Train Rugged

Smiling, laughing, and playing are essential to well-rounded living. Similar to air, water, and sunlight (I suppose those are more requirements).
We can all teach each another something. Every person you encounter is your guru, a chance for you to understand yourself and understand the world more thoroughly.
Reflecting on Milo reminds me to get lost in my activities. To get lost in my introspection. To lose myself in whatever puts me at ease. And then to come back to the present.
I wish that health, joy, and pleasure will find you as we close out 2020.
I appreciate you IG world!

How does one measure progress when it comes to physical growth and evolution? A great measure is how you feel during, after, and 1-2 days after play/training/sport. I work earnestly every day to get my body organized and operating in a fluid, energy saving manner that promotes muscle and bone growth while mitigating injury.
So I ask, why do you train? Why do you “exercise” the way that you do? To me it is all about carryover. “How will my training carry over INTO my life?” I ask myself this all the time.
I want as little inefficiencies as possible—Uninterrupted motion. So I work to make my body one big integrated muscle capable of withstanding forces without joint pain. I’m interested in anti-degeneration of my body.
Our bodies will degenerate, without our consent, as a byproduct of being human. In the meantime you can minimize aging’s efforts to cripple you by training your joints, muscles, lymphatic and circulatory systems to work harmoniously to carry you through physical challenges.
Global change is the name of the game. If you want to thrive in nature you have to listen to the nature within you.
Here we are hiking to a waterfall. The hike was mostly bouldering and scrambling up big rocks. Thankfully my body was able to handle this climb with ease. It took us 40 minutes to go half a mile.
More to come.

@ Tangerine Falls

Want to solve your pain? Sick of plateauing at work, at home, or in life? Exercise, training, nutrition and even bodywork will only get you so far. Your mind has to shift (I wish I could italicize that) and has to change what it does regularly.
I don’t think we talk enough about developing outlets for stress, expression, and emotion. Or HOW the lack of these behaviors correlate to longevity or joint, muscle, and sport performance.
As a strong advocate for mental health (follow my wife .intuitive) I am of the view that psychological and emotional health dramatically effect the physical. This is why efforts must be made to develop new habits to receive long lasting and noticeable health results.
Health is not a measuring stick. There are a lot of biomarkers for health. What works for some won’t necessarily work for you— or at least not NOW. Just because singing or working in the garden doesn’t seem to help you today does not mean it wont be a rewarding and therapeutic activity to take up later down the road.
I’m all in when it comes to the body-mind-heart connection. To optimize the way the body processes and handles discomfort, stress, or dis-ease we have to devote ourselves to a practice.
Health requires us to build an awareness of self/ego. I have found that people’s mental, emotional, AND THEREFOR physical health all improve when they adopt a behavioral expression of their stress, feelings, or thoughts.
Anyway- that’s my tip today. If you’re somebody who wishes to not only stay on the path, but to keep climbing that path toward higher ground, I’d consider trying something like journaling. If you feel like you’re a little stuck as to what to do and journaling doesn’t seem like your cup of tea, send me a message and let’s have a conversation.