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Thursday, November 20, 2008
DDP and YRG help disabled veteran walk again.
Static contraction training a scam
Maxick
I would load the bar in my power rack, and squat it, press it, curl it, whatever, once per week! That was it- you need to let your "muscles rebuild"! says Pete Sisco, the expounder of the static contraction training principle...
I did indeed get so I could push, and support statically some very massive poundages. I think I gained the most, though, from pressing the bar into the pins of the rack, isometrically, for some seconds before letting up.
I also gained muscle mass, and fat. Most of the mass you'll gain using this method will be in your thighs, butt, chest and, unfortunately, your belly.
If you've ever seen Pete Sisco, you can envision what this training will do for you... think old Russian olympic lifter...
Before that, I used Superslow training system, wherein you lift a weight 10 seconds up, 10 seconds down. Very taxing, and very effective. But, again, Ken Hutchens, the originator, suggests you train perhaps one time per week... you will gain, but in the fashion of Static contraction/big butt/gut training. Ken was on the right trail, but he is reinventing the wheel...
John E. Peterson has never lost the training of the olden times; early 1900's era strongman training: isometrics, Visualized resistance (aka "muscle control"), calisthenics...
Visualized resistance, John calls it Dynamic Visualized Resistance, or DVR's, is particularly intrigueing:
You imagine, whilst moving your body through various movements, the resistance, and move in slow motion against your own, self-imposed resistance! Sounds wacky, but the more you practice it, the more control over your muscles, and the greater strength you get!
As near as I can tell, this was originally done my MAXICK, a german strongman from 100 years ago; he built his strength using this method exclusively. (And his physique, which was also amazing!) You can check him out on the MAXALDING website, which is what his training system was called.
www.maxalding.co.uk/
Exercises are there, lots and lots of information; some of it fascinating.
I saw one photo of Maxick, holding a beer glass in one hand, holding a 240 pound man over his head with one hand, and not spilling the full glass of beer! I'll look for it, and post it when I do...
And Maxick only weighed about 150 pounds!! No fat butt/gut on this boy!!
So, check out the real deals; go back to the future!
www.transformetrics.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Gardening to keep green smoothie costs low
This is really smart:
Use your overgrown, almost-to-be-wasted produce in your vitamix smoothies; and future-to-be smoothies! (Via the future, in your freezer)
My own compost pile is much simpler:
Just a pile of refuse.
It gradually becomes amazing stuff, the best thing for your garden you can imagine!!
Jay
HealthyNewsAndReviews.com Vita-Mix Soup
I am going to make this soup!
I love my vitamix, and use it daily!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Are we headed for a depression? (Yes, in 2010)
Harry Dent's New Forecast
In a recent article from Canadian Business Online, Harry Dent explains why his forecast for the Dow's high was way off. Basically, Dent says that he underestimated the strength of the bull market in commodities and the negative geopolitical environment.Dent's overall outlook for the future goes like this: The U.S. economy will be in recession between June and October. That will take the pressure off commodities, which will fall throughout the second-half of 2008. Later this year into early next, a rally in stocks will follow. But then? That’s it. “Between mid- to late 2009 and late 2010, runaway commodity markets collide with the broad peaking of the baby-boom spending wave, and that’s going to create a crash,” says Dent. “The boomers will be spending until late 2009. After that, the extra support the boomers delivered is going to progressively fall out of the economy, and that’s going to be the final nail in the coffin on the postwar expansion of U.S. debt.”
U.S. stock markets will sag for a decade. Investors will have to be nimble to preserve their wealth. Between mid-2010 and mid-2011, Dent suggests locking up money in high-yielding, long-term bonds and leaving it there for the decade — the years between 2010 and 2020 will be a rare period in which bonds will outperform stocks. Dent’s advice is to be ready to go all-cash when the crash comes and “then sit for a year and wait for the smoke to clear.” “By 2012, the crash will be over and serious deflation will take hold as the housing, oil and stock market bubbles deflate — that’s going to drive up the value of bonds,” he adds. “For two out of four seasons of the larger cycle, stocks do well. But this is going to be one season they don’t.”
Dent also recommends picking up Asian and health-care stocks in late 2010. The decade of economic reorganization will lay the groundwork for the emergence of China and India as major economic players in the early 2020s, so it will be smart to get in early on the empires of the future. “Let the crash hit, and then buy China, India and health care,” says Dent. “International and emerging-market stocks will do better than U.S. stocks in this period, and everything is going to be on sale.”
Thanks to the Stock Market Advantage for the above!
Jay
Sunday, September 28, 2008
low tech pushup station for total fitness
How to set up a pushup station in your shed,garage, or outdoors in order to perform "Transformetrics", ala John E. Peterson, readily... on your way to work, way home, working around the yard, or anytime at all- just stop, and do a bunch! No special skill needed, but the results, done in high volume, will surprise you!
Also, you can gaze at your John Deere as you exercise! (What a bonus!!)
Saturday, September 13, 2008
My 15 minutes of fame, revisited from January, 2008
*After 30 years, local postal carrier trades foot route for one on French Island
By CHRIS HUBBUCH | La Crosse Tribunefile:///Users/jaybowers/Desktop/Picture%20clipping%202.pictClipping
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Jay Bowers has lived for decades in a farmhouse outside Onalaska, but some of his closest neighbors are in south La Crosse.
Bowers is a mail carrier, one of 62 who deliver to 48 routes in the city of La Crosse.
After 30 years as a United States Postal Service letter carrier in La Crosse Jay Bowers has given up his foot route for a driving route. PETER THOMSON photo
“We’re the face of the federal government,” he says.
For the past 16 years, his office has been route 23, a 15-square-block postage stamp nestled between Cass and Market streets under Grandad Bluff. Five days a week — in the proverbial snow, rain, heat, gloom of night — Bowers hiked upwards of 10 miles carrying letters and bills, birthday cards and catalogs to 401 front doors.
