bigger picture should have been my over all wellness. The marathon should have been a
secondary goal. As a result of my not exercising, I began to gain weight because I didn’t change the way
I ate. I just change one aspect of my life. Wellness is not something you achieve by taking a vitamin or
buying healthy nutritional food. It is much more. Yes those things are part, but, they all fit together to
make us one whole person.
The ten years that I stopped doing regular exercise, I gained a great deal of my weight back. The
thought of gaining all I had lost caused me to try to a regular walking and exercise plan. I was older now
and it wasn’t as easy as it was ten years and 500 candy bars ago. In November of 2006, I was screened
and learned that I had cardiovascular disease. I also had high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and
high cholesterol. I knew that with good nutrition I could slow the progress of my worsening
cardiovascular condition, but, I did not know that with a properly formulated arginine product, my body
could reverse the cardiovascular challenges I had acquired.
I learned about the Noble Prize that was awarded using the amino acid arginine and how that three
scientists demonstrated that cardiovascular disease could be reversed by at least ten percent per year.
With the advances that have occurred since the 1998 Nobel Prize award, Formor and their staff have put
together a protocol that helps the body do an even better job. They have two products with arginine in it,
one is called the Cardio Cocktail, and the other is Argenix.
I learned from a seasoned marathon runner from his own experience that the arginine seemed to
greatly increase his performance. So, I began taking Argenix fifteen to thirty minutes before I work out.
My mile times became faster right away. I was not getting sore like I had the year before trying to push to
be able to run again. By late February of 2007 I was able to start running again. I ran my first mile at 14:
30 a mile. This was actually slower than I was walking. I had gotten my walk down to an 11:30 per mile
pace. From February till now, November 2007, I am running four and a half miles and my pace for my
tempo run has dropped to 9:09 per mile. (A tempo run is about half pace between an all out race pace
and a medium run) With the arginine and my experience and my faithful heart monitor I am back
running again. I now realize that wellness is not just one life style change, it is a series of them. One
everyone should add it’s a good liquid arginine product that doesn’t certain any toxic additives that many
manufactures use. I personal use two formulas. Both of the formulas I use contain 5 grams of arginine.
I take fifteen to twenty grams per day depending on how my day goes.
been a parent that likes to be involved with my children’s activities. The sport of running would prove to
be one of my biggest challenges and one of the most rewarding from a physical and wellness
standpoint I have ever had. Once I turned twenty-five, I had pretty much stopped any kind of exercise
including pushing myself away from the table. I wanted my children to be healthy and I wanted them to
be involved in something wholesome that would keep them from wanting to get into mischief. In some
sports, children don’t really get the quality of exercise they need and some sports are not safe for
Children. I had not idea that starting my children in the sport of running would impart my life so
dramatically from a wellness standpoint.
At this time, I had just broken an all time waistline record; I had surpassed a 50 inch waistline. I am only
5 foot 7 ½ inches tall and 267 pounds. Obviously I was a bit short for my weight. I had not planned an
exercise program for myself. All I wanted do was to help as a parent and be supportive of my children.
So I volunteered to help the coach in whatever area or task he needed me to do. It seemed that every
parent that was involved in this team must have either been starving themselves or ran every waking
moment of every day. I became concerned that my weight may become a point of embarrassment to my
children. Not to mention that my wellness and quality of life was slipping away the older I got without any
exercise.
Although my children did not say that my weight and involvement in the running club was embarrassing,
I didn’t want to take the chance. Exercising was not on the top of my list of things I was wanting to start
just then. Exercise was something I thought maybe I would start later. I decided that I had better not put
an exercise program off any longer and began training myself and walking a half mile a day. A half mile
walk may not seem like a long distance for you, but for someone in my condition, it felt like a marathon.
After my first day walking, my legs were sore everywhere. (I sure wish I had know about Arginine and
Citrulline back then). But, I had been listening to the running coach and knew that soreness was part of
the package.
Tip: Health care professionals and Arginine In the eleven years I have been running, working out, and
training, I have learned a lot about the physiology of exercise and running. It is my hope here to help
you to train and exercise so you too can have a better quality of life. It is my personal opinion that
running and walking is one of the best ways to do that. What is often missing even in a good exercise
program is supplying the body with nutrition it needs to optimize performance and recovery. However,
before you engage in any physical activities, make sure you check with your doctor or health care
professional so he or she can evaluate your ability to exercise.
