"Shortcuts make long delays." Pippen, Lord of the Rings. Hi folks, welcome to today! One reason I promote body awareness training is because, in my opinion, such training combined with an Ironman race saved my life in 2010. I have to admit that The Feldenkrais Method is weird, but remarkably effective. You'll be asked, "Which of your arms feels longest?" You decide it's the left one, you look down and ... Read more
Aging, Alcohol, Sleep And An Inspiring Review Of FitOldDog’s Surgery Recovery Guide On Amazon
Hi folks, welcome to this lovely day! Here is a critical piece of data - as I age (now 70) I observe my body slowly changing, and one thing I've noticed with alcohol (ethanol), even just one glass of wine, is that it interferes with my sleep. I love sleep! Ask any athlete about the importance of sleep in their training, and they'll give you the real skinny on that one. One of my key super-followers, Marsha, ... Read more
Serious Sports Injury? For A Speedy Recovery Embrace Your New Community – Thoughts On Lisfranc Injury
Hi folks, welcome to another lovely day (even though not training is driving me bonkers!). I inserted the video above to remind you that your body is alive, it can repair itself given time, but you have to work with it for an optimal repair in terms of duration of the process and your satisfaction with the final outcome. The first thing you have to do after a serious injury is survive the grieving process ... Read more
Pain Can Be A Wonderful Gift Or It Can Tear You Apart
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain. Hi folks, welcome to another day on planet Earth. A while ago I wrote a blog post entitled, "How do we become aware of that which we are unaware?" As I am setting out to write a book on my journey into increasing emotional and physical awareness, I was reminded of this post. I concluded that the ... Read more
Other Worlds, Paleo Breakfast After Thanksgiving, And Jess’s TV Gift To FitOldDog’s Family
Hi folks, welcome to another lovely day! "Go then! There are other worlds than these." Jake, 'The Dark Tower' by Stephen King. Yes! I mean you, my readers! Go out and have adventures while you can. They're just waiting for you, believe it or not. Live a dream. I looked out of the window this morning, and there was a car with Alaska plates - friend's visiting. More specifically, Maggie visiting from the 49th ... Read more
FitOldDog Visits The Cleveland Clinic, And Enjoyed The City Too! Which Cleveland Do You Believe?
Hi folks, welcome! When my sister in Spain, Marian, learned that I had been invited to the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, to have a life-saving repair to my abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, she kindly forwarded a link to the first video below concerning the city of Cleveland. Now, I'm a glass half-full person, and I just didn't believe it, so I made my own Cleveland Video. There's good and not so good in every ... Read more
What Do Lysenko And The Low Fat Diet Fad Have In Common? They Both Killed Millions!
Hi folks, welcome to my thoughts! As a severe genetic hyperlipemic (resting HDL <20, LDL >2000, plasma like cream, when I discovered it in 1976 BAD), who doesn't want to use muscle toxins, such as statins, I increased my HDL to 41 with fish oil and Ironman training, and then I added the Paleo diet 8 months ago and my HDL went to 79, with other parameters in the normal range (GOOD) - you are what you eat, ... Read more
As FitOldDog (aka FatOldDog) Faces His Second Aortic Surgery He Reflects Briefly On The Nature Of His Disease, And Raynaud’s Syndrome Too!
se·man·tics, noun "The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of ... Read more
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