It wasn’t his neighborhood, but the gregarious postman knew his customers as well as his own neighbors. He saw children grow up and move away. He was a lifeline for elderly people who counted on his daily visits. He even saved a man’s life.
“You know every name and person in that house,” Bowers said. “You know more about people than you sometimes want to know.”
On Jan. 17, Bowers walked the route for the last time.
This week, he is adjusting to a new route on French Island, where the mailboxes are on posts and Bowers can deliver in a truck. It’s one of the most coveted routes, he said, and after 30 years of walking, he was ready for a break.
At 55, Bowers is trim and has a boyish face frosted by white hair and a close-cropped beard. He’s avoided most of the sprained ankles, wrenched knees and hip replacements that generally come with the job.
“Walking is a good thing,” he said. “What we do is too much.”
He won’t miss the aches and pains. Or the cold. But he will miss the people. “I hate to leave the people behind,” he said. “I feel terrible.”
On his last day, Bowers left a card bidding them farewell. He received dozens of cards in reply. Some contained cash. All had personal notes.
“I always enjoyed our little chats,” wrote Jane Beissel, who bought her mother’s house on Market Street about a year ago when her mother moved to a nursing home. Beissel said Bowers would always stop and talk and ask about her mother.
“He was always smiling and happy, no matter what the weather’s like,” she said.
By the time Bowers got home that last day, he already had an e-mail from one resident’s daughter who is away at college.
He’s seen a number of kids like her grow up. “You’re like a hero when they’re little,” he said. “You bring stuff every day. It’s so exciting.”
For elderly residents, a mailman can be a lifeline, the one person who comes to their door every day.
Bowers occasionally helped up people who had fallen. In 2004, he noticed one man hadn’t picked up his mail. The door was locked, and the neighbors hadn’t seen him. When firefighters broke down the door, they found the man wedged between his bed and the wall where he had been trapped for two days. Bowers was later cited by the postal service for going beyond the call of duty.
Some longtime residents on route 23 say they never knew their carrier before Bowers.
“I hadn’t noticed the other mail carrier because he didn’t ask for attention,” said Dorothy Lawrence, who’s lived on 23rd Street for about 25 years. “Jay was always very friendly. We’d see him on the street, and he’d wave.”
“We just loved him,” said Mary Ellen Gouff. “We didn’t really know the other ones.”
Bowers sometimes discovered shared interests with people on his route. Once, he peeked at a catalog of blues records he was delivering to Fern Smith. He returned the favor by turning her on to some other music catalogs he knew about.
Smith and her husband would often chat with Bowers about their shared interests — music, books, old cars and cats.
“We’ve had favorite mailmen, but none as good as Jay,” said Smith, who has lived on South 20th Street since 1973. “We’re really going to miss him.”
Bowers, who grew up in La Grange, Ill., started carrying mail during the summer when he was a student at Illinois State University. He majored in English and jokes that’s why he became “a man of letters.”
In 1978, Bowers got his first route in Skokie, Ill. He liked the work, but the pay didn’t go very far in Chicago. Bowers and his wife, Jane, had visited relatives near La Crosse, and in 1980, they found a house for sale in the town of Onalaska.
No one in Chicago could understand why he would want to leave, but he and Jane knew it was where they wanted to be.
With a daughter in college, Bowers doesn’t plan to retire for at least a few more years. But the new driving route should leave him with a little more energy for his blogs (http://oldmailman.blogspot.com, http://vintagehealthandfitness.blogspot.com), where he writes about everything from his job to his interests in fitness, food, old trucks and his barbershop quartet, the Blufftones.
“It’s either that or send endless e-mails to all my acquaintances and drive them crazy,” he said. “No one sends letters anymore — well, they do. … a lot more junk mail and a lot more packages — because people order stuff over the Internet.”
Contact reporter Chris Hubbuch at (608) 791-8217 or at chris.hubbuch@lee.net.
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Jay Bowers has lived for decades in a farmhouse outside Onalaska, but some of his closest neighbors are in south La Crosse.
Bowers is a mail carrier, one of 62 who deliver to 48 routes in the city of La Crosse.
After 30 years as a United States Postal Service letter carrier in La Crosse Jay Bowers has given up his foot route for a driving route. PETER THOMSON photo
“We’re the face of the federal government,” he says.
For the past 16 years, his office has been route 23, a 15-square-block postage stamp nestled between Cass and Market streets under Grandad Bluff. Five days a week — in the proverbial snow, rain, heat, gloom of night — Bowers hiked upwards of 10 miles carrying letters and bills, birthday cards and catalogs to 401 front doors.
It wasn’t his neighborhood, but the gregarious postman knew his customers as well as his own neighbors. He saw children grow up and move away. He was a lifeline for elderly people who counted on his daily visits. He even saved a man’s life.
“You know every name and person in that house,” Bowers said. “You know more about people than you sometimes want to know.”
On Jan. 17, Bowers walked the route for the last time.
This week, he is adjusting to a new route on French Island, where the mailboxes are on posts and Bowers can deliver in a truck. It’s one of the most coveted routes, he said, and after 30 years of walking, he was ready for a break.
At 55, Bowers is trim and has a boyish face frosted by white hair and a close-cropped beard. He’s avoided most of the sprained ankles, wrenched knees and hip replacements that generally come with the job.
“Walking is a good thing,” he said. “What we do is too much.”
He won’t miss the aches and pains. Or the cold. But he will miss the people. “I hate to leave the people behind,” he said. “I feel terrible.”
On his last day, Bowers left a card bidding them farewell. He received dozens of cards in reply. Some contained cash. All had personal notes.
“I always enjoyed our little chats,” wrote Jane Beissel, who bought her mother’s house on Market Street about a year ago when her mother moved to a nursing home. Beissel said Bowers would always stop and talk and ask about her mother.
“He was always smiling and happy, no matter what the weather’s like,” she said.
By the time Bowers got home that last day, he already had an e-mail from one resident’s daughter who is away at college.
He’s seen a number of kids like her grow up. “You’re like a hero when they’re little,” he said. “You bring stuff every day. It’s so exciting.”
