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Healthy Gait For Healthy Aging, Part I
I previously wrote briefly about the importance of maintaining a good walking gait for healthy aging here and here. I promised to follow up on that in more detail, which I’m getting around to now. This took me a while because I had to do a lot of reading on the fascinating topic of biomechanics…
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How Much Exercise Is Enough?
Recently I’ve written some posts describing my training plan and some of my training sessions. My goal is to provide some inspiration that an old guy like me can still move pretty well despite some of the setbacks I’ve gone through, But I’m concerned I might be intimidating people who are new to exercise or…
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Vibrating Platform
After I finished Exercise is Medicine, I began intrigued with the connection between exercise and maintaining bone density as we age, I blundered into the book Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health on Amazon. www.Amazon..com/books This book was interesting. It made some strong claims like strength training for 10 minutes on a vibrating…
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Tiny Steps Add Up
People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time–. Dorothy Day I think the great social activist Dorothy Day meant this in the context of changing the world. It reminds me of the story of an…
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Some Fun Off-road Riding
There are various fun dirt paths accessible off of the Coyote Creek trail, and today was a nice day to check them out. I rode for a total of about two hours, maybe an hour of that on unpaved or gravel trails. These are good at my skill level, not too technical. One of the…
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Cool Data From Record-Setting Older Marathoner
https://www.outsideonline.com/2410181/masters-marathoners-physiology-research At the Frankfurt Marathon in October 2019, Irishman Tommy Hughes set an impressive age group record of 2:27 for the marathon, at 59. He also set a combined father-son time record of 4:59 when his son Eoin finished in 2:31. The combined time might have been a little better if Eoin had trained as hard as…
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New Blood Pressure Adventure
This is my latest challenge. I found out I have pretty significant hypertension (elevated blood pressure), . This occurred at my new doctors office (general practitioner). I have had “white coat disease” in the past, where BP reading is elevated in the doctors office, but when I go home it’s fine. So when I got…
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The Healing Power of Nature
Getting out in nature is a great antidote for the “hustle and bustle” of modern life. Just a stroll in a local park will do, or a jaunt in a wilder or more “unmanicured” natural setting is even better. I strive to do get a dose of this at least once a day. It doesn’t…
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Enthusiastic Workout Yesterday – Too Much of A Good Thing?
Yesterday I felt well-rested and my fitness app said my recovery was good, So I really went for it in my workout, about an hour of upper body work in my home gym then a three hour bike ride. I felt great so threw in some extra hard intervals on the bike. I was pretty…
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On Healthspan and Lifespan, and Learning From Centenarians
I’ve been reading about longevity related topics lately. Maybe that’s what happens when you turn 68 The most important distinction to me is between lifespan and healthspan. Lifespan has been increasing due to modern medicine, but often people go through a long debilitating decline at the end of life. In contrast, healthspan is what percentage…