In medical school, aspiring doctors learn a lot more about drugs and treating the symptoms of disease, rather than how to prevent disease in the first place. It’s likely that the nutrition and fitness courses they are required to take in medical school don’t offer a comprehensive solution to the prevention of disease.
Nikhil Rao wrote [...]
Posts under ‘Real World Mind/Motivation’
Your Personal Trainer Behaves Like a Doctor – my revelation about the fitness industry
General Conditioning – does it even exist, and if so, how do we improve it? Plus, the *BACK BURNER STRATEGY REVEALED* teaching you how to master several different physical skills or fitness qualities simultaneously
The phrase General Conditioning has problems in and of itself because we don’t know what we’re talking about. There isn’t a world-wide definition of what general conditioning entails. Certainly, general conditioning is different from one person to the next. The general conditioning of an olympic swimmer is very different than the general conditioning of a [...]
Are you “the healthy one,” or “the health nut,” or how about a “fitness freak?”
This past weekend, my wife and I went to a party with a lot of old friends whom we hadn’t seen in awhile. One person greeted me by saying, “Hi John… ah, the healthy one.”
I responded with a smile and said “I sure hope so.” I wouldn’t want to be unhealthy after all.
This short interaction [...]
Living, NOT blogging – huh, imagine that…
One of my ultimate goals is to connect people to physical living in their community – offline. It sounds counter-intuitive to have an online blog that is meant to send people away from the Internet – but that’s EXACTLY what I’m trying to do. If you already know why this is my goal, then you [...]
Barefoot Hiking at Pulpit Rock: My Weekend Mini-Adventure
This past weekend, I got a chance to get outdoors for a barefoot hike with my dog, Ronin (male akita, 10 months old). It was a 3 mile round trip hike at the local Pulpit Rock. There’s nothing like taking a mini-adventure every now and then, and we make it a point to do it [...]
Friday Inspiration: Danny McAskill, a testament of movement grace, poise, and physical mastery
Every now and then, somebody comes along that inspires us to believe that the impossible can become possible with passion and discipline. Danny McAskill is one of these persons.
Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh, Scotland by Dave Sowerby, this video of Danny MacAskill of Inspired Bicycles features probably the [...]
Going to the Mountain is Going Home
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
by John Muir
I must agree with Muir on this point. I’ve been [...]
