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BY JAY HEATER MANAGING EDITOR

When it comes to exercise, many people face the same hurdle.

Time.

It is a resource that is severely limited in today’s hustle-bustle world.

That’s why many companies have challenged their workers to wear pedometers or other devices used to measure distance covered through the work day. More than anything, it can be used as incentive to alert employees to where they stand when it comes to walking.

Many organizations, such as the American Heart Association, have adopted 10,000 steps daily as a target health goal for the average person. Although the length of a person’s stride varies by size, weight, age and other factors, 10,000 steps translates roughly into 5 miles.

Wellness Councils of America estimates most Americans walk an average of 3,000 to 5,000 steps a day, approximately 11⁄2 to 2 1⁄2 miles per day. Obviously, that is far short of the target.

Are 10,000 steps critical?

Natural health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola, the author of two New York Times Bestsellers, writes, “I view (10,000 steps daily) as a basic requirement of optimal health, like drinking adequate amounts of water.”

The Pritikin Longevity Center of Miami, on its website pritikin. com, states “The critical point is that the more you’re up and

moving, the less your are sitting.

That’s important because too much sitting, science is increasingly finding, is bad news for our health and longevity, even if we are getting regular exercise.”

The American Heart Association states, on heart.org, that walking 10,000 steps a day will improve health and decrease the risk of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of men and women in America. The organization believes that people can cut into those steps significantly if they refuse to be stationary the entire day at work. It suggests taking walks during breaks.

“Changing lifestyles is a big part of controlling diabetes,” said Linh Gordon, the diabetes nurse educator for Sarasota Memorial.

“If they can’t move, they have to make it up.

“We have a secretary here, Stacey Lukkarila, whom I told to move more. She lost 130 pounds just taking more steps, mostly at work. She has two kids and doesn’t have a lot of time. She didn’t join a gym or anything drastic. Her biggest change was just moving, no more taking the elevator, she parked farther away, and she took a 20-minute walk over lunch.”

Gordon said that 10,000 steps a day burns an extra 300 to 500 calories. That can translate to a dropped pound a week.

Wearing a pedometer or a Fitbit to keep track of steps at a work is a good idea according to Gordon, who tracks her own movement during the work

HOW MUCH GROUND DO YOU COVER AT WORK? COREY MCGIRT Delivery for Main Bar Sandwich Shop, Sarasota His estimate of an average day walking at work: 2.5 miles What he walked: Day One — 1.6 miles Day Two — 1.8 miles

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CHERYL CRUSE Waitress at Casa Maya, Lakewood Ranch Her estimate of an average day walking at work: 1.5 miles What she walked: Day One — 1.5 miles Day Two — 4.1 miles

MARCIA FROST Real estate agent at Michael Saunders, Lakewood Ranch Her estimate of an average day walking at work: 0.5 miles What she walked: Day One — 1.5 miles Day Two — 3.77 miles

CHRISTINA BOWMAN Executive director at Sarasota Military Academy Her estimate of an average day walking at work: 3 miles What she walked: Day 1 — 5.5 miles Day 2 — 5 miles

PAUL DEZZI Longboat Key fire chief His estimate of an average day walking at work: 0.5 miles What he walked: Day 1 — 0.75 miles Day 2 — 0.6 miles

day. “Anything that gets people accountable to their movement will help a lot,” she said. “It’s become a trend to have these now. It’s a step in the right direction.”

Some jobs or positions simply provide more opportunity to walk than others. Gordon is stationary much of the day by design while nurses cover the 10,000 steps with ease. A mailman with a walking route will knock off the entire 10,000 steps during the workday while a toll collector will have a lot of walking left to do outside the workplace.

The Observer put pedometers on five workers from different professions for two days each to see how their jobs positioned them in the hunt for 10,000 steps.

Paul Dezzi, who has been the Longboat Key Fire Chief the past five years, is active outside the office, biking and walking on a regular basis, but his position has forced him to be less active at work. “I never really thought about it,” he said of the distance he walks.

