Wholistic Fitness

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“You know all those interruptions to your Practice?

Those interruptions ARE your Practice!”

– coach ilg

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FINALLY! HP YOGA ON DVD!!!!!

Due to popular demand, i will be making my HIGH PERFORMANCE YOGA video into a DVD in another week or so!

many people tell me that they have bought “ALL the fancy high production yoga videos” and they well, “suck compared” to the humble but powerful CHI of the HP Yoga video!

you read all the usolicited quotes here in DL about HP Yoga…

something is working…YOU!

want yours?

get on the waiting list by emailing me:

ilgtrain@pacbell.net

include your cc/exp date if you are not an Active Online Student

and your shipping address.

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CHEROKEE CHI!

just in from running Hectic Hill with new Student McKenzie. lemme clue you folks into something; this born and raised Valley Girl is the damn fastest mountain running soap opera star i’ve yet come across. she had NEVER ran up a real mountain in her life, and she ASTONISHED me by her innate footwork and willingness to push herself through pain. i could tell she was a professional actress; she took my coaching direction perfectly! it is said that good students make great teachers…it is true. i only had to say something once to her, and she snapped right into it and applied it throughout the entire workout.

during one of our yoga workouts, ‘Student Mac’ told me that she had some Cherokee blood in her. okay i’m thinking, i’m going to remember that for a future interval day and test her Native American guts. see if the Running Medicine is still imprinted upon her Big City Girl cells. having raced cross country against Navajos, Jicarilla Apache, Hopi, Tewa, etc, throughout the American Southwest, i don’t like it when people tell me that the have Indian Blood in them but they abuse their Gift by never training hard to develop that Blessed Blood. so, then the other day during a training update, Mac told me she was having a hard time getting her heart rate up during her Cardio workouts on the treadmill, ellipetical trainer, etc. really? hmmmm. guess it’s time for a Hectic Hill supervised workout. i knew it was time to get this Cherokee outside under Father Sky. no Cherokee worth his or her blood was EVER meant to run on gerbill wheels!

so this morning, after spending too much selfish time in my morning meditation Practice, i am getting late to meet Mac. instead of riding my bicycle up to the trailhead like i had originally planned, i default to Galileo (my motorcycle) and buzz up Reseda Blvd slicing through the floral scented morning air to meet Mac at the El Caballero trailhead. oh she’s got Cherokee in her awl right…dang injun woman pulled a FAST ONE on el coache…she was there all right, warming up doing HP Yoga Sun Salutations next to her MOUNTAIN BIKE! she had RIDDEN HER BICYCLE to our mountain run! here was my student doing a noble Cardio Commute and i was the twerp on the motorized vehicle! aaaargh! but i like that! that is good CHI when the student beats the teacher!

so we take off. uphill. Hectic Hill is ALL uphill, baby. some of you who have done Private Intensives with me out here in LA, know ALL about ol’ Hectic, don’t you? after keeping her heartrate tethered around 165 and going over some uphill mountain running techniques, i launch us into the real workout; Minutes Are Forever, baby.

Many of you who are students of WF, know all about my classic WF Cardio workout; it’s easy; one minute at HIGH INTENSITY, one minute at recovery pace. keep doing this until your puke black blood, baby!

during the hard effort minutes, i am right behind the blonde beauty (not a bad place to be, i might add…hey, it’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it!), chopping at her; “Drive with your arms!” “Work from the glutes!!” “Toes in, toes in!” “Find Up Dog in the spine!” “C’mon, develop your SPIRIT right here, right now!” {For Mountain Running techniques and programs see my book, THE WINTER ATHLETE. under the section; Preseason Running..page 163}

After five such intervals up the 20% talus strewn ridge i asked for her heart rate.

“2…(gasping)…hun…(gasping)…dred!”

“I’m sorry, Student Mac, i couldn’t quite hear you, what was that again?”

“200…(gasp, gasp)”

“I thought you said you were having trouble getting your heart rate up?!”

“Yeah…(gasping, laughing)…me too.”

Most people hold two afflictions in their Cardio training;

1) too much training time in Zone 3. Zone 3 is what professional endurance athletes know as “No Man’s Land.” (see the WINTER ATHLETE) It is only reserved for carefully calibrated cardio sessions. Zone 3 is in the area of moderate to hard but sustainable effort.

2) misplaced effort. Most non professional athletes don’t have yet the inner discipline to keep their easy intensity Cardio workouts easy and then they don’t give enough gumption to really hammer their interval (hard) workouts.

Mac summitted the ridge in under 25:00. Not bad at all. The Cherokee Nation can be proud of this inspirational celebrity who constantly promotes fitness and even better, Wholistic Fitness and HP Yoga and SUNRIRDER herbs (Mac gives away FORTUNE DELIGHT and my HP Yoga Video to her co-workers at PASSIONS tv set because everyone cannot believe the transformation in her body.)

Across the Valley, WF Teacher In Training Ananda (who also has Cherokee blood in her) was also doing Minutes are Forever with her client, Tamara. Tamara, rose to the occasion, posting a new Personal Record by four minutes on her course! WF energy was flying through the Valley this morning!

Back at Hectic Hill,

i went over downhill mountain running technique with Mac before our descent. A Red-Tailed Hawk sent some Hawk Medicine to us from 200′ overhead. It worked; Mac found her Indian Running Spirit as we sailed down the narrow aret? which plunged waterfall like through the tassle of coastal sage and manzanita.

Here is how many people we saw on that trail this morning: 2.

Here is how many people have indoor treadmills within ten minutes of the trail: probably 10K.

Here is how many people watched the final episode of FRIENDS: 51 million.

Here is what i do not understand; why more American don’t stop living other peoples lives through TV shows and begin the best watching available; watching their inner lives, their Real Self, their TRUE SELF

grow

through

their effort in personal fitness.

get out.

run.

breathe.

move.

Dance to the rhythm,

Release into the pulse

of

who

you

really

are!

i bow to you and may Great Medicine visit your Lodge today…

coach ilg

{note: Advance notice:

coach ilg will be making a RARE book signing appearance at BARNES & NOBLE with many of his local Students including McKenzie, in Encino, California on Friday, June 11th!}