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When I made the leap into triathlon, it was a commitment to improve my health through a commitment to athletics. What I didn’t know was that I was really making a commitment to lifestyle change. Eventually, I went on the 9 month journey to become an Ironman. I did this while working as a software consultant travelling 2 weeks out of every month. What I found was that, I was consciously making new life changes that applied to not only my fitness, but my career, my relationships, my physiology, and my overall mental and emotional state. My goal of becoming an Ironman transformed my life and my perspective. I met a lot of inspirational people along the way which have given me the courage to pursue a lifestyle based on wellness and fulfillment. I want to share the inspirational stories from my journeys so that we all can learn and help enrich each others lives. Dan Hohs Founder Active...
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Read MoreFood
As an amateur athlete and food lover, Dan enjoys the exploration of fueling his fit lifestyle. As a software consultant training for triathlons, Dan had the unique challenge of finding nutritional, delicious, fast, and nourishing food solutions to energize his body and soul. Dan grew up in a household where the family style of eating, cooking, and sharing stories was ingrained into the lifestyle. Dan’s mother, Elaine, immigrated from China funded by the money his great grandfather sent back while working in Chinese restaurants throughout the midwest. When the family came to America in 1978 they always helped out at the extended families’ restaurant. To this day she is a power to be reckoned with in the kitchen while cooking alongside Dan’s grill master father, Ken. Jeff, one of Dan’s brothers made cooking his career and is currently a successful chef in San Francisco. The psychology of two thriving business owning parents, supporting three exceedingly active, growing boys hungry for sustenance, and always making time for family dinners has been ingrained into Dan’s life. He feels blessed to have access to so many amazing recipes, each with their own unique story. In this section you will find everything from triathlon training nutrition to family recipes which span the global timetable. Dan’s vision is to provide a lazy susan of meals which spark a conversation and encourage people to share their food, tables, and livelihood with others. -Submit inspirational recipes, food, pictures, instructional food preparation videos, food anecdotes, historical food stories, and spread food happiness to...
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Read MoreRide 4 World Health
Ride for World Health is a cycling team and 501(c)3 organization based out of Columbus, OH that is centered around a 3,200-mile ride, traversing the country from San Diego to Washington D.C. We are comprised of people from across the country who share similar passions about the need for change in both international and domestic health care. Since its founding in 2006, R4WH has been dedicated to creating a dialogue on the state of healthcare in communities across the world. By bringing together activists from across the country, we hope to inspire other medical professionals, volunteers, and communities-at-large to stand up as a unified voice for the millions who suffer at home and abroad. Throughout our ride, we raise significant funds to support non-profit organizations whose goals are consistent with our vision. R4WH empowers our audience to become informed and active global citizens through a Coast-to-Coast lecture series that is presented in most of our destination cities. In April and May of 2014, a group of medical students, health care professionals, and community representatives will participate in The Ride to promote education and awareness of global and domestic health concerns as well as raise needed funds for this year’s beneficiaries: Empower and Advance, HEAL Africa, and PODEMOS. Donations Donations of any size are welcomed and appreciated. Each rider is committed to meeting a fundraising goal that goes directly to our beneficiaries. They are responsible for most of the personal costs to participate in the ride. We are largely an organization of young adults – medical students, undergrads, early-career health professionals – and as such, meeting our individual commitments is a real challenge. You can donate by going to http://donate.r4wh.org/projects/dan-hohs/ Hope for the Day As a part of their healthy body, healthy mind initiative, Dan has teamed up with Hope for the Day to promote healthy mental states as he rides across the country. To learn more about this initiative please visit the Hope for the Day section of the Active Performance...
