91 Year Old Water Skier
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
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Ms. McAllister swims and water-skis every day. She says the key is you have to keep going, don't quit.
My father was also an avid water skier. I have photos of him slalom-skiing, long silver hair flying. In water-ski vocabulary, "slalom" means only one ski. I also have a photo of him high diving from the Mexican cliffs with the real cliff divers - for another story. I have photos of my grandmother lifting weights in her 90's with her hip-length hair still black, but she said she doesn't like the photos because she looks old.
Stay active, no matter what your age. It is the key to being mobile and independent
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Labels: aging, spirit, swimming, video/movie, waterskiing
2 Comments:
At Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:57:00 PM,
Amanda said…
Dr. Bookspan,
I've never left a question on a blog before, so I hope I am doing this right.
I've been reading your books and blog for about a month now, and using the great info to help myself and my family. Thanks!
Here's something that has been puzzling me though. My mother stopped doing yoga a few years ago because it gave her back spasms. The strange thing is that the back spasms happened after back extension exercises, not flexion exercises. Do you have any ideas about why these exercises would cause pain rather than relief? We are both very curious.
Thank you again for your work in this field, and for your sensible, smart, and humorous writing.
At Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:59:00 AM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Amanda, Hello. Yes, several yoga extension poses are known to cause that injury. It is not overuse, but the poses themselves. Even some extension poses that are not injurious in themselves are often done or taught by overly pinching back one area instead of distributing the stretch evenly along the entire spine.
Hyperextension and hyperlordosis is something I write about often. Search for all the articles using the label hyperlordosis. If you have my books, check the chapters on hyperlordosis and overarching the lower back.
Most of the time, questions work well in an article on that topic, so others with similar questions can find it, and you can refer to something in the article that sparked your question. You did this question just fine. Thank you for nicely done question, good thinking, and kind words
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