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EXERCISE AND DEATH: LISTEN TO YOUR BODY
07-17-2010 - 02:29pm

Two years ago, my closest friend died of a massive heart attack, after a lovely, 50 mile bike ride, at the age of 67. It was a perfect death but 20 years too soon...and heartbreaking for everyone. You won't see much about this in YNY but people do die, working out. FAR FAR MORE LIVE ARE SAVED BY EXERCISE THAN LOST but it's out there. So watch it.... Read More

Harry Lodge
Open call for limbic resources !
07-26-2007 - 11:08am

Chris and I would like to begin collecting what we call limbic resources. These are organizations, mostly non-profits, that offer effective vehicles for Younger Next Year members to get connected, do some good, and build their limbic base. I will share a short story to get the ball rolling. I was sitting with a very nice guy this weekend ... Read More

  
TWO FOODS TO AVOID AFTER A WORKOUT
07-27-2010 - 07:37am
TWO FOODS YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER EAT FOR 2 HOURS FOLLOWING A WORKOUT!

This is a link to Mercola... it explains, very simply, how to use the 2 hour "synergy window" immediately following a workout for optimum benefit.

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DAY FOUR OF INSULINLESSNESS, LOL
07-27-2010 - 05:36am
Yes... day #4 and this morning's readiing was better than the first ones, being just 117. I have yet to tweak and twitch and otherwise fine tune my eating to be sure I ingest enough calories, but I'm close enough to be almost home in that department, if not already there... watching the scale. I don't buy FOR SURE yet, that this indicates I can remain insulin free, but I grow ever more cautiously hopeful and feel more secure in it every day.

Been spending my days picking wild Bla...     [read more]
WHAT WILL HAPPEN??!!
07-25-2010 - 06:55am
Oooohhhh man 0 man... I took the plunge... yesterday was a NON insulin day!!!!!!! Figures were A-OK... but will they slowly creep back up I wonder?! To be insulin free and alright after 31 year's dependence... wowhhh. PINCH. Only cautiously.... very cautiously... optimistic.

Breakfast this morning: wild red raspberries with raw milk, 1 certified organic egg, 1/4th avocado, steamed broccoli & kale, raw sweet red pepper, olive oil & salt.

On shaky ground, me.
The "Younger Next Year" approach really does work!
07-23-2010 - 10:24am
I am really realizing that using a HR monitor to stay in your zone while varying your intensity, resistance, etc actually does make a big difference in your training. A HR monitor is worth the investment. I wish I had this advice years ago and used a HR monitor back then, it could have really helped my fitness levels in my younger days. I know now that I was either under training or over training and that I was not seeing the results that I ought to have been getting. In the short time that I ha...     [read more]
The First Day of the Rest of Your blah blah blah
07-22-2010 - 08:38am
Hello,

This will be a quick entry, need to get a shower and off to work. I'll try to flesh out the story as I go, but the purpose of this initial blog is similar to the relatively easy workout this morning - the first since I picked up the book - and the first since about February when I let excuses stop me from what was a relatively active exercise program I had been on for almost a year - to make a start.

So I started, 35 minutes on the exercise bike (without hea...     [read more]
social encounters...
07-19-2010 - 02:19pm
Well... had some chores this morning so the hike did not get started until midday. Late starts tend to diminish animal encounters. Early starts nearly guarantee elk, deer and assorted other encounters; they love roaming just after dawn.

