Work out by doing activities you loved as a kid

working on it more.
but rekindled one-of my olderst injuries. [good – time to get past it.]

will try again to get baselines for physical abilities.

Edit: even some of the short walks I’ve been on have felt slightly energizing – felt different than the usual “increased heart-rate effects.”
(But honestly, what kind of soft-tissue injury doesn’t heal after a few decades?! I only re-hurt it about once a year, and only for several minutes.)
(P.S. T4TC)
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I’d always kinda wanted to do that. But it took til last summer to get it done. I’d say I was out 250 yards [edit: 300+ yds, ~25’ deep]. (Pretty-far for not being in shape, but not being able to float well!) I think I was about 1/2 way out.
Maybe I’ll take some goggles & take a look below next time.
“worth it!”
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• running up-to it & sliding, of course (the ‘running-part’ {sprint} should be conditioning ones fast-twitch muscle fibers)
• running up to it & sliding - then half-way down the ice, “turn-around” and try to run back while still sliding (I’ll call it a ‘Scooby-Doo race’). I think the kids would have a blast with this!! (Maybe use a faceguard)
  I’m thinkin this should even be do-able to just-about all of the U.S., as even in the lower states one could dig a trench just a few inches deep, cover it with a temporary sheet of white plastic, and set-up a small temperature exchanger (as in my recent survival/rescue post). And use it in the evenings.
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I just finished reading “Born To Run,” (which kept me busy reading).
One of the memorable points in the book was when one of the very best coaches in the world – an open-minded but precise studier, was very high up in the mountains at a race-course so high it is at the altitude that planes begin to pressurize their cabins)! [Edit: make that twice that altitude!! {And I guess it only goes up from there!!!}] (And he was the only coach out there, to watch & learn!)(The race was considered so dangerous by the local doctor that he apparently ‘sacrificed’ a finger by pointing it at the roughian proposing it!)
And after God-knows how-many miles of racing (50? 100?) he’s watching these two Tarahumara Indians bounce out of the medical checkpoint about to start a giant climb; as other runners were dreading it, they jumped out, smiling & laughing.
And he thought, “That’s it! – They ran with joy!” (Or something like that.)
(They weren’t exactly barefoot, they wore simple homemade running sandals with no padding or cushioning, but their feet were free enough to spring and splay and do all the things feet do best.)
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I’ll play “Eye of the Tiger” while I work-out; just like ‘what’s his name’ in Rocky!
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As fun as it was, I’m now amazed I did not do this at every-other sign-post!
I don’t know how I got the idea, but I ran up to to pole, jumped up high alongside it, stretched out my arms & legs, grabbed-ahold & swung around it!
Now you may not believe me; (I wouldn’t’ve believed it if I hadn’t done it myself), but I swung around that thing for a full two minutes I’m guessing – with no “pumping” at all! I spun several-dozen times!
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“When your body needs to work, make it work. And when it needs to rest, give it rest.”
(That’s all I remember from that movie.)
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(2 = “Twice as dangerous”.)(3x, actually)
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- the “Atlas,” (as soon as I can find the atlas)
- the “Strong-dude,” (I forgot what that was gonna be)
- the “Gut-Muster,” (coming tomorrow – maybe)
- the “(not The) Mr. T,” (walls are too close here for that)
- the “Atlas Shrubbed,” (will have to decide whether my idea will go by this name, or the Gut-Muster)
√ the “Strider-Man,” (pictured)
- the “Dog-Lays-All-Summer,” (literally)
√ the “five-point one-hand plant,” (pictured)
√ the “inverted five-point one-hand plant,” (pictured)

I found a guy who wrote a popular book called Born to Run. It’s about running barefoot! Apparently humans do much better physiologically without all the fancy $100 shoe designs.
So I’ve been walking around lately, trying to go without my comfy cushy dangerous “tennis shoes”.
So today I put on my usual ts, & started walking. I was immediately reminded of back in H.S. (just out of H.S.) I changed from walking around in my wrestling-shoes to tennis (basketball) shoes, and I leaned so forward so far I immediately felt like falling flat on my face!
But this time, I was a little more attentive to my emotions. And along with this leaning slightly forward, I felt a little more “off-balance” emotionally, (i.e. literally “in your face”). It makes me wonder if this is part of some vast tail-feathered conspiracy to make people more aggressive! Now it was just a small change, but I think that mind-kontrol works better when it’s subtle. And like the “butterfly effect,” small changes turn into big changes over time, especially when multiple small changes are set-up in a row.
(The author does talk about living out on the plains in a group of hunters, chasing-down animals, that one does have to be more forgiving & cooperative.)
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(*“Nikes” not 2 b confused with the shoe-brand; allegedly.)
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Edit: forgot to mention “business shoes & combat boots”
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