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Read MoreHope for the Day
Hope For The Day has chosen to sponsor me as we launch a movement to help spread the message that a healthy body creates a healthy mind. This launch officially begins on March 25, 2014 as I join Ride for World Health in San Diego, CA to ride across America to Washington, D.C. Hope For The Day is a nonprofit movement committed to utilizing music, art, and creativity as a defense mechanism to suicide. Their alternative approach strives to offer education, prevention and hope through creative expression. Through my forms of creative expression, cycling and an imaginative approach to promoting wellness and fulfillment, I will be helping to kick-start their healthy body, healthy mind initiative. My entire life has consisted of school, internships, and working in the corporate world in pursuit of what many perceive as the American Dream. I’ve worked as a software consultant for the past four years and have been content with the lifestyle it afforded me. During the countless hours running and biking while training for my Ironman I had a lot of time to think about my priorities. I decided to leave my corporate job behind in pursuit of a lifestyle that helps me achieve my own dreams. I left with the hope that I could use my creative expression as a way to help enrich lives and positively affect the communities around me. I signed up for Ride for World Health to help educate and fundraise for glboal health care issues. As a part of the healthy body/healthy mind initiative, I will be using my our bicycling journey across America to help start a movement for global change and awareness. In the communities we cycle to, R4WH riders deliver a lecture series to educate our audiences on both international and domestic health care issues. Topics discussed range from good hygiene skills, childhood obesity, mental health, and health maintenance to disease in poverty, women’s and children’s health, access to healthcare, politics on foreign aid, and the pathophysiology of infectious diseases. My focus on the healthy body/healthy mind connection is rooted in both a personal and professional exposure to the issues of mental health. Globally, 1 in 4 people suffer from mental disorders. Four of the six leading causes of years lived with disability are depression, alcohol use disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. I believe it is extremely important to bring attention to these prevalent illnesses plaguing the world today. It is especially important because...
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Read MoreTraveling Triathlete
Hi everyone, my name is Dan. Follow me on my journey to finding a fun and fit lifestyle. My adventures in triathlon, cycling, running, fitness, cooking, and meeting like-minded inspirational started while I sat as a couch potato after reconstructive knee surgery. After three major knee injuries, I felt deflated, discouraged, and disappointed. I decided I needed to focus on being more deliberate about my athletic endeavors. I set a goal to finish my physical therapy and train for triathlons year round. For the past 3 years I have stayed committed to the sport of triathlon while maintaining a busy job as a travelling software consultant. Running, cycling, and swimming became a form of meditation for me. When I am out on my own, my mind clears, and I can focus on my physiology and my surroundings. In 2012, with the encouragement of friends and family, I signed up for Ironman Louisville 2013. I decided to start this website while I was training to become an Ironman. During my journey, I learned that becoming an Ironman takes a lot of individual dedication, hard training, and lifestyle changes. More importantly, I learned that all of my efforts would not have been possible without the support of my friends, family, community and all of the people in my personal, work, triathlon, running, cycling, and fitness circles. I realized that not only were all of these people helping me transform my life, but I have a platform to help transform others lives as well. Through my experiences I learned to follow my passions and dedicate my life to the one thing I am most passionate about: enriching lives through health and wellness by living a fun, fit, and fulfilling lifestyle. In February 2014, I moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado seeking a more active lifestyle in which I could be more connected with nature and join an amazing community of people who live in this wonderful playground. I strive to learn from past events by remembering the life skills, coping mechanisms, and takeaways from school and work to improve my future. My passion for solving problems by using data analysis, creativity, and optimization is now being applied to all aspects of my life. I creatively view my health and wellness as a logic problem that should be attacked with consciousness purpose. I try to see the big picture in things and break down my goals into manageable and efficiently executed tasks. As I...
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Read MorePerspiration Inspiration
When I made the leap into triathlon, it was a commitment to improve my health through athletics and hard work. What I didn’t know was that I was creating an amazing network of people that was empowering my commitment to a lifestyle change. I enjoyed living in Chicago, working all over the United States, and actively pursued amateur water skiing and triathlon. What I found was that, the people around me were helping me to consciously make new life changes that applied to not only my fitness, but my career, my relationships, my physiology, and my overall mental and emotional state. My goal of becoming an Ironman transformed my life and my perspective. I continue to meet inspirational people along the way which have given me the courage to pursue a lifestyle based on wellness and fulfillment. There are so many people that inspire me to actively perform at my greatest potential. The mission of Perspiration inspiration is to share all motivational mediums and promote the discussion of stories, anecdotes, videos, songs, dance, and creativity. Collectively we can learn from each others experiences and empower each other to follow our...
