Since this post is going out on Cyber Monday, it felt like a good idea to have a My Best Gift Ever contest for the most memorable and worthy present any of us can remember receiving. For example the best, and longest lasting gift given to me was the non-tangible “Love of Exercise” received while […]
I had surgery for a trigger finger this last Friday, leaving me, briefly, having to function with one hand. In googling images and stories of those who accomplish the most basic activities of daily living, as well as extraordinary athletic feats, without one or both hands, feet or limbs, the thought occurred that this Thanksgiving
Two TV interview sentences came to my attention yesterday: After playing this year’s Master’s Golf Tournament, Tiger Woods said “I didn’t commit to the wind” when describing the devastating result of earning 10 on the par-3 twelfth hole.* The other line was from MMA fighter Alex Perez who said, when asked about Winning the upcoming
Balance and pinning the tail on the donkey are not far removed from each other. We make do with two out of three physical attributes – vision, vestibular system (everything going on inside the inner ear) and proprioception* (awareness of movement and position) while having fun at the party. If we hear of a neighbor
Some of us may find ourselves “to the wall” with up and down emotions this 2020 Election Day week. Guidance for today’s post comes through the cover of Dr. Melissa Munro Boyd’s delightful children’s book B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings, available by clicking on this Amazon link.
Do we really need to make a Devil-or-Angel decision this Wednesday, October 28, which is National Chocolate Day? Not according to Harvard School of Public Health articles on Dark Chocolate Flavanols and Primordial Prevention. (click on both links for easy-to-digest reading.) Primordial means existing from the beginning of time. Thankfully, nature’s healthy heart dietary advice
World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, with the theme “Connecting the world with data we can trust”. We can put ourselves in a statistics frame of mind by clicking on the Moneyball movie trailer and tuning in to this week’s Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series championship games. In
With these words…How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…Elizabeth Barrett Browning began the most famous love poem in the English language. Here we are 170 years after publication applying her world-famous phrase to how many ways we can count the Benefits of Walking. Let’s thank Elizabeth by heading out the door, to
October 5-11, 2020, has been pronounced Active Aging Week by organizations serving and marketing to the 50+ crowd. (Focus really is on age 60+ individuals; but since many of us like to think we are 10 years younger, fifty sounds like a better gateway age whenever Boomer/Senior populations are referenced.) Most readers of this post
ALTO. STOP. HALT. Pause. Time out. Catch our breath. Smell the roses.Why does nature dictate that we pull back on activity, particularly when it comes to intense exercise? According to Pete McCall, CSCS,** a day of rest allows our bodies to repair tissues damaged from the mechanical stresses of exercise. Specifically, rest allows time for
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