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Getting A Little Older? Did They Test Your Body Awareness Level?

Your Body Awareness Level? Here's A Simple Test You Can Do For Free!  As you get older they'll test: Your eyesight. Your hearing. Your sense of smell, if your lucky, as it's an early sign of mental decline. They'll test your reflexes (tap, tap). They'll test your liver and kidney function (what a difference the vacutainer made to my life as a farm vet in the 1960s). But will they test ... Read more

Test Your Body Awareness Skills, They May Save Your Life One Day

Body-Awareness Skills Test Try this hokey little movie by FitOldDog  Don't feel anything? You have work to do! It's certainly going on. As Caroline Joy, an expert in body physiology, says, “Proprioception refers to the body’s conscious awareness of itself …” “The proprioceptive system is responsible for maintaining reflexive control of muscle tone and posture.” “As you read this, your trunk is ... Read more

Less Pills And More Body Awareness By Wiggling Your Finger

Less Pills Is Fine With FitOldDog Funny how a book can change your world view. This is certainly true for The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohllben. Never took a walk in the woods again without feeling I was meandering through one massive living organism. It's probably watching me, Ents or no Ents. Then along came Winning The Story Wars. I had no idea about the massive impact of marketing schemes designed ... Read more

Test Your Body Awareness Skills, To Cure Plantar Fasciitis, Prevent Sports Injury, Handle Aging Challenges And Aortic Disease

FitOldDog's Endoscopy Using Body-Awareness To Look Inside For Medical Reasons! Body-Awareness Is Your First Line Of Defense Body-awareness skills? When I talk about this subject, which is dear to my heart, I'm reminded of poor old Ignaz. Few people are listening, but I know I'm on the right track. How do I know? Like Ignaz, I've tested it on my own life. When I propose a simple test, people say, ... Read more

Returning to running safely? Thumbs up for body awareness training!

Body Awareness Training The Key To Active Healthy Aging  Returning to Running, Safely? Andrew Weil Said Running Is For Young People! I Say, "Forget that!" On returning to running in my 50s, I could have avoided two knee surgeries, and lots of pain, with a little body awareness training. But I had no idea, back then! I was, basically, clueless! Body awareness training came consciously into my life, much ... Read more

Is Body Awareness And Movement Training A Viable Information Niche Product?

I'm having a great time, but limited success (which is normal at this stage), marketing the results of our research on plantar fasciitis treatments, but this is probably because my real focus is on body awareness and movement training, a much more important topic for most of us wanting to stay active into old age. This is certainly an area where value can be added to people's lives, as they work to hold ... Read more

Body Awareness Training Allows You To Put The Load Where You Want It – To Swim Smooth

Your best teachers are often your students, which is true when it comes to body awareness training, because as you guide them it causes you to think, "That's great advice, but do I do that?" The best running book I ever read, 'Running With The Whole Body,' by Jack Heggie, showed me how to shift load, during running stride recovery, from my hip flexors to my spinal spring. Recently, I was giving some swimmers ... Read more

Body Awareness Training And The Art Of Stretching Into Your Later Years

"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plats are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail." From the Tao te Ching, Lao-tzu (about 300-400 BCE), translated by Steven ... Read more

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