For the two plus years I trained for the Boston Marathon, I consulted a medical doctor who specialized in
the cardiovascular system, exercise and other challenges I had. He did blood work and had me do a
treadmill test to make sure I was fit enough to do the kind exercise I had elected to do. He also did a
treadmill test a couple weeks before I actually ran the Boston Marathon. I found out just how skilled my
trainer was at that point. At 49 years old, my Medical Doctor said that my heart and cardiovascular
system was in the best shape of anyone that he had tested except for one other marathon runner who
was about 30 years old. My resting heart rate at that time was about 43 bpm.
In 1996 when I ran the Boston Marathon, the Noble Prize in Medicine had not been awarded for finding
the Nitric Oxide(NO) pathway that demonstrated the reversal of cardiovascular disease through the use
of Arginine with Citrulline. I had no idea how many athletes die each year from cardiovascular
disease. These are not people who have not trained; these are people who have done everything they
knew to do and still died anyway. You don’t have to be as risk for a cardiovascular event!
For the next couple of months I went through various stages of soreness, progress, and some failures.
After about my third week when my mind was telling me that this was not going to work, I began actually
walking faster. I started out walking my half mile in about eight or nine minutes. I dropped a whole
minute after my first couple of weeks of workouts. That small victory made me feel pretty good inside. As
I continued, I began to add some distance to my half mile.
TIP The rule of thumb for increasing your running distance is never increase your weekly workout
distance by more than ten percent. In my case, I was walking a half mile or 800 meters per day. I
walked five days a week to start. That would be 5 X 800 meters or 4,000 meters, which is two and one
half miles. Ten percent of 4,000 meters is 400 meters or a quarter mile.
I learned, just as many of the beginning athletes, that if I increase my workout too fast, I was going to
start having physical outcomes I didn't’t like. One of the major problems that develop from pushing
themselves too hard is shin splints. Another problem that often occurs is joint pain; others may
experience tears in ligaments and tendons in extreme cases.
As my running distance increased and my time per half mile dropped, I noticed that some days I was
very sore after my walk and other days it felt like I was pulling a train as I walked. I decided that I might
want to ask the coach if he could help me along even though I wasn't’t on the team. His response was,
“this was a family sport” and he wrote workout programs for most all the parents. He told me the first
thing I needed to do was to get my own heart monitor like the one I purchased for the kids as part of their
required equipment.
TIP Heart monitors; there are many brands of heart monitors out there I am told, I have stuck with
the Polar Heart Monitor. It has serviced me well and I would never train without one. They sell from $50
to several hundred. The inexpensive heart monitor will work find until or if you decide you want to do
some more serious training. For those who are exercising for wellness, the inexpensive monitor will do
just fine.
What does an EKG heart monitor do? The most obvious thing it does is it shows and records your heart
rate. It will also give you a report of average heart rate over your workout time. One of my favorite
features is that these monitors also let you set a range so that you can keep a certain heart rate all
though your workout. Oh, one other small advantage to these watches, it will also give you the time of
day.
Heart rate monitor benefits: What are the training benefits of a heart monitor?: I asked the coach the
same question a million other athletes must ask every trainer they ever have, why do you use a heart
monitor for your workouts and why do you want me to use one? I didn't’t expect the logical insightful
response I got from this young running coach. He said just like the most highly trained athletes in the
world, I can not tell when I am over training my body. I told him right off I wasn't’t over training. He was
polite and firm and asked what I was doing with the elastic bandage on my knee. You mean my sore
knees were from over training? He said absolutely!
I learned that even though I was only walking about three quarters of a mile per day, I was over training. I
thought if my pace is that of a snail and my walking distance isn't’t enough to get me around the block,
how could I be over training? Coach’s response was encouraging. He said not even professional
athletes can be certain they are not over training without a heart monitor. He also encouraged me by
saying that I was out there working, I am making an effort; I am open to being taught and that is half the
battle. He said if I will follow his schedule he was writing for me, I would improve more than I could have
ever dreamed possible.
Well I surpassed any dream I have ever had for myself athletically. In April of 1996, I had dropped my
weight from 267 pounds to 163 pounds and successfully ran the Boston Marathon. One other thing,
Coach accompanied me to Boston where he also ran one of the most competitive marathons there is.
The Boston Marathon was my second marathon I had ever run. The Boston Marathon requires each
athlete to run a qualifying run the year before they run the Boston Marathon. I ran the Boston Marathon,
twenty-six plus miles, around 9:46 per mile average.
A lot of people will tell me they can‘t do what I did because of some circumstance they are in. I do
understand that some people have a lot to overcome to do something so foreign as daily exercise or
workout. I was no different, I had my challenge too. I had been legally blind since my 13th birthday. I
had to run my qualifying run in Tulsa in December of 1995 and the Boston Marathon with running guides.
