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  • How Will Aging Affect My Times

    From a recent article on the NYTimes The aging effect is inevitable, and now runners can even track what to expect. It is as if there was a time clock for aging, and unlike nonrunners — who have only things like wrinkles and gray hair to go by — runners have an exact schedule that…

  • Distracted Walking and 10000 Steps A Day

    The key to doing the 10000 steps a day is to be mindful of not running into people or behaving like an idiot.  I read this recent NYTimes article on the perils of distracted walkers and while I see the benefits of paying attention, I don’t really get the don’t-run-with-scissors-into-traffic list of absurd warnings at…

  • Practicing the Advanced 7 Minute Workout

    A week ago the New York Times came out with a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-Minute Workout.  The App itself is interesting for how it installs and is used on a Desktop as well as a phone.  This is a very nicely designed piece of software…

  • The Scientific 7-Minute Workout after 90 days

    So who is really doing the Scientific 7-Minute workout after 3 months of it being out? Well, I am not, but I do think about it from time to time. You?   This column appears in the May 12 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing.…

  • NYTimes Article: Life is a Wheel

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    I read the Sunday NYTimes this morning and this article was in it, or rather a lot of it was.  I recommend buying the paper simply to look at the images and quotes on the two page spread in Travel.  The Internet simply doesn’t capture that, rather, while I love that it allows us to…

  • Simple Rules for Better Sleep

    Yes, I am watching the Tour de France and caught myself wondering when various riders were describing how they slept more to recover from crashes how one gets this kind of sleep.  I am still learning, but I did run across the article Simple Rules for Better Sleep from the NYTimes.  And while they explain…