1/14/2024 0 Comments Endurance insurance hours![]() ![]() I initiated my own course-correction in early 2019, weighing in at 230 pounds and focused on things other than my own well-being. Starting today and over the coming months, I will share my insights on what is working for me on my wellness journey that may help you as we strive to improve our endurance and quality of life. Both of us are on a mission to be endurance athletes in order to accomplish our goal of becoming our best selves and helping to make the world a better place. Likewise, without adequate and ongoing attention to your wellness, strength and stamina, you too will be unable to go the distance in your career by avoiding injury and burn out. If I don’t prepare and train properly for Boston, I won’t be able to maintain the needed speed over that distance while avoiding injury. Wait, does this sound familiar? What is massage therapy if not an endurance profession, standing for hours on end while using physical strength to apply just the right force in just the right places to treat clients? ![]() Like running 26.2 miles in three or so hours! Building endurance involves increasing our strength and stamina to be able to repeat the same activities over longer and longer periods of time, without inducing injury. Physical endurance is when someone consistently performs a certain activity for an extended period without exhaustion. How can I possibly accomplish this, especially after three decades of sedentary living and not focusing on my own wellness? Is it possible to make such an abrupt course correction and become an endurance athlete at my age? I will run the Boston Marathon next April as a 58-year-old after qualifying on my own merits. ![]() Visit The Jacquelyn Project’s home page for an overview of the project, sponsor highlights, and a donation link. His column details his personal health journey, inspires massage therapists to live a healthier life, and promotes The Jacquelyn Project to raise funds for massage research and especially breast cancer community service projects. Marshall Dahneke is running the 2023 Boston Marathon to raise funds for massage therapy research and community service in honor of his daughter, Jacquelyn, who passed away from breast cancer in early 2022. Above: Marshall Dahneke qualified for the Boston Marathon by finishing the Utah Valley Marathon with a time of three hours and 26 minutes. ![]()
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