Outline of a workable fitness plan for the old man

I have been giving a lot of thought to a workout for a mid-fifty-something who probably should have died several years ago.  I've been ruminating on this plan for some time, since I retired ... the problem this old guy has is that he tends to really overdo things ... then he keeps PUSHING it and doing the kind of things that worked when he was still only a forty-something, but that bullshit DOES NOT work anymore now that he's a mid-fifty-something.And injured.  So his shoulder, back, knee or liver issues return ... and THEN he's get thrown off his schedule.

That old mid-fifty-something guy is me.  I have gotten better at actually bothering to THINK first, to avoid obvious obstacles, but I am still far from perfect.

I KNOW that need to stay fully hydrated, drink my green juice and eat right AND I need a sustainable, coherent plan ... I know that plan will be governed by weather and by the work on my "harm farm" [doing stuff deliberately, the hard old school way] and, most importantly, it is NOT going to become the most important thing I do ... I am still arrogant enough to believe that my other commitments, other considerations come first.    Or more correctly, I don't particularly care if I live five seconds more ... I absolutely do not care ... I have tried to care and I just cannot care whether I live or die.  Other considerations, other commitments come first ... before whether I live or die ... that's the way it is and always will be ... so my fitness plan needs to reflect that.    

My fitness plan is still a work in progress ... but right now, the GENERAL outline of the desired plan looks something like this:

• Monday – Digging, working on core strength, throwing techniques 
• Tuesday – Interval training in gym,max repetitions in fixed time
• Wednesday – Gripping / seizing workout, grappling set-ups for pressure points, joint locks
• Thursday – Distance mud slogging, elliptical cardio, ruck humping
•  Friday – Weight lifting, conventional strength training, body striking
• Saturday – Plyometrics, sprints, bullwork, big pushes on big projects
• Sunday – Recovery, walking, practicing with fire arms, planning my next week (reading about chinese martial arts, judo techniques and BJJ, krav maga and MCMAP, SEAL fitness and nutrition guides)

In essence, the point of the plan is based on recognizing that I am OLD (i.e. low dose of HGH) ... I don't recover as fast any more; so I need to work smart to avoid an injury that breaks the workout cycle and discipline ... but I still need to attempt to stay fit by attempting to incorporate different martial arts / fitness styles AND I am still learning a lot about things like anatomy, massage, chiropractic, health, wellness, diet.  

Six rules

Maybe you have seen the silly viral video of "Man With Concealed Carry Permit Arrested For Exposure Of Gun" ... if you haven't, perhaps you will ... it's almost a guarantee that you will see it if you are involved in law enforcement or law enforcement training. This cop and this motorist are BOTH really lucky to be alive ... change the circumstances ever so slightly and this doesn't turn out so well [for either one] ... BOTH made severe mistakes, both made careless assumption about the other.

The video reminds me of MY "rules" for thinking about these kinds of deadly force situations:

1. When you carry a weapon, EVERY confrontation that you get involved in is an ARMED confrontation. Somewhere, out there, there is someone who can take your gun away from you and use it against you. Just because it hasn't happened yet, don't expect your ridiculously good luck to continue. See rule #6.
2. Unless you have good reason to actually KNOW otherwise, you have to assume that everyone you meet might be ARMED. Some of the people who are armed are actually dangerous. Nothing is more dangerous than believing you possess superior firepower when you really don't know what kind of enemy you face. See rule #6. 
3. There are weapons everywhere lying around that can be improvised quickly if a person can break their freeze and react more rapidly than you can. Most people, especially nurses and doctors [who carefully study and work with anatomy everyday], instinctively, reflexively know something about how to attack pressure points or weak areas. That means every confrontation with another person could rapidly escalate into an deadly confrontation. See rule #6. 
4. Nobody else has to follow your rules or the rules of your jurisdiction. Laws are things that idiots debate. People behave according to their own rules ... there are no referees or rules in fights ... prison might be a deterrence for you, but it is not a deterrence to many people ... there are no fouls, no free throws or penalty shots, no rematches -- there doesn't have to be a next time ... it doesn't matter if the other guy cheats. See rule #6.
5. You might believe that your understanding of the rules of physics or human physiology or martial arts and fighting with weapons will govern most things, but your understanding is severely limited, biased and flawed.  See rule #6.
6. If you are still alive, there is ONLY one reason. God ALWAYS bats last.

Give me ONE EXAMPLE ... just ONE EXAMPLE

Give me just ONE EXAMPLE of where government has taken on a problem and made it better.  

Milton Friedman was right when he said If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand ... but that does not really show us how TERRIBLE it would be if government were given this problem to solve.  Stefan Molyneux is right when he says that whenever you use the coercion and violence of government to attack a problem, you get exactly the opposite of what you want.  

