While adventuring ‘on the road’ one Aussie fall, we discover that as long as you have some time up your sleeve, Australia road travel is the very best way to see this country and a great way to meet the people who live there.

Day 3

This morning our Australia road travel adventure takes us into our third state, New South Wales.  Pick ups in Australia are called ‘utes’ abbreviated (like much of the Australian language) from ‘utility truck’ and when we arrive at Denliquin we notice a ute atop a pole.  We learn that Australia’s annual ‘ute muster’ is held here.  Must get that next time!  We move on to Junee where we are taken aback by the main street which looks like its come straight out of the late nineteenth century.  Cootamundra is close by and the local pub there serves the biggest steaks we’ve eaten for years!

Day 4

Instead of heading up and over the Blue Mountains we travel a little north across rolling hills, past happier fatter sheep and paddocks of lush green wheat to the inland town of Orange in the New South Wales rural heartland.  We spend a day in Orange (no orange groves in sight) and enjoy some wine tasting (yes another wine district) that afternoon.

Day 5

The Blue Mountains are spectacular and yes, very blue.  The bluey haze from the mountain tops seems to go on forever.  We spend the day winding through mountain villages lit up by the red, orange and yellow of fall leaves not seen in warmer parts of this country where native trees display none of this dramatic change. 

We stop for afternoon coffee at Katoomba near some rock formations called 'The Three Sisters' and reflect on our 5 day Australia road travel.  We decide that this was by far the best way to see the countryside and meet local Aussies between these cities.  We will always remember the guys at Tailem Bend who offered advice about our newly cracked windscreen and made us laugh.  If we’d taken a plane we would have missed them and the Aussie farmer we saw ploughing his paddock after sunset on a tractor with lights.  We’d never have seen the kangaroos hop along side us at dusk or heard the locals regale their ‘yarns’ over a beer in every country pub we called in to. 

We’re glad we decided on this Australia road travel adventure.  We could have taken longer and should have but the lure of Bondi Beach and the Sydney Opera House had us heading to Sydney before the end of Day 5.

Warm regards

Rowena French

For theteam@MightyDigitalDownloads.com

Transforming Lives, One Person at a Time

Rowena French has traveled Australia extensively, exploring much of this vast and very diverse country. If you’d like to read about Part 1 of our Australia Road Travel Adventure – 5 Days from Adelaide to Sydney go to our website at www.AustraliaTravel4U

When you become an aging baby boomer you find many good reasons to learn about the value of discovering ways to increase metabolism.  Some of these appear in the form of fat cells around your hips or stomach or as sagging muscle tone in most places!

Tony and I instigated a physical check up a couple of years back.  After recovering from the shock of learning that we were more unfit and overweight than we had allowed ourselves to believe, we took action in an effort to improve our lifestyle and extend our lives.  We started a daily walk, or run and interval training circuits.  We love the benefits of these and discovered these to be one of the most effective ways to increase metabolism.

But Tony was pleased to learn more from our doctor about including muscle building as part of our regular exercise regime.

'Why?’ I asked, imagining an over-developed Amazon about to take over my body.

‘Because’, came the reply ‘A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat and if you have more muscle on your body, you will simply burn more calories as a result.’

As I wasn’t born with a rapid metabolism guzzling body, I need to work at maintaining a healthy weight, so with assurances that I would look better not bigger I agreed to build my muscles.  I wanted more muscle than fat.

We already owned a great muscle building guide called ‘Definition’ by well known fitness expert Dr Joyce Vendral.  Her updated DVD’s are even better.  We purchased inexpensive dumb bells and followed her easy program as part of our daily routine.

We started slowly and gradually increased our muscle building challenges. The great benefit for us was that once we started to build muscle our bodies did start burning more calories.  They had to, even while we slept, or went to a movie, or read a book. It was like putting our calorie-burning metabolism program on autopilot.

Yes we still enjoy cardiovascular exercise, because that’s ultimately how our body is going to burn existing fat.  But we’ve found that muscle building is one of the valuable ways to increase metabolism.

If two aging baby boomers can enjoy the metabolic benefits of a muscle building program any one can.  Muscle building has exponential benefits too.  The more fat you transform into muscle, the more calories you’ll burn simply to maintain that new muscle and the cycle goes on and on!

If you build muscle and then leave it alone, over time, the muscle fibers will weaken and you’ll lose that wonderful calorie-burning factory.  But that’s no problem, because all you need to do is to re-include some muscle building in your exercise routine and gradually re-build it. Go on, buy the dumb bells and get started.  You’ll love the results! 

Warm regards  

Rowena French

For theteam@MightyDigitalDownloads.com

Transforming Lives, One Person at a Time

If you’d like read more information about the benefits of muscle building as a way to increase metabolism and promote weight loss, go to our website www.Boost Metabolism for Part 1 of Muscle Building – Effective Ways to Increase Metabolism