For elderly residents, a mailman can be a lifeline, the one person who comes to their door every day.
Bowers occasionally helped up people who had fallen. In 2004, he noticed one man hadn’t picked up his mail. The door was locked, and the neighbors hadn’t seen him. When firefighters broke down the door, they found the man wedged between his bed and the wall where he had been trapped for two days. Bowers was later cited by the postal service for going beyond the call of duty.
Some longtime residents on route 23 say they never knew their carrier before Bowers.
“I hadn’t noticed the other mail carrier because he didn’t ask for attention,” said Dorothy Lawrence, who’s lived on 23rd Street for about 25 years. “Jay was always very friendly. We’d see him on the street, and he’d wave.”
“We just loved him,” said Mary Ellen Gouff. “We didn’t really know the other ones.”
Bowers sometimes discovered shared interests with people on his route. Once, he peeked at a catalog of blues records he was delivering to Fern Smith. He returned the favor by turning her on to some other music catalogs he knew about.
Smith and her husband would often chat with Bowers about their shared interests — music, books, old cars and cats.
“We’ve had favorite mailmen, but none as good as Jay,” said Smith, who has lived on South 20th Street since 1973. “We’re really going to miss him.”
Bowers, who grew up in La Grange, Ill., started carrying mail during the summer when he was a student at Illinois State University. He majored in English and jokes that’s why he became “a man of letters.”
In 1978, Bowers got his first route in Skokie, Ill. He liked the work, but the pay didn’t go very far in Chicago. Bowers and his wife, Jane, had visited relatives near La Crosse, and in 1980, they found a house for sale in the town of Onalaska.
No one in Chicago could understand why he would want to leave, but he and Jane knew it was where they wanted to be.
With a daughter in college, Bowers doesn’t plan to retire for at least a few more years. But the new driving route should leave him with a little more energy for his blogs (http://oldmailman.blogspot.com, http://vintagehealthandfitness.blogspot.com), where he writes about everything from his job to his interests in fitness, food, old trucks and his barbershop quartet, the Blufftones.
“It’s either that or send endless e-mails to all my acquaintances and drive them crazy,” he said. “No one sends letters anymore — well, they do. … a lot more junk mail and a lot more packages — because people order stuff over the Internet.”
Contact reporter Chris Hubbuch at (608) 791-8217 or at chris.hubbuch@lee.net.
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By CHRIS HUBBUCH | La Crosse Tribunefile:///Users/jaybowers/Desktop/Picture%20clipping%202.pictClipping
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Jay Bowers has lived for decades in a farmhouse outside Onalaska, but some of his closest neighbors are in south La Crosse.
Bowers is a mail carrier, one of 62 who deliver to 48 routes in the city of La Crosse.
After 30 years as a United States Postal Service letter carrier in La Crosse Jay Bowers has given up his foot route for a driving route. PETER THOMSON photo
“We’re the face of the federal government,” he says.
For the past 16 years, his office has been route 23, a 15-square-block postage stamp nestled between Cass and Market streets under Grandad Bluff. Five days a week — in the proverbial snow, rain, heat, gloom of night — Bowers hiked upwards of 10 miles carrying letters and bills, birthday cards and catalogs to 401 front doors.
It wasn’t his neighborhood, but the gregarious postman knew his customers as well as his own neighbors. He saw children grow up and move away. He was a lifeline for elderly people who counted on his daily visits. He even saved a man’s life.
“You know every name and person in that house,” Bowers said. “You know more about people than you sometimes want to know.”
On Jan. 17, Bowers walked the route for the last time.
This week, he is adjusting to a new route on French Island, where the mailboxes are on posts and Bowers can deliver in a truck. It’s one of the most coveted routes, he said, and after 30 years of walking, he was ready for a break.
At 55, Bowers is trim and has a boyish face frosted by white hair and a close-cropped beard. He’s avoided most of the sprained ankles, wrenched knees and hip replacements that generally come with the job.
“Walking is a good thing,” he said. “What we do is too much.”
He won’t miss the aches and pains. Or the cold. But he will miss the people. “I hate to leave the people behind,” he said. “I feel terrible.”
On his last day, Bowers left a card bidding them farewell. He received dozens of cards in reply. Some contained cash. All had personal notes.
“I always enjoyed our little chats,” wrote Jane Beissel, who bought her mother’s house on Market Street about a year ago when her mother moved to a nursing home. Beissel said Bowers would always stop and talk and ask about her mother.
“He was always smiling and happy, no matter what the weather’s like,” she said.
By the time Bowers got home that last day, he already had an e-mail from one resident’s daughter who is away at college.
He’s seen a number of kids like her grow up. “You’re like a hero when they’re little,” he said. “You bring stuff every day. It’s so exciting.”
For elderly residents, a mailman can be a lifeline, the one person who comes to their door every day.
Bowers occasionally helped up people who had fallen. In 2004, he noticed one man hadn’t picked up his mail. The door was locked, and the neighbors hadn’t seen him. When firefighters broke down the door, they found the man wedged between his bed and the wall where he had been trapped for two days. Bowers was later cited by the postal service for going beyond the call of duty.
Some longtime residents on route 23 say they never knew their carrier before Bowers.
“I hadn’t noticed the other mail carrier because he didn’t ask for attention,” said Dorothy Lawrence, who’s lived on 23rd Street for about 25 years. “Jay was always very friendly. We’d see him on the street, and he’d wave.”
“We just loved him,” said Mary Ellen Gouff. “We didn’t really know the other ones.”
Bowers sometimes discovered shared interests with people on his route. Once, he peeked at a catalog of blues records he was delivering to Fern Smith. He returned the favor by turning her on to some other music catalogs he knew about.
Smith and her husband would often chat with Bowers about their shared interests — music, books, old cars and cats.
“We’ve had favorite mailmen, but none as good as Jay,” said Smith, who has lived on South 20th Street since 1973. “We’re really going to miss him.”
