"Your next sports injury is just one little mistake away!" FitOldDog Hi folks, welcome to my brief thought of the day! A friend of mine asked me today whether he should 'run through' a recent running-induced calf injury. My response was an immediate: "No Way!" You have to learn to listen to your body, but when it comes to calf injuries, or anything to do with your lower limbs, you had better take care to ... 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
Thoughts On The Role Of Passive Versus Active Recovery In The Case Of Plantar Fasciitis
"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail." From the Tao te Ching by Lao-tzu, translated by S. Mitchell. Hi folks, welcome to my ... 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
What Can An Athlete Do When Unable To Exercise, Go Crazy Or Work It Out?
Hi folks, welcome! Well, I've been grounded with knee surgery a couple of times, and now I'm stuck until my aortic leak is fixed, so what's to do? Going bonkers isn't very effective, but I have to avoid bringing up my heart rate or blood pressure. All and any ideas much appreciated (as long as it doesn't include β-blockers). Here's what I'm planning to do: Appreciate the chance to rest a tired body ... Read more
Keeping An Old Body Or An Old Truck Moving Is Pretty Much The Same
Hi folks! Welcome to my thought for the day! Exercise or training strain? Stop, study, solve, fix it, then back on the trails again. Every year I drive my old Chevy truck up to Lake Placid for the Ironman race, using a small town car here much of the time, and I really love that truck. We've had lots of adventures, cooking along the way, but it keeps breaking down as it gets older (and so do I). There are ... Read more
Arch Supports: When Does A Tool Become A Crutch?
Hi folks, welcome! We need tools to assist with weak areas of our bodies, but once the issue is corrected beware turning a tool into a crutch. In the process of providing advice (not medical advice!) to a customer suffering from plantar fasciitis related to weak arches, I agreed to write a blog post on the subject of arch supports. In the process of writing, I found that I had already written on the subject a ... Read more
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