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Do Body Building and Vegan Go Together?

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Here is the latest fun update from Robert Davis on losing fat and increasing strength and flexibility. He has been sending success after success using Fitness Fixer techniques:
"I have noticed a big improvement since I started in my flexibility. I noticed this the other day when I realized just how much farther I can stretch now. I could not lower completely into a sitting squat without tipping before. Now I can and it sure as heck makes working in really low areas for a longer time very easy without resorting to bending (bad weighted flexed) which I refuse to do at all now.

"I have seen increases in all areas of stretching. I see that it just takes time and consistency.

Guitar Hero guitar bag


"Since I am a musician, I carry a guitar bag everywhere. I decided to make a "portable" gym. Got a pull-up bar that goes in doors (removes and mounts quickly) and my guitar bag. That is all I need. I fill the bag with random objects to add weight and strap it on (like a backpack) and do everything from the books with increased weight and also pull-ups of all kinds of grips/variations for more challenge. You mentioned the wall handstand pushups and this reminded me of that. I strap my weighted bag to my back and do those now too. No need to go to the gym =P

"PS my friends think the wall stand pushups are "nuts" and can barely hold themselves up in position when they try. Who needs the military press? I actually found this to be much harder because of all the stabilization. Unlike a machine or barbell, it feels like a lot more muscles are coming into play a bit more when doing them like that. Seems so with almost all the body weight exercises. No wonder aside from cosmetics, weight training has no functional use outside of the gym. Takes a bonehead like me to realize this!

"Oddly, since I had changed my diet from meats and animal to Vegan (inspired by the body builders you have shown on the Fitness fixer) I have had people comment that I seem to be getting bigger! This is kinda funny because I actually lost some mass and it is mostly body fat from the weightlifting diet (now changed to vegan) and doing these exercises in place of weight training. They often do not believe me when I say I have not touched the bench in 3 months or so now. =0"


How to get started with a wall handstand:

Mr. Davis' fun stories:

Mr. Jim Morris, Mr. America, vegan bodybuilder at age 72:

Healthy vegetarian ways - healthier nutrition and Earth resources by not mass producing, killing, and eating animals and their products:

Vegetarian and vegan bodybuilders and martial artists:



Watch for Fast Fitness this Friday to see what Robert Davis will show you next.


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Grand Rounds Features Fitness Fixer Recycling on Grand Rounds Edition, "What's on the Menu?"

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Thank you Kerri at the blog SixUntilMe for including my Fast Fitness post Recycling and the Movie "Garbage Dreams" in this week's Grand Rounds.

On the web, Grand Rounds is a collection of the best on-line medical posts from the past week. A different host works hard each week to find and list the articles. This is different from the Grand Rounds in a hospital, which is a lecture for doctors about a patient or topic.

Kerri wrote, "You can also just recycle, which keeps the earth fit." Thank you Kerri for doing the hard work of collecting and featuring our posts.

Click "Garbage Dreams" to see uplifting answers to destructive practices.


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Healthful Real Food Tastes Good - No Commercial Health Food Needed

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Delicious Fruit

Ivy of New Zealand sends me frequent updates of her continuing improvements. She is a great-grandmother and still getting stronger, healthier, more mobile, and having more fun while she does all this. Ivy writes,
"Around 7.30 yesterday morning, my daughter's partner arrived - he was in the area so thought he would surprise me with a visit. I was about to make breakfast. He laughed and asked if I was about to cook some steak.

"I dished up buck wheat, molasses (he commented that it was horse food) banana, feijoas followed by ground flaxseed, sunflower and sesame seeds. I ground the seeds so he would not comment that I was feeding him bird seed. Smile, smile.

"Surprise, surprise, he could not get over as to how delicious it was. I pointed out that it was "whole food" and it would stick to his ribs, therefore no junk food required mid morning."

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Many Fitness Fixer readers send inspiring stories. Some continue to send updates, with improved fun, strength, mobility, and good thinking each time. Ivy's Successes have inspired many readers, all ages and abilities. Here are some of Ivy's gems:

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Fast Fitness - Pro-Social Behavior Improves Health of All

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

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Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Doing selfless good is not only for the benefit of the receiver. Move your body and brain to make a happier world, passed on like a game of tag.

