PETERSBURG — How did Petersburg native Don “DB Donamatrix” Brooks, a celeb health coach, react to his hometown being ranked the unhealthiest metropolis in Virginia as soon as once more?
Researchers on the College of Wisconsin-Madison launched the findings of the 2022 County Well being Rankings in April. Petersburg was ranked lifeless final for the fifth time in a row.
In 2018, DB Donamatrix was acknowledged for his contributions to the health and wellness industries. The Metropolis of Petersburg proclaimed April third as Don-A-Matrix Day to encourage all residents to advertise good well being actions and turn into bodily energetic.
“Donamatrix Day is particular to me,” DB Donamatrix, a VSU alumni, stated. “My mission is to make a distinction that may have an enduring affect on the kids, households, faculties, authorities and everybody again residence.”
In March, DB Donamatrix brazenly expressed the way it hurts to learn damaging headlines about his hometown. The person with the plan who wishes to vary the narrative of well being outcomes about Petersburg gives his tackle the 2022 report accomplished by researchers on the College of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I am impressed with Petersburg’s 90% price for entry to train alternatives. That is large,” DB Donamatrix stated. “The 47% mammography screening is price highlighting too. The mayor, metropolis council and Petersburg are doing lots to assist enhance the Metropolis’s well being rankings.”
Petersburg’s youngster poverty price of 36%, single-parent family price of 52% and lengthy commute-driving alone price of 34% grabbed DB Donamatrix’s consideration and sparked a dialogue about train psychology.
“Don’s hottest slogan ‘Thoughts Proper, Physique Prepared’ was impressed by his ongoing research of train psychology which focuses on the connection between the thoughts and physique and promotes involvement and delight by means of train,” Teri Benson, a key organizer of Donamatrix Day stated. “Theoretical and conceptual frameworks in train psychology are used to rigorously plan and execute Donamatrix Day.”
“Sure, Petersburg has made train alternatives accessible to the individuals who reside there, however these identical persons are single dad and mom working laborious to handle their family financially… paying lease, mortgage, payments,” DB Donamatrix stated. “Till we’re capable of cut back the kid poverty price and the general metropolis’s poverty price, enhance native job alternatives which can cut back the day by day driving commute, and encourage dual-income households, it would proceed to be laborious for households to buy higher meals decisions and make selections to attend free exercises held at local people facilities or church buildings a precedence.”
DB Donamatrix solutions:
- Incorporate health club and coaching services in metropolis buildings and faculties.
- Set up train tools at outside parks.
- Change typical merchandising machine snacks and drinks with more healthy choices.
- Begin or finish employees conferences, the college day, and courses with 5-10 minute workouts, meditation or yoga to affect motion and constructive psychological well being.
“Options that enhance day by day/hourly motion with out disrupting household routines earlier than or after work or college are vital,” DB Donamatrix stated. “Additionally it is key to provide you with methods to steer wholesome existence with out spending cash on extra fuel or transportation prices.”
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“One of many difficulties we now have confronted with executing Donamatrix Day is gaining sponsorship. Not many well being, health and wellness firms imagine in a metropolis that’s deemed the unhealthiest or in a metropolis that won’t give them a lot buzz,” Benson stated. “Nevertheless, Don is rarely discouraged. He strikes ahead yearly funding many of the health pageant himself.”
The 2022 free health pageant for all skills, ages and health ranges occurred on Saturday, April 2 on the Petersburg Sports activities Complicated. It consisted of a 6-mile household bike trip, bike security checks, music, group health, fishing, well being screenings, youngsters health, displays, demonstrations, wholesome meals choices and extra.
Donamatrix Day was impressed by DB Donamatrix’s dedication to shift the way in which his hometown views health, vitamin, bodily well being and psychological well being.
How did Petersburg turn into town with the poorest well being in Virginia?
“Fixing this may require a radical change within the underlying assumptions round how the Metropolis received there,” DB Donamatrix stated. “My mission is greater than health.”
The health guru shared the next data:
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention have reported that fewer than 50% of Individuals take part in common bodily exercise [Ekkekakis, P., Zenko, Z., Sports Psychology, 2016]. Whereas most adults acknowledge the well being advantages of train, they’ve related train with displeasure.
Analysis additional explains that damaging feelings change decision-making conduct. This data highlights the general public well being problem of accelerating participation in bodily exercise to boost bodily well being and to buoy the psychological advantages related to bodily exercise [Acevedo, E., The Oxford Handbook of Exercise Psychology, 2012].
“Don is not going to surrender on his hometown,” Benson stated. “He’ll proceed to collaborate with the Metropolis of Petersburg Mayor and Metropolis of Petersburg Parks & Leisure Providers to handle the Metropolis’s continual well being circumstances.”
DB Donamatrix’s health system Donamatrix Methodology is trusted by Hollywood’s most well-known celebrities. His coaching studio is situated at 7704 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif.
Go to donamatrix.com to study extra concerning the man with a plan who credit the Metropolis of Petersburg for his success.
DB Donamatrix is assured Petersburg will turn into one of many fittest and healthiest locations within the Nation.
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