He estimated that he walks about a mile a day considering he spends so much time at a desk.

He was close, walking threequarters of a mile one day and just over a half mile the next.

“I had no idea,” he said. “I would have thought I would have gone a little over a mile. Actually, it was an eye opener. I think it is something people need to consider, taking even lunch time to talk a walk.”

Fortunately for Dezzi, he more than covers his 10,000 steps

outside the workplace, but he understood when he became a chief that he would have to pick up his activity outside of work since he was going to be stationary much of the day.

Marcia Frost, a licensed real estate agent with Michael Saunders & Co. in Lakewood Ranch, estimated that she walked about a half mile during her work day, or about 1,000 steps.

She had a pleasant surprise when the first day she covered a mile and a half, about 3,000 steps, before going more than 3.75 miles the next day, or about 7,500 steps.

“Boy was I wrong,” she said of her estimate. “The first day I was mostly in the office, but my desk is on the third floor, which I did so I would have to walk up and down stairs. I had a lot of listing appointments that day.

“The next day was extremely busy. I went to the office first and then went to show a property at Tidewater in which I went up and down a street there. Then I went to a brokers’ open house for a 7,200-square-foot home that was on a huge estate.”

It all added up.

On such days, Frost won’t have to feel bad if she doesn’t have much time to exercise at home.

“It’s good news because I do want to walk more,” she said of the distance she covered. “I am someone who purposely tries to get up and walk quite a bit. But 3.77 miles was very surprising.”

Cheryl Cruse, a waitress at Casa Maya on Lakewood Main Street, is limited because her workplace territory is defined by the restaurant’s walls. On the

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first day, on a shift from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., she wore the pedometer and covered 2,760 steps or just less than 11⁄2 miles.

The next day the restaurant was busy and Cruse had a longer shift, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. She walked about 4 miles.

She estimated that she usually walked a mile to 1 1⁄2 miles during the workday, so she was surprised. She was happy to know that she was getting some exercise, especially “to do it in a room that is about 200 square feet,” she said.

“I would have thought I would have gone a little over a mile. Actually, it was an eye opener. I think it is something people need to consider, taking even lunch time to talk a walk.”

— Paul Dezzi, Longboat Key fire chief

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“Hypnosis is the same,” she said. “You just drop the instruments.”

When Greenberg came to Florida in 1990, she started knocking on hospital doors, offering wellness programs. Since then, she and her clients have been featured on CNN, Fox, PBS, USA Today and Woman’s World magazine, and she also has a website, EasyWillPower.com.

One central themes of Greenberg’s message is mindfulness, both in the moment and in the future. In many cases, she said, unhealthy choices are made subconsciously, and hypnotic suggestion can retrain the subconsciousness.

She describes a scenario in which someone is preparing for a party where food will be served.

Making healthy choices, she said, begins long before the party.

Preparation might require picturing the party, the scene and the food itself. Often, it’s helpful to rehearse the choice beforehand, practicing what to say and how to politely refuse an unhealthy choice.

“Anything important we plan for,” she explained. “Food is an area of your life you really do have to plan for.”

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“If you want the behaviors to stick,” she said, “you have to recondition your mind so it becomes the new normal. You have to change your mental movie.”

Greenberg’s specialty, hypnosis, comes into play because mindfulness is more easily established when it’s suggested to the subconscious.

“It starts with consciously having desire to have more awareness,” she said, “but lack of awareness is a habit, and there’s no fine line between subconsciousness and consciousness.

What I do is bring the two parts together so there can be more mindfulness and more awareness.”

As the relationship with food changes at the subconscious level, it feels like less of a struggle at

the conscious level, combating what, for many, is an emotional attachment to certain foods that may be unhealthy.

After all, according to Greenberg, many people who struggle with bad behaviors already know those behaviors are unhealthy.

