Your Monday #23: Let’s Do The Twist
Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your lower back and hips. Make them feel and function better.
Vitamin D: Solar-Powered You
What a deal. Sunlight's free and you don't even have to strap a solar panel to your back to use it. Just take off your shirt. Or your pants. Because your skin synthesizes Vitamin D when it's exposed to sunlight and - get this - you're probably Vitamin D-deficient.
Your Monday #22: 1 minute for your wrists
Even if you exercise vigorously for an hour daily, too much sitting the rest of the day significantly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity. So when you're in front of your TV or computer, do this for a minute, every hour or two.
National Lobster Day. Walk and Eat It.
Four mountains in Acadia National Park. Yours for the Walking. Five miles, two or three hours, 1,000 calories burned. A ten or fifteen minute drive to the lobster pier for 400 calories of the best lobster roll you'll ever have.
Your Monday #21: Putting It All Together
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Monday of each month brings you a new Way to shake your thang, increase your flexibility, balance and strength, respectively. So every now and then we put together the pieces to make daily routines that make every day feel better. Like today.
Walk on the beach, eat in town. Big Sur.
Not much town, but what a beach. Yours for the walking. One hour. Two and a half miles along a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Down a winding, unmarked trail to a really beautiful beach. Walk to the end. Get brave for a few seconds, time the waves, wade around the rocks. All yours. Happy World Ocean Day.
Maine Coast: Hike the Ocean Path Trail
A totally refreshing summer adventure hike along the Atlantic Ocean. Seven miles. Three or four hours. A little more than 1,000 calories burned. Time and space for that lobster roll at the end of the trail. Happy World ocean Day!
Your Monday #20: Row, row, row yourself
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today's Way comes with a simple, one-minute Way to increase your strength. This month: your upper back, shoulders and biceps.
The Walk That Ate Bananas
While it's still possible, eat one before your morning walk. At the Kona Coffee and Fruit Garden, you can get a pretty good cup of coffee with it. And walk down Lower Napoopoo Road to Kealakekua Bay to swim with the spinner dolphins spiraling in and out of the water. Just for fun.
Feels so good: Happiness in mice & men
Every once in a while there's a rodent study that's so surprising and so predictable at the same time that I just have to tell you about it. So here's a happy clinical trial that took place outside the clinic. In the backyard. It's about your health. And there's a cute animal video.