You can use your fingers to help your toes, as you train for aging and fight peripheral arterial disease. Aging is truly the toughest endurance sport. For me it has become a way of life, even though we train for aging our whole lives. Most importantly, it's never too late to start. I qualified for the 2023 World Half Ironman Championships this year by the skin of my teeth. On race day in August I will have just ... Read more
Question From Australia on Yoga Toes for Running With Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Question from JW, Perth, Australia: "I have been doing the yoga toes stretch after reading your blog on how it helps in get rid of toes numb pain during claudication exercise. The pain normally comes after about 5km mostly on the big & 2nd toe. I normally do 3 sets x 30s of yoga toes exercises daily with little improvement. I am currently on 4E width ... Read more
PAD Oxidative Phosphorylation Training For Peripheral Arterial Disease
The other day, I was riding my bike for 60 miles, at an easy 110 Watts, on a gentle roller course, to encourage mitochondrial growth (biogenesis), and oxidative phosphorylation, for efficient energy (ATP) production. This, and the magic of chemiosmosis, is worth understanding, as PAD oxidative phosphorylation could well be critical for handling peripheral arterial disease. Image and copyright purchased from ... Read more
No Detectable Foot Pulse, But Pink Toes, With Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Ironman Collaterals
My toes (still have 10) are nice and pink, and there is excellent nail refill if I push on them. If I stop my training, especially running, my toe nails start to go blue, refill is slower. It's not easy, but I'm still doing Ironman training with no detectable foot pulse in the right leg, using ultrasound. About six years ago, four years after running the Boston Marathon, I noticed problems with running in longer ... Read more
The Art of Running With Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Best running and body movement book I ever read, all based on Feldenkrais, and the experience of a lover of running, Jack Heggie. So you have peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in your legs (for me it's mainly lower legs), and you want to return to running, but, (a) your doctor told you not to, (b) it hurts too much, (c) you can't run like you used to, so why bother? (d) other? I've been struggling with PAD for ... 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
Older Athlete Conditioning With Water Running
As I approach the age of 78, with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) stent graft and progressive peripheral arterial disease (PAD), preparation for the Florida Ironman in about nine months requires some careful conditioning prior to real training to avoid injury. For this I use, (a) lots of long walks, (b) treadmill runs for mastering really low impact style to reduce calf claudication, (c) weight training and ... Read more
Build Your Aging Training Base in Your 50s and It Will Be There for Your 70s, 80s and Beyond
Once your body learns something, even when neglected for years, it remembers. It remembers mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. I found this while reapplying water running to my ongoing peripheral arterial disease (PAD) marathon and Ironman training, to spare my feet on long training runs. https://youtu.be/DVgzPzoxVmg Water running is a great tool for endurance run conditioning later in ... Read more
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