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I have been a walking member of the USGA for years. Being injured and recovering from 2 surgeries on my achilles has been difficult. I am just starting to play a little golf again with my kids. The only way I can go out is in a cart right now. Common sense dictates that if you walk instead of taking a golf cart you will be in better shape and live longer. My personal favorite helper is my Sun Mountain 3 wheel push cart. It is a great tool. If you ride and do not want to carry this is well worth the investment.

A recent study from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden just proved it. They found that golfers who regularly walked will live on average 5 YEARS LONGER than the general population. Their death rate was CUT BY 40 PERCENT.

I guess sometimes you just have to slow down. If you don't thinks may line up out of your control to make it happen. In early March I ruptured my Achilles tendon playing tennis. I had just joined the ladder at a new club and it was my first match. One hour into the match I decided to come in behind a serve and pow - ruptured right in half. I had the surgery - well into recovery with daily exercises and PT then walking up the stairs in flip flops I slipped and POW - ruptured again right above where it was put back together. Another surgery last week and I am starting over. I thought I was doing everything possible to come back. You just never know. I would give anything to go for a walk. You take walking and moving freely for granted.

It always amazes me when I am shopping and I see the stacks of 12 packs of soda that many parents are buying for their families. At only $5 for 24 cans it is cheap. I think soda is also the leading cause of obesity in children too. To be a 3%'er you have to kick the habit of reaching for a soda all the time. Get it out of your home!

Teenagers who drink more soda have more mental health difficulties, including hyperactivity and mental distress, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health.

They found that the teenagers who drank the most soda (an average of four or more glasses a day) scored highest on measures of behavioral difficulties, hyperactivity, mental distress and overall mental health problems.

Hi my name is Chip Eichelberger and I created this site. I have been blessed to be speaking to literally almost 1000 different audiences over the last 15 years. I have carved a niche as a motivational/peak performance speaker – check out GetSwitchedOn.com to see more about me if you wish. I would love to say the majority of my audiences are taking great care of myself, but they are not. Amazingly it is the people I have spoken to in health care (hospitals, nurses, docs) that seem to be in the worst shape of all.

My goal is to create an opportunity for people to make a public commitment that they are going to be a 3%'er - hitting all 4 of the criteria to live a healthy lifestyle. I want to add resources, success stories, ideas, recipes – any way I can to add value to the people who chose to be a 3%'er.