More Gym

Lack of sleep and exercise, along with plenty of stress, have kept my health in question. But I promised to complete my opinions on gyms last post.

Has it been five months!

I know however what you all really want to know… “What did you get for Father’s Day Phillip?”

A book.

I am no convict but I find this book extremely valuable. Personal body weight training is superior to all strength training but that doesn’t necessarily negate the value of a gym membership.

There are body weight training rigs at the gym of which I am currently a member. The typical bench press is still a good bench mark, no charge for the pun, to measure one’s strength.

Most of us have little room for such equipment at home.

Before we get into it Emery’s of Menomonee Falls is having a fat tire demo day and sale on Saturday November 2nd. Register Here.

You can exercise outside all Winter with a fat Bike.

If you are into Cross Fit, and have the room in your home, like my brother does with his humungous basement, you could save your high cross fit gym fees and spend them on your own equipment. All their workouts are available for free online. But people like simple so they pay.

Nine Round is another outfit of continually changing routines.

If you don’t want to be training alone in your basement, facing your own thoughts, or you just do not have the room in your home a gym membership is valuable if you use it.

And in regards to room, Chuck Norris’ Total Gym is a great space saving body weight training rig. Varying versions range from $300 to nearly$4,000.

The gym of which I am currently a member, Xperience, has a wide range of training opportunities and a minimal membership provides value pricing.

You are paying for the social aspect and the support that brings. I am sure the camaraderie is more important for some than for others.

Blast closed down, from what I read not because of profits. They shut down their gyms that had no local stake holders. From the poor facility conditions of their Hawley Road location it is apparent to me that without an onsite investor the buildings are not cared for.

Planet Fitness commercials always mention 'locally owned.'

Using a club’s class selections is a must. Yoga classes are always around and are a great next step to body weight training. Body weight training is said to be superior as it strengthens your tendons and bones far better as well as creating a better nerve response and improved balance. The movements are the epitome of natural.

Xperience has saunas and heat therapy is very beneficial for your health. The showers can run very cold for the benefits of cold therapy taking a strain off your home water bill.

The tanning rooms are 15 minute standing ultraviolet. There are some benefits to limited ultraviolet exposure.

Infrared is a highly regarded healing light, three kinds, and an infrared room would make an nice addition.

Another improvement would be a merit based weight room.

I saw some one off gyms on YouTube talk about their University weight training set up. So if you had a couple set ups in a private room, a room where to enjoy its benefits you would have to take a class and meet minimal standards, you could improve lifters’ experience.

The standards would include not only training in proper techniques but also the etiquette of allowing others to work in. You could have a set order or progression of exercises that could change daily. Anyone who has taken the required one time class, an opportunity for the trainers to connect with the members and collect a small fee, and meet the performance standards can walk in and work in smoothly with those already working out.

You get to the gym and you want the bench press but one guy is using it and wont let anyone in until he finishes his sets. Yeah it happens. So people end up on the cardio equipment.

I took on three times the work I was planning to with my microgreens business so haven’t made the gym most of the summer. I am easing into the body weight training with mostly squats and leg raises. 

As the market season winds down there will be a lot of reallocation of resources going on.

The best way to make money is to save money, so weigh your options for fitness and health.

Don not be a HENRY.

Whatever happened to those racquet ball clubs?

Competition is out of vogue. Hand ball or similar such facilities represented class; unwelcome in a society without class.

Saying you had no class used to be an insult.

The $168 question: What were my three most favorite WORS races? (some may no longer exist as venues have changed) Check out the Charity Jackpot Page link in the sidebar to possibly triple the amount.

I have to revamp this charity jackpot page.

Multifaceted Healing - or - The Gym

Only a few moments remain to register for the La Crosse Omnium. They even have a Facebook page, so 2018.

I enjoyed volunteering for the Bike Expo. Those of us taking down the display had a great time chewing the fat when we were done. It is a very nice easy social organization that Metro Mountain Bikers thing.

After returning from Vegas, staying away from the obvious carbohydrates but eating a typical American diet otherwise while I was there, I came to realize that my blood glucose meter was off by 20% in the wrong direction. Was that tingling in my toes a symptom portending doom or psychosomatic?

Here is one of the best meals I had at IPEC, taking back to my time in Korea. I was well aware that most of all the recipes for those dishes included sugar. Grapefruit is actually good for glucose control.

At the Vegas airport I was back to a good attempt at keeping the keto diet. I couldn’t find any low carb offerings at any food vendors, even those with names of famous chefs, but had to hit the mega news stand to find dinner. The cheese blocks the uptake of oxalates from the nuts. Cashews are full of zinc.

So I find myself worse off sugar wise and having fallen short in taking my supplements, sleep and exercise. Diet and intermittent fasting are only two prongs of my multipronged attack on diabetes.

The low carbs keeps the blood sugar low and the intermittent fasting (eating only within an 8 hour or shorter window every day) allows your body to get itself into healing/regeneration mode. Digestion consumes 80% of your bodies energy.

Of course you need good lengthy sleeps to heal also. Something I am still not getting.

