Dr. J's SOAP Notes: February 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009

I love what I do.......I love helping people. What a great feeling it is when someone tells me how much I have helped them attain their goals. Below is an email that I want to share with all of you. It made me smile ear to ear!! Let me just say, "it's the little things in life that make it fulfilling!"

Hi,

I just wanted to send you a quick note telling you of my progress. It has been two months since I began weight training after a long hiatus. (over a decade)

I have followed your suggested diet and eating schedule and I have seen incredible gains in muscle growth and body fat reduction.

I have taken some precaution not to eliminate too much fat from my diet but I am focusing on "good" fats and concentrating on when I eat.

I know your time is valuable and I just want to thank you for the suggestions and direction I needed so badly. You took time out of your schedule to help a complete stranger and I really appreciate it.

As I continue to get better at building the body I desire, I will have more requests regarding diet and training and I will gladly pay for this direction.

Thanks again,

JWB

Sunday, February 01, 2009

It's February 1st...........Super Bowl Sunday. To many it's the biggest party day of the year. Why the hype? Well, for starters, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game and all its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday. Over the years it has become the most-watched U.S. television broadcast of the year.

In addition, many popular singers and musicians have performed during the Super Bowl's pre-game and halftime ceremonies.

Lastly, Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest U.S. food consumption day, following Thanksgiving....Not something you want your doctor to hear!

And the history of the game......The Super Bowl was first played on January 15, 1967 as part of an agreement between the NFL and its younger rival, the American Football League (AFL) in which each league's championship team would play each other in an "AFL-NFL World Championship Game". After the leagues merged in 1970, the Super Bowl became the NFL's championship game, played between the champions of the league's two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Since the NFL season extends into the New Year, the Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year it was held. For example, Super Bowl XLII, played in February 2008, was actually part of the 2007 season.

Super Bowl XLIII will be played between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The Steelers are a 6.5 point favorite.

There is something much deeper behind the "Steel Curtain Defense" and the offensive stance of Kurt Warner.

A born-again Christian, Warner is relentless in his desire to spread the word. Where many other players mention their beliefs in passing, Warner makes a point of raising his at regular intervals. He has said before, that any story about him which does not have God at its center is fundamentally missing the point.

And on the other side......Troy Polamalu. He is a big reason the Steelers will be playing in the Super Bowl today. He has a knack for being in the right place at the right time, and there is no question that his desire to succeed drives him constantly.

What makes Polamalu such a dangerous player, is that he is armed with a purpose that not all players have.

It started back when Polamalu was a kid growing up in California. He went to go visit his uncle up in Oregon and ended up really like it there so he asked his mother if he could stay. She knew it was the best decision for her son because she wanted him away from any gang violence he might experience at home.

Polamalu's heritage is Somoan, and it was through his uncle that he really got in touch with those values. His mentality is to be a gentleman everywhere, except on the field. He is extremely disciplined, and never gives less than 100% of himself, even in practice. He is deeply rooted in his Christianity and that drives him to constantly strive to play at such a high level.

So, there you have it....the force behind these two great men.....God! I love it! Enjoy the game friends! Don't eat too much! Doctor J's orders!

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!