Bowers, who grew up in La Grange, Ill., started carrying mail during the summer when he was a student at Illinois State University. He majored in English and jokes that’s why he became “a man of letters.”
In 1978, Bowers got his first route in Skokie, Ill. He liked the work, but the pay didn’t go very far in Chicago. Bowers and his wife, Jane, had visited relatives near La Crosse, and in 1980, they found a house for sale in the town of Onalaska.
No one in Chicago could understand why he would want to leave, but he and Jane knew it was where they wanted to be.
With a daughter in college, Bowers doesn’t plan to retire for at least a few more years. But the new driving route should leave him with a little more energy for his blogs (http://oldmailman.blogspot.com, http://vintagehealthandfitness.blogspot.com), where he writes about everything from his job to his interests in fitness, food, old trucks and his barbershop quartet, the Blufftones.
“It’s either that or send endless e-mails to all my acquaintances and drive them crazy,” he said. “No one sends letters anymore — well, they do. … a lot more junk mail and a lot more packages — because people order stuff over the Internet.”
Contact reporter Chris Hubbuch at (608) 791-8217 or at chris.hubbuch@lee.net.
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Jay Bowers has lived for decades in a farmhouse outside Onalaska, but some of his closest neighbors are in south La Crosse.
Bowers is a mail carrier, one of 62 who deliver to 48 routes in the city of La Crosse.
After 30 years as a United States Postal Service letter carrier in La Crosse Jay Bowers has given up his foot route for a driving route. PETER THOMSON photo
“We’re the face of the federal government,” he says.
For the past 16 years, his office has been route 23, a 15-square-block postage stamp nestled between Cass and Market streets under Grandad Bluff. Five days a week — in the proverbial snow, rain, heat, gloom of night — Bowers hiked upwards of 10 miles carrying letters and bills, birthday cards and catalogs to 401 front doors.
It wasn’t his neighborhood, but the gregarious postman knew his customers as well as his own neighbors. He saw children grow up and move away. He was a lifeline for elderly people who counted on his daily visits. He even saved a man’s life.
“You know every name and person in that house,” Bowers said. “You know more about people than you sometimes want to know.”
On Jan. 17, Bowers walked the route for the last time.
This week, he is adjusting to a new route on French Island, where the mailboxes are on posts and Bowers can deliver in a truck. It’s one of the most coveted routes, he said, and after 30 years of walking, he was ready for a break.
At 55, Bowers is trim and has a boyish face frosted by white hair and a close-cropped beard. He’s avoided most of the sprained ankles, wrenched knees and hip replacements that generally come with the job.
“Walking is a good thing,” he said. “What we do is too much.”
He won’t miss the aches and pains. Or the cold. But he will miss the people. “I hate to leave the people behind,” he said. “I feel terrible.”
On his last day, Bowers left a card bidding them farewell. He received dozens of cards in reply. Some contained cash. All had personal notes.
“I always enjoyed our little chats,” wrote Jane Beissel, who bought her mother’s house on Market Street about a year ago when her mother moved to a nursing home. Beissel said Bowers would always stop and talk and ask about her mother.
“He was always smiling and happy, no matter what the weather’s like,” she said.
By the time Bowers got home that last day, he already had an e-mail from one resident’s daughter who is away at college.
He’s seen a number of kids like her grow up. “You’re like a hero when they’re little,” he said. “You bring stuff every day. It’s so exciting.”
For elderly residents, a mailman can be a lifeline, the one person who comes to their door every day.
Bowers occasionally helped up people who had fallen. In 2004, he noticed one man hadn’t picked up his mail. The door was locked, and the neighbors hadn’t seen him. When firefighters broke down the door, they found the man wedged between his bed and the wall where he had been trapped for two days. Bowers was later cited by the postal service for going beyond the call of duty.
Some longtime residents on route 23 say they never knew their carrier before Bowers.
“I hadn’t noticed the other mail carrier because he didn’t ask for attention,” said Dorothy Lawrence, who’s lived on 23rd Street for about 25 years. “Jay was always very friendly. We’d see him on the street, and he’d wave.”
“We just loved him,” said Mary Ellen Gouff. “We didn’t really know the other ones.”
Bowers sometimes discovered shared interests with people on his route. Once, he peeked at a catalog of blues records he was delivering to Fern Smith. He returned the favor by turning her on to some other music catalogs he knew about.
Smith and her husband would often chat with Bowers about their shared interests — music, books, old cars and cats.
“We’ve had favorite mailmen, but none as good as Jay,” said Smith, who has lived on South 20th Street since 1973. “We’re really going to miss him.”
Bowers, who grew up in La Grange, Ill., started carrying mail during the summer when he was a student at Illinois State University. He majored in English and jokes that’s why he became “a man of letters.”
In 1978, Bowers got his first route in Skokie, Ill. He liked the work, but the pay didn’t go very far in Chicago. Bowers and his wife, Jane, had visited relatives near La Crosse, and in 1980, they found a house for sale in the town of Onalaska.
No one in Chicago could understand why he would want to leave, but he and Jane knew it was where they wanted to be.
With a daughter in college, Bowers doesn’t plan to retire for at least a few more years. But the new driving route should leave him with a little more energy for his blogs (http://oldmailman.blogspot.com, http://vintagehealthandfitness.blogspot.com), where he writes about everything from his job to his interests in fitness, food, old trucks and his barbershop quartet, the Blufftones.
“It’s either that or send endless e-mails to all my acquaintances and drive them crazy,” he said. “No one sends letters anymore — well, they do. … a lot more junk mail and a lot more packages — because people order stuff over the Internet.”
Contact reporter Chris Hubbuch at (608) 791-8217 or at chris.hubbuch@lee.net.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
The Paleo diet excerpt
Here is an excerpt from the Paleo Diet folks: They advocate a really healthy, common sense diet, that resembles what our ancient ancestors subsisted on:
Exceptional Health of our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors Loren Cordain
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate diets focused on meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, maybe nuts. And they were consistently described as displaying exceptional health, fitness, strength, and vitality.
