Scooby’s Sensible Advice On Diets

This article is part of a series on physical fitness and physical culture that I’m working on. To see a convenient summary and listing of my previous articles, please click here. The bodybuilder and fitness guru Scooby is an impressive man whom I have covered elsewhere on this site. What I like about him is [...]

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Some Inspiringly Fit Women

This article is part of a series on physical fitness and physical culture that I’m working on. To see a convenient summary and listing of my previous articles, please click here. Several videos have come to my attention recently. One is of a clip from the Ross Sisters, a trio of singers and dancers from [...]

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Heavyhands, Scooby, and Clarence Bass

This article is part of a series on physical fitness and physical culture that I’m working on. To see a convenient summary and listing of my previous articles, please click here. As mentioned in previous articles in the Physical Culture series of articles, I’m not heavily into weights or other such equipment. I much prefer [...]

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Visualized Resistance Training, the VRT Megapump System

This article is part of a series on physical fitness and physical culture that I’m working on. To see a convenient summary and listing of my previous articles, please click here. The VRT system takes a similar approach to exercise that of John Peterson’s Transformetrics. But it adds a few wrinkles and comes from a [...]

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Jack LaLanne on Sugarholics

A guy who goes by the nickname of Duff posted a link to an old Jack LaLanne video on John Peterson’s Transformetrics forum. This film was probably made back in the 1960s or 1970s. Jack LaLanne is 94 years old and still works out daily. When he was 70 (close to the same age as [...]

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Eating Right and Strength Training

This article is part of a series on physical fitness and physical culture that I’m working on. To see a convenient summary and listing of my previous articles, please click here. There’s a lot of junk science and  fancy marketing out there about losing weight, getting “fit,” and even getting “ripped.” In my professional work, [...]

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A 75-Year-Old Salsa Queen

This is an inspiration for those of us who are senior citizens  and interested in physical fitness. This video is of a 75-year-old UK woman doing a very energetic salsa. The video appears on the November 25th, 2009 broadcast of the Spanish-language show, Nico Y Paddy, Tu Si Que Vales.   Regards,   Alan OldStudent

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Aerobic Exercising To Burns Fat?

The Conventional Wisdom: Aerobics This is part of a series of articles on health, diet, and exercise A whole lot of folks say that aerobic exercise is the best kind to do to lose weight. I don’t agree with that. But I do  think aerobics plays a key part in losing weight and maintaining health. [...]

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Pushing Yourself To Power—A Practical Fitness Program

This is part of a series of postings on fitness, health, and dieting. For a chronological list of these articles, please click here. This book, “Pushing Yourself To Power,” (PYTP) is my favorite book on the subject of exercise and fitness. It is  well worth the investment, but only if you get it with the [...]

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My Strategy for Creating My Diet And Sticking To It.

Previously in this series, I posted on How I lost 70 Pounds and How You Can Too, Considerations of Weight Loss, and Metabolism and Weight Loss. Today I want to write about how I came up with a diet and the strategies I used to stick to it and succeed. How I Made Up My [...]

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