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The word “Hormesis” first came to my attention while reading the book Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying) by Bill Gifford. Fast forward a few years and an in-depth discussion of Hormesis with similar concept of Eustress showed up in the book Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being […]

Welcome to August! In earth’s Northern Hemisphere, August generally can mean hot, hot Summer days.Sometimes heat separates us due to frayed and fried temperaments. However, a Healthy, Happy Life dictates that we use August for forging bonds, as we see in our sketch below. While driving to teach my Essentrics® Aging Backwards class last Friday,

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.* Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How many ways can we say Diet and Exercise framework life’s well-being? Juxtapositioning the English language sublime words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43* with the cartoon nutrition image shown above may seem counterintuitive. Yet appreciating and participating in

Life is a Journey, not a Destination – wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his book Self-Reliance. Not to argue with a literary genius such as Emerson…but for our day-to-day Health and Fitness Purpose….Destination Out-Performs Journey. Even though wandering can be fun as in the children’s game shown above, it is Destination that gives a Metabolic

According to Alicia Machado, former Miss Universe…Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. As years pass, we know that for a few of us the mind, the brain, could slip. One of Life’s great gifts, though, is that we can create new brain cells. How? Through our good friend – EXERCISE!

Happy 4th of July, All. In celebrating our personal freedoms, I’d like to re-send FREE Physical Mobility Streaming classes which most of you should have received yesterday. This link was sent to instructors by Miranda Esmonde-White and the Essentrics® team who produce the Classical Stretch® programs which have been featured since the late 1990s on

Greetings, From the Warm and Friendly Southwest Skies. Hopefully, you have had a great week. As you read this post, I”m in the air heading back to Seal Beach, CA. Since next Monday is July 4, 2022, we’ll have a quickie post on that day. Stay Fit. Stay Strong. We’re All Worth It. WF! YES.

My friend really likes Alexa1 – his voice-controlled virtual assistant. She answers most of his questions and responds politely if a request is unclear in any way. (Since this is a health and fitness post, we won’t go into the already-identified gender bias within cloud-based artificial intelligence (ai) devices like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri

Happy Fitness, All.I’m having technical difficulties with my iMac Bluetooth keyboard. Another one is on the way. Communicate with you next week. Zoom Zumba Gold students should hear from me this coming Friday morning. In the meantime…Keep Moving. WF!

When introduced to the ScienceDirect1 article The exercise–cognition relationship: A virtuous circle, the infrequently used word “virtuous” caught my eye. A quick Merriam Webster online search led me to “virtuous” definition #3 which included the words potent and efficacious. Now we had something…(a) Potent: having great power, influence, or effect. (b) Efficacious: successful in producing