Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


June 13

Maybe exercising keeps paying back in the thousand ways it does because I have to keep investing myself.  It’s not like smoking, where once you have quit, it is over (eventually anyway – took me about five years of being […]

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June 12

Exercise selectively accesses belly fat for fuel.  How cool is that?  That particular fat is metabolically more active, spitting out nasty chemicals 24 hours a day.   But it is also more easily accessible to be used for fuel.    So […]

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June 11

And these adaptations keep occurring all of your life, no matter how old you get.  95 year olds who went on a 3 month reisistance training program increased their strength by an average or 75%.  Wheelchair bound seniors went to […]

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June 10

When you do high intensity cardio that makes you breathe heavily, you increase the stroke volume of your heart.   With every pump your heart pumps out more blood so your heart rate under exertion will actually decrease as you get […]

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June 9

Doing fat burning exercise makes more fat burning enzymes.   You make more of something called hormone sensitive lipase, and then when you do more fat burning exercise (like take a walk), you will notice that you don’t get winded as […]

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June 8

When you are in shape (and adequately rested and fueled, by the way) “the burn” actually does feel sort of good, and sometimes exhilarating.  At least, it is not as unpleasant as it is when you are not in shape.  […]

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