Hi folks, I was sitting on our front stoop for the first time in four or five days, thanks to Doxycycline rescuing my sorry ass from some form of tick-borne fever, and there was a busy fluttering around my head. I looked up and there, hovering about 18 inches from my nose, was a beautiful humming bird, and he was pissed. Beware the ire of hummingbirds, because they'll peck your head if you get out of ... Read more
Stopping Everything For A While Whether Voluntary Or Forced Can Be An Opportunity For Life Improvement
Hi folks, It is easy to get on a roll, it feels great, so you keep doing it, and on and on it goes, but eventually you lose sight of why you started this particular roll in the first place because you are so comfortable rolling along. But is it really getting you where you wanted to go or not? It pays to stop from time to time to ask yourself if changes need to be made. You can stop by going on ... Read more
FitOldDog Had A Hard Year In 2012 But He Learned A Lot About Safe Exercise For Better Health In Older People
"Heat stroke is a very common condition that more commonly affects children and elderly patients and is worsened when they take certain medications such as blood pressure pills, diuretics and some anti-inflammatories." From: Female Focus Online Hi folks, Today I have a mild flu or flu-like condition, including a fever, headache, sore muscles all over the place, and a raging sinusitis, ... Read more
Beware Subtle But Critical Distinctions Of Meaning For A Healthy Life
“The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas I do not quite understand. Please enlighten me." The patriarch responded, "I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning." Said the nun, "You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you ... Read more
Endurance Race Recovery And Context As The Wallpaper Of Life
"In JKD [Jeet Kune Do], one does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." Bruce Lee. "Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster." by Robert M. Pirsig, from The Painter's Keys. "If you could wish for one athletic-enhancing gene it should be the one that ... Read more
Overcoming Setbacks From A Poor Race Performance To A Major Health Problem
Buddha told a parable in a sutra: "A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one ... Read more
Starting An Exercise Program And You Want To Do It Right? Eleven Valuable Exercise Tips.
Joe Friel said, “Successful endurance training is exactly like turning a Styrofoam cup inside out. So long as you take it slowly, you’ll be able to do it. Try to rush things and—rip!—you’ll tear the cup. You are the cup.” Hi folks, When you start an exercise program you have to remember that there are two aspects to the human body, one of them is the perfectly designed machine, the other is the ... Read more
In Defense Of Shane Ellison? Don’t Think I Can But I Might Be Wrong, Who Knows?
Hi folks, You never want to start an arms race, or you end up like Alice and the Red Queen, moving faster but getting nowhere. I think I might have started such a race in the form of an undercurrent of hostility in a comment stream in response to a blog post I wrote a while ago. In fact, I have clearly irritated some people by countering arguments made by Shane Ellison about the 'drug industry.' If you want the ... Read more
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