Lily is one of my martial arts students. She writes:
"In my Psychology class called “Child and Adolescent Development” my teacher asked each of us to do simple acts of kindness throughout the semester.

"Pro-social behavior is the opposite of antisocial behavior. The ideas behind doing simple acts of kindness are as follows: behavior is contagious, we model behavior for others, and we become what we do. Acting in kind ways toward others is positive behavior that we model for others. It is valuable to model this kind of behavior for children. (The Behaviorists say that behavior is learned). It is important to teach children about kindness, because children’s brains are developing, and experiences hardwire the brain.

"Each week at the beginning of class, my teacher would ask her students to please share a simple act of kindness. Examples (some are mine, some are others'):
  1. “I held the door for someone.”
  2. “I gave a friend who doesn’t have a car a ride to school today.”
  3. “I cooked my mom dinner.”
  4. “I helped my mom stretch her legs in ways she normally could not, to help relieve her pain.”
  5. “I helped a stranger change their tire.”
  6. “I was about to pull into a parking spot, but let another person, who was obviously in a rush, have the spot. They thanked me.”
  7. “I e-mailed a classmate the homework assignment when they had missed class.”
  8. “I helped a very drunk girl find the bus stop and gave her a token to get home.”
  9. “I helped my little brother with his homework.”
  10. “I call my grandmother regularly now, just to talk, when before I only called her if there was a specific reason.”
  11. “I helped someone fix their printer, even though I was initially unsure how to.”

Try some. Move your body and brain. Make health contagious. Send in your own successes doing small things that pass happier ways on. Click the label 'spirit' for Fitness Fixer ideas.

Lily's Posts:
Lily demonstrates a better lunge stretch and gives a no-cook delicious recipe: - Lunges and Beans
Finds us better containers than plastic: - Non-Plastic Non-Aluminum Sports and Fitness Food Carriers

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Health Homework Becomes AntiObesity Chronic Disease Reality Check

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Everything that's wrong with America

Jeff & Sabrina sent me an e-mail that their 7th grade son was given a school assignment about the "proper amount of calories to have a normal weight" but with junk foods listed in the menus.

They made a video of the events, explaining,
"Could it be that our schools are actually Suspect Number One in fostering obesity and chronic illness?"

This is not a surprise. I have taught at medical schools and attended medical conferences that serve unhealthy foods. I was on a national committee to determine nutrition consensus statements where the box lunches served had cookies, sodas, processed bread, cured meat and cheese sandwiches, "sports bars" which are candy in an expensive wrapper, and gloppy fatty dressing. I have received many letters from doctors and fitness instructors that they can't be expected to eat right, or even exercise enough given their busy schedules. This is not fitness. Fitness is not appearances, or being unhealthy while giving medical advice to others, or taking stimulant drugs to stay awake to work extra jobs to support a spending habit, or doing repetitions of artificial exercises 10 times, then returning to slouching and bad bending to pick up your gym bag. Fitness is how you think, move, act, and help the world be better.

We need some role models. Click the arrow to watch the video.




If the video does not appear on your screen, click their link
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The video introduces their documentary, PROCESSED PEOPLE, with interviews with leading health experts.


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Thank You Grand Rounds 5.31 Birthday Edition

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Thank you to the blog Diabetes Mine for including The Fitness Fixer in this week's Grand Rounds, which is a collection of the best on-line medical posts from the past week. They featured my post Fitness Myths - How Many Legs Does a Dog Have If You Call the Tail a Leg?

On the web, Grand Rounds is different from the Grand Rounds in a hospital, which is a lecture for doctors about a patient or topic. Thank you to this week's host for doing the hard work of collecting and featuring our posts.


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All the More Reason To Try - Exercise to Overcome Each Difficulty

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
E-mails and questions pour in - "I am weak from a recent bout of flu, will strengthening help me? I never had strong legs, should I bother doing leg exercise? My shoulders do not stay straight, they just become round when I let them, does that mean that I cannot have good posture? My ankles tilt toward each other when I stand up, does that mean that I should not stand straight? My balance is poor, why should I do balance exercise as I will just have a hard time of it. I have multiple sclerosis and it is tiring to stand up, should I try? I am overweight and have health problems from it, will I get any benefit from not eating so much? My toes are all tight from tight shoes, should I stretch my toes?"

