Dr. J's SOAP Notes: June 2007

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Lately, I have not been in the grandest of spirits...........blame it on the diet, work, a runny faucet at home, the heat, high gas prices, whatever, but today, yes today, I feel like I have fire. Ok, this is how good God is...............This morning I got to work and I had a poster container on my desk. I opened it up and there was a most beautiful pencil drawing of me. I could not believe it. "Wowser" is all I could say! My nurses thought the same thing as I opened it front of everyone. I looked at the return address and recognized the label as I had run across this website back in Jaunuary and decided to write this lady and tell her how cool her drawings were. Anyway, that was our only contact. Seems we have a huge thing in common..........GOD! I called Charlene Ralph this morning and thanked her. I know God had a hand in this! Check out her drawings. They are amazing! www.builtbodyart.com

Saturday, June 02, 2007

The type of cardio equipment you use at the gym makes a difference in what kind of results you’re going to end up with. If you want to be a runner, you’ll probably choose the treadmill. If you’re training for a bike race, you’ll probably get on the stationary bike.

But what if you’re just trying to get in shape and lose weight? Which piece of equipment is right for you? While anyone can burn calories on any machine in the gym, for the best results, you have to personalize your exercise program to yourself. If you would describe yourself as out-of-shape, it’s important that you don’t head straight for the treadmill and crank it up to a six-mile-an-hour pace. You can start out walking on the treadmill, or another option is the elliptical machine. This machine puts your body through many of the motions of running on the treadmill, but puts less stress on your joints since your feet don’t actually leave the surface they’re on.

Once you’ve mastered the elliptical, you can head over to the treadmill and give it a try. Just keep in mind that you probably won’t be able to keep up with the pace you had on the elliptical because now you’re being forced to pick up your feet and really propel yourself forward.

The same philosophy can be used on any piece of equipment in the gym – if you’re out of shape, start out on a machine that challenges you minimally so that you can actually stay on it long enough to work up a good sweat. Start slow, start small and work your way up. Not only will you avoid injuring yourself, you’ll be setting yourself up for mini-successes along the way

Who is Dr. J

Background:

She is originally from Spencer, Iowa. Malea is a graduate of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She attended medical school at the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from her Family Practice Residency program at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa in 1998.
In her spare time, Malea trains clients on physical activity and nutrition, spends time with friends and her wonderful father, and loves to watch football. What is better than bodybuilding? “Wolverine football on Saturday and Vikings football on Sunday!” Malea also loves basketball as March Madness rounds out a wonderful basketball season. As you may have guessed, Malea is very sports oriented, having been a four-sport athlete in high school, and a three-sport athlete in college.

Why I do what I do:

Jensen approaches her medical practice with the same determination as anything else she does. “The effort to understand how to promote more active lifestyles has been of great importance to the health of this nation. Schools, workplaces, and families need to weave physical activity into the fabric of their daily lives. The key to lifetime fitness is consistency!”

What I Do Away From Work

Dr. Malea Jensen is the total package. She’s exceptionally bright. She’s remarkably attractive. She’s a doctor. She’s a bodybuilder. “I have been competing in bodybuilding since 1996,” Jensen explains. “Bodybuilding was never a whim”, Jensen says. “I have always admired men and women with muscle. Initially, it was not my ambition to get up on stage and pose, but this has been a way to extend my competitiveness. It is an ambition of mine to keep fit and look lean, with muscular detail.”

She credits her father for pushing her to “give 100 percent,” whether it was school, work, or one of the many sports at which she excelled.

Mission Trips

Why does Dr. J go on mission trips? You are probably thinking I go so I can do medical work. It’s funny, our culture has formed us from our earliest days to see our significance in terms of WHAT we do. It is old school thinking that mission work is all about giving and doing for the poor. This is true to a certain degree. Missionaries, when asked if they were successful during their mission trip, often speak of their success by what they have done, whether spiritually or materially. But really our significance as people comes not from what we do, but from WHO we are. So, to answer why I go on mission trips...it is for nothing less than for the sake of conversion...my own conversion! This conversion has to do with a change in the way that I view my own life - what I do, what I have, who I count as friends, what questions I ask myself, what issues I pay attention to, who and what I give my allegiance to. In essence, I have to leave my world where I have control and go someplace I have never been...to a place where I am poor and powerless. It is hard to do this at “home.”
Any time you enter a third world country, you will see the poor, but more importantly, you enter into the world of a deprived people and share not only their pain and struggle, but also their hope! To see this is so amazing!