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Must we be utilitarian in our quest for Balance exercises? Are fitness health and safety protocols designed to be useful and practical, never attractive? Is developing the strong core which protects us during a fall – repetitive, boring drudge work? Where is the grace? Nose to the grindstone workouts are not for us. Imagine standing […]

Today’s conversation turns to defining ourselves. Specifically I refer to almost death knell self-talk about age – such as “…What can be expected, I’m fifty (or sixty, seventy, eighty, etc.)” Reversing, putting a different spin on, self-defeating talk can be accomplished with one four-letter word. Try using it when we feel that the calendar affects

Even a slight swayback with protuberant stomach (depending on the amount of abdominal fat) can surprise us when we notice it while walking by the mirror. Returning to Dr. Vladimir Janda – (for a reminder click here) – today we introduce Dr. Janda’s muscle imbalance Lower-crossed syndrome, shown in our model below. (Hmm… Isn’t this

Where do the commands Back and Down belong? These words ought to muster in our shoulder blades – where in anatomical terms back means retraction (drawing back in together) and down signifies depression (downward movement.) IF we want to minimize/reverse/ameliorate what Dr. Vladimir Janda* called upper-crossed syndrome, as shown in the top right figure, we

Happy Monday everybody. I had software problems when attempting to write today’s blog post.Hope to send out corrected version this Wednesday! WF!

While completing my daily HeadSpace* meditation on Sunday morning, appreciation for breath as antidote for a whirling, swirling mind showed up. We (I) can lose perspective and forget that the breath came first, the breath goes last and all of life’s ups and downs are growth opportunities in-between. How kind of Mr. Miyagi and the

Back to Buns of Steel* workouts? Developing the derriere of an award winning physique competitor probably doesn’t need to be our first fitness priority for happy, healthy longevity. However – in a recent Training the Older Adult Zoom class I attend weekly, the host, Robert Linkul, shared that a survey of women over the age

Distilling this new month of March into movement may be how we counteract reminders that March, 2020, was when COVID-19 entered our collective consciousness. How about if we make these next 31 days the Exercise Dance of Life Month? It doesn’t matter whether the body’s movements are sharp, athletic and precise or blurred due to

President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1963, designated February as American Heart Month. In addition to adopting the current American Heart Association’s* My Life Check | Life’s Simple 7, we may want a tender heart emotional check-up. The tender heart heals – whereas anger and stress may lead to heart damage. If once-in-a-while we fail the

U.S. Cabinet members “advise the President on any subject which he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office.” Shall we, on this Presidents’ Day, preside over our own Healthy Lifestyle Cabinet members (10 shown below) and the duties they perform for us? Current U.S. President Joe Biden intends to establish 23 Cabinet