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Is this the key to good health?

  07/14/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Yes. It may be exercise. As I near (really close) 82 and am in good health, I get indicators that not only am I doing (Continue Reading)

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Left or Right?

  02/15/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No, not my politics; we know where they lie. It’s handedness. I’ve always known my handedness as “mixed dominance,” doing some things only with the (Continue Reading)

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Going way out on a limb……….

  02/02/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In a cave far up in the snowy reaches of the Himalayas I encountered a master who provided me with esoteric knowledge required for good (Continue Reading)

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Weight gain and a new diet

  12/30/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Yesterday, Dec. 29, 2022, I got the basis of my new diet started, heavy on meat and vegetables and fruit and nuts, light on cheeses (Continue Reading)

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A Shift in Programs —- October update

  09/09/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Once I got to the point with the core program – a set of 6 exercises arranged in pairs – where it was no challenge, (Continue Reading)

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Starting exercise after a long hiatus

  09/01/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I hope ‘hiatus’ doesn’t bring up memories of hiatal hernias, but I did stop exercising for almost 3 years: nothing, niente, nada, rien, nichego, etc. (Continue Reading)

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New Core Exercises

  12/02/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A friend sent me a video by Bob and Brad. On the side I saw one titled 10 exercises you should not do. Two of (Continue Reading)

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Why SOME sports fans belong in the dregs of humanity category

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Full disclosure: I have never been a sports fan. My wife, my son, so many people in my life are “avid” sports fans (like a (Continue Reading)

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What’s wrong with trainers and p.e. coaches?

  06/22/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

The typical experience is for a coach of some sort to give you an exercise to do. He shows proper form and then has you (Continue Reading)

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Current Health of Me

  05/22/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Since my last post to this topic I have been on a very steady exercise program, actually two programs, one CORE I do at home (Continue Reading)

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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      2 Comments

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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