Category: General Knowledge

Update Your Lifestyle

Update Your Lifestyle. It is a wonderful time to be alive. All the cushiness and comfort—we are so far ahead of survival mode—all at our fingertips. And if you feel stuck, just click on the encyclopedic, overwhelming amount of helpful, life-guiding information. Despite our progress, we find ourselves in crisis—overweight, unhealthy, dissatisfied and frayed. We […] View page


Cold Weather Fishing

Cold weather fishing on a Google search gives you advice on gear and adapting your techniques. Here’s the AI overview: “cold weather fishing requires adapting your techniques, targeting warmer water areas, using slower presentations, and considering live bait instead of lures, as fish metabolism slows down in colder temperatures.” The search page goes on to describe […] View page


Don’t Follow the Crowd

Click play to listen to Don't Follow the Crowd. https://flyfisherfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/Dont-follow-the-crowd-32925-6.00 PM.mp3 Don’t follow the crowd is easy to say, harder to do. It’s engrained. We look for the number of cars in the parking lot of a restaurant as validity to quality. Best-seller lists point us toward purchases. In some cases, we act as individuals, but [...] View page


Fast Fitness Facts

Fast Fitness Facts The human body has a remarkable ability to heal itself. You slice open your knee, an Urgent Care angel stitches it up. The healing part is invisible. Unknowable forces of Nature course through your body, stirring your endowed biology toward healing. But as we age, our biology dulls. The processes that keep […] View page


Tips For Aging Anglers

Tips For Aging Anglers We all get older. It’s the long-term quality of life as we age that dictates our experience. Better quality of life with age means the ability to what we love regardless of age. In our case it’s fly fishing with vigor for longer. Purpose: If your line is not in the […] View page


Three Forces That Push Back on Aging

Imagine a tree The trunk is biological aging. The branches represent the hallmarks of aging, those biological processes that dull with age. The hallmarks are not separate or individual problems. They all stem from the same tree trunk, aging.  Three Forces That Push Back on Aging Researchers are now calling aging a disease. The details […] View page


One Thing to Fight Aging

The one thing to fight aging…. It should be at the top of your priorities!!! Functional medicine tells us that many ‘diseases of aging’ have the same root cause and addressing the root cause halts further progression and helps reverse course. Our responsibility for aging well is attending to major root causes. Not through prescriptions […] View page


The Right Amount of Exercise

The right amount of exercise always comes up. A recent study suggests that running 50 minutes per week can lower your risk of premature death from all causes. That’s good to read, but not everyone wants to run. Some people can’t run. What are the equivalents? How about looking at this from another angle? A […] View page


Build a Physical Activity Habit

Build a Physical Activity Habit. It’s the most important thing you can do in the mature phase of your life. This is the time to use the wisdom you have amassed to do the most good. Kids want to go fishing with their parents and grandparents. Every youngster needs a fishing mentor.  You have a […] View page


You are Responsible for Fitness

You are responsible for fitness. The fly fishers I talk to (most over 40) tell me about their chronic pain, weight gain, back pain, ‘tennis elbow,’ shoulder issues, hand cramps, reduced stamina, and balance. They all have ideas and opinions why these conditions occur, but few look at or mention the obvious facts. Muscles tend […] View page