Spectrum

Once, a long time ago a client came back to me a few days after our last session.  She was depressed.  She had stopped her walking program on my advice.


Shocked me because I never gave such advice.


The conversation was the merits, nay, the necessity of pushing the body past it's normal functioning.  As most of you know it is this push that causes adaptation.


She was an avid walker.  Walking was not a challenge for her, at least the way she did it, and so she reasoned that she should give up walking.


I then explained that there are a lot of good things to walking.  Health and balance in our lives is not solely tied to the growth and change of hardware and software.  It ties into, and stems from a lot of factors.


She was happy again.


The moral of the story.  Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.  Don't put fitness in a box.  We, all of us, have to strive to work out the blueprint of our minds and bodies until the very last day.


Stay tuned true believers.

Breathing 101

Yes, I am pretty sure everyone reading this article knows how to breath (of course we are entering Halloween season and I would hate to miss out on the whole Zombie Chic thing), so I am aware that you may think a wee word on breathing is a waste of your precious time, so rather than TELL you things let me ask you things.

1. How many muscles are involved in inhalation and exhalation.
2. Does use it or lose it apply to those muscles
3. Do the breathing muscles need to be stretched like other muscle in the body
4. Are breathing muscles attached to bones or anything else like other muscles in the body

If you are shocked (okay maybe shocked is to strong a word. Maybe we are just talking one of those zaps you get from dragging your feet on the carpet) by what you don't know or never even thought of we need to talk.