Wholistic Fitness

El Coache, I am writing because I could use a little help or even just a short pep-talk. I have been struggling for what seems like years to get back on the right track. I am 206 and 22% BF if my scale is to be believed. A couple of years ago (when I did my first snowshoe race) I was 185 and 12-14%. Not great but better than where I am now. I don’t care so much about the raw numbers but they are discouraging. I am a bit overwhelmed by work, stress and anxiety as I have mentioned previously and if I listen to my body I am tired and feel out of it most of the time. I know I need the exercise as a stress release and to lose the excess weight so missing it only adds stress. When I do exercise, I am discouraged by how far I have slipped back. My cardio fitness is a distant memory it seems and I even have anxiety about that as I seem to read every day about very fit athletes dropping dead during a ride or run. Meditation is proving elusive as well. Not sure what to do with the limited time I have. I know my problems are minor in the grand scheme of things but I can’t seem to get out of this rut and it’s depressing. Any perspective, advice, anything would be appreciated. Thanks for all the help you’ve given me over the years…

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Noble Sangha!

it would not be too far a stretch to compare the Energetics of Enlightenment with the Enlightenment of Fireworks…each July 4th – which is a big one for me – i reflect upon this analogy. it might just help keep us tracked on our simple Practices in this Path of Wholeness because, like a wick which leads to a bottle rocket…it’s the small things which matter most for the Big Bangs in our spiritual life…c’mon…enjoy the pics from our clan’s 4th and my attempt at yet another Bridging of Eastern Enlightenment Sciences with Western fitness modalities…

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There are many factors which continue to make WF/HP warriors shine so brightly…we’ve got bombproof immunity resistance and surreal recovery due to our Cellular Fitness Nutrition (which is my next Kiva Call coming up!) and we’ve got a world-class method of steadfast training across the physiologic spectrum courtesy of our exclusive Five Fitness Disciplines and Four Lifestyle Principles… one mental training weapon that has been in the WF Quiver for decades unchanged is my PRE-EVENT MEDITATION. Here it is below for Members Only…so, sign up for that next Race and use this Meditation each day of your Taper Week…

with Blessings of (W)holy Sweat,

el coache

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surfing through the ‘quagmire of confusion’ when it comes to Nutrition – particularly ‘cleanses’ – can be a pretty rough ride unless you’ve got the proven, safe, effective Wisdom of WF as your Path. the thing about “going on ‘cleanses’ is that it sets you on a roller-coaster approach to cellular fitness which is precisely what you DON’T want to happen! what is needed is a consistent, appropriate BALANCE between cell cleansing and cell empowerment. EQUANIMITY of body, mind, and spirit begins with cell fitness. pic of ilg ‘Colorado Surfing’ by Kathy Faulstich

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How about some Lunch Hour WF Dharma today?

from 12-1 pm i’ll be speaking on
“Sacred Effort: Journey of a Wholistic Fitness™ Warrior Athlete”

at the Durango Public Library….free!

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come experience what a Day One of a WF Private Intensive with me right here in Durango is like as i and Ananda enjoy our time with WF Master Student Allan Ludgate today….Meditation, Yoga, Cardio, ST, and Nutrition personally supervised by the creator and founder of Wholistic Fitness™

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as he’s done from the Beginning, Coach takes aim at the conventional fitness world’s latest notions of Warming Up and provides his Tribe with the cOMmon sense of proven wholeness. Here is Part One of his Wholistic Fitness™ Warm Up Protocol for endurance athletes which optimizes pranic, mental, and physical environments. Endurance athletes following his Warm Up Protocol will find greater power production via neuromuscular function and decrease the rate of lactate concentration while increasing the rate of lactate removal. photo of coach in northern Arizona by Ananda.

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through the books, she has looked…(she has a Ph.D in Statistical Analysis or something like that)

to the Himalaya, she has sought.

within the fabric of her life, many Dragons she has fought.

she does not condemn, she does not judge.

she became my student of yoga in August of 2008 in Kinlani.

she got on MAP Aminos in March, of 2009.

one year later, she became my online shishya.

in October of ‘010, she took WF Pilgrimage to seek me out in Durango (see photo above).

Yesterday she wrote me: “did spin followed by a 2 mile treadmill run, then a set of nordic crunches/suspended leg lifts, followed by Medium form. then i went over to the pull up bar and did one PULL UP, palms out, from a dead hang. for real!”

i never allowed her near a Gravitron. i Instructed her to meet her Pull Up Dragon nakedly….with no gloves on…

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