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and streams”
Pressing Kettlebells Over the Age of 50!
High Caffeine Consumption Disrupts Heart Rhythms
Sometimes, we cannot avoid caffeine. It is in our beans. It is in our medications. Caffeine is even part of a lactated ringer — if you ever need to have an IV stuck in your arm. So, what to do? Do we create a hard line against ingesting any and all free will caffeine, or do we try to go with the flow, and evaluate each moment of acceptance as if it’s our first?
Beware of Adjustable Dumbbells
Adjustable dumbbells and Kettlebells may appear to be money-saving and time-salvaging — but they are not what they appear to be; you cannot just look at that type of Bell and know its weight and size and that isn’t a good thing when you are working out.
Covid Related Athlete Deaths
As Monkeypox takes over health headlines from Covid-19, the long term aftereffects of Covid on the body — and the body politic! — are still lurking among us, and within us, and athletes appear to be at higher cardiac risk of future Covid damage to the heart than the rest of the population.
Secrets of the Turkish Get-Up
Your wrists, arms, shoulders, core (torso), legs, ankles, and feet will all be involved. Doing a TGU right can cause some imbalance correction. You become a machine of perfection as you slowly move through space; and the beauty part of it is this: A Turkish Get-Up is precisely the one movement you want to perfect as you age, because a TGU involves all the skills needed to safely, properly, and correctly, get a body up from the ground after a fall.
Time-Restricted Eating is Ineffective
For years, I have often been a fan of intermittent fasting as a weight loss method. I would often recommend eating all your daily calories before noon, and then fasting until the next morning when you woke up and started the cycle all over again.
Covid-19: Overfat Syndemic
By considering the big picture view of Covid-19 as a Syndemic, we see that susceptibility to disease would not occur, or would become less serious, if the vulnerabilities to infections and spreading of disease were reduced by proactive measures.
Smart Wearables Beating Your Heart
I am a big fan of wearables that give you delicate insights into the complicated status of your heart health. As we age, we become slower, and fatter, and more unsubstantial in what we are able to accomplish. If our wearables can help track us, and get us up, and moving — then, just perhaps, we will be able to enhance our lives with the help of some amazing technology.
Exercise Harder to Stop the Pain of Aging
As we grow older, and as we gain our hard-earned wisdom, the aches and the pains of living longer begin to pile up, and take a toll on our wondrous bodies.
A Weighted Vest Adds Stamina
I am a big believer in pushing cardio, and in building stamina. Kettlebells are really good at building both of those blocks for better health, but sometimes you just need an extra nudge to keep your body honest, and your mind at full capacity.
Oura Ring 3 Generation Failure!
There are some moments in a well-worn life when you don’t want to have to be forced to take the next, fateful, step off the pyramid and into the pitfalls of death; but now I fear, is the time for that tasking in finally reviewing the Generation 3 Oura Ring.
Twitch as Social Mesh Workout on Boles.tv
We have a new live stream — David Boles LIVE! — and it has become quite a fascination in that every thought, giggle, and mistake makes it live on air, just like my old days in radio. Except, when you live stream, your “made for radio face” suddenly become a liability as all your innate ugliness takes a visible turn for the worse!
Egg Weights Crack Your Cardio
It can be difficult to engage our rapidly-beating heart for a long period of time while managing Swinging a bell, and so I have added Egg Weights to my pre- and post- Kettlebell workouts to safely help assure my heart rate is routinely, and maximally, peaked for a longer period of time without injuring myself, or putting undue force on my swiftly aging joints.
Vision and Kettlebell Chess
It’s always fun, and oftentimes a challenge, to blend two interests, two loves, into one, bigger thing that serves both imaginations. As you may know, I have returned to playing Chess again, after a long break, and I have figured out a fun way to combine my Kettlebell exercises with my renewed Chess training, and today I’m delighted to share those ideas with you.
Self-Perpetuating Pendulum
As we stretch through our lives, we will face adversity. Friends die. Allies disappear. Even our Kettlebell workouts can become rote, decayed, and fill us with dismay. We must learn to never accept defeat. We can change a loss into an advantage if we only understand which way the pendulum is swinging: against us, or with us.
The Ultimate WHOOP Review
I’ve been using WHOOP for a couple of months. WHOOP is a biometric device you wear on your wrist, or bicep, to help measure cardiovascular inheritance from aerobic Strain training during your workouts as well as the mounting recordable stresses of the day based on heart rate beats per minute.
Kettlebells for Stamina and Heart Conditioning
Sometimes, it just isn’t enough for your heart health to merely concentrate on your anaerobic Kettlebell strength. We also need to push up our heart rate into the aerobic range — but not the Acrobatic range! — in order to get the fullest sense of a properly conditioned heart.
How Influencers Ruined Fitness
There’s nothing more disappointing than finding a new fitness coach to follow online — and you start to get into what they’re teaching, and their philosophy of working out — and then, they betray you with a “link in bio” or they’re next posing with a bottle of “poop tea” or they want to charge you for private coaching or they want you to buy the clothes they’re modelling.
Using the Right Heart Rate Monitor
If you have any interest at all in improving your health, you are going to need a consistent way to measure your heart rate in a reliable, and recordable, way. Here are three of the ways I record — at least as best as I can with available technology — and measure, my heart rate during the day, and while exercising. All three of these heart rate monitors work via Bluetooth and my iPhone.
The Clanging Halo
We best learn by mistake, and not by perfection. As a friend of mine taught me long ago, “Practice Makes Permanent, not Perfect.” Today, I am here to confirm that sage advice with the story of this morning’s Kettlebell Halo warmup.
Flat Shoe Society
I have two types of flat-soled shoes I like to use: Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars, and Merrell Vapor Gloves. I’ve been wearing Chucks for 40 years — today, you can buy 80 different fashion versions of them online, but they’re all still flat shoes — and I’ve been wearing various iterations of the Merrell Vapor Glove for longer than four years.