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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Most fly fishers I talk with have one thing in common. They are not hardcore flyfishing because of physical deterioration. How do I know they are declining by just talking? Well, they all share their ‘specific’ issue that limits their ability to fly fish the way they would like—hardcore, for extended periods. Thing is, they’re […]
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Prevention is the best medicine and exercise is the best option for preventing decline. This is how we override the gravitational pull of aging and reduce the progression and severity of chronic disease. The mainstream approach, doctor visits and medicine can’t compare. Leave the Herd–Prevention is the Best Medicine Synthetic medicines and surgery will treat […]
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