Trust me when I tell you...........

 

.................the absolute best exercise is the one you will actually do consistently.  Now that that is out of the way, Eric Barker is always worth reading:

The sheer volume of pseudoscientific drivel available on the subject of “getting in shape” is so dense, it could collapse in on itself and form a black hole of misinformation.

develop......................

 

The brain can be developed just the same way as the muscles can be developed, if one only takes the pains to train the mind to think.

-Thomas Edison

On exercise...........................

 

The sheer volume of pseudoscientific drivel available on the subject of “getting in shape” is so dense, it could collapse in on itself and form a black hole of misinformation.

The absolute best exercises are the ones you will do every day, no misses, no excuses.  Just saying.

choices...................

 

You don't stop exercising because you get old, you get old because you stop exercising.

-Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Fantasy..........................

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

-Terry Pratchett

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Effort................................

 “no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

-Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success

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Ravikant..................

A question for our age..................

.............is here.  Don't forget the money quote:  "everybody lies."

Engage......................................

…………………………………....or, how to exercise the mind.

Right proportions.........................

These truths I hold to be self-evident:  That man was made to be happy;  that happiness is only attainable through useful effort;  that the very best way to help ourselves is to help others, and often the best way to help others is to mind our own business;  that useful effort means the proper exercise of all of our faculties;  that we grow only through exercise;  that education should continue through life, and the joys of mental endeavor should be, especially, the solace of the old;  that where men alternate work, play and study in right proportions, the organs of the mind are the last to fail, and death for such has no terrors.

-Elbert Hubbard, as excerpted from A Message To Garcia:  And Other Essential Writings On Success

About time for a beer Kurt..................?

Pray continue........................................

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.” 
-Agatha Christie

And it seems to be working..........................

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The kids will be just fine............................

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Still not average.............................

A study published Monday by the National Institutes of Health found that the typical American now requires...........  Full story here.  Now, if they were talking about getting out of bed ...

Finding his happy place..............

The perfect "work out" regimen...........Dance Walking

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All you can do...........................

Back in the late 1980's, a guy by the name of A. L. Williams wrote a book, All You Can Do Is All You Can Do but all you can do is enough.   As a self-help book aficionado, I'm mostly certain that I read it.  What I mostly remember though, is not the book, but the reaction of my favorite teacher, Jim Rohn, to the book title.  Rohn told the story something like this:  If you were to get down and start doing push-ups, and if after you had done five, you, and everybody watching you, agreed that five was all you could do, you would all be wrong.  Why?  Because all you would have to do is wait a reasonable period of time and do push-ups again, and this time you could do six.  Rohn would then ask, if five was all you could do, how come you can now do six?  In his rohnish way, Jim would call it a miracle.  His obvious point was that all we can do right now does not set the limit on all we can do tomorrow.  A little discipline.  A little time.  Miracles are possible.

Your friendly neighborhood blogger visited the local YMCA on January 2nd.   I've had a family membership for years, but had never personally used the wondrous facility.  Thinking that swimming might be easiest exercise for these old joints and this out-of-shape body to handle, I ventured into the pool.  Eight laps later, everyone watching would have agreed that eight laps was the best that I could do.  Flash forward eight days. Yesterday morning I managed sixteen laps, and anyone watching might have thought that a few more were possible. From eight to sixteen.   It's a miracle.

Good thing we moved...................

"Have a long commute? You’re more likely to gain weight and die early than your teleworking counterparts. A Swedish social geographer found that those who travel more than 31 miles to work are more likely to die young."
-Walter Russell Mead as excerpted from here.

My Sweetie and I just traded a twenty mile commute for a less-than-three mile commute.  Might make it a bike ride when the weather finishes warming up.  Just for the record, the average American commute is twenty-five miles each way.

Don't sit for that......................

The Premise of the Problem.........................
Sitting is so prevalent and so pervasive that we don't even question how much we're doing it. And, everyone else is doing it also, so it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, I've come to see that sitting is the smoking of our generation.

My favorite part of the Solution....................
I've learned that if you want to get out of the box thinking, you need to literally get out of the box. When you step outside, you give yourself over to nature, respecting its cycles and unpredictability. It keeps me more awake to what is happening around me by experiencing the extreme heats of summer, or the frigid power of winter. It makes me present to the world around me instead of being insulated from it.

The whole essay.......................................

OK, now give me fifty more...............

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