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https://ift.tt/3y82HUz “ If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down. ”-Toni Morrison Christine Van Loo, Aerialist, Speaker, and Coach (http://www.christinevanloo.com/about.html ) Christine Van Loo is an elite athlete that started out as an acrobatic gymnast, a sport in which she was a 7-time consecutive US National Champion, female Olympic athlete of the year, and athlete of the decade. After retiring from competition in that sport, she married and settled into a new life that seemed complete, but something also seemed missing. Christine performing acrobatic gymnastics She went through a period of depression before coming up with a new challenge and reinventing herself as an aerialist. She has much to teach about pursuing our dreams and becoming all we can be, and now in addition to being an internationally acclaimed performer as an aerialist, she has a set of teaching dvds for aspiring aerialists, and also coaches the champion’s mindset. She us...

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https://ift.tt/3dnqpEy I decided to do an out and back to the IBM hill since I omitted it from my ride Friday. This follows Dougherty Ave, I nice rural road, then Santa Teresa Boulevard, to Bernal road which climbs the IBM hill. I then returned (with a decent tailwind) to west Morgan Hill, doing seated sprint intervals on the way back. I finished with hill climbing intervals, standing, on the streets on the lower slopes of El Toro. These were challenging, I got up to a max heart rate of 172. Hills keep you honest! I thought I was going hard on the sprint intervals but my HR got much higher uphill. The effect of standing instead of seated might have had something to do with it also. Top of the IBM hill with the gatehouse for the IBM research facility. Part of Santa Teresa Park from the same spot Mt. Umunhum in the distance, from the road to the parking lot of Santa Teresa Park The Route uploaded from my watch I’m enjoying having the new watch for tracking. It is very non...

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https://ift.tt/3qskSSA Now that I’m done with my exercise stress test I’ve decided to focus more on riding. I went out for four hours today, and covered just over 50 miles. The first two hours were standing pedaling, and in the last hour I threw in a bunch of intervals. My old low-end watch recently died so I treated myself to a Garmin Forerunner. It has the nice feature of providing wrist-based heart rate normally, but if it notices I have my heart rate strap on it pairs with it instead . This was my first serious ride tracking with the new watch. I’m pretty happy with it so far, I like how the display is customizable, so I have time, date, and heart rate on the watch face. You can also customize what appear on the main screen during various activities, so I have speed, elapsed time, distance, and heart rate for bike ride. I don’t like to be distracted by tech when exercising, I prefer to peruse the results later. But it is nice to be able to glance at it once in a while, like “that...

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https://ift.tt/2Sm6crr Dr. Dean Ornish developed his lifestyle program decades ago, which is famous for being the first program to be scientifically proven to reverse heart disease, way back in 1990 [1]. The same program has been shown to reverse (or undo, as Dr. Ornish likes to say), other important chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, early stage prostate cancer, obesity, depression, and some auto-immune diseases. The program includes healthy eating, exercise, stress management, and support groups. The program has helped thousands of people who have gone through it at various centers around the US. In a book written from 2019 that I’ve just read, Dr. Ornish and his wife Anne (who is also his partner in the lifestyle program work), teach us the details of how to use this program ourselves. I was excited to be able to read about this and review the book below. But first some background. The healthy eating part of this program is a low fat, whole-food plant-based diet. The ...

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