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How Endurance Sports Saved My Life
An introduction into my unique brain chemistry: October 6th was National Day Without Stigma. On that day I finally decided to be public about my unique brain chemistry. To hear my message click the link to my youtube video below: During college many people find their identity. My freshman year of college I had my first extremely major depressive episode. I spent over 3 months torturing my brain, struggling to succeed in school, masking my emotions, and dealing with what I thought was stress. In 2005, two weeks before my sophomore year started at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, I was self-admitted to an in-patient psychiatric facility. Why was I in a psychiatric facility? I had a major manic episode that caused me to be awake for approximately 3 days straight. I then ended up in the hospital where I was given the option to receive help. I chose to receive treatment and help. During that week in the psychiatric facility I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, also known as manic depression. I spent the next 9 years learning that my alternative brain chemistry is not a disorder and it is not an illness; it is a unique part of me that gives me strength and individuality in so many ways. There...
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Steamboat: I’ve Arrived
Tuesday May 21st I had a brick workout scheduled with the IronEdge Tri Team. We met at Rotary Park with a group of 8 at 9 am. How do 9 adults find time to work out for 3 hours on a Tuesday morning? When you live beautiful Yampa Valley, you make it happen! People just like me live in this town to enjoy this lifestyle. This was my third road ride in Steamboat. For me, this was my first, fair weather, long, road ride. We did 6 intervals on our way to Stagecoach Lake. The spring scenery was so jaw dropping I literally had to tell myself to close my mouth and smile instead gaping in pure awe at the natural wonder of the mountains. The hills and windy roads surrounded by endless mountains were ripe with every shade of green and snow caps at the top of each peak. I didn’t care that I was going uphill into a strong headwind because I had the camaraderie of great teammates and mother nature cheering me on. After a series of tough 3 minute intervals the 6thand final interval finished on freshly paved blacktop. Then, seemingly out nowhere Stagecoach Lake appeared. This pristine lake is nestled in the middle of the mountains and is the...
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Positive Monologues & Motivation
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Ride for World Health Receives a Friendly Welcome to Oklahoma
R4WH Receives a Friendly Welcome to Oklahoma Oklahoma was by far the friendliest state we have rode through. We were approached at rest stops, restaurants, and stop lights by locals intrigued by our group of orange riders. I enjoy the chance to talk to locals about our journey and use our healthy activity of cycling as a vehicle for change in promoting global health. One local American Indian shared his story of losing over 70 pounds by cutting back...
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R4WH – 3 Day Tour de Southwest – Arizona to New Mexico
3 Day Tour de Southwest Arizona < Pheonix – Payson – Snowflake – Zuni > New Mexico Ride for World Health April 2 – April 5, 2014 Enjoy every moment for it’s unique beauty. I currently writing with an adrenaline rush received from the finishing charge of a century ride (100 miles) from Snowflake, Arizona to Zuni, New Mexico. Today capped off 3 amazing days of scenic, challenging, and eventful cycling for the Ride for World Health team. The team...
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R4WH Day 2 – Julian to Westmoreland, CA
On morning 2 I scrambled around the church organizing breakfast and preparing the vans for the day of the travel with the rest of crew team Charlie. Our rambunctious Charlie crew consists of Jason, Erika, Nick, Sarah, and I. After we packed, I led our morning team cheer again to pump up the riders for a fun day of cycling. We than had another successful on time departure at 8:30. Erika made an awesome warning sign for the back...
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R4WH Day 1: San Diego to Julian, CA
Ride for World Health officially started our journey on Wednesday, March 26. We woke up in the darkness and scrambled to pack our luggage into the Budget truck and day bags into the support vans for the very first time. As the sun rose we donned our Ride for World Health kits (cycling jerseys and shorts) and headed for the Pacific Ocean with youthful enthusiasm. It is a tradition amongst cross country cyclists to dip your back tire at...
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