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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fitness
  • Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:25:46 -0800

You were doing sorta o.k until you got to the "Know anyone your age and in your physical condition who has added significant improvement in strength, flexibility and tone from what you propose? I don't know any."

I don't know any brain surgeons but they exist. I don't know any astronauts but they exist.

I worked in rehab for years and worked with body builders and professional athletes. It works. I did dance for years and if I hadn't, I wouldn't be able to walk or keep doing what I do. It is the flexibility from that dance training, that muscle memory, that makes it possible for me to continue to do things that the great and wondrous *they* say is impossible. Did I contribute to my problems? Sure. Who doesn't. Did I actively create them by being a sloth? NO! I did nothing to create scoliosis. Should I have been riding that colt bareback? No but I was 10 years old, so I think I get a forgiveness pass on that one.

So, while in James little bitty teeny tiny corner of the world, in which he wears the James glasses and sees that which he chooses to see, then things work the way he decides they do. However, in the *real* world, there are many, many things that even the all knowing James does not know and extenuating circumstances which have created another reality for the folks who live in their world.

Anyone who uses the "I've never seen it so it doesn't exist" ceases to have credibility.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>>

So I keep hearing, but Bev I've got to level with you and say that all that
"You just don't know what's really going on with these people ,..." is crap.
What I have observed to be consistent, as reliable as the sun rising, is that
people who believe in the "I just got bad genes" bit are invariably out of
shape, overweight, and deteriorating right before my eyes. People who don't
believe it (and therefore don't act on it) are always the ones who are fit and
healthy and able even into extreme old age.

The thing is, suppose it were true (which it almost never is) that a person
had some infirmity or condition as you suggest. What difference does that
make? All the more urgent reason to get up and move and bend, not less.

And I'm chuckling. What I am outlining is ten times the physical involvement
that a half hour of Jack LaLanne is going to provide.
And some push ups and ten minutes of Richard Simmons is going to enable you
to leap fences and twist your ankle 90 degrees with no harm? You've got to
understand the humor here, Bev, it seems as if you are dismissing a life of
continuious motion and effort as perhaps not up to par with 20 jumping jacks and
fifteen minutes on the stationary bicycle.

Well, ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances, so good luck with Hanz and
Franz approach to flexibilty and tone. But I tend to look around and see if I
can find examples of success for any type of approach I intend to try. Know
anyone your age and in your physical condition who has added significant
improvement in strength, flexibility and tone from what you propose? I don't know
any.





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