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Her hypnotic suggestion may range from simple to complex; she’s had success with a process during which Greenberg suggests to a patient he or she is having gastric bypass surgery.

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pains with the onset of CAD. For women, Satya said, symptoms are usually much more vague.

While some can also experience chest pain, the beginning symptoms of CAD can also be shown through jaw pain, shortness of breath, fatigue and lightheadedness.

“With women, CAD is more subtle and not as easy to detect,” she said.

The medical center encourages women to schedule screenings if they have any concern, rather than waiting, because the symptoms can be so general.

According to the American Heart Association, about 44 million women in the U.S. are affected by cardiovascular diseases, and one in three women’s deaths are caused by heart disease and stroke — or approximately one woman every 80 seconds. The AHA is trying to raise awareness for women’s heart disease with its movement, Go Red for Women.

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While some people are more prone to heart diseases than others, there are ways to prevent or at least minimize the risk of getting CAD, Satya said.

“You can’t change your genetics, but some risk factors are modifiable,” she said.

Diabetes, smoking and obesity are three major risk factors.

However, so is a sedentary lifestyle, Satya said.

Keeping a healthy blood pressure lowers risks, and Satya encourages patients to stick to a low sodium, low cholesterol diet and attempt to get in 30 minutes of activity every day.

Cholesterol, involved in the process that layers coronary arteries, is found in processed foods with saturated fats and naturally in red meats, cheeses, heavy gravies and dairy products. An easy switch from whole milk to skim is a way to reduce cholesterol intake.

“We want people to be reading labels,” Satya said.

The medical center is accredited by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care as a chest pain center and has a range of advanced care services for cardiovascular health. It will be increasing awareness at its facilities with literature and will post information online throughout the month of February.

It will also host a seminar at the Mall at UTC Feb. 20 to cover cardiovascular topics with cardiologist Dr. James Skorczewski.

“We’re focused on prevention, awareness and treatment,” said Lisa Kirkland, spokeswoman for the hospital.

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Yoga brings relief to Parkinson’s patients Let Your Yoga Dance classes help people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease stay active and find joy.

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Megha-Nancy Buttenheim’s Let Your Yoga Dance for Parkinson’s class isn’t focused on perfecting a tree or downward dog pose. The smiles on her students’ faces are more important to Buttenheim than perfection.

“Unfortunately, yoga alone doesn’t fill up the joy quotient,” Buttenheim said. “My job is all about building up the joy.”

Through the Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s in partnership with Karma Yoga Outreach at Garden of the Heart Yoga Center, individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their partners can attend the 12-week series of classes Tuesdays through April 5, at the Sarasota Ballet Studio on Tallevast Road.

Let Your Yoga Dance incorporates traditional and modified yoga poses along with elements of theater through songs and dances.

The concept came to Buttenheim more than 20 years ago during her 12-year stay at the Kripula Center for Yoga and Health. It became a way for her to merge her

background in theater and dance with the chakras, the body’s energy centers she learned through yoga.

The class wasn’t focused on Parkinson’s disease, but in 2000, several students told Buttenheim that they had been diagnosed with the degenerative disease.

“I just noticed that in this one given year, so many people had this in common,” Buttenheim said.

With no formal medical background, Buttenheim picked up a “Parkinson’s for Dummies” book and consulted with instructors of other dance-related classes tailored specifically to benefit people with Parkinson’s, which presents challenges that include tremors, stiffness of muscles, slowed body movements, and difficulty with balance.

“Dance is one of the finest modalities for Parkinson’s, especially if the cognition is involved and socialization is involved,” Buttenheim said.

She modified her class to cater to the needs of her students with Parkinson’s disease. This included yoga positions that can be done while sitting in a chair.

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Megha-Nancy Buttenheim leads the Let Your Yoga Dance class through positions they can do while sitting.

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Buttenheim added songs and movements similar to what they would receive in physical therapy to exercise their vocal chords and throats.