Diabetes.You all have it. You just don’t know it yet.

Supplements; a blood glucose control formula is readily available and along with a Chromium supplement reverses type 2 diabetes for some.

Minerals that you are most likely lacking, if you are pre-diabetic or worse, are zinc, magnesium, and potassium. You can get those through diet or supplements, a trace mineral supplement is a good idea and will supply a little extra zinc. Lamb meat is loaded with zinc.

I have been taking magnesium citrate for a long time and am lucky I have. Some early symptoms typical of type 2 diabetes I never experienced. It also relaxes the muscles at the end of the day.

D3 with K2 are great for lowering blood pressure and opening and softening up those arteries. I think that has to do with reversing calcification. That is sunshine and grass fed and grass finished beef.

The B vitamins: the health condition strips you of them. An unfortified nutritional yeast can supply them. Its’ cheesy flavor is good on a salad. B1 is a big one. It can block the development of those sticky proteins created when your blood sugar is too high, leading to all the severe consequences, and is essential for rebuilding your neuro pathways. Benfotiamine is the supplement you want.

If you have blood sugar problems you have had liver issues for a long time already. Milk thistle is good for that along with choline.

Then I need my exercise to increase my metabolism. Building muscle mass and decreasing fat helps defeat the type 2.

Xperience fitness is very scalable. I am paying for an interval training program but have had little time to attend the classes. Interval training is the most healthy exercise. That is exercise rest exercise, Like push, relax push, or in other words exactly like a bike ride where you peddle than coast. Bicycling is no doubt a large reason my health is not much worse today.

I need more sleep and exercise.

Of course I may have avoided all this drama if I had not lived off vending machines for a good portion of time I went back to college for my degree. But High fructose corn syrup was still in its infancy as were GMO’s.

Lucky me.

I will have to expound more on my gym experience next post.

Sorry.

The $167 question: What were my three most favorite WORS races? (some may no longer exist as venues have changed) Check out the Charity Jackpot Page link in the sidebar to possibly triple the amount.

I'm So Excited

By this new age of blessing and prosperity for all mankind?

Yes. But also by the Bike Expo, just days away. It has been going for 35 years.

And let us not forget Spring and life in general.

Woo hooo!

And I just returned from Vegas, a spiritual retreat. It would be hard to mountain bike this terrain.

But I hiked it!

Woo Hooo!

I will be a volunteer at the Metro Mountain Bikers’ booth at specially select time. We are going all out. You have to stop by and take a look at the display. Ask questions.

Be inspired!

WORS is a magnificent organization for all levels of mountain bike competition.

You could even purchase a bike or biking related accessory at the event. Wheel and Sprocket, the sponsors of the Bike Expo, are the number one business advocates of mountain biking in our community.

Emery’s is also having a sale, for even a week longer. They claim prices lower than the expo. They have always been good to me so I will throw them a plug.

But it is really exciting to get down to the State Fair grounds with all those people.

The season is just beginning!

Woo Hooo!

And how can one not be excited over the fall of veganism!

Yes, people’s interest in veganism is increasing. Their interest in watching it implode upon itself.

You just have to check out the growing carnivore movement. It is by far the healthiest diet for most.

Woo Hooo!

Which diet kills more animals?

Go Bobby!

Did you ever wonder what will happen to that time traveling car from “Back to the Future?

Lost on the bottom of an ancient ocean.

The $166 question: What were my three most favorite WORS races? (some may no longer exist as venues have changed) Check out the Charity Jackpot Page link in the sidebar to possibly triple the amount.

Millennials; The Other Baby Boomers?

I bought some Blue Cheese stuffed olives at Fresh Thyme a while back. They cost $7.99 a pound. The Blue Cheese, we always capitalize Cheese in the formal here in Wisconsin, cost $18.00 a pound.

So how much did the olives cost?

$7.99 a pound.

Those wedges of Blue Cheese made from raw milk that you can get at Trader Joes… to die for.

Now I have upset the vegans, the Millennials, those other baby boomers, who if not vegan, sympathize deeply with vegans. I brought up olives and combined them with an animal based product and implied death. Yes the likes of the vegan and many Millennials vehemently seek out things, no matter how mundane, to be offended by.

I only write of what I know.

All Millennials exist as an extension of the baby boomer generation, a generation which vilified their parents and past institutions, or rather everything that came before that gave them the wondrous lifetime they have enjoyed. A lifetime advanced in comfort beyond all others in all of history is truly something to fret over.

Rejecting all that has come before is sort of like aborting a baby before it is born. Oops, I’ve offended again. Let me rephrase with a more sensitive metaphor. It is like castrating your father before you are conceived. Which is great as long as he is a white man.

To the generation vilifying meat and declaring herd animals a source of global warming and a detriment to our environment and ecology I have one reference that proves you all the fools, unless you already know that you are spreading lies (which makes you outright liars unfit for position and status in a world seeking righteousness), and that is The Savory Institute.