If you are like most people, you probably know very little about hunter-gatherers. In fact, many people assume that Stone Age people and contemporary hunter-gatherers would have been in "continual fear and danger of violent death" and their lives would have been "poor, nasty, brutish, and short", as suggested in The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes in 1651.
In reality, the historical and anthropological record simply does not support this line of reasoning. Almost without exception, descriptions of hunter-gatherers by early European explorers and adventurers showed these people to be healthy, fit, strong, and vivacious. These are the same characteristics that can be yours when you follow the dietary exercise principles that we lay out in The Paleo Diet, this newsletter, and our other programs and services.
Historical Descriptions of Hunter-gatherers
George Catlin, the famous chronicler of American Indians, circa 1832-39, glowingly used these words to describe the Crow tribe: "They are really a handsome and well-formed set of men as can be seen in any part of the world. There is a sort of ease and grace added to their dignity of manners, which give them the air of gentlemen at once. I observed the other day, that most of them were over six feet high . . ." "It is but to paint a vast country of green field, where the men are all red - where meat is the staff of life . . . ." .
Cabeza de Vaca, the Spanish Explorer, saw native Florida Indians in 1527 and called them, "wonderfully well built, spare, very strong and very swift. Similar observations of the indigenous inhabitants of Florida were made in 1564 by the French explorer Rene Laudonniere, who noted that, "The agility of the women is so great that they can swim over great rivers, bearing their children upon one of their arms. They climb up, also, very nimbly upon the highest trees in the country. . . . even the most ancient women of the country dance with the others". In his account of California Indians in 1869, Begert notes, "the Californians are seldom sick. They are in general strong, hardy, and much healthier than the many thousands who live daily in abundance and on the choicest fare that the skill of Parisian cooks can prepare".
Captain Cook who visited New Zealand in 1772 was particularly impressed by the good health of the native Maori, "It cannot be thought strange that these people enjoy perfect and uninterrupted health. In all our visits to their towns, where young and old, men and women, crowded about us, prompted by the same curiosity that carried us to look at them, we never saw a single person who appeared to have any bodily complaint, nor among the numbers that we have seen naked did we perceive the slightest eruption upon the skin, or any marks that an eruption had been left behind . . . . A further proof that human nature is here untainted with disease is the great number of old men that we saw. . . . appeared to be very ancient , yet none of them were decrepit; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and v ivacity."
So, now that we know how the historical descriptions of early European explorers read. But to more deeply understand why our genome hasn't kept up with our dietary changes, it is helpful to conceptualize how much time has our ancestors ate a Paleolithic type diet, compared to how long the modern diet has been around. That's what we'll take a look at next time.
This Week's Food Tip - Paleo on the Go Nell Stephenson
Are you finding it challenging to stick with your Paleo Diet when you're always on the go? With a little bit of preparation, this can become an absolute non-issue.
* Keep hard-boiled eggs in the fridge for a source of quick protein. Have the egg whites and save the yolks for your dog to keep his coat shiny!
* Chop up enough carrots, bell peppers, celery, broccoli or whatever other veggies you enjoy to last a few days and snack on those with a handful of raw walnuts (non- perishable, so keep 'em handy!) in the car, or at your desk between meetings.
* Make it a priority to go grocery shopping two or three times per week. Don't let yourself run out of fresh fruits & veg. Turn grabbing a piece (or a few) of fruit before you leave home into a daily habit.
* Keep it simple. If you've been keeping on top of your 'hour in the kitchen', you'll not be in short supply of fresh, healthy food that you've prepared yourself. Don't feel as though you have to spend tons of time cooking gourmet meals in order to keep on top of things.
* Finally, don't be afraid to think outside of the standard foods for each meal. Who ever said that eggs are the only protein option for breakfast or that you can't combine something sweet (like an apple) with something savory (like a fresh piece of wild salmon). It may sound like an odd couple, but the point is that if you continue to try new foods and combinations, you're not going to get bored!
News and Upcoming Events
In Search of the Perfect Human Diet, a documentary being produced by CJ Hunt, has recently found new distribution support. San Francisco's PBS station group led by KQED has come on board with a letter of official interest in both the project and in presenting it nationally to the 353 other stations in the PBS system. Check it out, and send them a donation!
On September 8, Dr. Cordain will be giving a brand new talk entitled Malaria and Rickets Represent Selective Forces for the Convergent Evolution of Adult Lactase Persistence. This will be held at Harlan ll, An International Symposium. Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, & S
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Sam Cooke-Bring It On Home to Me [Live]
This is one great performance!
I think it's good for your (vintage) health and fitness!!
Jay
Friday, August 29, 2008
Golden Eagle Bike Engine - Journey 062608 Motorized Bicycle
This guy has gotten the bike engine I want: a golden eagle!
It sure looks fun to drive- and, think of the fitness benefits... assisted pedaling, and LOTS of time to pull over and do push ups!!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Love song to a new/old John Deere Tractor!
Here is the piece de resistance of john deere tractor love...
I wanted to post it for you all to enjoy.
I filmed it when I first bought my John Deere a few years ago.
Here is the word on tractors:
If you are moving to an "acreage", you need what they call in the industry an "estate tractor".
Don't be like me, starting out on an el cheapo "Markmaster" tractor...
Your life will be a living hell, if you get one of these cheap, mass-produced "lawn tractors"- trust me!!
Let's say you're beyond that:
"I believe I'll get a John Deere (or Cub Cadet, or Simplicity, Ariens, Sabre, or any other department store LAWN tractor)- if it's a major brand, I'll be fine!"
Wrongo. Too small, too wimpy, too underpowered, too WEAK.
"OK" you say. "I'll go the MAJOR route, and get a big, expensive, major-sized garden tractor!!
Then, I can use the PTO, and run other attachments, and do all I need to do on my multi-acre estate.
I beg to differ even here: lawn tractors are expensive, and seem like they would do whatever you would want. But they won't.