These are real inquires. The answer to all is yes, you need the exercise even more than the person without these difficulties. Yes, work to overcome, to change what is hampering you, to regain function.

Hear it phrased this way:
"I earn less than the rest of my office, would getting a raise make a difference?"
"My car veers to the left ever since I hit that pothole, should I try to hold the wheel straight, even though it seems so natural for the car to swerve uncontrolled?"
"I just have a natural temper, why bother controlling it?"

When things are tough, you need to control it all the more.
If you like to run or swim but are slow, you need to work harder at speed, not omit speed work. You have to work to get results.
There is a saying "If the sword is not sharp, use a heavy handle." If you are not good at something, you need to work harder.

For inspiration, click the arrow to watch the video of The Thousand-Hand Guanyin, performed by 21 dancers of the Chinese Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe. All the dancers are deaf and cannot hear the music. Lead dancer is 29 year old Tai Lihua, who earned a BA degree from the Hubei Fine Arts Institute.



If the video does not load on your computer, click the link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgHmSdpjEIk


Relates Fitness Fixer:

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Fast Fitness - Add Balance, Stability, and Portability to Military Press - Handstand Pushups

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - If you like lifting weight overhead for upper body strength, you don't need to wait to go to a gym, or to get weights or equipment.

Get more exercise, practice balance, and shoulder and arm stability, with handstand dips:
  1. Do a handstand against a wall. An easy way is to stand with your back about a foot or so from a wall, crouch down and put one foot, then the other, high on the wall.
  2. With good judgment, do upside down pushups (dips).
  3. Vary the depth of each dip, speed of each, speed you can do a number of dips, and distance of your hands from the wall to vary the exercise.
Robert Davis sent in his video of how to do handstand pushups. Blogger is still having trouble uploading visuals. Click this link to watch it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35939272@N05/3409818688/

he writes, "I replaced the military press with this. It is portable for one! Ever notice how pronounced male gymnasts shoulders and arms are? They do things like this:) "


Robert was a weightlifter who hurt his back with conventional lifting (bad bending and overarching the lower spine). He rehabbed quickly with Fitness Fixer techniques and has been sending in his success stories one after the next. He writes:
"This was not a very problematic exercise as I had been used to destroying my shoulders with mega high weight LOL. But this is different because of the engagement of muscle groups that control stabilization.

"But yeah, I have been doing that in place of military press and see how it is more beneficial as the stabilizers have to kick in more then being benched or using a machine.

"Once again thank you and I think people should really listen to you. I am glad I did because I have no need to go in to get scanned or be told I need surgery or something silly ;)

"Like I said I am not into pro body building, I just did it to stay "fit" and look fit as I thought it was. But after going thru this, it is not all that functional to pound out reps of heavy weight and not be able to do a plank or walk/sit straight. I lifted enough just to have "lean muscle" but not to be huge. But I realize now this is easily done safely with your methods and I do not need a gym."

Good brain and body training Robert!

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Who We Read - Using Fitness Fixer for More

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Beside your Fitness Fixer post each day, what else is here for information and fun?

Down the right-hand column of your screen are several categories of links:
  1. First is "Health Expert Updates" where you can subscribe and have each new Fitness Fixer post sent to you free.

  2. Under "Health Expert Updates" is "Recent Posts." Recent Posts lists the ten Fitness Fixer posts before the one you are reading in the main screen. If you are reading an older post, you will not see current posts.

  3. Under "Recent Posts" come the "Archives." Clicking an archive link gives all posts from that month. I have been writing Fitness Fixer since 2006, so there are many months in the archives. Archives may not look interesting, but a month of posts at t time lets you quickly skim for short interesting reads. Try one.

  4. Under the Archives is "Who We Read." Here is where I can share with you sites I personally use:

Any time you want to see the most recent Fitness Fixer post, click the blue underlined "Fitness Fixer" link under the Healthline.com menus, to the left of my name. It is (so far) always just above the title of the top post in the main screen.

