Safe Exercise With Aortic Dissection? It's A Challenge No Exercise Is The Worst Exercise! I'm an abdominal aortic aneurysm survivor, veterinarian and endurance athlete in my 70s I'm writing this brief post in response to direct requests for advice on exercise following corrective surgery for aortic dissection If you want to hear my aorta story, watch this video Clearly, with aortic dissection, you need to be ... Read more
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11 More Free Training Tips On Safe Exercise For Better Health From FitOldDog
Hi folks, Just thought that I would pull out some more training tips for fun. Here they are, with an embedded link to the related blog post: Play at your workouts rather than working at them, because it is more joyful and thus more effective. Translation: take your training seriously but not yourself. Try running straight out of the gym after a heavy weight workout (yes, including your legs), ... Read more
Surviving Bike Wrecks and the Power of Imagination
Not a pretty picture, but this is what happens in a bike wreck, if you try to save yourself with your hands. I've had a few bike wrecks, and some ended not so great. One: Car door opened in front of me, in heavy traffic, in Bristol, England, on my way to school, back in the 1950s. Just a minor head injury. Two: Ended in the eye hospital, as I disconnected my vitreous humor, prematurely. Classic bike wreck. I ... Read more
Peripheral Arterial Disease Ironman Therapy – Training Resumes With Psoriasis
Yes! I'm crazy, but I'm getting back after several weeks of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine-triggered, psoriasis hell. Methotrexate is helping somewhat, but will have to increase dose of this anti-cancer drug. They say we are our own worst enemies, so I guess this is right for psoriasis, as our immune system attacks our skin. Two images taken today and presented with the training week, lower on blog post, show lesions ... Read more
Consider Present and Historical Baseline Fitness When Training for Aging
How does one train? For Ironman? You train your body, you train your mind, you train your spirit, you train your ass off. For Aging? You train your body, you train your mind, you train your spirit, you train your withering ass off. While writing the second edition of my book on how to prepare for aging, under a new title, "How to Train for Aging, the Ultimate Endurance Sport," it occurred to me that one ... Read more
When Treating Peripheral Arterial Disease With Exercise You Can’t Be Chicken: Further Observations
Galaxy loves to be picked up and petted. A lovely creature. Don't be chicken when you exercise with PAD, and NO! We do NOT eat our chickens. When treating peripheral arterial disease with exercise to improve the painful symptoms of claudication (which is screwing with my running, but not affecting cycling - interesting), there is a number of key issues to consider. Conditioning: Tight muscles are less readily ... 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
Speedplay Hips, Another ‘So-Called Plantar Fasciitis’ Insight
Speedplay Hips For Better Foot Float A 'So-Called Plantar Fasciitis' Insight? Believe it or not, this crudely made, old video has had over 15,000 hits! Those eight years of research on so-called plantar fasciitis drew my attention to the role of hip muscles in freedom of rotation of our feet. During today's 5k road race, I had an epiphany. It's just like those Speedplay pedals. It's all about float, or freedom ... Read more
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