You, my friend, need a CUT! (WHAT?)
A Compact Utility Tractor- C_U_T! As the Lion would say in the Wizard of Oz- "What've they got that I ain't got??"- (besides courage?? and they have that, too!)
Bigger frame (your wife will say it's too big, and so will your neighbors. They're all wrong. It's perfect).
Very much heavy duty throughout: this translates to a really, really long life!
MUCH more torque (power)!! This is key- Diesel = happy tractor driver.
You don't need a lot of horsepower with diesel. 15 hp diesel more than equals 30 hp in gas. And the power is all in the low end, where you actually need it!
(And diesel engines will last almost forever!)
You can add attachments- rakes, front end loaders, front blades, snowblowers, rear blades, the list goes on and on... and they are category 1 attachments via the 3 point hitch. Garden tractors, use the 0 level attachments, which means they are about the strength level of Christmas tree tinsel...
AND, 20 years from now, you can SELL YOUR TRACTOR and get a BIGGER one!!
You would have gone through about 10 lawn tractors by then, and have NOTHING.
What does this have to do with "health and fitness", you ask? It's all about the proper tool for the task- you wouldn't ask your grandmother to lift a boulder in your yard, would you? Well, think of a lawn or garden tractor as your grandmother. And, your CUT is Bruce Lee/Arnold Schwarzzenegger! Think of it: you can cut your lawn, no sweat whatsoever, and then say:
"I'll be back!!"
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Pizza Bianca recipe and video- John Deere Grill!
Here is a great recipe, as featured in Cooke's Illustrated magazine this month. I guarantee you will like the results you will get, and the versatility afforded by using variations of this dough recipe:
You can grill it in a pan (thicker crust), directly on the grill (make these really thin), or in the oven during the long Winter months.
This is the first time I used this recipe- it turned out great!!
Here is the ingredient list:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 2/3 cup room temperature water
1 1/4 tsp. table salt
1 1/2 tsp yeast
1 1/4 tsp sugar
5 T. virgin olive oil
1 tsp. Kosher salt
2 T. whole fresh rosemary leaves, optional
You need a stand mixer for this recipe- don't argue, it's just too wet of a dough to knead by hand.
You need a Kitchenaid mixer anyway, if you want to attend Deere J's kitchen and how- to classes- just get one!! NOW!
Mix the above ingredients together, reserving the sugar and yeast for last: sprinkle them on top.
Mix on low to medium for about 10 minutes.
Smear a large bowl with olive oil. Go ahead and use your fingers- it's fun! Then, dump the dough into the oily bowl, and cover with plastic wrap.
Let rise for 2 1/2 hours. Go to Church- it will be ready when you return!
Pour the dough from the bowl into a jelly roll pan, or else try a cookie sheet, or else make into small, thin pizzas and grill them directly on the charcoal grill... having trouble lighting that grill? See my other video...
And, if you have one of those worthless gas grills, sell it to buy that Kitchenaid!!
Then, using an oil-covered plastic spatula, spread the dough around the pan. (And also use your oily fingers.)
Now, top this oily, silky dough with:
1. Cheese
2. Thinly sliced Tomatoes
3. Peppers and caramelized onions
4. Italian seasoning
5. Whatever else your little, oily-handed heart desires
Put on your red-hot, CHARCOAL burning Weber, if in a pan for about 30 minutes.... much less for small, thin, directly on the grill pizzas.
Transfer to a cutting board, and use your rolling pizza slicer that you also bought with the proceeds from that gas grill...
All done! Then comes the best part of all..........EAT!!!!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Chocolate muffins!
Many have asked me:
"What did you do on vacation"? (Last week)
"Well", I replied "For one thing, I baked some chocolate muffins, preparatory to starting my new route on French Island!
"But how does a recipe such as this fall within the parameters of Vintage Health and Fitness ?
Because, I made them healthy! And you can, too!!
Here's how:
Eliminate the sugar, and substitute Splenda.
It comes in a box, and measures just like Sugar.
Mailman (Chocolate) Muffins-
2/3 cup of baking cocoa (dutched cocoa is the BEST!)
2 large eggs (eggs are really good for you, despite what you've read!)
1 cup (semi-sweet) chocolate chips (also good for you, despite the (small) sugar content
1/2 cup SPLENDA ( 0 calories)
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/3 cups milk (whole milk is the best for you; but all milk is good!)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Coat muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine the cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and vanilla.
Stir in half a cup of chocolate chips
In a separate bowl, combine the eggs and milk.
Add the egg/milk mixture to the other ingredients until moistened.
Scoop the batter evenly into the prepared muffin tin.
Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chips! (There are a LOT! Enjoy eating a few; but not too many, since when they come out half melted they are REALLY GOOD!) Did I tell you that chocolate is GOOD for you???
Bake for 20 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean... (Ha ha- just bake for 20 minutes!!)
Cool on a wire rack.
That's how you' re supposed to do it..
In the interest of full disclosure, I will here reveal that I:
Didn't use any "separate bowls" :
I just dumped all the ingredients into one BIG bowl!
And then, I only stirred the ingredients the minimum amount of time to blend them all together-
this is crucial for muffins- don't overstir!
Then, I baked them, for 20 minutes...
No toothpicks passed through my hands; trust me!
I took them out, posed for a "muffin picture", and then...
Ate those bad boys!!
Next time:
Healthy Hot Chocolate
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Audio-input for life!
I have spent the evening exploring how to increase the links on this oh-so-popular blog, and the keywords, so that even more viewers would be drawn, like so many moths, to the beacon of my blog. I have uploaded the site to www.feedburner.com; and hope that that will bring in many more of you, dear reader.
But, I was thinking how, of all technological advances, what has helped me the very most, is that of audio podcasts.
Each day, as I carry my route, or work out, or just drive on my commute or... anywhere at all!- I listen to my ipod.
That's right, although my vehicles might be from ages past, I also have little speakers that, with my trusty ipod plugged into: give me universal, worldwide, internet/radio coverage.
