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River Rats – By Robert E. Petras
Welcome
Creative and time-tested approaches to senior fitness, nutrition, well-being, and immunology; interspersed with humorous psychology by a time-tested certified curmudgeon–Bob Petras Sr., who additionally is a certified Elite Personal Fitness Trainer, Nutritionist, and Senior Specialist with the International Sports Science Association, a CrossFit Level 1 Coach, as well as certified by Rice University in the Fundamentals of Immunology and the University of Colorado Boulder in Exercise Science. Petras is also a 16-year kidney cancer survivor and has had two total hip replacements. Welcome to Senior Sixpack!
HACKING IT
Let’s face it: the time comes when you need the extra effort to improve your current fitness level, and the strain and huffing and will power needed to achieve it isn’t exactly the same feeling as...
A FEW NOTES ABOUT NOTES
I did not feel like writing anything today, but I have a little technique that gives me the mental dexterity to light a fire under my own ass....
THE NEW SIXTY
THE NEW SIXTY By Robert E. Petras Give me something To make my knees laugh For today they are In the emergency-use-only mode. I remember when “hip” Meant trying to fit in; Now, it’s titanium, screwed, Holding my life sentences together Like a hyphen. I remember...
POOLITICS
We are the networkDYI–do yourself in.
UNLOADING ABOUT LOADS
We evolved to carry loads. Thanks to the invention of the plastic grocery bag, you need not look any further for evolutionary proof....
SUBTRACTING THE NUMBERS THAT ADD UP
All diets work. I don’t have any diets to suggest to you, but I have suggestions to keep the weight off, an area of weight management that most people fail. I am not going to...
HANGING CURVE
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BEING DIRECT ABOUT DIRECTIONS
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