I want to take a minute here to thank and let all who read this know how much the running community in
Tulsa and around the country have meant to me. Without them and the support of my wife and children, I
would have never even begun on this journey nor would I have stuck with it. Oh, by the way, I have also
learned that the human body is a wonderfully created living tabernacle of energy that houses our human
spirits. And has the amazing ability to heal and restore itself if we give it what it needs and craves. One
of those requirements for wellness is exercise another is a good liquid Arginine and Citrulline product.
It does not have to be running or walking but, those are two good ones and the same principles apply to
any aerobic exercise.
The first long term goal that anyone who wants to improve their health and wellness is to engage in 30
minutes of aerobic exercise. You may have to start slow, and/or divide out your workout, but, aerobic
exercise, according to all I have read, can assist the body in healing almost any ailment if you combine it
with proper nutrition. To see the chart for aerobic points CLICK HERE
In the last year I have learned about an arginine protocol that helped me get back to my running that I
dearly love. I live less the two hundred meters from the River Park running trail in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is
over ten miles long. When I look out my front window I see the runners all day long run past.
After my marathon and taking some time off to recover, I tripped and fell over my office chair. The fall hurt
my hip so that I could not run for a time. I was off for about four months then got a bad case of poison
ivy, which kept me from running for another couple of months. In my mind, this built up an excuse why I
couldn’t run. The truth is that I no longer had a goal in front of me. Without a goal, I lost my purpose for
running. My weight was down and I ran THE marathon, so I guess at some level I was done.
The bigger picture should have been my over all wellness. The marathon should have been a
secondary goal. As a result of my not exercising, I began to gain weight because I didn’t change the way
I ate. I just change one aspect of my life. Wellness is not something you achieve by taking a vitamin or
buying healthy nutritional food. It is much more. Yes those things are part, but, they all fit together to
make us one whole person.
The ten years that I stopped doing regular exercise, I gained a great deal of my weight back. The
thought of gaining all I had lost caused me to try to a regular walking and exercise plan. I was older now
and it wasn’t as easy as it was ten years and 500 candy bars ago. In November of 2006, I was screened
and learned that I had cardiovascular disease. I also had high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and
high cholesterol. I knew that with good nutrition I could slow the progress of my worsening
cardiovascular condition, but, I did not know that with a properly formulated arginine product, my body
could reverse the cardiovascular challenges I had acquired.
I learned about the Noble Prize that was awarded using the amino acid arginine and how that three
scientists demonstrated that cardiovascular disease could be reversed by at least ten percent per year.
With the advances that have occurred since the 1998 Nobel Prize award, Formor and their staff have put
together a protocol that helps the body do an even better job. They have two products with arginine in it,
one is called the Cardio Cocktail, and the other is Argenix.
I learned from a seasoned marathon runner from his own experience that the arginine seemed to
greatly increase his performance. So, I began taking Argenix fifteen to thirty minutes before I work out.
My mile times became faster right away. I was not getting sore like I had the year before trying to push to
be able to run again. By late February of 2007 I was able to start running again. I ran my first mile at 14:
30 a mile. This was actually slower than I was walking. I had gotten my walk down to an 11:30 per mile
pace. From February till now, November 2007, I am running four and a half miles and my pace for my
tempo run has dropped to 9:09 per mile. (A tempo run is about half pace between an all out race pace
and a medium run) With the arginine and my experience and my faithful heart monitor I am back
running again. I now realize that wellness is not just one life style change, it is a series of them. One
everyone should add it’s a good liquid arginine product that doesn’t certain any toxic additives that many
manufactures use. I personal use two formulas. Both of the formulas I use contain 5 grams of arginine.
I take fifteen to twenty grams per day depending on how my day goes.
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Arginine is an amino acid
and is used by the body
for many purposes. It is
important when taking
any supplement or
medication that you
consult with your
physician or health care
professional. Arginine is
highly oxidative. When I
decided to go on an
Arginine product I
wanted one that had a
proper blend of
antioxidants to manage
the bi-product of my
body using the Arginine.
For more information
about a good Arginine
product, CLICK HERE
and is used by the body
for many purposes. It is
important when taking
any supplement or
medication that you
consult with your
physician or health care
professional. Arginine is
highly oxidative. When I
decided to go on an
Arginine product I
wanted one that had a
proper blend of
antioxidants to manage
the bi-product of my
body using the Arginine.
For more information
about a good Arginine
product, CLICK HERE
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