I rejoice in listening again to Steve Dahl! I started listening to Steve as I started my postal career, 30 years ago.... he was also starting his career, in Chicago on the LOOP station.
He was funny then, and still is now. He's on for 5 hours daily, on JACK FM in Chicago... I recommend just going to itunes- and subscribing to the (free) Steve Dahl podcast.
You will be so glad you did.
(And you'll enjoy Buzz, and PETE, too!)
The other audio enhancement to your life would be...
RUSH LIMBAUGH!
AM RADIO- he is REALLY easy to find.
And essential... Rush is the Will Rogers of our time.
You can't even understand our times without factoring in RUSH!
The similarities between these two talk radio guys- Rush Limbaugh and Steve Dahl, are very telling:
Both were attracted to radio in their early teens. Both had weight problems... and both developed mesmerizing abilities to relay their lives and ideas via their radio voices.
Kind of an overcompensation type of response to certain shortcomings, they built up an invisible voice that they instinctively knew was what they needed...
A radio voice that channeled their strengths, and eliminated the source of their self-perceived failings.
Rush Limbaugh=Steve Dahl
Too bad, I know they think they are antithetical-
Each would HATE the other...
But, that is only because.. Steve Dahl and Rush Limbaugh are almost identical!
Separated at birth...?
But, I think Steve would benefit from taking up cigar smoking...
It's a legal vice, that he could enjoy without exploiting his other, forbidden diversions.
It would be like a taco bell moment, without calories!
I think Buzz and Chef Hans would also fall into line, and love Steve's diversion into Vintage pleasures!
Jay
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
the Classical diet
Making jerky!
As part of the "Paleo/ancient Greek-Roman" diet, which I recommend, jerky is about #1 in the "Classical Diet!
In the classical diet, which I think is correct as a "pre-industrial" diet, jerky would have been a mainstay. When you slow cook already lean cuts of meat, in this case beef, your cook off the fat, and wind up with a really lean source of protein.
Also, what a great way to have portable (lunch) protein!
Each Sunday, I enjoy firing up the smoker, putting in some good hardwoods, and letting the smoker "do it's thing". You wind up with the ultimate nutrition source- portable, available, and right there for the upcoming week.
I would recommend making jerky, or, if you must, buying jerky for food "on the go".
It's a natural!
In the classical diet, which I think is correct as a "pre-industrial" diet, jerky would have been a mainstay. When you slow cook already lean cuts of meat, in this case beef, your cook off the fat, and wind up with a really lean source of protein.
Also, what a great way to have portable (lunch) protein!
Each Sunday, I enjoy firing up the smoker, putting in some good hardwoods, and letting the smoker "do it's thing". You wind up with the ultimate nutrition source- portable, available, and right there for the upcoming week.
I would recommend making jerky, or, if you must, buying jerky for food "on the go".
It's a natural!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
AN OLD FORD TRUCK
Here is my truck- a Ford F100. 1962...I've been wondering lately, just why I enjoy driving it so much. Just what is so great about driving an old truck around? Some people "get it", and think it is so cool... others think it makes about as much sense as heating your house with charcoal.
An old vehicle is kind of like a theme park ride.
That's the answer. Every time I get into that old truck, it's like I'm at Walt Disney World, on the Amazing 1962 Truck Ride.
Really. I climb up (you have to hoist yourself into these old trucks!), slam the (all steel) door shut, pull the choke (you have to know exactly how much, according to current weather conditions), and then...turn the key.
It's never a given that it will start... it'll turn over, but:
Did I choke it right?
Did I push the choke in, just after it caught??
Is it my lucky day, punk?
You get the picture: it's not just a drive to work- it's an adventure!
And the ride to work, in this case on a sunny, chilly November morning in Wisconsin, was wonderful. Each of the four gear shifts, as I accelerated, was a joy. The view out the windshield, which wraps around like a 3D movie from the 60's, was spectacular of the bluffs and coulees hereabouts, and the radio (which only took about 2 minutes to "warm up" and play) made me, from anticipation, appreciate all the more the "Buy and Trade" show that eventually came on.
In the back of my mind, all day, I "kind of " thought of the ride home. I mean, if I was going to ride home in a 2007 Toyota, to think of my ride would have been like thinking about my refrigerator...they are both just appliances.
My truck is my "Steed"; not merely a conveyance, but much more- almost a time machine...
When I drove home, I played songs through a small portable speaker I keep in the truck. Sam Cooke... pre-1965 music. "You Send Me", "Chain Gang"...and Elvis.
In the darkness, the other vehicle's headlights could have been from Thunderbirds and Cheyenne pickups... at least, that's how I imagined it. And those old country roads haven't changed a bit.
See what I mean? A theme park ride.
I know what you're thinking...
"How about GAS MILEAGE???"
And you're right...
But, that's why I also have the 1971 Theme Park Ride,featuring my CJ5 JEEP!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
SOLVING SHOULDER PROBLEMS... with ISOMETRICS!
Forward shoulder raise, low position
Side shoulder raise, middle position
Front shoulder raise, high positionI hope the above photos are adequate illustration. I got the exercises from two books by John E. Peterson, Pushing Yourself to Power and Isometric Power Revolution, both by Bronze Bow Publishing. Both are treasure troves of useful exercises, with dozens of exercises that you can perform with self-resistance, and no equipment whatsoever!
The exercises are VERY effective!
Isometrics can be performed either at the beginning of a movement(Low position), the middle position, or near the completion, or High position of any movement.
In each exercise, one hand is RESISTING the motion of the "working" arm, resulting in the working hand being rendered immovable by the opposing hand.
When, gradually, the working hand is stopped entirely in its motion, the muscles (in this case, of the shoulder) should be gradually forced to work AS HARD AS POSSIBLE for perhaps 7-12 seconds.
As you PRESS against the resisting hand, don't hold your breath! Either let your breath out in a long "SSSssss" sound, or else "pant", as I do- holding your breath could cause you to pass out!
