Join us for a fun day by the bay at Embarcadero Marina Park North in San Diego to raise scholarship money for our future acupuncturists, massage therapists, and doctors of Oriental Medicine. The student council of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) is hosting a 5k walk/run race event to bring together individuals passionate about health, fitness, nutrition, and our future healthcare providers. Enjoy a beautiful day in the sun with live music, yoga, raffles, silent auctions, and more.
Schedule:
Registration/check-in opens: 7:00 am
Start time: 8:00 am
Event end time estimated: 1:30 pm
http://www.active.com/san-diego-ca/running/pacific-college-of-oriental-medicine-5k-by-the-bay-2014
Here’s something to get your week off to a sweet start! Sweet potatoes are awesome for our bodies. Take a look at the infographic to learn some cool facts about these potatoes!
Happy Monday!
-PCOM
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If you’ve turned on your T.V. in the past couple of weeks, then there’s no doubt that you have seen snow, athletes, and medals. The Sochi Olympics are in full force and Olympians are some of the most elite athletes in the world.
Of course, these athletes stay in tiptop shape through intense training and strict diets, but some of them have found an extra edge—-they use East Asian medicine to maintain their health and stamina. Whether a slopestyle competitor from Canada or a high jumper from London, Olympians turn to holistic medicine to achieve an ideal level of fitness.
Take a look at this list of five Olympic athletes (past and present) who choose acupuncture to go for the gold:
Mark Mcmorris-
Mcmorris is this year’s slopestyle bronze medalist. In the weeks leading up to Sochi, he broke a rib at the X-games. In an attempt to alleviate his pain, Mcmorris began receiving acupuncture treatments. Through a steady regime of acupuncture, pool training, gym training, and massages, he was able to recuperate and get to a point where only hard landings caused him discomfort.
Dee Dee Trotter-
Trotter competed in the 2012 Olympics and walked away with a bronze medal for the 400-meter run. A true believer in acupuncture, she brought her hometown acupuncturist along with her while competing for an Olympic medal.
Yin Jian-
In 2008, Jian won China’s first Olympic sailing gold medal. As a competitive windsurfer, she has experienced a number of injuries that have affected her waist, shoulder, legs and feet. Every night after racing in the Olympic games, Jian would have acupuncture and massage treatments for muscle tension and strains.
Amy Acuff-
The London Olympics marked Acuff’s fifth year as a USA high jump competitor in the Olympics. Not only is she a talented athlete, she is also a licensed acupuncturist in Austin, Texas. Acuff credits acupuncture for helping her with injury prevention and recovery.
Daniel Kowalski
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Having received gold, silver, and bronze medals in swimming, Kowalski is an acupuncture enthusiast. He says acupuncture has worked magic on his body, sleep habits, and overall well-being. Hear about his experience in his own words: Kowalski explains the integration of Chinese medicine into his athletic regimen in
this video
.
Acupuncture and athletes go together like peas and carrots! If you want to learn more about acupuncture and other forms of East Asian medicine, visit
our website
or check out our
YouTube channel
.
OM in the news this week. Check it out!
The New Year is now in full swing. It’s that time when New Year’s resolutions are beginning to taper off and be relegated to the back of your mind. Gyms were packed the first two weeks of January, but as we near the close the month there is a noticeable slimming of the crowd (no pun intended!). Oriental medicine (OM) values the connection between the body, mind, and spirit. OM holds the belief that exercise and an active lifestyle is imperative to feel and operate at your best. So why do most of us lose focus on a goal we were so excited about a mere few weeks ago? What can we do to stay the course? And perhaps most importantly, should we? Maybe the goal itself was part of a larger thought pattern that needs some working out.
Now, before you begin excusing yourself from all the goals you set for 2013, don’t mistake the value of goal making. Goals are empowering. They are also the kick-in-the-pants and form of self discipline that get many of us to where we want to be in life: from careers to relationships to health, goals are good. But they must be realistic.
For example, if you started 2013 off with “Get in better shape” as your goal—that’s great! And vague. If a goal is too broad, it can spread so thin that it disappears from your schedule. Instead of “Get in better shape”, try creating something more specific like “Lose 10 pounds by March 15
th
.” This is sets a goal and a date to accomplish it by, holding you more accountable. You can’t avoid going to the gym for three weeks in a row if you want to make that March deadline.
Allow yourself to make slip-ups or challenges positive. If you realize you can’t keep eating your health shakes for dinner because you cook for your kids and you want to eat with them, that doesn’t have to mean you have to throw out your goal. It just needs to be reworked. Notice when you’re slipping and reevaluate your course of action.
Perfectionism can actually work against you here. We tend to create elaborate fitness plans for ourselves and then if we can’t stick to them exactly as planned, there is an urge to toss out the entire plan. John Lennon famously said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making plans.” Fitness can be that way too. Make your goals specific. Work your plan into your lifestyle. Got kids? Make your workout for the day involve them. Persevere but don’t be a perfectionist. Technology is one way to customize your fitness to your lifestyle. Using technology you already use every day and are familiar with can help you get active about your action plan. We’ve put together a list of some awesome apps and products that are affordable and accessible.
Ithlete App for iPhones and iPads
This handy app tracks your heart-rate variability, which measures the time in between each heartbeat while you’re resting. This will prevent you from overtraining, and will enable you to get the max benefits out of each workout. Plus, it includes awesome facts about your heart. Did you know that your heart speeds up when you inhale but slows down as you exhale?
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OM in the news this week! Check it out!
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5 Cures for Sore Muscles
- from Men’s Fitness. Massage and herbal remedies similar to Bengay are featured, along with Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Faculty Member Thomas Kouo.
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5 Foods to Detoxify the Body
- from MindBodyGreen.com. Detoxing is important for keeping your body in balance. Check out these foods you can work into your diet!
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How to Avoid America’s Top 5 Killers
- from Max Sports and Fitness. Heart disease, cancer, COPD, strokes, and accidents are the top 5 and Pacific College Faculty Member Max Kalkstein explains using OM for prevention.
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Foods to Cure a Hangover
- from Fox News. One of them - Ginger, is a popular root used in Chinese medicine to remedy an array of conditions.
Women’s Health & Fitness Day is the nation’s largest annual health promotion event for women of all ages. Be active today and go on a walk with your co-workers at lunch time or try a yoga class! Local organizations across the country will be hosting events for the public throughout the day.
Click HERE to find out more.
