Keep lean. Have adequate muscle mass. Keep strong. Get outdoors. Get the Sun. Be aerobically & anaerobically fit. Eat animal foods, meat, eggs and seafood.
Strangely enough (not strange), these things will help you resist all sorts of conditions and risks that unhealthy people suffer from.
Poor health increases fragility to environmental hazards.
Besides - you feel fucking great. You confound the idea that you disintegrate as you get older. You depart from the masses your age; the walking 'sick but not dead'.
The one thing I've realised as I've aged is how many people put their conditions down to older age, when they're simply the manifestation of a poor diet and lifestyle. They will never be convinced as they are surrounded by pple like them.
The benefits of being 60 and still having the spark and vigour of when you were 20 is quite marvelous. AND the pursuit of the physical consolidates the pursuit of the mind, they are complementary.
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Tennis players have good skill transfer to golf and football. I remember my daughter being wowed by a top US female player we got to know who had great ball skills. The player came from a large family of boys so it was natural that she played with them as she grew up.
1/ She was brought in an environment of outdoor, skillful, active people; good at tennis, football, martial arts, and a range of general abilities - skating, juggling, table tennis, frisbee....
(plus, random abilities that athletes have, backflipping, jumping over things, balancing, tricks and skills - things which they learn just for fun and a challenge)
2/ She naturally participated and was encouraged to learn skills.
Now Andy Murray is out, the familiar story at the Wimbledon grand slam is that they'll be no British players going through to the 2nd week. Six years ago I highlighted the systemic problems the LTA suffers from.
After my 2 meetings with the LTA performance director, I wrote (2016);
'The Lawn Tennis Association are presiding over a long tortuous slow crash of their sport. Once Murray retires the full horror will be revealed and the post-mortem will begin'
In May this year the LTA appointed two non-executive directors from the minority ethnic community to "make the game more inclusive and diverse"; missing the point that it isn't about diversity but affordability.
Translated: This session primes the rest of my day; feel more dynamic and stronger post-session than before session
Warm-up: 2 laps; walk bend, run straight.
*Barbell fixed at 50kg (110lbs)*
- 400ft walk on toes (bb on shldrs)
10 x power cleans
40 x wave squats
10 x butt to floor squats
2 x 5reps eccentric bicep curls (cheat, up - slow, down)
Finish with 2 x 30reps parallel bar dips
No fatigue.
Mackerel, 2 boiled eggs, mushroom soup, after. No heavy carbs, feel more alert.
Forget about the different 'anti-aging' theories. But I have some idea about the sort of lifestyle which keeps me *feeling* young at 60yrs.
Regardless of body weight:
EATING
1 Cut out seed oils
2 Cut out refined carbs and sugars
3 Reduce cereals/grains - pasta, bread,etc
4 Eat meat, seafood, eggs, some non-starchy fruit and veg
5 Don't drink calories (apart from animal blood) - just coffee, tea, water, red wine
6 Take megadose Vit C, (maybe Vit A & D3) as soon as an infection strikes
7 Cycle creatine (optional)
8 Calorie restriction – slight
9 No more than two meals a day
10 Time restricted feeding (18/6)
11 Intermittent Fasting - 24hrs once every 2/3 weeks
12 Intermittent ‘overeating’ - one or twice a week
[Jensen’s Inequality & Convexity] - if there’s a nonlinear relationship between an input (calories) & an output (effect), if we look at the output for two different inputs, the average of the outputs is not equal to what we would find for the output from the average of the inputs
Is there's a 'sweetspot' for neurogenesis from Fasting?
This study was every other day fasting. Is there a better (whilst still adherable) way. Would there be benefits from 18/6 routine? IS there any additional effect from reduced total calories -if so, how much?