Let’s forget about all the cycling equipment and expensive tweaks you’ve purchased over the past, say 3 years. Let’s trade ALL of it for something that is endlessly more vital to your enjoyment, performance, and spiritual transformation through cycling: a flat spine while riding. Oh, like you have something MORE important to work on over the winter than getting a flatter back, more open, powerful hips, and a stronger core?
This Friday evening I’ll be holding a special conference call for current Online Students and Members to celebrate the new web site, and a new beginning! Join me on the phone for “Passionate Balance,” a short talk about Wholistic Fitness, followed by some Q&A with you.
I was informed the night before the Road Race by the Race Organizer that my division “C” would not be eligible for an Overall Championship/Jersey. i’d be moved into the “B” division for the rest of the Championships (RR and Crit). must admit; it was a buzzkill fer sure since i was in first place with my two favorite events ahead of me. yet, podiums i’m not lacking in so it wasn’t that big of a deal.
Once there was a Dzogchen yogi who lived unostentatiously, surrounded, however, by a large following of disciples. A certain monk, who had an exaggerated opinion of his own learning and scholarship, was jealous of the yogi, whom he knew not to be very well read at all. He thought: “How does he, just an ordinary […]
Namaste Coach Ilg! Love the new website….especially the blog integration! thank you for touching base…currently i have been consuming MAP with the HCG to reduce an abundant amount of bodyfat that i had packed on over the past few years & was at my heaviest of 218. i’ve lost 27 lbs/15″ & 3% BodyFat since June. Starting […]
So … feeble, know-nothing ilg TAF’s that if i could have Shakyamuni (the original Buddha) over for dinner tomorrow night, i TAF that He would sheepishly squirm at this whole “Buddhism Thing” in general. if ilg knows ANYTHING about my Direct Experience of countless Buddha Meditation hours over 3+ decades? He’d be like, “I never intended an entire religion to be based upon and using my name …”
“The Ilg before the storm…” special thanks to HP Yogi RT for the helmet and Miguel for the Cervelo! photo by Ken. What can i say? i felt my Tribe with me this evening… the Nordic Weather Gods were out in full display…lightning, downpours, scintillating pockets of sunset, and the end of a rainbow arching […]
If you can start the day without caffeine … If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains … If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles … If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it …
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