Yet... dropping down a little used, very steep and eroded trail I noted a shadow of a form slipping through the underbrush some 50 yards down trail... approaching the area I paused, and after a minute I began to whistle and chitter in a manner tha...     [read more]
THANKING CHRIS
07-19-2010 - 12:24pm
Chris's latest piece, "Listen To your Body" is priceless and a subject I think too much about, maybe... & I'm cautious (also maybe) to a fault. I do stay busy & active in my lifestyle, lift a few free weights, never push exercise beyond a certain point, which isn't all that high a bar, concentrating more on balance, remaining stretchable and limber, maintaining bodily definition & high density - low calorie nutrition... have felt somewhat a shirker on some days... but Chris's blog is reaffirmin...     [read more]
sixth week
07-15-2010 - 02:09pm
oh, well... had friends drop in for the week, so toned down the efforts, and pretty much took the week off. Now, having to get back into that over the top emphasis... it's coming slowly... (I hope!!) These lulls always make me reflect on the "why" of taking the training over into that odd realm where most sensible folk never tread. What is the point? Yet, I'll likely go ahead and try to hit the scheduled goals for this 60th year... might as well.

Storming today (...a bit every...     [read more]
Getting younger
07-14-2010 - 10:11am
Good hard workout today. I am making use of my HR monitor to vary my workout and still remain in the Long and Slow zone. The HR monitor was definitely a good purchase. Follow the recommendation of Chris and Harry and get a decent HR monitor. I continue to see the benefits of Harry & Chris's philosophy of using a HR monitor and doing mainly cardio in the long and slow zone. I am finding that it is taking me longer to warm up and reach my long & slow zone than it did a few weeks ago! Just take you...     [read more]
HOLD ME DOWN!
07-13-2010 - 03:21pm
Remember? Remember when it dawned on me in a blog of a few days ago... that my reduced insulin needs compared EXACTLY, unit for pound, with my weight reduction??!! Okayyyy... I've pared off 2 more pounds. AND... been able to reduce insulin another unit... down to just FOUR UNITS, daily! (from 20 16 mos ago) I'm still getting perfectly normal blood sugar readings.

I never thought I was one bit overweight & BMI was always declared perfectly great at physicals... but seemingly, I'v...     [read more]
Younger Next Year in Aspen this October!
07-09-2010 - 04:57pm
Chris Crowley and Michael Fox invite all of you to Aspen this coming October for a week long retreat designed to help you get "Younger Next Year" this year! The week consists of an ideal week of exercise, lectures, good eating and sane drinking that will blow your sox off. Stay in the best hotels in Aspen, eat and drink (sanely) in some of the best restaurants in Aspen. Learn critical aspects of good exercise from some of the best in the business...re-calibrate the demands you place on yourself....     [read more]
essays
07-09-2010 - 02:48pm
essays are so great :D
Small constant changes leads to continuous improvements
07-07-2010 - 10:10am
Tough walk today. I have been following the Younger Next Year plan and working my way up to six days a week, 45 minutes a day, for about a month now and for the last two weeks I have added in walking in addition to the stationary bike. For the last week I have found that I need to work harder during my walks to get my HR into the "Long and Slow" zone and to keep it there. Today I needed to mainly walk the hills and to add shadow boxing and kickboxing on the flats and downhills to maintain my zon...     [read more]
ALWAYS PUZZLING.... AND A LINK FOR YOU
07-06-2010 - 06:25am
I was just at my account page to edit in my latest weight figures (& was reminded that I HAVN'T changed the photo, yet) when another possible realization hit me... I've dropped 15 units in insulin requirements. I've dropped 15 pounds, too! 15 units. 15 pounds. h'mmm and only 5 units to go... double h'mmmm.

Now a link to something personal... the world has recently discovered this secreted, private & beautiful place of ours and a fight is happening with us at it's eye. This link ...     [read more]
Fifth Week
07-05-2010 - 03:31pm
Closing out fifth week with a 14 mile, 8,000' climb. Yesterday I logged a nice 20 miler with 4,000' of climbing over a rolling, hilly course at 9,000'. I managed to screw the day up a bit... it was to be an easy paced hike beginning at 6am and taking around ten hours... but, with a disquieted night's sleep I did not get on the trail until after noon. Two hours into the hike I went into very heavy fat metabolism... pulse raced up to 147, energy dropped, got a bit light headed. I realized that...     [read more]