These are my happy times, when the Aspens can no longer whisper their cheers to me… when, lower, the harvest begins to wane and the Bear Beings begin etching their long nocturnal nap beds…. when I force myself time and again to my lonely walk and work to the utmost upon this aging body of mine… There is warmth in the valleys
Leg 2; 5k Run..
… I run as hard as i can upon my season-long injured knee toward the leader, Ott. i feel tranced, as if in some weird white-man contortion of a corn dance, eating up asphalt beneath my flying feet and spitting out pranic corn bread. I dance this 5k softly with conscious breath. With Higher Protection from the care from the WF Deities, my body receives gracefully the impact of a hard 5k on asphalt and i only lose two places to two national class (and much younger) athletes as i enter the Bike Transition in 4th Place overall.
My Tibetan Teachers would say,” The world ends everyday in all sorts of Ways for many Beings in many Realms.”
with 9 ski and 5 snowshoe days and 25 sessions of strength training and over 35 hours of yoga-asana,
you can only imagine how strong, supple, yet light i feel; ilg LOVES NOVEMBER training!
pic from one of my Snowshoe Hill Repeat workouts; following your Teacher’s Track has never been
for those who shy away from multi-disciplined efforts across the physiologic and mental realms!
note: do NOT ATTEMPT TO REPEAT these Stats on my particularly low daily caloric intake!
Here are my Wholistic Fitness™ Training Stats for the Month of May, 2011 up until one week before i toe the Start Line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic…Coach’s Warning: DO NOT attempt to mimic these training volumes unless…
While non-Practitioners tend toward making “Resolutions” which, really, mean nothing…it’s all just mental fiction…
the Warriors? We reflect on what we’ve done…that is fact. Fact, which fuels our upcoming Practice and Performance ever higher.
be less assertive in making Resolutions. be more assertive on reflecting on what you’ve already DONE! THAT is what provides internal and eventually, Divine, motivation…
Coach’s Monthly Practice Stats are the living monuments of the diverse, multi-disciplined yoga of Wholistic Fitness. Since 1982, Coach’s Monthly Practice Stats have inspired books, magazines, and legions of fans. the balance through which Coach walks his talk is never so evident – and inspiring – by these gut-honest offerings straight from his Training Diary which include his monthly hours in Strength, Cardio, Asana, Meditation/Prayer plus his asonishingly low calories per day vs. calories expended. WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT to match Coach’s mastery of high caloric outputs vs. extremely low caloric intakes!
a word to the wise seekers of wholeness; use my monthly Practice Stats as inspiration, NOT as guidelines…i’ll even spot you my age and being a new daddy…my Message is wholeness; not competition. don’t try to compete with my Practice Stats just enjoy your own version of Wholistic Fitness® as she unfolds before your regular […]
keeping the hips open while competing at podium levels in endurance sports at national levels…not such an easy yoga is WF!ilg in floating full lotus as captured by www.JamesQMartin.com If WF is about anything, it’s about cultivating a humble, yet practical and fiercely determined individual Personal Path which uses daily life as spiritual Practice. note […]
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