Yeah, we had millions upon millions of Bison (you know, herbivores like cattle) grazing the plains, creating grass root systems that burrowed feet upon feet into the ground sequestering carbon, holding water and bringing abundant life, but we wouldn’t want to go back to that. (mob grazing: see Savory Institute) We should lay the plains bare and cover them with soil depleting GMO soy or corn with its accompanying glyphosate so we can all enjoy that delicious rich and flavorful tofu drizzled with high fructose corn syrup.

The parent’s of the baby boomers had no problem envisioning our potential future in many an artistic endeavor, a world where we are entitled only to eat soy, plankton and bugs. They knew where it would lead. Soylent Green is people.

We, the common man, are the bugs.

Now the Millenials that built the company selling Soylent are surly offended by my Soylent Green reference, to which I respond, “You named your product Soylent fools!”

A complete disregard for the past reference. I find hope only in that many share in my target of ridicule. And do not get me started with Analog Watches.

…They are not analog. They said so themselves on The Nightly Business report.

Like my millennial brother says, “It’s about the story, not the substance.”

What world do you seek? Who are you making rich as the world rots from within, from the sugar and carbohydrate saturated guts of the common man?

I could go on, but I transgress into the realm of one of my other blogs.

Of course I generalize yet declare myself absolutely relevant in all my views. It makes for a better story.

The future of mountain biking, at least here in Southeastern Wisconsin, rests upon the Millennials not being the other baby boomers; they who reject those that have come before, those forbearers who actual knew how to build and built with hand tools many of the trails we all enjoy around the Metro Milwaukee area.

Actually… they are all baby boomers.

I am scratching my head.

A few Millennial members of metro envision that all the local ski hills being surrendered over to mountain biking, with its berms and other build outs on slopes, because there just won’t be any more Winter snow here in ten years.

Hey! It was said in a public meeting. It is approved for public consumption.

This is from our first blow of snow, when we reached near record cold temperatures. It is much higher now. No puns intended.

The new up and coming leaders in Metro Mountain Bikers have great vision, hope and even drive. They will take the club far, but how?

A group from Metro took a trip to  Arkansas a little while back. Great mountain biking, with various biking amenities having been established there on the corporate dime.

The corporate dime? Why?

Because Arkansas is investing in the apparent new and upcoming industries, the technology industry, and they need to attract the Millennial worker, so they need the amenities that the millennial demands. I am not sure why anyone would want to attract the Millennial worker other than that is what is currently available, but that is the way it stands.

So bicycling amenities in Arkansas of every type are being invested in, funded by various corporate interests. I heard the trip was mind blowing, simply fantastic.

With FOXConn coming to the region a similar need for top rate amenities will drive corporate dollars into bicycling features and trails.

The Rock, in Franklin, I believe understands this and in order to attract an influx of young up and comers to buy their properties they are developing (Ball Park Commons). They are more than happy to build a long awaited and hoped for pump track amidst their development.

Everything is about socializing to the Millenials and a vast pump track next to an umbrella bar is perfect for that vision of the future.

Those taking up the mantle of leadership in Metro Mountain Bikers are well accomplished individuals, in profession and life. No video game slackers in the bicycling community. Not sure how they would vote on any marijuana referendums, not that they are users. I simply question their sensibilities.

My remarks here are driven by a sense of discord I felt this Summer between the old and new in the club. A discord that seems to have dissipated, so all is looking good for a future where professionals will be paid to build trail with machines.

Look for many new and improved trails in the near future, including Glacial Blue,  and Port Washington trails.

With the decline and fall of IMBA a consolidation of clubs has occurred. Fat Kats is now under the Metro umbrella. I’ve written of Fat Kats unethical behavior in the past. Of course that was long long ago, when there still was a race is Sheboygan.

When I first started in mountain biking I used to win raffles all the time.

But who cares about being ripped off in a raffle by a spur of the moment case of bad judgment driven by bigotries society refuses to address, unlike racism, when we are all being poisoned with highly refined sugar and carbohydrates, not to mention the associated chemicals all to ensure big pharm gets their share of the money grab.

It is outright criminal on both the corporate and government bureaucratic level.

Will any of us survive after 5G when they can target are brains to be cooked from within? Seriously, 5G is military tech, whole new tech not a 4G upgrade, designed not only for communications but to be weaponized.

I guess our baby boomer overlords do not trust their own spawn.

The Lacrosse Omnium is putting out the e-mails early this year. If you do not receive them and are planning your Summer already click here for the RAW (ride across Wisconsin) details.

The Omnium La Crosse premiere event always looks awesome, though I have never had the chance to watch it in person.

Next month I will be evaluating gyms and my Winter time gym experience.

Yes, I am newly resolved to post here monthly. If I do not post here at least once a month there will definitely be a post on “Poker Facades” or “From the Inside” in compensation. Hope to have this blog redesigned soon also. Actually, I missed January and have two posts tonight. Is it still the 27th?

The $165 question: What were my three most favorite WORS races? (some may no longer exist as venues have changed) Keeping the same question. Check out the Charity Jackpot Page link in the sidebar to possibly triple the amount.