Wholistic Fitness

y’all might be right after all these years…

see, in 1981 when young ilg grabbed myself by my still growing testicles and chose to live a Brave, Out Loud Life to help others through what ilg had already Channeled fr(om) High Deities?

ilg TAF’d (Wholistic Fitness® acronym for Think And Feel) that ILG was absolutely sane and much of my other Two Leggeds were, well, kinda just messed up with drugs, Pharma chems, weird upbringings (samskarically and present lifetime)…

yet, today after yet another 45 minutes at level 10 on the Stair Mistress (ilgs’ name for the Stair Master, call ilg sordid you wouldn’t be wrong)?

kinda realized in an epit(om)e m(om)ent?

y’all might be right after all these years…like WHY would ilg – literally “America’s Original Outdoor Athete” (OUTSIDE Magazine) – spend so many of these recent workouts (today was ilg’s 13th Stair Mistress sesh in 31 days!) indoors on what well be The Worlds Most Mind Numbing, Boring Indoor Cardio Machine Ever Invented?

Answer:
Mind Numbing is precisely why feeble ilg – formally trained in Zen, Taoism, and a Recognized Dharma Protector by way of Drishti by Rinpoche Trungpa during my studies at Naropa Contemplative Arts University – adores his Stair Mistress.  Sitting in Padmasana focusing on the passage of air at the nostrils while being patrolled by stern Zen Monks like ICE Agents just looking for a flinch in your painful sitting posture?   let feeble ilg assure Thee;   Stair Mistress is much more forgiving.   plus, ilg dives deep into the mountain climbing like movement pattern and can replay and visualize past and upcoming mountain ascents knowing that this deep fiber cardio indoor workout without the concussion of being actually outside is gonna way pay off while ilg will still be running mountain peaks with my daughter in my ’70’s… go ahead, call ilg crazy;  then try to keep up with ilg in the multi outdoor sports in our 7th decade…

take a deep dive yourself into that paragraph and you’ll extract several planted clues such as lack of joint concussion, mental tenacity, and spiritual verve all of which transfer potently into outdoor mountain sports.   Most outdoor athletes are addicted to outdoors for several reasons, their egos think that they look cooler in their Patagonia and advanced hydration garb at crowded TH’s, or they misunderstand how deep fiber, structured indoor training preserves joint health, oxygen utilization, and overall biomechanics as they age.

head bowed,
Blessed Be Thy Practice…