Iconic Fitness Figures

Greetings! Last week fitness guru Tony Horton received the Jack LaLanne award at the 2016 IDEA World Convention, the largest global fitness and wellness event in the world. Horton, most popularly known as the creator of the in-home fitness program P90X, has an interesting onscreen persona.  A quick glace across blogs and social media and you can get a sense that his commentary and antics are an acquired taste. Nonetheless, Horton's fitness information is solid. 

Over the last four or five years we've read his books Bring It! and The Big Picture and used a number of his in-home fitness programs. In fact, I followed the P90X Legs and Back workout today. I haven't exercised with P90X in years. I'm reminded that the routines are thorough and effective as my legs are still "feeling the burn" some six hours later.

Tony Horton has a very positive attitude. In my opinion, his programs are not cultish and certainly do not require extreme lifestyle changes to be successful. Those are a couple of the reasons I subscribe to many of his fitness theories. Horton has more than once tipped his hat to Jack LaLanne on DVD’s and elsewhere. I wonder if in twenty years from now the “TH” Squat will have as much traction as the Jumping “Jack” has over the decades.

Congratulations to Mr. Horton.

Bring It!  Run!

Tom

KY: Home to Great Things and Great People

Greetings! We had a whirlwind trip through Kentucky over the weekend. It was grand on all counts. Saturday morning I shot out at the break of dawn for a daily run.  Oddly, I managed to cross three city limit signs (Louisville, Forest Hills and Hurstbourne Acres) in less than five minutes. The temperature hung in the mid 70s as I milled around enjoying the lovely morning. Birds sang and I was filled with great anticipation of a full day of tourist activities.  After the 4 mile run I joined for a Shannan for a 1 mile walk in the retail area close to the hotel.

Along the walk we discussed the many of the attractions of KY including the Abraham Lincoln birth home, the famous Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat and Bluegrass music. In addition to those things we planned to learn more about KY Bourbon at the Evan Williams Experience, and tour the Muhammad Ali Center.  The latter half of our day visited the somewhat controversial Creation Museum http://creationmuseum.org/ and its newly opened and equally provocative sister site, Ark Encounter  https://arkencounter.com/.

We ended the day with a stop in a Kentucky Fried Chicken. We’d visited the original location and museum many years ago. However, it just didn’t feel right to be in the state that made Colonel Sanders famous without a paying homage at a local restaurant.

See Interesting Places. Run.

Tom

1 Done, 2 More To Go

Greetings!  As noted previously, I took great interest when the Atlanta Track Club connected three of their major races to create the Tripe Peach Series. Some portion of the Peachtree Road Race, the PNC 10 Miler and the Atlanta Half Marathon covers the city’s iconic Peachtree Road. The first in the trifecta took place on the 4^th of July with the World’s Largest 10K, The Peachtree. 

Given I have not been running in races for a while, I did not have an all-important qualifying time. Thus, I was randomly give a number way in the back, 63,000 out of 65,000 runners. I never managed to get into a strong running pace as the waves of folks ahead of me were not “racing” per say.  That’s okay, I had more time to enjoy all the interesting costumes of runners and people who came out to cheer us on during the hot and humid morning.

Companies and individual crowed sidewalks and offered refreshments to runners ranging from donuts, pizza, lollypops to 16 ounce cans pf Pabst Blue Ribbon. All and all it was a fun way to start the holiday. Now, it’s time to start logging more miles to get ready for the next event in October.

Have Fun. Run.

Tom