Laura Motes – Helping the Wounded Warrior Project

Laura Motes is a former member of the American military who spent the last two decades working at the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. As someone who tries to help animals and her fellow humans with equal compassion, she regularly donates to the ASPEC and Wounded Warrior Project.

The Wounded Warrior Initiative

The Wounded Warrior Project offers programs and services free of charge, helping veterans maintain or rebuild their physical, mental and financial well-being that’s required for them to live a healthy, happy, and productive life after their professional army career.

The Mission of the Organization

The mission of the Wounded Warrior Project is to help these veterans in need, and to raise awareness among the public, hoping that the latter can provide them with aid. The organization relies on donations, and with the help of these donations it can help injured service members through a variety of means, including unique programs that were built with that purpose in mind.

Alumni and Family Members

The organization has 92,351 WWP Alumni at the moment, along with 20,238 family members. These large numbers show that not only there are a lot of veteran who need help in the United States, but that the organization is extremely effective. Those who come back from the battlefield injured or develop post-traumatic stress disorder need the help of others in order to start life anew.

Laura Motes hopes that more and more people will realize just how important this initiation is, and that together they can help most veterans turn things around.

Sources:

https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/mission/who-we-serve

Laura Motes – The Importance of Strength Training for Healthy Living after the Age of Forty

As a former police officer, Laura Motes knows how important it is for people of all ages to stay as healthy as possible.

If you realize that you need to start exercising, but can’t decide between strength and cardiovascular training, you should simply choose both.

Cardio training improves cardiovascular fitness, mood, and heart-rate variability.

Strength training is important because loss of physical strength is connected with reduced physical energy, and aging. On average, we lose around one-half of a pound of muscle mass after the age of forty if we don’t do any strength training.

One of the most significant studies about the profound effects of strength training was published in the Journal of American Medical Association in 1990. The study consisted of a group of nursing home residents, aged eighty-six to ninety-six, who went through a strength-training exercise routine. All of the participants of the study had serious chronic diseases. Most of the participants also used walkers or a cane. As a result of their strength training, the participants increased their average strength by 175%, and their balance by forty-eight percent%.

When a person leads an active physical life, they build physical energy capacity, and can remain active for many years. However, sedentary office workers have no regular physical demands. The modern life keeps removing more and more physical activities from people’s lives, from having to wash dishes, to having to walk to work. Today, many people have dishwashers, robotic vacuum cleaners, cars, and all kinds of gadgets that make physical activity unnecessary. This results in the absence of physical exercise and premature aging.

Laura Motes has been exercising for years, and she fully intends to keep engaging in different sports and activities, despite her age.

Laura Motes – Healthy Living and Planning your Day

Laura Motes worked for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department for twenty-one years. She rose to the rank of a sergeant, and has a lot of experience with staying healthy within a tough job.

Healthy living is a challenge for many people simply because they don’t plan their days properly.

There are a few things that you need to know that will make living healthy easier for you.

First, our metabolism and energy requirements are lower in the second half of the day. This is why you want to consume more calories in the morning, and have light snacks and a light dinner in the afternoon.

Secondly, your body has multiple cycles during the day that last ninety to 120 minutes. These cycles are known as ultradian rhythms.

We function better and more efficiently when we are not fighting our natural body cycles. This is true about working in the daytime versus working at night when you need to get some sleep. This is also true about staying tuned with your ultradian cycles during the day.

At the peak of such a cycle you would usually experience a state of high activity. This state is ideal for both performing and learning. Your perceptions are sharp and clear. You can sustain your focus and attention. This stage usually lasts for about an hour.

What comes next is the recovery phase. Your functions slow down. You feel like you need to take a break. You become inefficient at what you’re doing and you’re prone to errors.

The solution to this problem is simple: you need to take a break. Eat a little bit of food. Read or go through your non-demanding tasks.

The goal is to schedule performance times when you are at your peak and non-demanding work when you need a break.  This will help you distribute your energy throughout the day and avoid negative emotions, which is especially important for people like Laura Motes, who has been a police officer for a number of years.