Welcome back to 13 news now at noon.
We are just three days into the new year,
many of you starting new
health and fitness goals.
So today we're talking about the
importance of physical health and fitness.
And we want to welcome Tony Arroyo,
a fitness and sports director
for Langley Air Force Base to
talk specifically about that.
Tony, thank you for being here.
Thank you for having me. I appreciate
it. You know, so many people kick off
the new year wanting to get healthy,
wanting to get in shape.
Let's talk about the value of that.
You know, a lot of people think they really.
Understand but physical fitness that health,
it is so important for longevity
of life, talk about that
absolutely. So obviously everybody wants
to be in shape and you know the new year
is a great way to kind of kick off that
that health and Wellness for yourself.
Really at the end of the day it's about just
consistent movement trying to be consistent,
find the things that you enjoy
doing and do those often.
This is a great opportunity to kind
of join some 5K that are coming up,
you know get into a good.
Routine fitness program.
Consistency is the key to all
of it in my opinion.
And in proper progression,
a lot of people want those results right
away and so they go too hard, too fast.
And then you know,
come February, March time frame,
they've already fizzled out.
So my my advice to most individuals is start
consistent and provide that progression.
So maybe start off with three days
a week and then build the four
and five days a week and just
make that everyday routine.
And so hopefully next year you're
not starting a whole new program,
but you just stay consistent throughout
the holidays and consistent.
In two 2024,
yeah, that's what I was going to ask.
I I feel like we were talking earlier
today on Daybreak specifically about that,
that in January you you start these
health and fitness goals and then
February or March they're already
gone for someone for example,
that is on a weight loss journey.
What is something healthy and
attainable to maintain this throughout
the year in terms of that weight
loss because I know some folks
can drop a lot of weight quickly,
some folks it takes a little bit longer.
What are some good goals for that?
Yeah. So you know have.
The short term goals and some,
some long term goals obviously for yourself,
those short term goals reward yourself
with you know, being proud of the fact
that you've been consistent, right.
When when you start a weight loss program,
it can't just be about physical
activity only, but it has to,
you have to look at that
nutritional piece as well.
Yeah, so less calories in or smart
calories and then just move a lot more.
When I say progression, you know,
start walking and then go into
a job and then go into a Sprint.
So that way you can kind
of see those results.
Little by little people will get
frustrated because they'll see results
early and then they'll plateau.
And the reason for that is because
they they they haven't progressed
accordingly and they haven't
overloaded the system properly.
So my advice to them is stay consistent.
Watch what you're eating,
how you're eating,
and then burn those calories through
whatever physical activity you enjoy.
Fitness is different for everybody,
so if you're running, go out and run.
If if running is difficult,
go out and walk and just realize
that you just have to maybe spend
a little bit more time doing that.
Some good things to keep in mind and
I know we have an event coming up for
some folks here in Hampton Roads that
could kind of kick off that journey.
Tell us about that event.
Yes. So we have a new year,
new me run a 5K coming up.
We plan on having several
of them throughout the year.
And and again this is just a
kick off some consistency.
It'll be at 7:30 in the morning over
at the ACC Trail Fitness Center.
It is available only to our active duty,
I'm sorry, our population that is
able to come to Langley Air Force
Base and the goal is to start
off by putting in the mileage.
And and starting.
You can come and walk,
you can come and run.
We we're given free prizes to
anyone that comes to five of our
5K's that are that are coming
out throughout the year.
We do have a base white event that
will be coming up in October time frame.
It's called race around the base.
So keep an eye out for that and
that's when we'll try to open up our
community for people to come in and
do a 10K during that time frame as well.
So we have T-shirts prizes for our
active duty if you get 1000 miles in
in a certain time frame 2000 miles.
Within a 5000 mile T-shirt as well.
OK, so again the whole goal is
just to promote movement,
promote fitness,
maybe start with a walk.
But by October you're running that 10K.
Fantastic. And where can people
go to get more information.
So our website, our Facebook
page is probably the best one.
So JBLE 633rd JBLE website which I
think will be posted on for you guys and
we'll keep you informed of any fitness
challenges and their 5K's or events.
We have for our community and
for the Community at large.
OK. Lots of activities to kind
of jumpstart that health and
fitness goal here for 2023.
Tony, thank you so much.
Truly my pleasure.
Thank you for having me.
We'll be right back.