THE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “During the intervals, nothing focuses the mind better than potential loss of consciousness. The 15 hard/15 easy splits were a bitch. Much more so to me than the 45 sec on/1 min off sets. I am not sure what I was seeing at the end of the last set because […]
Beautiful, Sacred Sandia Peak towering above Albuquerque, New Mexico. This photo, by Coach, was taken from his “Ai Imawa Platform” near Jemez Dam, a few miles from where his parents still live and where he lived when he wrote the book, THE WINTER ATHLETE, before moving to Los Angeles at the request of his Teachers […]
Coach Ilg racing for his new team; Red Rock Racers, manufactured a scintillating victory in hellishly hot conditions at the 26-mile, 5,800′ Bill McLain Memorial Sandia Crest HillClimb last weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Coach, captured here by Heidi Snell/Visual Escapes Photography, exchanged his usually kind and giving nature for the look and performance of […]
This Path is magic…yesterday, i responded elegantly to an Angry Dragon because i Sensed the Fear behind his Anger at me. This morning? That Dragon has been Met, Calmed, and now Walks the WF Path again with more CHI FORCE than ever before.photo above: Coach practicing the Ai Imawa posture; Meeting The Dragon. These Taoist […]
Namaste Noble DL Warriors… i TAF it important to your own Practice to offer you a smidgen of the WF World’s version of “Coach’s Hate Mail” that now greets my email boxes in the mornings since rolling the boulder over the DL Cave. i TAF it beneficial to your own Practice to see how i […]
Well, you don’t see this everyday…dis ain’t no “Nautlius” or “Gravitron” bullshit… Today i am taking you all back to my “Golden Boy of Boulder” era…the mid-eighties when i was among the fittest of the fittest of all multisport athletes anywhere; capable of finishing in the top 20 of a mountain ultra marathon and cranking […]
If there is a Hell on Earth; certainly it lies within and the Fiery Anger of our Inner Hell Realms are soooo fast to arise so long as we remained chained to our samskaras. In this DL, i address the issue of Anger using an actual Coaching Exchange with an Online Student and from past […]
“Those who have not practiced spiritual discipline in their youth,pine away like old cranes in a lake without fish.Like worn-out bows they live in old age,sighing over the past.”– Dhammapada, 155/156 Jemez Reservoir…now dry…like so much of my Beloved Southwest.precious, precious snowmelt used to fill this gorgeous basalt valleyproviding deep riparian abundance within this arid […]
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These teachings are the "Rasas" or "sap" of Wholistic Fitness. You’ll find insights to ponder, student chi to keep your own chi topped off, and plenty of proven training techniques to test on your own body, mind, and spirit! Also, you’ll find my very popular Race Reports, and news of our Sangha’s (community’s) latest transpersonal fitness adventures!
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