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Ignoramus792
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Thanks William. I am starting to be interested in yoga, not knowing
much about it.
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In article <[email protected]>, William Sakovich wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any comments or book suggestions?
>
> I have two book suggestions.
>
> First, while I was not obese, I was starting to get past what I
> considered an acceptable weight, and started walking, just as you
> did. Rather than do 100 minutes a day, I read somewhere that one
> should do 13,000 steps a day (it took just a couple of days to
> figure out that this took me two hours). In a few months of
> merely walking, I got to the point where there was just no weight
> left that I had to lose. I didn't do it all at once--I broke it
> up into an hour in the morning and an hour at night.
>
> My wife discovered a book called Breathwalk by Yogi Bajan and
> another Westerner who took an Indian name. If you cut through the
> internal PR encouraging people to get started, there is a lot of
> beneficial information here.
>
> Essentially it is a program to combine aerobic breathing
> exercises with walking, which you're going to be doing anyway.
> The warm-up exercises also are very good. I recommend this.
> Forget about all the names they give to the various
> techniques--the techniques themselves are excellent.
>
> Second, I got a book called the Complete Guide to Joseph H.
> Pilates' Techniques of Physical Conditioning, by Alan Menezes.
> These are exercises based on the Pilates system, but which do not
> require equipment and which can be done at home. A few for the
> arms require small weights, but the book says you can use "a can
> of beans". Other people use big bottles of water. I had a couple
> of 1.5 kilogram weights around the house, which I use (slightly
> more than three pounds). I also recommend this. It is especially
> good for the body below the rib cage. I described one of the
> exercises in the book to a doctor, and he said, "If you do that,
> you're going to lose weight."
>
> Both are available at Amazon.com, where you can read more about
> them, or might even be on the shelves at a local bookstore. They
> sure work for me.
>
> - Bill Sakovich
much about it.
i
223/176/180
In article <[email protected]>, William Sakovich wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any comments or book suggestions?
>
> I have two book suggestions.
>
> First, while I was not obese, I was starting to get past what I
> considered an acceptable weight, and started walking, just as you
> did. Rather than do 100 minutes a day, I read somewhere that one
> should do 13,000 steps a day (it took just a couple of days to
> figure out that this took me two hours). In a few months of
> merely walking, I got to the point where there was just no weight
> left that I had to lose. I didn't do it all at once--I broke it
> up into an hour in the morning and an hour at night.
>
> My wife discovered a book called Breathwalk by Yogi Bajan and
> another Westerner who took an Indian name. If you cut through the
> internal PR encouraging people to get started, there is a lot of
> beneficial information here.
>
> Essentially it is a program to combine aerobic breathing
> exercises with walking, which you're going to be doing anyway.
> The warm-up exercises also are very good. I recommend this.
> Forget about all the names they give to the various
> techniques--the techniques themselves are excellent.
>
> Second, I got a book called the Complete Guide to Joseph H.
> Pilates' Techniques of Physical Conditioning, by Alan Menezes.
> These are exercises based on the Pilates system, but which do not
> require equipment and which can be done at home. A few for the
> arms require small weights, but the book says you can use "a can
> of beans". Other people use big bottles of water. I had a couple
> of 1.5 kilogram weights around the house, which I use (slightly
> more than three pounds). I also recommend this. It is especially
> good for the body below the rib cage. I described one of the
> exercises in the book to a doctor, and he said, "If you do that,
> you're going to lose weight."
>
> Both are available at Amazon.com, where you can read more about
> them, or might even be on the shelves at a local bookstore. They
> sure work for me.
>
> - Bill Sakovich