Today marks the first day I’ve really seen progress in dealing with the issue of pain pills. The big test comes tomorrow when I go (Continue Reading)
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Coming back from bilateral knee surgery
04/04/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI was shocked just now to see that I had placed next to nothing on my blog since my surgery. It has been over 2 (Continue Reading)
New phase of exercising
03/19/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis week was my last week of gym workouts. Tomorrow I get both knees replaced. Plenty of physical therapy will follow and I intend to (Continue Reading)
An approach to insomnia
12/01/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife has always suffered from insomnia. The pattern was to go to sleep as late as possible, 11 or 12, so as to sleep (Continue Reading)
New, intense program
11/18/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentAfter being on a program for several months where I did each muscle group in rotation, covering about 5 or 6 days with body weight (Continue Reading)
Bumping it up
04/16/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentA couple of weeks ago I was working my way through my program for arms under some time constraints. After the first two exercises, I (Continue Reading)
Assisted living? Not yet.
10/25/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor some reason, negative chin-ups with one arm crept into my thoughts. I spent about one tenth of one second lowering myself from a chin-up (Continue Reading)
Crossover point in program
10/10/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentYesterday’s workout did seem to mark a crossover point: the prone cobra and one-legged squat were actually relatively easy (emphasis on relatively); on the squats (Continue Reading)
Effects of diet on b/p
09/26/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently Lance wrote to me: “Yep, it works. The oil/fat binds with caffeine creating a slow release/timed release amount of the drug rather than a (Continue Reading)
Update – coffee with ghee
08/31/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentUpdate to the health log: we went to a Doctor Richard Jacoby way up in Scottsdale, a long trip for us. My wife has been (Continue Reading)
Exercising the last few weeks
08/26/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentNot a daily log but anything that prompts discussion can go here. I’d like people to chime in with what they have found works for (Continue Reading)
Heading into my w/o …. nap first
08/14/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentNot a daily log but anything that prompts discussion can go here. I’d like people to chime in with what they have found works for (Continue Reading)
New category: health
07/18/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis category began some years ago as “Diet”, so I inserted that entry first but decided to broaden it out so as to discuss issues (Continue Reading)
Disccusing health in general, diet & exercise in particular
07/18/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentSat, 11 Apr 2009: Diet This is a new category. I am on a listserv for so-called “Paleo” dieters. Paleo dieting is defined and discussed (Continue Reading)