The mental part of physical exercise

I’ve come to the part of my taekwondo training where the mental aspect is becoming very important, and the depth of the importance of the mental aspect is starting to become apparent. Obviously, it takes mental toughness to make it to class, practice at home, or push through a grueling sparring match. Also obvious is [...]

Mobblogging

I’m dipping my toes into mobile blogging, now that I have a phone with reasonable text entry. Now I can blog while hiking!

The “best buy” in public health for the West «

I spend over $200/mo so my family can have a common physical activity/sport we all do together (taekwondo). This in addition to the occasional mountain hikes or walks through the Biltmore estate we carry the children on. It’s the best money we can spend right now behind basic survival. Some of the earlier epidemiological studies [...]

Exercise update

Still going. Belt testing is in two weeks. I feel ready now, but then comes the first test: patience. Keep practicing what I know. Become intimate with the moves. Slow them down, and understand the technique very well. That kind of depth of knowledge is going to help at the higher belt ranks.

Exercise update

Well, the third part of my new year’s resolution (yeah, remember those?!) — blogging — hasn’t gone so well. Neither this blog nor my professional blog over at Realizations has gone so well, at least in terms of frequency of updating. It’s not that I don’t have things to say, but, let’s just say that [...]