Mid Rivers Newsmagazine 7-25-18

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By JESSICA MESZAROS
RANDOM THOUGHTS
This week, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine
talks with Ed Eubanks. At 69
years old, Eubanks works at the St.
Peters Rec-Plex as a lifeguard, a passion
he’s had since he was 16 years
old. Ed works at the Rec-Plex four
days a week, starting at 4:30 a.m. and
working around seven hours a day,
after waking up at 3 a.m. to work out.
Eubanks has been a lifeguard, personal
trainer, public speaker and also is the
inventor of a workout system called
“1 Minute Workout.” He lives with his
wife, Diane, in St. Peters.
What topic could you spend hours talking
about?
I could spend hours talking about fitness.
I’ve always believed that it’s good
to be fit and healthy, and I’ve seen so
many of my classmates that have passed
on and so many that are not able to be
active and are having all these issues.
They’re having aches and pains, but we
all have aches and pains ... We have to
pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and
get going again to keep ourselves fit and
healthy. That’s why I exercise and train.
I even have a system that I put together
to help people achieve better health, and
that’s my trademarked slogan, “Bless
yourself with better health.” I have been
asked by doctors at Logan University
about fitness and how to help people stay
fit and healthy. I take every opportunity
that I can to tell people to just do a little
bit every day. My system is called, “1
Minute Workout” and I have a website,
oneminuteworkoutbyede.com. If people
will give me 1 minute a day, 7 minutes a
week, I can exercise every muscle in their
body like they spent 20 to 30 minutes on
a machine and do it safely and effectively.
Fitness is one thing I could honestly talk
about for hours.
Where do you usually go when you have
time off?
I’m usually mowing my yard or mowing
my daughter’s yard when she’s busy with
the grandkids. We’ll also take the grandkids
and help them do different things.
I’ve been blessed to work with them, teach
them how to sleep, teach them gymnastics,
work with my grandson [on] his martial
arts, and anything else they want to try. I
love to keep them fit and healthy. I’m just
A Community Conversation
Ed Eubanks with his “1 Minute Workout” invention
trying to stay out there and do things that
keep our minds sharp.
Have you ever saved someone’s life?
Yes, absolutely ... Especially days where
there’s a slip or a fall, or maybe [a swimmer]
goes underwater and can’t right [himself]
and you just have to go in and grab
them out of the water, which happens a
lot, then it’s nice to let them know, “Hey,
you’re safe. You’re okay.” The first thing
we say to them is, “It’s okay, I’m a lifeguard.
I’m here to help you.” ... We scan
the entire Olympic-sized Rec-Plex pool in
about 10 seconds. We’re doing that at least
six times a minute, scanning up and down
the entire length, surface to bottom. Every
lifeguard does that. It’s about helping
people that may have an issue at any time.
What is some insider knowledge that
only people in your line of work would
have?
I always say to the people that I really
respect – like the people who come in and
swim laps every morning or the people
that come into the gym and are trying to do
their best to stay fit and healthy, or maybe
some people do water walking, which a
lot of people do for rehab – I always like
to say to them, “There are 73 trillion-plus
cells in our body and they replace themselves
every two to three years. So, starting
today, you can be a brand-new person from
the inside out if you start doing something
healthier today.” We need to move, and we
need to keep moving. Your body is like
a pair of pliers. If you throw them in the
yard and just leave them there, eventually
they’re too rusted to move. I try to keep
moving every day, or I’ll just rust and stay
in place. If I can do anything to motivate
people to move on a regular basis, that’s
want I want to do.
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