This question came in in the past week from another site for which I contribute Strength Training commentary, VitalHealthZone. Given that the writer and I share the same age, I thought it was purposeful to share my response, given perhaps the differences in our perspectives on managing peri-menopause and the required work, nutrition and support of a body over 40+
Maintenance is a never ending, on-going process of continual activity and work. To maintain a healthy smile and pleasant conversation with people, we brush and floss our teeth daily. To maintain the life of our automobiles, we regularly get the oil changed and make sure the plugs are lubricated and tires rotated. Nails are filed and polished weekly, lawns are cut and manicured weekly, so why is it such a difficult thing to understand and actualize the maintenance of the body with a daily regimen?
I know, its a rhetorical question. The body maintenance work is hard, requires...
I guess you can tell from my blog entries of late, that I have been playing around with another tool for core training in the past few months, using the TRX Suspension Trainer with both my personal workouts, my private strength/resistance clients and now my Pilates Mat students.
Defying gravity with a new challenge is making all of us stronger, sleeker and determined to continue using the tool. The tool permits a full and complete range of motion throughout a workout, which in turn creates a more functional, safer and more successful method of training.
While I am never giving...
It is pretty amazing. The damage we can do to ourselves without even being present in the process. I work extremely hard at helping other people work hard on themselves. I pride myself on the consistent, hard work I do to my own body. I admonish others to work to their own limits and set a mean example of exactly that in my own work.
Whether it be strength training in the gym, Pilates in the studio, or my feeble attempts at following my yoga instructor, I try to work with high quality, excellent form and love pushing myself to that end to achieve the best results for the time...
I met an amazing artist, performer, dancer, acrobat, and yoga instructor, Michelle Dortignac, and therefore, have been introduced to another fabulous way to bend, shape, lift and work the body with Aerial Yoga.
As with most of my teachers, (of every discipline) she kept telling me too slow down find "quiet the breath" as the work enveloped me with utter joy! I get so carried away with the freedom of body movement, I gobbled up the first 30-45 minutes like a glutton. Toward the end of the 90 minutes, I kinda got her point and "let go to release" my body to the gravity pull and my breath...