“Physical therapy can be so boring,” Buttenheim said. “But if you’re dancing and there’s music lighting up the brain, people get excited, and sometimes their tremors fade away.”

Darwin Perry is among the students participating in the

12-week series. He attends both Buttenheim’s classes and other yoga classes with his wife, Susan.

“It’s really to keep us moving.”

Perry said. “Staying active is the biggest antidote.”

Since his diagnosis two years ago, Perry has noticed his right foot dragging, and he has difficulty swallowing. Buttenheim reminds her students throughout the class to work their facial muscles — by smiling.

“You’re not as expressive anymore,” Perry said. “You have to remind yourself to smile.”

Buttenheim begins her classes with students seated in a circle and has them introduce themselves with a hand motion while they project their voices across the room. This allows them stretch their vocal chords and also to get to know one another.

In addition to the physical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, the

class addresses the isolation that often results from the disorder.

Tom and Mara Eckhardt are seasonal residents in Sarasota who appreciate the support they get at the class from the local Parkinson’s community.

Tom Eckhardt, who was diagnosed in July 2013, finds that he benefits from the movement, serenity and flexibility he gets from the class.

“It has brightened our lives so

much,” Mara Eckhardt said.

Experience levels and ranges of motion vary in the class. Buttenheim encourages her students to do the exercises in whatever form they’re most comfortable, whether it’s sitting or standing or using the ballet barre for support.

“If they stop moving because of fear, then they can get stuck in a chair,” Buttenheim said. “Fear and breath can’t live in the same place.”

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Family overcomes fitness obstacles Husband-wife duo Stephen and Claire Kelley teach classes at Real Fitness Sarasota.

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Claire and Stephen Kelley with their sons, Langston and Kingston, know the gym as a second home.

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The couple that trains together stays together.

At least that’s the case for Stephen Kelley, 33, and his wife, Claire, 31. The fitness instructors are each other’s best training partners, doing most, if not all, of their training and teaching together.

The couple teaches 13 classes a week Monday through Thursday at Real Fitness Sarasota. They lead TRX suspension training, participate in hot yoga classes and run 80 miles a week to keep pace for their upcoming ultra-marathons and obstacle course races.

Stephen worked at the YMCA from 2009 until 2015 in various levels as a fitness coordinator and also instructed classes. The Army veteran’s fitness regimen included weightlifting at the time but no running. Then, he met Claire in one of his classes and learned that she was an endurance runner. She agreed to help him learn to run properly.

“Right out the gate, she was having me run 10 miles, and I was dying,” Stephen said.

“That’s how we started our relationship, and it gave me new perspective on what fitness is.”

WORKOUT ROUTINE n 80 miles a week running n Hot yoga n Teaching 13 classes per week

Claire has been running consistently for 14 years. It became her passion after a childhood with minimal activity due to multiple surgeries to correct a clubfoot. Because of the surgeries, Claire was advised to avoid sports, but she wanted to be more active.

“When I went to college, I started running because my parents weren’t around to tell me I couldn’t, and I was good at it,” Claire said.

Now, her drive to train and compete comes from knowing

that her condition is degenerative, and she may not be able to use her left leg for much longer.

“I figure if I can, let’s do it now while I can,” Claire said.

Claire competes in ultramarathons, which are races of more than 26.2 miles.

In January, she participated in an ultra-marathon of 31 miles that began with jumping out of a plane.

Together, the Kelleys do at least three obstacle course races a year. They want to get as many challenges and goals accom-

plished while they can together.

“It’s kind of like being on a clock,” Stephen said. “You know at some point this is going to happen.”

Together, they’ve already started getting their 3-yearold twin sons, Kingston and Langston, in on the fun. The boys recently finished their first one-mile race, the Mickey Mile at Walt Disney World.

“A time of 19 minutes for a mile for a 3-year-old is pretty good,” Stephen said. “They’re going to run it again in April.”

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