(That's how hard you want to work- push quite hard- about 80% of what your all-out effort would be is safe).
What the above photos illustrate is the 3 positions, in 3 different resistant movements:
Pushing forward position
To the side
To the back
To do each one, you would--
PULL to the side, low, medium, and high positions
PULL to the rear, all three positions
Push to the front all three
To get better illustrations of these, and many, many other exercises, I recommend you purchase John e. Peterson's excellent books, as mentioned above- they are literally the Rosetta Stone of Vintage Exercise and Fitness!!
John takes the wisdom of previous generations and even eras, and makes it ring true in our own time!
Things, ideas, and fashions come and go... but the truth of ideas is eternal.
In each exercise, one hand is RESISTING the motion of the "working" arm, resulting in the working hand being rendered immovable by the opposing hand.
When, gradually, the working hand is stopped entirely in its motion, the muscles (in this case, of the shoulder) should be gradually forced to work AS HARD AS POSSIBLE for perhaps 7-12 seconds.
As you PRESS against the resisting hand, don't hold your breath! Either let your breath out in a long "SSSssss" sound, or else "pant", as I do- holding your breath could cause you to pass out!
(That's how hard you want to work- push quite hard- about 80% of what your all-out effort would be is safe).
What the above photos illustrate is the 3 positions, in 3 different resistant movements:
Pushing forward position
To the side
To the back
To do each one, you would--
PULL to the side, low, medium, and high positions
PULL to the rear, all three positions
Push to the front all three
To get better illustrations of these, and many, many other exercises, I recommend you purchase John e. Peterson's excellent books, as mentioned above- they are literally the Rosetta Stone of Vintage Exercise and Fitness!!
John takes the wisdom of previous generations and even eras, and makes it ring true in our own time!
Things, ideas, and fashions come and go... but the truth of ideas is eternal.
We are dealing here with eternal truths of exercise and fitness!
Check it out: www. transformetrics.com
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Financial Fitness! http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
The importance of another kind of fitness, "financial fitness", cannot be underestimated. After all, we can't live without money, as we well know. Money is not all important, as too many seem to think; but... important!
Think of Ebeneezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"- now, he should have concentrated more on isometric neck exercises, and hindu push-ups- less on his portfolio of investments...
But "moderation in all things": So, set up an IRA. And a 401K. Contribute, at least for the FIRST 20 years! (Ironically, the contributions become much less important as time goes on, since the investments start making more than anything you can put in!!) And that is a GOOD thing!
So, you have a 401 K. Fine, put the assets into stocks, for now. NOT A MONEY MARKET, lame-o no earning fund!!
But, how about your Roth IRA?
This is where your NEW hobby can start to shine.
What new hobby? Why, your new investment hobby! With your computer, and, if you have LESS than a million dollars, there is no reason that you can't start making some serious money for your retirement- after all Warren Buffet says that, with "small money" i.e. less than a million, he could always earn over 50% on his money, year after year!
You know what? He's right! I'm not Warren Buffet, but I am currently earning 54% year to date on MY IRA!
It's not all that difficult, although some research is necessary, as is some luck...
(And a bull market in stocks)
Here's what I do:
1. I listen to Bob Brinker's Marketimer on AM radio. (Saturdays and Sundays) I also subscribe to his newsletter- (he is that good)-Bob is unsurpassed at predicting major market moves- telling you when you should be either IN, or OUT, of the stock market. It sounds fantastic, but believe me, he really has this figured out!
2. I research stocks online, Yahoo finance is great for the basics.
3. I read some of the financial magazines- Fortune, Forbes, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily...to get ideas, but with a grain of salt. And, I check all of their ideas and suggestions Against the stock grader at www.navallier
Trust me- this stock grader feature will help you to evaluate stock ideas with great effectiveness.
The Motley Fool at www.motleyfool.com
This site is also helpful. Their CAPS featured on MSN.com is also neat-o-keen, since reader/posters rate the stocks THEY prefer. When regular, normal investors (hobbyists) give you guidance, you can rest assured they will give you the "real deal"!
Think of Ebeneezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"- now, he should have concentrated more on isometric neck exercises, and hindu push-ups- less on his portfolio of investments...
But "moderation in all things": So, set up an IRA. And a 401K. Contribute, at least for the FIRST 20 years! (Ironically, the contributions become much less important as time goes on, since the investments start making more than anything you can put in!!) And that is a GOOD thing!
So, you have a 401 K. Fine, put the assets into stocks, for now. NOT A MONEY MARKET, lame-o no earning fund!!
But, how about your Roth IRA?
This is where your NEW hobby can start to shine.
What new hobby? Why, your new investment hobby! With your computer, and, if you have LESS than a million dollars, there is no reason that you can't start making some serious money for your retirement- after all Warren Buffet says that, with "small money" i.e. less than a million, he could always earn over 50% on his money, year after year!
You know what? He's right! I'm not Warren Buffet, but I am currently earning 54% year to date on MY IRA!
It's not all that difficult, although some research is necessary, as is some luck...
(And a bull market in stocks)
Here's what I do:
1. I listen to Bob Brinker's Marketimer on AM radio. (Saturdays and Sundays) I also subscribe to his newsletter- (he is that good)-Bob is unsurpassed at predicting major market moves- telling you when you should be either IN, or OUT, of the stock market. It sounds fantastic, but believe me, he really has this figured out!
2. I research stocks online, Yahoo finance is great for the basics.
3. I read some of the financial magazines- Fortune, Forbes, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily...to get ideas, but with a grain of salt. And, I check all of their ideas and suggestions Against the stock grader at www.navallier
Trust me- this stock grader feature will help you to evaluate stock ideas with great effectiveness.The Motley Fool at www.motleyfool.com
This site is also helpful. Their CAPS featured on MSN.com is also neat-o-keen, since reader/posters rate the stocks THEY prefer. When regular, normal investors (hobbyists) give you guidance, you can rest assured they will give you the "real deal"!
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