Prepare Your Children For Aging Find Them The Right Sports And Academic Coaches A great education engenders a life-long love of exercise and learning. I know many frustrated athletes, especially runners, in their 50s, 60s and 70s, who can't workout due to injuries induced in high school or college. Because it was all about winning the race, but losing out on their later years. This won't change until our ... Read more
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Preparing For Aging And Yoga Isn’t A Competition!
Preparing For Aging Working To Help Older People Help Themselves Affordably! Preparing for aging; a truly fascinating topic, I'm finding. It's never too late, but you have to be sensible, which means educated and listening (to your body). I recently attended a great Yoga class, at Carrboro Yoga. The best part was the way the teacher, Ruth, provided clear verbal instructions. I didn't have to keep ... Read more
Eating Meat: I Fell For The Big Lie, Until August 4th, 2015!
The Lies/Myth As Recently Stated To FitOldDog By A Fellow Veterinarian! "Factory farmed meat is the only way poor people can get enough protein." Eating Meat Is Necessary? You can sign up for my infrequent but informative newsletters at this link! Eating meat is just not necessary, except in certain hostile environments. I can see how ruminant livestock can play a valuable role in the creation of farms with ... Read more
Occam’s Razor: A Powerful Tool For Active Healthy Aging!
(Ockham's) Occam's Razor! "Occam's razor, also written as Ockham's razor, and lex parsimoniae, Latin for law of parsimony, is a problem-solving principle attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher and theologian. The principle can be interpreted as stating, Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be ... Read more
Why Are You Reading This? Choose Your Topic!
Select Your FitOldDog Subject From The FitOldDog Links Below Whether it be vascular disease, plantar fasciitis, healthy aging, sports injury, or another FitOldDog Links topic. Kev aka FitOldDog PS I'm all into podcasting right now, but I'll be writing again, very soon. You can find the FitOldDog podcasts here: FitOldDog Links: Vascular/Aortic Disease Aortic aneurysm Aortic dissection Heart ... Read more
Do Stuff, To Stay Young At Heart! Aneurysm Or No Aneurysm!
FitOldDog's Philosophy Aortic Aneurysm Or Not Do Stuff! Do stuff, to stay young at heart! It's too easy to sit around! This weekend, I'm sagging for a group of 10 people hiking a small section of the Appalachian Trail, in Virginia. My job? To drive from campsite to campsite, in our old Chevy truck (Yep, we haven't let it go yet!), and provide a hot dinner as they come off of the trail. Breakfast too, ... Read more
Vegan Nutrition Carboloading: Potatoes, Rice, Pasta Or Bread, And B12?
Vegan nutrition is a fascinating topic. Especially for the plant-based athlete. Vegan nutrition? A contentious topic, in many circles! Don't miss FitOldDog's vegan nutrition carb survey, at the bottom of the page! Vegan nutrition, doing it right. First, let's get vitamin B12 out of the way - does our need for B12 mean we have to eat meat? No! Just read this article, entitled: "Vital Wisdom: A Journey of ... Read more
Returning To Running Later In Life
Major Surgery Recovery? Should I Return To My Sport? You need a safe exercise program! First Complete FitOldDog's Sport Benefit-Risk Analysis People told me not to do this - Too Dangerous!!! Did it anyway - sport benefit-risk analysis. "The choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately ... Read more
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