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Post-76 year old update

  12/09/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Well over five years ago I read an article in, I believe, the NYT magazine that stated emphatically that after 76 a person’s body mass (Continue Reading)

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How’s my little body?

  10/03/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For some time now I have maintained a fairly  steady routine of exercise, alternating between a set of exercises focusing on the core and another using weights (Continue Reading)

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If you can imagine it ……

  07/12/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

That sounds like a life-coach named Marvin, but it is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. “To put it bluntly, (Continue Reading)

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A routine with a long run

  05/14/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

It seems a routine has been set, one night of yoga, one of body pump, two days in the gym lifting weights and two to (Continue Reading)

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Fruits of consistency

  04/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Since my surgery in December and my week off in Februrary, I have surged in the consistency with which I get to the gym. I (Continue Reading)

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Settled into a routine

  04/02/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At this point, I can say I am well settled into a routine of yoga Monday, Body Pump Tuesday, 40 push-ups on off-days and my (Continue Reading)

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Pushing on

  03/21/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I’ve began a routine of one night yoga, next night body pump, skip a day, then w/o with weights. This week I did a (Continue Reading)

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Yoga and Body Pump

  03/10/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A few weeks ago I took the plunge and started yoga. Fortunately I seem to have found an excellent instructor. One lady said she has (Continue Reading)

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easy done

  12/18/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Hernia surgery yesterday. Out patient. Easy as pie. Almost no pain. Plenty of uninterrupted reading time as I recover. (See What I’m Reading Now category) (Continue Reading)

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Hernia

  12/06/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A pause in my exercise program. I got a diagnosis yesterday of hernia and I’ll be called today to schedule surgery. I have no idea (Continue Reading)

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My psoas

  12/03/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Say what? Well, it’s a bit like a sore ass as pronounced down south but it is a core muscle I did not know about (Continue Reading)

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Shift in emphasis

  09/29/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I switched from random exercises divided pretty much between heavy lifts and more body weight or lighter exercises to focusing on one or two (Continue Reading)

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Finally, some pull-ups

  09/20/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My work on the assisted pull-up rack at the gym paid off. Yesterday I got 3 sets of one, and good ones. My program for (Continue Reading)

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Last doctor visit

  09/19/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My primary care physician is switching over to a Wellness Plan where you pay a yearly fee and it reduces her case load. She’s at (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Politics

The secret is to make a pile of money

  05/08/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Let’s just point out the bad people to start with: the Arizona state legislators. I’m guessing it is mainly Republicans, the people of personal responsibility (Continue Reading)

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New workout

  05/05/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After a long break, eleven days, I went back to the old workout where I could not complete the final set of incline bench press (Continue Reading)

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Watch your diagnoses and your meds

  04/30/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sent to a friend just before my appt with the doctor last Friday, 4/27. Tomorrow I see my doctor’s PA. Here’s my dilemma. The doctor (Continue Reading)

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Wrapping up medical stuff

  03/13/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Last week I went to 3 appointments, the first for my skin and the doctor gave me a clean bill of health; the second for (Continue Reading)

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Illness

  01/11/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I always say I never get sick. Scratch that. Last week I woke up with a stiff neck. By Monday I could barely move so (Continue Reading)

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Dry land at last

  12/29/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve moved from the pool to dry land with my new set of exercises last night. They are the same as in the pool: ski, (Continue Reading)

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An end to testing?

  09/29/2017       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

In March I got a bilateral total knee replacement with recovery rated as phenomenal. Then I got vertigo and realized my go-to physician, a cardiologist (Continue Reading)

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Vertigo

  07/28/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I got dizzy yesterday morning when I got up. That seldom happens and it passed. But then I went into the gym, feeling great, lay (Continue Reading)

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not over it yet

  06/08/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On my tenth day off the pain killer vicodin/oxycodone, I went back to my doctor for relief from withdrawal symptoms. He said my recovery has (Continue Reading)

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