Laws that attempt to legislate morality not only don't work and are a waste of time, they actually  undermine morality ... and they undermine Christianity and help those who belief in the violence and coercion of government.  Laws that attempt to legislate morality make Christians lazy.  Christians are called upon to be the salt of the earth; they are also called upon NOT to put any faith or trust in government.  Christians must follow Christ's admonishment and stay focused on their role paying loving attention to the things [under their care] that belong to God.  It is dead wrong and flat out evil to render those things over to Caesar.

An unborn  child is a person and when you try to use government to enforce idiotic laws about something that God has already decided, you will get many more abortions [even if they are not recorded] ... you will less respect for the sanctity of marriage ... you will get an increase of all kinds of nasty immoral stuff ... prostitution, lack of respect for women, pornography, sex slavery and all kinds of immorality that you cannot even begin to imagine ... all because Christians will get lazy.

Many self-described Conservative Christians have focused a lot of their effort on proving how Christian they are building their political power, by being the Pharisees preaching in the temple, by collaborating with Caesar and the Roman government, gaining access to political power and the coercion wielded by the Big Government Roman centurions.  These Pharisees would rather not be like Jesus, spending time with the lepers, the prisoners, the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the sinners.

Do not attempt to legislate and coercively force people to be moral unless you want people to MUCH less moral.  The Danish theologian, Søren Kierkegaard, got it right when he said that making Christianity the official religion made individuals inattentive to living their faith ... Danish citizens were officially "Christians" and showed regularly in church as required by law without having the slightest idea of what it meant to have a living faith in Christ.

You won't find one example of where government has made a problem better, but you can BE ONE EXAMPLE of what trying to be more like Christ is all about.

Love letter to the GOP Leadership ... stop screwing around, it is the FUTURE liabilities, STUPID!!!

Obama is the white dawg in this picture and the GOP leadership is the pig.  Both of you really want to make PORK together ... and BOTH of you are disgusting ... but the GOP leadership is MORE DISGUSTING for letting yourself get humped.

The reality is that the sequester does not matter all that much ... in comparison to more than $200 TRILLION worth of unfunded future liabilities.   You should NOT be cooperating with the POTUS at all right now ... let the attacks and pain come!  

The American people need to hear the truth from YOU  ... they need to hear it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ...  it is NOT the inconsequential problems that we face now, it is the FUTURE liabilities, STUPID!!!

FOCUS ... and STAY FOCUSED ... on the future liabilities of the Federal government that are now well over $200 trillion.  

 

I expect Obama and OFA to come on full bore with stupid shit and the Santa Claus and Federal government Easter Bunny routine.  EVENTUALLY, people will GROW UP and listen to the truth.  I expect stupid shit from Democrats.  I didn't expect you cowards to burrow into a hole and hide OR when you're not hiding, you pretend to enjoy getting humped by the Democrats.  You can either turn around and start fighting OR people like me are going to let the big dawg take you behind the junkers and let you guys get your humping out of your system!

WHY isn't the Iowa GOP capturing the 2nd Amendment vote

WHAT is WRONG with the GOP?


No ... REALLY ... what is wrong with the GOP?   Why isn't the Iowa GOP using the attacks upon the 2nd Amendment and support for 2nd Amendment among a broad cross-section of Iowans as the the basis for growing the Party?

Why isn't the Iowa GOP attacking on this issue?  What is WRONG with the GOP?

No one in the political realm is talking about this problem in a sane rational manner ... if you get AWAY from the lost, clueless, incompetent zombies in the GOP ... you start finding people who are doing what the GOP should be doing.  

There are examples of independent people who GET THIS and who can talk in a sane, rational manner ... so the real question is WHAT the hell is WRONG with the GOP leadership?  Why has the GOP leadership unilaterally decided to disarm?  WHAT the hell is WRONG with the GOP leadership? 

Another over-reaction by media and entertainers who are OUT OF CONTROL!

As one might expect, the media is completely ignoring the data on the reduction in violent crime and has CHOSEN to over-react to another shooting.

Shooting deaths by people who were law-abiding citizens [before they killed anyone] are almost non-existent ... yet there are all kinds of entirely idiotic proposals to regulate the use of firearms by law-abiding citizens ... none of these proposals will have ANY impact on criminals, EXCEPT the proposals would make it EASIER and MORE PROFITABLE to be a criminal.

It's not about gun control ... it is about control.

It's about control, coercion and violent suppression of the activities of hundreds of millions of people that will be necessary when socialism runs out of other people's money.

It's not about gun control ... it is about control.

I can accept that Obama was re-elected President

I cannot accept that I live in a country that re-elected Santa Claus ... in spite of the fact that the US is facing a MASSIVE problem of over $200 trillion in FUTURE unfunded liabilities.  

Oh, well, it is what it is.   It is time to saddle up and FIX this.  That's all.

