It was an incredibly warm and sunny Christmas Day here in St. Louis.
So warm, in fact, that I experienced the sun’s rays on thoracic portions of my skin while semi-exercising in Forest Park.
Remarkable! I hope all my readers and patients had a similarly delightful day. There were residual patches of snow so I’m counting this as a white and a warm Christmas.
Do normal people exercise on Christmas or this is insanity?
Serenity Now,
-ACP
10 thoughts on “Merry Christmas SkepCard Followers!”
Glad to see you’re enjoying the weather this holiday season.
I hiked a 7 mile trail yesterday to view the Raven Cliffs waterfall in Georgia.
Since I got a book store gift card from Santa, which book or guide about ingredients/recipes do you recommend for my 2020 MED diet?
What’s some of your favorites?
Thanks for your great advice,
>> Andrew
I’m going to recommend “Zest For Life” by Conner Middlemann-Whitney….https://www.amazon.com/Zest-Life-Mediterranean-Anti-Cancer-Diet/dp/0956866506….The writing is free of hyperbole and the recommendations closely align to my recommended version of the Med diet. I’ve communicated with Conner and also recommend her as a nutrionist/dietician.
I do endurance training 3 to 4 times per week every week. August, 2020, will mark 45 years of endurance running up and down the beautiful slopes. Christmas eve I did not run outside. Instead I trained on the incline treadmill for 50 minutes at a 30% gradient and 3.6 mph which is a great workout and a Christmas eve to remember. After doing 50 minutes of incline training I next hit the rowing machine. A great workout with a no pain recovery. Today, I will do a 1 hour slope run outside because it will be a beautiful, sunny and warm day. After training at a 30% gradient every other day, the 16% slope run at 5.5 mph is an easy run to end the week. I remember the first time I began to train at a 30% gradient. I thought: what is this? It was the toughest 6 weeks of training of my entire life. Now, in my opinion incline treadmills with a 30 to 40% gradient are the best machines to do endurance training. Just the best!
happy xmas and healthy new year from South Africa – enjoy your blog
We joined you with a brisk 4 mile walk after our very large Christmas brunch. Of course, we live in California where that is not surprising in the middle of winter. All the best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
Is that the ghost of Christmas present??
Went swimming in NZ yesterday (Christmas Day)
At 38 degrees Celsius, no thanks. 5 minutes sun exposure for vitamin D production – with zero exercise – was enervating enough, here in Australia !
I can only walk my dog these days due to a back injury, which I did today. But I encouraged my husband to go snowshoeing with friends today as we got 5” of snow in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. He did and was a happy camper. At our ages, we are happy for any and all exercise we can get every day of the year. Merry (late) Christmas to you and yours too!
I always enjoy your missives….hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season….