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In a YouTube video interview Alex Pagulayan,1 world class pool player, said… It hurt so bad that Thorsten beat me…after losing the 2003 WPA World 9-Ball Championship to Thorsten Hohmann, another top pool (billiards) competitor. During the next 12 months, in preparation for the 2004 Championship 9-Ball event, Alex gave up every lifestyle practice, which […]

Here we are – January’s last couple of days have arrived. Some of us might be feeling our Beginning of 2023 intentions slipping away. Return To The Form is a phrase I learned many years ago in Karate class. The saying translates Kata, a Japanese word, which refers to a choreographed pattern of martial arts

Normally a comma does not separate VO2 and Max. Purpose of the phrase VO2 max — or your oxygen uptake — is to show how much oxygen your body absorbs and uses while exercising in a high capacity aerobic or cardiorespiratory manner.V is for volume, O2 is for oxygen and max is for maximum. As you can

As regular readers know, Federal Holidays mean a day off from our regular weekly health and fitness topic emails. Today we give full gratitude to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – and the courage and faith exemplified by his life. The general public first heard Dr. King’s famous speech on August 28, 1963, at The

Researchers love to study weight loss, and more specifically, fat loss in humans. Googling the term “weight loss research studies” yields 674,000,000 results in .50 seconds. Asking “Which research applies to me?” is a fair question. Confusion over what seems to be conflicting scientific findings, and what may be right for our particular body, may

Regular readers among us won’t have to check their calendars to know this is the beginning of January. How so? During the first week of every year we re-set health and fitness priorities by posting TEN TIPS for a HAPPY HEALTHY LIFE, shown below. Unexpected emotional and physical ups-and-downs occur every year. A review of

We made it to the final week of 2022. Although it happens every year – this empty time LULL between get-it-done and start again may feel unexpected or unsettling to some of us. During the Lull…Sands Run Out. Tablet Is Down to Last Few Pages. The Lull is good for us. It’s the catch-our-breath, look

This pre-Christmas week our thoughts turn to gifts – just right, satisfying, useful, helpful, enlightening, joy fulfilling, heart warming and treasured by the recipient. A majority of us reading these weekly posts might agree that Successful Aging would be a valued gift. In the book, Successful Aging, based on a MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging

Last week a building sold. I had been involved with that building and its family, at times my family, for over 50 years. One thing I have learned through life’s transitions is that physical movement, of almost any kind, brings balm (similar to balm in Gilead) to almost any person’s brain, mind and heart. A

We are feeling the Northern Hemisphere shortening of days. Fewer sunshine hours, occasional downpours and a nip in the Southern California air talk to the back of our mind… “It’s OK not to exercise today.” If our movement mojo flops around during these few weeks approaching the Winter Solstice, it might be Nature reminding us