I might feel bad about the fact that I live in a country populated by people who [by a margin of 51% to 47%] chose to express themselves as a divided nation with the House of Representatives STILL controlled by a large majority of 234 solid seats [and maybe more, depending on recounts still in progress ...].   

The election results, especially the Republican majority in the House, tells me that there are still a majority of people in the country who understand that things are badly broken -- overall, the people have voted in favor of DIVISION.   So now we get DIVISION!  It was too optimistic to expect that we would see people understand that there is no free lunch.  

IDIOTS do want to believe in Santa Claus and the vote from one of those idiots counts as much as the vote from a responsible person.

But realistically, there is reason for some optimism ... after all, we still have 234 seats in the House ... it'll be tough and contentious battle ... or I should say, "HOPEFULLY, it will be a tough and contentious battle!" ... but this majority is still something we can work with ... we know what we have to do, there will be opportunities to go after the Democrats, it's not going to be easy ... it is time to saddle up, get ready for the fight and FIX this.

The LAMEST, most incompetent President EVER

Did you see the debate last night!  Watch it again if you missed it or have already forgotten how bad Obama looked. 

How is it possible for a PRESIDENT to do any worse, to look any less well-informed, to look any more completely unprepared and out-of-his-league?

Stanislav Petrov's intuition ... and the all-out first strike nuclear attack the fall of 1983

When I look at the accounts that have come out since then, as we learn more about Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov's rapid intuitive reasoning that makes no sense whatsoever, i.e. "a flat out guess" and how that guess lead to the Soviets averting an all-out first-strike nuclear launch ... which would have been countered by an overwhelming and automatic response from the US ... annihilating all life on the planet.

It wasn't just a one-time incident. There were PLENTY of other incidents that happened that fall!

You may not remember times such as the fall of 1983, but I know that I do.  I remember that point in time very, very well ... it was a pivotal time for me ... it also was for you, whether you realized it or not!

The environment between the USA and USSR was so charged in the fall of 1983 that more incidents were going to happen and eventually, as we humans played Russian roulette long enough, we would have gotten lucky.  Consider what we now have learned more about the Soviet's response to a simulated attack in Exercise Able Archer ...when I look back at those times, I am more and more and more convinced that the ONLY reason that we are alive today is PRAYER ... or the actions of Higher Power.

I believe that prayer [for our leaders] is extremely important.  Of course, we can work to elect competent leaders but PRAYER for their wisdom is essential.  We must pray that a higher power will provide the circumstances that lead to better outcomes.  Prayers for leaders matter.  Ronald Reagan was a superb leader, a man of  immense intuition and deep complexities, certainly not the ignorant and passive President that some would like to portray.  Most of all he was humble man who really listened, especially to his wife, and he was capable of making important, pragmatic shifts in policy in the light of new information.  Not many have that capability -- we were blessed to have such  a man as President during such a tumultuous time in history.

The Soviet's response to Able Archer is perhaps the best example of Reagan's simple and profound wisdom ... and the importance of prayer in setting up fortuitous circumstances that lead to the US just happening to come by game-changing information ... upon learning of the Soviet reaction to Able Archer 83 [which was completely counter to what NSA and DoD experts believed the Soviet "no-first-strike" reaction would be] by way of the double agent Oleg Gordievsky, a British SIS asset, President Reagan commented:

"I don't see how they could believe that—but THAT is something to think about."

Indeed.  Thinking about something like that made ALL of the difference.  I do not believe we would be alive today if Reagan had not changed course.  Eventually, we would have "gotten lucky" if we kept playing the same game.  My only explanation for the luck that we had to survive multiple close calls, to get information from a double agent, to have the good fortune of a leader like Ronald Reagan who could stand up the security advisors and DoD analysts who were WRONG is PRAYER.  Prayer is the ONLY reason that I have that explains how we survived long enough, until the Reagan Reversal [beginning in early 1984] got our nuclear policy back onto a slightly more sane and reasonable track.

That reversal paved the way for [listening more to Maggie Thatcher, less to his hawkish advisors and] working with Mikhail Gorbachev, encouraging Perestroika and Glasnost, silencing the hawks in his Administration who were still stuck fighting the Cold War the old way.  When it came to helping Gorbachev and winning the Cold War in a different way, President Reagan was truly far out ahead of ALL the advisors in his Administration ... and I do not believe that would have been possible without the impact of prayer.

Back in the fall of of 1983, I believed in a Higher Power and things that I could not explain, could not understand, but still things that I KNEW.  It's the same today.  I believe in PRAYER!  It's not about me.  Of course, I am praying for you, but I do not really matter at all in this.  I've already been taken care of.  This is about YOU.  I believe in prayer; I believe that YOUR prayers matter.  

Benghazi

WTF!

It's just like Carter's epic failure in Iran in November, 1979 ... but probably worse.  WTF!


WTF!