Can spices cure what is wrong witrh your health?

I receive a couple of different newsletters with the focus using Nutrition to improve Health.

Dr. Mercola
http://www.mercola.com/

Mike Adams the Health Ranger
http://www.naturalnews.com/

Because of the many different articles I have read from these newsletters, for the last few years my wife and I have been taking Turmeric and Ginger every day. These two spices might be able to help prevent all types of illnesses. They are cheap ways to increase our levels of health with no adverse side effects. We have found that if my wife takes too much ginger, her blood pressure tends to get too low if she is also dehydrated.

If you want to see how spices can help you live a healthier life, research different spices and you might learn how they can help you. All it takes is a little bit of your time.

An example of this is:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/22/could-this-spice-actually-help-weight-loss.aspx

Putting the Cart before the Horse

When shopping for a bicycle in Italy, the first thing the builders do for you is take your measurements. That way both you and the builder know what size bike you need built. I have been test riding new bikes, and most shops want you to buy the bike before they give you their version of a fitting. If I do decide to buy a new bike, I will have a professional fitting done before the purchase.

What does this have to do with hiring a personal trainer?

When most trainers design a workout program for you, they concentrate on what intensity you should use to work out. (How many sets and reps of each exercise, what heart rate to work at, etc.) Shouldn't they focus on teaching you how to move before adding any intensity to your program?

The tide is shifting thanks to trainers such as: Vern Gambetta, Mike Robertson, Erin Cressey, and many others including myself.


What do I feel is the best way to determine where to begin?

Before having a new client exercise, a Medical History Questionnaire is filled out. The goal: Find out what might keep this client from being able to perform certain exercises. The next step is to use this Questionnaire during what I call the Subjective Assessment. This covers any concerns brought up in the Medical Questionnaire in detail. An example: If the client is dealing with knee pain: When did this pain begin, what makes the pain worse, better, what treatments have already been tried and how did they help, etc.

Once I feel it is ok to begin, the next step is having the client go through a Dynamic Warm Up which will show me most of what I need to know. Watching them perform some basic movements like squatting or lunging will help complete the picture of how they move and show me what that client needs to work on to begin moving better.

Don't settle for just another workout. learn how to move first.

Wisely pick who your mentors are!

We can have many influences that determine who we become. Mentors can make or break us as professionals. Due to the internet, we don't ever need to meet the people that have the biggest influences on our lives.

I have many training mentors whom I have never met. Mike Robertson http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog is one who I have spent a lot of time studying in the last few days.

Mike does a great job of explaining the training ideas that I have in an easy to understand manner. He and I share training philosophies. An example: Pain is a symptom. The key is finding the causes. Einstein was quoted as saying, spend 90% of your time defining the problem and 10% on the solution.

The next time your back is bothering you, spend enough time figuring out why before you come up with a solution to the pain.

2009 Tour De Donut

Yea, it's been a while since I posted anything on this blog. Does anyone reads my post anyway?

This Sat. July 11, over one thousand cyclist will travel to Staunton IL to race the 2009 Tour De Donut.

I have participated (or worked) this event since moving to this side of the river in 1993.

Training has been going well. My bother Gary is going to come up from Austin TX to race just like last year. I have the Cannondale R1000 ready for him to ride. Stopped by a LBS to buy some new cleats for the shoes he will use. He had trouble clipping in at the start last year, being the great brother I am, I waited for him to catch up with me and blew any chance to ride with the leaders.

For anyone who doesn't race on a regular basis, the start of this race can be scary. There are many non-racers who try to stay with the lead group on the way out of Staunton. A lot of them don't know how to hold their line. (or a steady pace)
I always breath easier once we hit Renken road.

Something else that bothers me is the amount of riders that act like we are on a closed course. I've been hit by a car before, it ain't a whole lot of fun. Be careful out there.

I use to ride without eating any donuts until I heard a conversation between Roger Kramer and Joe Booth. (Two of the founders of the TDD) Roger made a great point. Eating donuts is the point of the race. I feel that the TDD organizers (the Boeing Bike Club) should get rid of the non-adjusted times. We all know that the true winner is the rider with the lowest adjusted time. If you are at the awards ceremony, you know that the crowd admires this winner much more than the non-adjusted winners.

If you ride the TDD this Sat, be careful out there, give the guy on a 99 Litespeed classic and his brother on the 99 Cannondale R1000 some room, AND EAT SOME DONUTS. That's the whole point.

Cyclists at risk for bone loss

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-cycling16-2009feb16,0,1785648.story

My solution. Learn to lift heavy and lift often.