Wholistic Fitness

Namaste Noble Warriors!

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

– John Steinbeck, from TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE

This just in…



“Coach,

Just got back from a ride over Topanga to Santa Monica and back, some 40 miles. My wife, M, had to take a photo after my return… and she said my butt looks just as tight! Ha ha… not bad for being 50 yrs young and putting some 4800 miles on my road bike over the last year, no?

– ww”

Not bad at all, my Peaceful Warrior of The WF Way!…not bad at all. Much of WW’s ripped muscularity has been helped by a full on devotion to my 3-Phase Approach to the SUNRIDER Herbs. How ’bout you other 50+ year old Warriors out there? Wanna have WW guide you along your SUNRIDER Journey? Evidently, he can help you! Send me an email and I’ll forward it to WW.

Life ain’t no fun without good buns!

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A heartfelt thank you to WF Warrior, Matt Miller. Matt, an actor, was visiting LA and Santa Barbara and just “had to” stop by yesterday at the HP Yoga Cave to jump into my HP Prop Workout. Matt, who has faithfully completed both Green Tara and Cosmic Yang training programs in TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION, said that he absolutely had to stop by for a class from Coach Ilg himself because, ‘He is just out of his mind.”

Hmmmm. I reckon i’ll take that as a compliment. Matt, your Practice was sooo beautiful and strong and supple and your chi was absolutely the hallmark of this Path. Thank you…and go(o)d luck on THE FRUGAL REALM program!

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I am leaving for New Mexico today to help my little brother, Craig “Two Man” Ilg, build some type of a garden shelter for my parents 50th…yep, 5-0…Wedding Anniversary. Two Man, being a professional architect, this task looks a bit daunting…i may have to rely on some yogic siddhis to pull this off. I plan to be back in LA to teach my Tuesday night love/sweatfest.

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Very auspicous training ride this morning*. WW (see above) and Tom and I have been knocking ourselves silly filming the Sacred Teachings of WF for next year’s WholisticFitness.com Legacy website. After Prop Workout last night, my legs and chi needed some spinning in the mountains. I am glad i got my well trained butt out the door, for Omens were everywhere. Always seems this way when i am about to travel. First were three Ravens who, like dolphins beside an ocean craft, kept my company on and off during my entire 30 mile ride…like Brahman, Shiva, and Vishnu at my side. At the headwall of Old Topanga, a rickety old hippie bus sputtered by me, barely able to match my 9mph pace up the steep wall. I saw a brand new baseball cap on the road. Not one to normally stop a training ride for nothing, i found myself stopping, turning around and fetching the item. Above the visor it read:

“IMMORTAL RECORDING”

laughing at Brahma’s humorous affirmation that risking so much money and time and effort on the new website was absolutely the most Appropriate Action for me to be doing. Thank you, Brahma! i prayed as i picked up the cap happy to have a cool new cap. just then, in a similar attempt to turn around on the narrow mountain road was the hippy bus. it’s driver, a scraggly looking chap just like that crazy one person helicopter pilot in MAD MAXX AND THE THUNDERDOME.

“Did you drop this?” i said, slow pedalling toward him.

“No, no…but i did see it and…”

“Well, here! It’s yours now!”

“Oh no, you found it…you keep it…” if he would have had teeth, a smile would have appeared with the words.

i insisted he keep it and cranked up toward the summit, pleased with the omen and the give away.

then, just after the knee breaking climb up Santa Maria Road, there in the canyon narrows, a tortoise. the creatures shell had been hand painted by someone in the color of the Throat Chakra…Communication and Compasssion. The Medicine of Tortoise is, of course, “Earth Medicine.” as the Native American’s call North America; Turtle Island. Finding a turtle is a sure sign that whatever you are doing is good medicine and if you persevere like the turtle, Abundance will surely visit your lodge.

That is why i love riding my bicycle up in the mountains and along the quiet back roads. You never know what Abudance is around the next curve…

i bow to you,

coach ilg

* for those DL readers who live or lived in LA and are interested in Coach’s unique training rides, this 30 mile ride is an on/off classic:

� Start at HP Yoga Studio; West on Ventura, left onto Topanga Cyn, right onto Mullholland Drive, Left onto Mullholland Hwy.

� Mullholland Hwy to Stunt Road (paved with a couple of big rollers; 9 miles to here)

� Left up Callabasas Peak (dirt fire road; big time steep; 1.5 miles @ 18%)

� Right; descent Red Rock (dirt fire road; soft dirt into sketchy paved road;3)

� Left onto Old Topanga (paved; steep climbs; 3 miles)

� Right at summit onto Summit to Summit Road (dirt; rollers ridgetop riding 3.5 miles)

� Right onto new Topanga Cyn (paved; descent 2 miles)

� Left onto Santa Maria Road (‘paved’ insanely steep with over 25% sections; 2.5 miles)

� Right onto Dirt Mullholland (dirt/gravel road, middle chainring climb 3.5 miles)

� Left onto Reseda Spur trail, onto Reseda Blvd.

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