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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

In honor of Memorial Day we won’t have a fitness blog post today. Please enjoy your Holiday with gratitude for those Armed Forces Members and Civilians who gave their lives serving our country. If weather allows, and you are able, please honor the Day with a walk in the beautiful outdoors. WF!

The word Inflammaging popped out at me from my Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Fitness Level 2 course in 2019, while studying how to alleviate mobility dysfunction in golfers and the general population. At once my brain recognized Inflammaging as the enemy against which I had been defending and mounting counteroffensives for years! The welcome

For those of us who forgot to dance around the Maypole this month, today we give a nod to dance, to song and to receiving their physical and mental health benefits. Sometimes songs transcend their original meaning and inspire a global community as Kalush Orchestra’s Stefania rap song did in last week’s Eurovision Song Contest,

Let’s call May another We Love Exercise Month. We’ll get off the couch for Fun and Healthspan – the period of our lives without major debilitating diseases.* As seen in our running female graphic above, the body responds very favorably to exercise. Running itself is not necessary for the body to receive these benefits. Brisk

One of the recent blog posts which came across my email contained the saying from our image below of “I didn’t come this far to only come this far.” Something resonated with this week’s quote that encouraged me to say “Yes” to finishing what seems like never ending fitness courses that keep beckoning me to

Come Dance With Me are the four words Fourteenth Century mystic poet, Hafiz, wrote to capture ultimate spiritual relationship. For our health and fitness purposes we interpret dance as any form of pleasurable, rhythmic movement – including cadence in military marching, or repetitions in a weight training exercise, or measured dance itself such as ballet,