Category: Exercise
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Walking
The cartoonist Ellis Rosen is active on Instagram. Recently he posted a slideshow of “monster” cartoons. One I remembered showed a giant snail attacking a city; a person screamed “Walk for your lives!” The implication being that despite being huge, the snail still moved slowly. Walking was sufficient to escape. This was a humorous source […]
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Quote of the Day
Can I, or anyone, say that weight loss is never medically necessary? Of course not. Is weight loss overprescribed? Absolutely. And given that intentional weight loss is not a benign pursuit, for psychological health at the very minimum, it’s wise to think twice before starting down, or staying on, that perilous road. From Carrie Dennett
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Useful “getting started” video
I ran across this video on Tumblr – originally on TikTok. The useful part of this for me was focusing on basic moves for people who haven’t been exercising regularly. Many are the same moves I do. If you’ve been thinking of exercising more, or at all, this may be helpful. (Body size is not […]
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Sit to Stand is important
Washington Post has reminders of how to strengthen muscles as you age, including the sit-to-stand exercises I wrote about in 2009. I generated a Washington Post Gift link.
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Treadmill listening
Today’s treadmill listening was season 4, episode 1 of “How We Survive” on water sourcing in Arizona. Then I switched to episodes 1028-1030 of “Make Me Smart.”
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How Heat Affects The Body
I’ve heard many times that sweat helps humans stay cool in heat, and that we pump more blood to extremities to cool it before the blood returns to the body core. But today, listening to The Daily podcast, I realized that our pulse INCREASES as part of the cooling process. If your heart or circulation […]
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Thinking affects doing
This is a somewhat dismal quote, but hang on for the flip side. Individuals who perceived themselves as less active than others were up to 71% more likely to die in the follow-up period than those who perceived themselves as more active. This finding held across 3 samples and after adjusting for actual levels of […]
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Exercise & Such
When I last posted about this, I had switched from trying to do 10+ minutes on the treadmill 3 times a week to 2 or 3 5-minute sessions. That was in July. Since then I have changed to 6, 7, and now 8 minute sessions. Continue to do 2 or 3 sessions, 3 days a […]
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Changing A Few Things
I’ve been struggling to do more than 10 minutes on the treadmill for months. I’ve also been concerned that my pulse was anaerobically high when I’d finish on the treadmill. I’d been toying with going to shorter times and just doing more of them, and then the new endocrinologist suggested the same. I’ve started doing […]
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Year In Review…Kinda
We don’t quite have one “lockdown now” date. Hubs went to the Seattle Sounders Opening Day game on March 1, 2020, and the next home game on March 7, 2020. The programmer (along with Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech employees in the area) started working from home March 4th, 2020. Our last eating out day […]
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