Home Fly Fisher Fitness!
Our Purpose: If your line is not in the water, you have zero chance of catching fish. That is why fitness is our priority. We work to get at the root causes of age-related decline. Of course, our work is science-based, biology-based to be specific. We recognize symptoms, things like pain and stiffness, reduced balance, susceptibility to cold, as indicators of aging.
Reduced balance is a symptom. Rather than treat symptoms, we focus our efforts on improving the biological processes that cause symptoms. Trying to improve balance, for example, without addressing its source is futile.
Begin with the foundation. Build the two underpinning integral functions, the straight line to strength, coordination and longevity—high V02 max and the composite strength and muscle mass. From a foundation of strength, ample muscle and endurance, building the finer skills of balance and coordination will come easily.
Improved endurance and thermoregulation will come of their own accord. You will wade longer, fish harder, and longer with improved endurance and thermoregulation. Fit fly fishers are out fishing more often and, for longer periods, catching more fish.
Strength, muscle mass, coordination, balance, endurance and stamina are products of a lot of work. It requires serious effort. Spinning your wheels by treating symptoms is the last thing you want to do.
We know the best gear and the best flies inspire confidence. But the rock-solid apex of confidence is fly fisher fitness. It’s wealth beyond mere equipment. It gives you freedom to hike anywhere, in all conditions, climb over anything and enjoy the process of getting better at flyfishing with complete focus on the water and the fish……..
What’s your level of freedom to go where your heart pulls and fish long and hard until…..? Is back pain, joint stiffness, reduced stamina, and shaky balance limiting your outings?
Whatever your level of fly fisher fitness, remember, we are all aging. If you are in pain, shaky and challenged by reduced stamina, what do you imagine you will be like in a year or so?
Home Fly Fisher Fitness: Aging Makes Being Out of Shape Drastically Worse
Unfortunately, the concept of aging is shaped and driven by society, mass culture. So, the feel and emotion around aging is skewed. The stories, jokes and sayings we hear are not ‘normal’ or ‘natural aging.’ Don’t rely on fiction!!!
The serious fact is, what we hear about aging is decay not aging. Three millennia of clinical data points to our marshmallow soft, over-nourished and under-muscled lifestyle as the cause of our deplorable state of aging.
Medicine helps us live longer. But prescriptions and ubiquitous ‘pain killers,’ are meant as temporary relief of symptoms. Read the label!!! They suppress symptoms of age-related disease. The permanent fix is above, described in our purpose.
Don’t Rely on Medicine
Treatments, surgery and medicines help us live longer. But all medical interventions have side effects on other organ systems, sometimes to great lengths. Medicine is good. We are living longer. Living better, quality of life comes from your proactive prevention. Hint, you cannot buy, synthesize or prescribe the most potent preventive medicine available to man. Exercise works to treat root causes of age-related disease, naturally!!!
Strength, Stamina and Sturdiness is our Responsibility
That’s the thing about the outdoors and flyfishing. A crisis finds you as you are, not as you wish you were. Nature’s hazards have a way of finding your weak areas. Prepare yourself beyond purchasing gear!
It’s possible to fly fish with vigor as we age but there is no silver bullet, no pill, super food or treatment. It takes some effort but don’t think gym class…………
Sports or athletic ability are not required. It takes effort to be able to wade dicey, cold waters with sturdy confidence and fly fish with vigor into your best years.
Home Fly Fisher Fitness: Essential Knowledge
Isn’t it interesting that the safest and most powerful intervention we have for fighting the diseases related to aging is natural and self-prescribed exercise?
It is as though the Universe is saying the pot of gold is there at the end of the rainbow but it requires effort. Not athletic ability, just effort. It’s one of life’s curious twists, you are the embodiment of the most powerful health-giving natural medicine available. But you have to work get it.
It’s easily achievable.
I am here to help you build that wealth. I can’t make you fit. But I can guarantee you know all that is needed to keep yourself fit. With less pain, increased stamina and better balance, you’ll be flyfishing harder and longer…. into your 90s!
Longevity is not a given. Remaining active and vital with age depends on exercise!!!
I don’t profess to have all the answers. But, I can help you get started and provide tools and inspiration for you to keep yourself fit for a long, vigorous life flyfishing…….
Home Fly Fisher Fitness: One last thought
The thing about the outdoors and flyfishing is a crisis finds you as you are, not as you wish you were. Nature’s hazards have a way of finding your weak areas. Prepare yourself beyond purchasing gear!
Download my free Quick Guide to Strength, Sturdiness and Stamina.