Living With Aortic Disease Once you come to terms with having aortic disease. With or without surgery. Get your life back on track. One aspect of a life on track is healthy exercise. In my case, Ironman! I love it! Keeps me out of assisted living! But I approached my return to my sport carefully. Removing any training that might risk my stent, such as: Eliminated heavy squats in the gym. Went from the ... Read more
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You Design Your Life, Whether You Know It Or Not!
Design, intelligent or otherwise, creates us and our lives, and what is more intelligent than relentless 'survival of the fittest,' or life-style editing, while being content to be where you are - the classic paradox? The best writing is a product of relentless editing, before or after the ink goes on the paper. The best exercise is the product of careful planning, goal setting, and overall, growing body ... Read more
Share The Road, Share The Garden, Share The Planet For A Good Life!
We are lucky to live on this lovely planet, and learning to share the planet is a key part of enjoying our good luck! I came into my vegetable garden a few days ago, and saw something rush away, out of the corner of my eye. I looked around, and there he was, amongst the beans, keeping as quiet as a mouse. I found my iPhone (camera), tiptoed around, and finally managed a couple of photos before the ... Read more
Running Rehab, Genghis Khan, And Toe Yoga
Cemil taught me a thing or two about Genghis Khan during our recent chat at Johnny's; it even influenced my subsequent running rehab. work at the gym. Our conversation started with Cemil asking me what I was writing. I told him that I was working on the 2nd Edition of our Plantar Fasciitis Treatment e-book. I, likewise, asked Cemil what he was writing about, and he said, "Genghis Khan's empire building." He also ... Read more
A Blogging Style For All? For Melinda And Marsha, Anyway! Of Eyeballs, Stents, And Learning
Hi folks, welcome! Everything you learn will come in useful one day, so learn lots of interesting things, which means explore your world. This has certainly helped me find interesting content for my style of blogging. But first, a general note on this blog: I was becoming disenchanted with my blog the other day. The muses were absent and traffic continued to be too flat. So I posed a question, concerning ... Read more
From Surgery Recovery To Safe Exercise And Training, Case In Point: Back To Back Inguinal Hernia And Prostate Repairs
Question from a reader on a comment stream of this blog: "Kevin, I recently had both surgery to repair a hernia, as well as prostate surgery. Because of decreased capacity because of the hernia as well as the trauma of the two surgeries, I have lost a fair amount of muscle mass, strength, and tone. What kind of training regimen do you suggest for me to get back in shape? What exercises should I avoid to let my ... Read more
Two Big Philosophical Mistakes: Education For Grades And Sports For Winning
"In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape ... Read more
Of Canucks, The Jewish Nation, Pills, Donuts And Endurance Sports: Separating Myth From Reality To Improve Our Lives
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” M. Scott Peck Hi folks, welcome to my blather, which I enjoy ... Read more
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