Wholistic Fitness

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Dewa and injured daddy ilg the other day at the Pagosa Mineral Hot Springs. the Native name of my old h(om)etown – Pagosa – means, “Healing Waters” and after my high-speed mountain bike racing crash last Saturday, i truly put these collective pools of ancient healing hot springs to the test…and, they produced an incredible healing effect upon my road rash and deep bone contusions. though yogi squatting continually throughout the day alongside Dewa is painful, keeping my skin and repairing connective tissue moving through big range of functional movements is imperative to 100% healing. many athletes make the mistake of too little movement (cause it hurts) while healing. unless you move like a toddler while healing deep scrapes and bruises, the resultant connective fabric matures into a restrictive mal-aligned gross ‘pile of fiber spaghetti.’ gotta keep moving, no matter how much it hurts.

below, i take this traveling opportunity to address some important training variables which arise from a new Online Student who is giving the “Arjuna Ayama Program” a go. May this exchange below, help your own studies and practice. above photo by Ananda.

from my beloved roads and backroads of the Rio Grande Valley…

coach ilg

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Coach,

I read DL on Friday am. My thoughts from the posting, if you are interested. Continue walking the path with an open heart regardless of an incongruent world of peers and non peers who either put one up on a pedestal or placing them disrespectfully below themselves. The more core our truth, the more discomfort it can wreck on others. Imitation is a compliment, yet derivatives are never as potent as the real thing. This is the whole point, no? Make it less potent and thus easier.

COACH:
okay that does it.
you’re in charge of writing the DL’s…

😉

Beautiful!

STUDENT:
What is “Ilg Supreme?”

COACH:
the staple intake drink of my Phase II in SUNRIDER.
it involves the use of Vitashake (or NuPlus) and Quinary Formulas
mixed with water or soy or almond milk to produce a full-organ and
nutrient coverage of regenerative nutrition. also, we’ll sometimes use
VitaFruit and other SR Herbs and/or Herbal Formulas into the Ilg Supreme.
Ilg Supremes are to be drunk each day and their health effect upon the body
is accumulative throughout the years.
you’ll soon be slammin’ the Supremes and FLYING!

STUDENT:

Yoga:
Comment: i LOVE your HP YOGA Series C!
Re: Work on Crane Pose- (or variation and/or into a HEADSTAND for up to 3 minutes total)
what is the variation? If it is the single leg crane pose, I cannot touch it YET. Do I move directly from crane into headstand or is that a separate pose? If directly, can you give some guidance?

COACH:
let me know when you can sustain a quality Crane Posture (arms extended, head looking forward) with steady Ujjayi and exhalations longer than inhalations for one minute.
holding the bottom position of chaturanga (elbows parallel to earth, inner thighs reaching upward, heels drawn back) is a beneficial variation for building Crane strength, as is holding the true chaturanga which is – from plank pose, exhale into bottom position of americanized chaturanga (described above), inhale and lever out onto the tippy toes and sustain for as long as Ujjayi remains elegant with elbows pinned to the ribs, then roll back onto the balls of the feet, inhale to plank.

STUDENT:
Anandasana from Plow? Is that 45 degree angle from vertical? I am not sure what this is?

COACH:
this is a traditional name for traditional Viparita Karani or what most Americans call; “Half Shoulder Stand”
i just sent you a couple of pics for clarification

STUDENT:
The Inner Flight Strength Training Program

Can you describe crunches Twist crunches and Norwegian crunches?

COACH:
i guess you haven’t made it through the Archives, eh?

Twist Crunches are your standard Abdominal Crunch save for the fact that you twist your opposite elbow to the opposite knee region…note; i said ‘region’…during crunches, it is imporant NOT to move the thigh bones away from perpendicular, nor allow the lower legs bones to swerve away from parallel during the execution. also, keep the fingers DEEPLY INTERLACED behind the skull casing to support the neck, don’t let fingers slide away from one another. keep elbows wide.

during Norwegian Crunches, the legs are ‘bicycled’ so that during each rep, the opposite elbow ‘slaps’ the inside of the opposite knee. a faster tempo is required for Norwegian Crunches. during most of my local PROP WORKOUTS, i use a WF Staccato Technique during Norwegian Crunches; 10 seconds Norwegian Crunches into 10 seconds of just bicycling the legs while the upper torso and neck recovers. this ensures quality over schlep.