Our understanding of stretching has changed over the years. No longer is stretching the chore like it used to be. I won’t say it is fun yet but it is no longer the bore that it used to be.
Tag: aging
Some Life Lessons Learned from Cycling – Part 2
Cycling teaches us plenty. How to take care of ourselves. How to take care of others. How to handle change. Some of us just pick up the learning more readily than others. We can rationalize, avoid, and attack the things that we don’t want to do, but the natural world eventually wins out. Sort of…
Movement for Life
Movement, our ability to move our physical body effectively, is typically one of those things we take for granted. Until we can’t. Simple injury, like sprains, strains, and even broken bones can sideline us temporarily but we’re usually back out participating in our normal lives after relatively short healing periods. The process of aging however,…
Creating Fitness in Your Fitness
Fitness, for me, was always just a happy by-product of my cycling routine. The more I rode, the fitter I became. Throw in some occasional High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), which we just called “intervals” years ago, and some serious mountain climbing, and I would be in race-shape in no time. Then age began to…
Bicycling Seriously
Bicycling Seriously Perhaps it is my reflective nature. As I prepare for each bicycling adventure (as they are all adventures of some sort), I focus my attention on the ride as I dress in kit and ponder possibilities. Being a cyclist for over 30 years, experiences on the road have taught me that you assume nothing. A…
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