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The Training Corner
Q: Hi Pat! Meet Mindy, the train wreck. When I read your columns, I think “Come on, Mindy, get your act together. You’re only 42 years old.” I have so many issues that I don’t know where to start. I am borderline on everything; BP, lipids, inflammation, glucose and A1c, that diabetes thing.
Mountain Grit: Training for the Long Haul
The Simple 7 Buckets That Build My Buffer: Suppleness-Stability, Speed (Gait), Skills, Strength, Stamina, Specificity, Spirit
Mountain Grit: Training for the Long Haul
The Simple 7 Buckets That Build My Buffer: Suppleness-Stability, Speed (Gait), Skills, Strength, Stamina, Specificity, Spirit
“We get what we train for, we keep what we do!”
Mountain Grit-Training for the long haul
The Simple 7 Buckets That Build My Buffer: Suppleness-Stability, Speed (Gait), Skills -Agility, Strength, Stamina, Specificity, Spirit
“Experience the unexpected. Tap all the senses a different way every day!”
Mountain Grit: Training for the long haul
The Simple 7 Buckets: Suppleness-Stability, Speed, Skills, Strength, Stamina, Specificity, Spirit
Mountain Grit: Training for the Long Haul
The virius has forced us to pause, and take stock of our priorities. What an ideal time to give ourselves a check-up. Have I been doing ‘what it takes’ to prep and pre-hab for my 50+ mountain lifestyle ride? Let’s see!
1. Stability and suppleness
• Does my posture allow for efficient and deep diaphragmatic breathing?
Mountain Grit: Training for the Long Haul
Welcome to Mountain Grit, the first in a series of articles designed to tweak your mindset towards preparing your aging vehicle to live, labor, work, care-give, play and compete for decades to come; to invest in and earn your health-span now, in order to nudge it up as close as possible to your lifespan.