I can find nothing in this blog that I’ve noted concerning sugar. There are references to slavery’s role in sugar and vice versa but not (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
The evolution of my push-ups
08/24/2026 Pat Barrett Add CommentShojiro Koyama was an immigrant in my night class. We became friends and he showed me some things about his field of martial arts, karate (Continue Reading)
My Heart Doctor Does Not Understand
05/07/2026 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy doctor is very thorough and listens to me. I noticed that on my personal information form my ethnicity was left blank. This is an (Continue Reading)
Miniature Buds
08/09/2025 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy memory was of sitting at the bar in Gypsum, Ohio drinking a small bottle of Budweiser. I was around 5 or 6 and I (Continue Reading)
Health stats and questions
06/09/2025 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently I had reason to bound up our 17 steps two at a time. I found the last few required some hustle. Since then I (Continue Reading)
Stress yourself then test
11/24/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor over a month I’ve been coming back from a month-long hiatus in exercise. Not quite true if you count lugging luggage over an unfamiliar (Continue Reading)
Is this the key to good health?
07/14/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentYes. 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)
Left or Right?
02/15/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo, 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)
Going way out on a limb……….
02/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn 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)
Weight gain and a new diet
12/30/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentYesterday, 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)
A Shift in Programs —- October update
09/09/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentOnce I got to the point with the core program – a set of 6 exercises arranged in pairs – where it was no challenge, (Continue Reading)
Starting exercise after a long hiatus
09/01/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentI 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)
New Core Exercises
12/02/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentA 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)
Why SOME sports fans belong in the dregs of humanity category
07/29/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentFull 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)
What’s wrong with trainers and p.e. coaches?
06/22/2021 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThe 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)
Current Health of Me
05/22/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentSince 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)
Post-76 year old update
12/09/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWell 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)
How’s my little body?
10/03/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor 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)
If you can imagine it ……
07/12/2020 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThat 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)
A routine with a long run
05/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIt 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)
Fruits of consistency
04/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentSince 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)
Settled into a routine
04/02/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt 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)