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Thank You Grand Rounds Pharmamotion

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Thank you to Dr. Flavio who writes the blog Pharmamotion for including my post Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Surgery Unnecessary in Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 30.

He put my ACL post in the category, "Good stories for patients."

It is important to know that you have other options than only surgery. Especially when providers say "there is no other way." That only means *they* don't know another way. Now you have several ways to choose which is right for you. Click Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Surgery Unnecessary.

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Happy Tax Day

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax"

-- Albert Einstein

Healthier Sitting and Looking Over Your Work - Tax Preparation Health
Nice Chair Stretch Break -
Tax Stretch
Get Out of Your Chair and 'Unround' the Upper Back - Fast Fitness - First Morning Stretch
Remember to Breathe - Do Breathing Exercises Work?
While Waiting in Line at the Post Office - Fast Fitness Friday - Strong Spirit
Keep Smiling - Exercise Your Sense of Humor
Keep Blood Pressure From Rising - Healthier Heart
Stay Focused - Which Ancient Exercise Gives Focus and Concentration?


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Fast Fitness - Recycling and the Movie "Garbage Dreams"

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Recycling trash is honorable and beneficial for people and Earth.

Cambodian dump slums


The word 'Zabal' is a person who collects trash. The Zabaleen of Cairo are a class of people who for generations, have collected the city's trash by hand, with devotion and honor, and the certainly that from their sweat, they do important work for their community and the world.

The Zabaleen recycle 80% of all they collect, all by hand. They build and run their own school to educate their children in literacy, manners, good and honorable conduct, studies, and recycling techniques.

The city decided it was progress to be modern and great like the West, and change to using trucks and companies to collect the trash, mostly dumped into landfill. The livelihood of the Zabaleen is dwindling. The movie Garbage Dreams shows their members visiting a landfill, incredulous that anyone would throw such literal treasure into a hole. One exclaimed that trash, and the possibilities and materials it possesses, is a gift from heaven, not to be wasted at cost to the Earth.

The movie tries to appeal to audiences by making it a drama of the decisions of three of the teen Zabaleen, but I hope the greater message the teens make is not lost. It is not progress to look down on classes of people. It is not progress to waste. It is not progress to be made to feel you are not good because you work to clean the world.
  1. See the movie Garbage Dreams.
  2. Learn a long-known, little talked-about world crisis encompassing health, politics, economics, sweat-of-the-brow work, pollution, and human rights.
  3. Notice litter on the ground. Stop littering. Know that it is good and honorable to pick up trash, not something beneath your values. Pick up trash today (be prudent what you reach into). Thank others who do this work.

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Related Fitness on Fitness Fixer:

Garbage Dreams was supported by a grant from the Sundance documentary film program. It won several Film Festival awards.


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Spring Garden is Fitness Health Goodness as a Lifestyle

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

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United States First Lady Michelle Obama led the way to dig and sow a vegetable garden on the south lawn of the White House. Local primary school (elementary school) students helped, and are scheduled to continue sharing the work and knowledge and benefits of planting, weeding, caring for, and harvesting vegetables and herbs for the White House kitchen.

The first lady is developing programs to promote healthy eating for American families. In an interview, she stated, "My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities… Its most important role, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern."

Plans involve the entire First Family. President Barack Obama is scheduled to help weed and tend the garden.

In the 1990's US President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton tended a rooftop vegetable garden.

In 1943, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden in front of the White House. (In the 1920s she was also prominent in the movement to allow women to vote in US elections.) Her White House war effort Victory Garden inspired millions. By 1945, 40 percent of produce in the US was grown at home.

White House Garden:

Start Your Quick Kitchen Garden In 5 Minutes:

Get Outdoors for Healthy Gardening:

Better Warm-Up and Stretching For Gardening:


For more Fitness Fixer on each topic, click labels gardening and green fitness under this post. The label children gives fitness of all kinds for children.

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Thank You Grand Rounds 5.29

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Thank you to the blog Getting Closer To Myself for including my post Fast Fitness - Better Legs and Pain Relief Comes From You Not The Exercise Ball in this week's Volume 5 Number 29 edition of Grand Rounds.

