LIFE PRACTICE BASICS

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LIFE PRACTICE BASICS

1. What is the goal of Life Practice?

The goal of Life Practice is to provide you with an easy to use tool, which can be used every day of your life to improve your health and well being.

Here are a few more details:

The elements and recommendations of the program (exercise, nutrition, sleep and stress) are standards established by government and medical community. Life Practice is not in the business of selling gimmicks, short cuts or gizmos.

We do not accept endorsements and promotions from companies or individuals. We will link you to or, at times, recommend products or ideas, but we do so because we believe these recourses are proven, safe and credible. Life Practice cherishes its independence.

Life Practice is simple, but it is not easy. Companies or products that claim that getting fit or losing weight is easy are lying to you. We know that changing habits is difficult; our job is to help you by providing you with a good coach and support.

2. How do I know if Life Practice is for me?

Life Practice works for just about everyone except people who don’t want to exercise and people who are looking for shortcuts and the “quick” solution.

3. I am overweight and don’t get enough exercise, have tried everything that has come down the pike, what makes you think that Life Practice will work for me?

Life Practicewill work for you if:

You are willing to be coached
You are ready to exercise and be physically active on a regular basis
You are patient with weight loss. All that extra weight did not appear overnight and it will take some time to get it off.
You are ready to adopt a non-diet approach to weight management. That means: portion control, eating smart, lots of fruits and vegetables, drinking water and healthy snacks.

• If you’re ready, we’re ready: Life Practice and your coach will provide the daily support and lots of motivation.

4. I don’t think Life Practice is for me. I don’t have to lose weight, I am fairly active and I think I am pretty healthy. What’s in it for me?

• Although Life Practice is an effective, stand alone, weight management program, it is equally effective as a personal life balance tool. In our pilot testing and development, we found that some of our greatest success came from hard-driving, “healthy” people. These people found the Private Challenge feature (click here for more information on Private Challenge) and the Life Practice elements of Sleep and Stress Management particularly valuable. Many of these “healthy” people found that there was ample room for improvement and fine-tuning. Some found that they were not as healthy as they thought prior to starting
Life Practice.

5. I don't see much content on your site. Why is that?

There are a couple of answers to this question:

There is a lot of excellent free information on the Internet. Our specialty is coaching; we would prefer to direct you to excellent content sources when helpful.

Our program is very basic. We live in a world of information overload, so why not keep it simple? We want your time spent focused on the Life Practice elements -exercising, eating well, controlling stress, and sleeping well, not navigating through our website. Sometimes less is more.

We do hope that most of the time you spend on our site is in our coaching forums. Our coaching forums create a community of users that are tackling many of the same tough healthy behaviors. We hope you grow comfortable connecting with our coaches and your friends in our forums.

6. What goes into the Life Practice Index score?

The Life Practice Index (LPI) is a weighted index that takes all the Life Practice™ elements (physical activity, strength training, stretching, nutrition, sleep, and stress management) into account. The LPI places an emphasis on physical activity. You should think of your LPI as your daily report card.

7. How do I know what a good LPI score is?

A good LPIscore is somewhere between 60 and 90. Scores over 90 indicate you are taking Life Practice too seriously and could be obsessing too much over the elements such as exercise or diet. LPI scores under 60 indicate that there is room for improvement. Over time a "comfort zone" will develop and you will know that you feel your best within a certain scoring range.

Important point: don’t treat your LPI like a grade in school. Your LPIis a personal benchmark of improvement. When the score goes up, good things are happening. When it goes down, you should work on bringing it back up.

8. What happens if I miss a day?

If you don't come to practice (enter your daily information), your score goes down.
Participation in Life Practice is the very first step for a healthier you. We hope you won't miss many days, but remember that good behaviors begin with participation.

9. Do I have to enter data every day?

No. We think the best approach is to enter your Life Practicedata every weekday, Monday through Friday. The program allows you on Monday or Tuesday to catch up for data input for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. During the other weekdays you can miss a day and catch up on the following day (but note: Life Practice will only “go back” two days).

10. What do I “do” with Life Practice? Do I read something every day or look at data? What happens after I enter data?

Life Practice is all about changing behaviors gradually through “coming to practice”. This means participating by reporting your behaviors and monitoring your progress. Life Practice provides a complete suite of real-time reporting that enables you to monitor your performance as often as you like. Remember, you are creating a series of data with your daily reporting that will populate the graphs and charts throughout Life Practice.

Secondly, we hope you will take advantage of the coaching forums. It's important to "get connected" with your coach. This is a great way for our coach to answer your questions -coaching you through the process of changing unhealthy behaviors

11. Will I receive any reports or updates?

From the day you begin Life Practicesm you will always have your own daily web page which is your own scoreboard. As you continue participation in Life Practice the suite of real-time reporting will display your own data in various charts, graphs and reports. Every Life Practice element is available to you on a real-time basis. The reports include physical activity, weight management, nutrition elements, stress management, and sleep habits. Life Practice also reports on your established pace in each of the elements and your metabolism.