Black Horizons; 3122; Workout

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wondering why I'm dressed like this, it's because tonight's show is all about your health and ways to improve it. Tonight we'll meet a local fitness expert who'll show us some exercises that you can do to help keep arthritis and bay. And we'll take a look at the latest edition of our community calendar on the horizon. So make sure you have a pen and paper handy. But before we get to any of that, by now we're all familiar with the multitude of illnesses that affect African -American males at much higher rates than their non -black counterparts. But how many of those illnesses could be avoided with a program of regular fitness and exercise? Well, dropping by to tell us more about how to stay healthy is Dr. Bruce Block of UPMC, Shady Side Family Health Center, and Healthy Hearts and Souls Fitness Director Coach Leroy Dillard from the House. How you doing, Coach Dill? I'm fine, I'm fine, Dr. Block. I'm glad to hear you both here on Black Horizons. Oh, that was a pleasure. You still lifted that seat. A little bit.

Stay with those young boys at the house, right? I got to stay ahead of them, show them that old guys can still do. Okay, well that's good. I'm glad you're doing it. And I guess the whole point of this is more African -American males need to do it. Dr. Block, I've been producing a lot of these programs for a long time and hosting them. And it looks like every time we look at hypertension, cancer, rates, prostate, cancer, almost everything else, African -American men, unfortunately, lead the league in the bad indices of all those things and a lot more. Why did you get involved? Why did you want to start such a program? Well, we've been seeing the same trends. The problem is we don't really know how to deal with them. And our traditional ways have not been able to reach African -American men very well at all. So what we decided to do with the help of high mark and UPMC shady side was to go out into the community and have African -American men teach us about how to reach them. What did you learn? Well, we learned over a

period of about five months that there were a lot of obstacles, both for African -Americans and for men, such as, well, there are financial problems in terms of health insurance, problems of access, transportation. Most of the programs are at the hospital, not in the community, problems of attitude. Who runs these programs? They don't know the culture, they don't know the people. And also, the program set up by the traditional medical approach, don't deal with the whole person. They don't deal with the spiritual issues and they don't deal with the kinds of issues that men have to face day to day. Now, of course, dear, you've been involved in physical fitness for a long time. I've been to your gym. You've advocated these things almost all of your life, eating right, getting regular exercise, that kind of stuff, right? Chris, for the past 30 years, dealing with not just Pittsburgh men and youngsters and athletes and females. In the last 30 -something years, I've seen a big change in physical fitness and health. In dealing with black male,

athletes was very involved in other black male where spectators. In dealing with it, there's no criticism on anybody working out or not working out, but now in this time, they work out with the organs, the inner self, the spiritual self. And that's what the program is about. Exercising and you don't have to be a fanatic or you have to do it all the time for Irish. It's just enough to keep going, keep your heart beating, keep your mind focused, keep the stress away. Will that little bit help if you start to eat right just a little bit more, Dr. Block, if you start to exercise a little bit more, will that help increase the quality of your life and your longevity? It turns out that people can make these part of their lives. They can start exercising 30 minutes a day. They can start changing towards more vegetables, more grains, more fruits. And they're going to become more healthy. We think maybe even prevent some of these diseases, but there's clear evidence that you can control hypertension much more effectively if you follow these programs regularly. You know, this program, Arizona, on Friday nights and

Sundays, but earlier this week in the Post Gazette, I saw something and the headline was almost, it wasn't redundant, but like, this is news. You know, the same thing you were just talking about, eat from those major food groups, eat things in moderation, including meat if you wanted to. And I know there's a lot of debate about that, but what have you all come up with in the plan to help people get by and you mentioned the spiritual side of it, too? Well, what we found was that men don't get together in groups after they leave high school. We have all these team experiences and we go out on our own and it's us against the world. Whether it's sports of fraternities or anything like that. That's right. And men become isolated. And so one of the things we're forming is fellowship. When we meet, we form relationships with one another and that's what keeps us going. And if one person doesn't want to go to the exercise tonight, another person will go with them. So that kind of thing, Coach Dill used to emphasize that he put us in teams of two or three, depending on how many people at the gym, and we'd work out together and it fostered a lot of friendship, including the exercise, right? And

dealing with that, it's a lot of courage for the person that maybe want to do it just for a moment. And another person can do it and they say, okay, so on and so is doing it, so I can do a little more. And that encourages us. So we feed off one another and that offers us some encouragement. The spiritual side of it, for you, that's important, too? The spiritual is most definitely. You've got the soul of a man, no matter what kind of man on earth. You've got to have a soul to make sure you keep your soul pure. And everybody can do what you like to do, but you've got to break it down and say, I want to stay healthy, I want to live a longevity. You've got to earn it, you've got to work with it. Where are these centers located now, Dr. Bob? Well, we have them in three churches now at Rodman Street, Missionary Baptist, at St. James, St. Paul. St. James M. E on Lincoln Avenue. That's St. Paul Baptist. Okay, all right. Fifth and Mission Field. Thank you, isn't it? What? It was St. Paul, yeah. No, sorry. Don't worry, we won't worry about the location. Everybody knows what we're talking about. We have a

Huzanna House of Wilkinsburg. All right. We're using West. So you're all over the place, right? Yeah, and we're using Peabody High School. So we have church locations as well as community locations. Okay. And we're starting to involve a significant group of men. Are you happy with the progress of it and the people who get involved? That's right. We have about 15 people who've been trained to run these programs. Coach and I have put together a program in Jonathan Bakers, where everyone was trained in spiritual, nutritional, and physical health. And it's starting to really catch on. All right, Coach, what do you guys do? Well, I'll give you a good example. Good example. And what we're doing, but you're used to it because you wanted to owe Jackson from Tuskegee. Tuskegee. That's right. Can you read it? I know you from Grandma. I had to love you up a little bit. You might be glad you didn't bring it in a big way. No, no, see, that's how we motivate you. See, now you've fired up. We go with you now. You know, with the weights, we're going to start off with some biceps. Biceps. Now these biceps, you got to make sure you got to chest up. Wait a minute. Why are you bringing these things?