This is the second time that reader Robert Davis is featured in a Fitness Fixer Post selected for the Grand Rounds collection of the best on-line medical posts from the past week. Click the Fast Fitness link above to see why.

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Thank you to this week's host Leslie for doing the hard work of collecting and featuring our posts.

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Doctor Fakes Benefits in 21 Pain Pill Studies

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Self-Portrait with Pills

A news report published in several publications including The Wall Street Journal stated that anesthesiologist Scott S. Reuben faked data so that it would seem that benefits occurred from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex. The studies had been published in several anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008.

Dr. Reuben had been a paid speaker for Pfizer, a powerful pharmaceutical company, and Pfizer paid for some of the research.

The journal Anesthesiology has retracted three of Dr. Reuben's articles. The journal Anesthesia & Analgesia has retracted 10 of Dr. Reuben's studies and posted a list of 11 of his studies published in other journals.

Jacques E. Chelly, head of acute interventional postoperative pain service at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said that the situation has prompted his hospital to review the protocols it uses to treat patients for pain, because Dr. Reuben's work was so influential in establishing them.

Editor James C. Eisenach warned in an editorial in the journal Anesthesiology, stating:
"these retractions clearly raise the possibility that we might be heading in wrong directions or toward blind ends in attempts to improve pain therapy."

Other Problematic Drugs. Vioxx and Celebrex are not the only highly prescribed drugs that have been found less effective than advertised. Several major drugs prescribed for pain/fibromyalgia and headache were later ordered by the FDA to carry a Suicide Risk Warning:

Where Does Some of the Information in Medical Books Come From?


Healthy Ways To Stop Sources of Pain. Specific well-known medications and surgeries have found to be no more effective than less expensive and disruptive methods:

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Fast Fitness - Better Legs and Pain Relief Comes From You Not The Exercise Ball

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Be healthful when you do health activities. What a concept.
  1. How fit is it to use fitness equipment in unhealthy ways?
  2. When you pick up and put down an exercise ball, or any exercise equipment, how do you bend? Unhealthfully? During an activity you use to improve your health?
  3. Robert Davis sent in this change of bad bending to good bending . Good bending shifts weight and leverage off lumbar discs and onto leg, hip, and back muscles.

Robert Davis wrote. "I had to use my cell phone on timer so the pictures are not the greatest quality."


Here is the ouchy


Here is the squat


Robert Davis was a weight lifter with a painful back injury from conventional lifting. He fixed his back pain with Fitness Fixer, intelligently applying principles of healthful movement for everything during exercise and also daily life. He wrote:
"I took a picture of what was causing "ouchy" because it is so normal in America *for adults!*.. (upper photo of forward bending). Then ouchy started to go away the more I did, 'ah much better' (squatting)... Pretty soon ouchy was gone from the bad forward bending.

"I am now doing a complete head to toe revision... Point was that my back stopped hurting, and as you said, heals when I let it, with better movement.
"I am glad there is someone out there like you who tells you how it is. It gives encouragement and hope. I have seen people my age already with a few surgeries (and they are in the 20s to 30s!). They were from injuries, and sadly they never had a chance to find that they didn't need it.

"I was encouraged by others' stories and with your statement, "don't let them scare you" because I was a bit scared. I have never been injured before with that much pain. But, I was more then willing to try this because I did not want limitation as I had seen in my friends who had surgery. Some multiple times. "

Mr. Davis has been sending in success stories one after then next. Here are some of his Inspiring Functional Fitness:

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Fitness Myths - How Many Legs Does a Dog Have If You Call the Tail a Leg?

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Dog Tail


How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

Four.

Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

- Abraham Lincoln

Myths! Hype. Fitness has many.

People argue over who is right about health topics, sometimes with unhealthful mental state. They argue things they have never actually seen, such as muscle fibers or blood flow or metabolism. Things they read or heard from someone else, who read or heard them from someone else, who had also not actually seen them.

Even medical books are often written by people who have not researched it themselves (in a laboratory themselves), but compiled popular consensus. Doing "medical research" does not mean "read it in a book." On April Fool's day, time to set myths straight-

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Read success stories of these methods and send your own.

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