I thought you'd bring some real weights. I don't want to, you brought the cute weights. Yeah, the little smaller. Oh, yeah, all right. Okay, here we go. They look good on TV. We're coming up and down. Now, this is going to work your form and your bicep. And circulate that blood up in your arms. You know, sometimes a little bit of joint from athletics, from working on your job, the computer and so forth. Keep that blood focused. Then we'll switch over. Just do five coming up. When you do it, you look down at your bicep and form and your wrist and make you feel good. Now, relax. All right. A little bit of twisting in there. A little twist, joints. And you have a group of men doing this in each of these looks. That's right. And the exercises we're doing, they're certified. They've been certified through the whole program to make sure that when someone come in, they're going to be able to get the best of help. All right. And the main thing is that we're dealing with. The program is free. And you just come walk in, register, in the whole hundred yards. So you're right there in the community. It holds down all the different churches. And it's free. So all people get involved. Now, Chris, now you hold the weights. All

right, I got it. Now stretching and you can deal with the weights. Okay, a stretching exercise for the shoulders and upper chest is coming up with the weights and back down. Like this. And come a little closer up. And that stretch your delt to a muscle up. Up top, they'll come down. Coming up. And that's the top and the front. Wait, man, I don't think I'm with you here. You're doing it right. You're doing it correct. You're doing it correct. That's it. Now you stop. That you do maybe two sets of 10. And then you go from behind. Go behind your back and come up and back yeah, here at the same direction. Oh, back of the head. Now you're feeling your upper back stretch. Upper back stretch and your back delts. Yeah, I can feel it. Okay, that's real good. Now what you could do, Chris, I'll stretch with it without the weights and you can do it with the weights. Wait a minute. Why do I have the weights? It's because I mean, you played with pulling guard and defensive tackle. No, I was no tackle. That was high school. That was a long time away. A long time ago. Now I'm going to come straight up. Keep your chest up. Stun me again. One of the time come straight up. Like that. And come down. Okay. Up. And straight down.

Up. And I like pitch berth. And no, we didn't practice this at all. Chris just happened in his blood. Up, down. Up. And good. Now you don't like this one, Chris. You like the boxes, so forth. I think you want, once you want the box, Mike Tyson, okay? No, I never want the box, Mike Tyson. You have the weights in your hand, okay? And you're going out. And back in, out, back in, and switch. Switch. When you have weights in your hand, don't stretch too fast. Take your time. Take your time and stretch. And stretch. And real good. Now, what we want to do is have yourself and Dr. Blot, if you don't mind, step here, Dr. Blot, and you're going to do twisting. We don't want to tear you out. Okay, now, we want to twist. I'm going to twist without the weights. And you guys want to twist with the weights. You're going to have the weights in each hand. All like this. Uh -huh, okay. Okay, all right. Now, chest up, stomach in, and go to your right. I don't know where my chest is up, my stomach. You got it, you got it natural.

And now I'm going to come to the opposite side. And keep your head to the front. And twist. And twist. And twist. And if you're at home, Pittsburgh, you can do this too. Because this is fantastic for your waistline, before and after. And you'd be surprised how I can help you out. Now, that's good. Now, just relax your body. You have to remember working out is not just trying to get your big muscle chest and the shoulders and the arms and the leg. That's more than 30 -something years. Oh, okay. And dealing with trying to help people. This is over time. But over time. So I won't look like you over now. You looking like that now, Paul Chris. All right. Well, that's part of your response. And dealing with your organs, your inner self, you have to make sure you're getting involved in knowing how to work out. You need instructions first. So make sure that you meet and greet the centers that we have. Dr. Block, the number of Chris going to tell you again. And Chris knows because sometime you have the travel, and got a lot of work to do with his shows and so forth. And sometimes he gets stressed out. It takes one night to

work out. And he tells you the next day, Coach, I feel beautiful. So I say, okay, I'll send you the chat. So all these centers are working. And you've got like 15 people coming to each one of them. And you hope it grows. How long Dr. Block will it be before you're able to see you see some improvement in African -American males health in Pittsburgh? Well, we've been running a women's program now long enough so that we've been able to see just in 12 weeks that over 50 % of the people have reduced their waste to hip ratio. We have people improving their number of pushups they can do, their flexibility, their endurance. So really, just in 12 weeks, people start to see measurable changes. And you give them advice about foods, the eating, staying away from the fast foods, that are high and fat, and all that sort of structure. And every meeting has a spiritual focus. All right, it sounds good to me. And it sounds like you've put together a plan. All of you put together a plan that's going to reach African -American males and help them get some of those things that we talked about early in terms of their health down to manageable levels. Coach Dill is always good to see you, man. Appreciate it. I make sure that

if anybody out there want to make contact, call the number and ask for Mr. Paul. And he runs programs so beautiful when it comes to contact when you want to make sure that you want to get in there. If you have second thoughts, talk to them. He can do the share of goodness. You want to read that stuff? No, no, you got it. Coach, you're a good teacher. That's your job. All right, I'll do my job. You can do it. Thanks for being here. We appreciate it. OK, all right, for more information on healthy hearts and souls, give them a call. The number is 412 -371 -3282. That number again, 412 -371 -3282. Well, I hope you've got that pin and paper handy because in addition to my workouts that I'm doing right now, it's time for our community calendar that lets you know what's going on all over town. It's called Only Horizons. Yeah,

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