exercise and age of death

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Evening Ron,

 

>>I'm reminded of a well known after dinner speaker who said " The only

>exercise I get is serving as pallbearer for my friends who exercise " .

 

Gee, thanks for the rescue. Now I don't have to worry about

exercising so little.

 

I think we have been misled about the benefits of exercise. We have been

misled about virtually everything else.

 

In one of the water books, Dr. Bragg, I think, told about one of the

greatest tennis players of all times. Seems he died of a heart attack at

an early age, either 48 or 58.

 

He also mentions the name " Sandow " who was the first great muscle

man. Sandow lived from 1867 to 1925. Dr. Bragg said he knew this man

personally, and visited him often.

 

Here is a site...... http://www.sandowmuseum.com/index.html In these

years, even Dr. Bragg must have been somewhat handicapped himself to

think a single thing could cause this man to die from a heart attack. He

could have been right.

 

Sandow died of a heart attack at about the same age. Maybe 58. Of

course Dr. Bragg stated this was from drinking chlorinated water and not

drinking distilled water. I don't think that was the whole story. The time

frame of these incidences was a number of years back.

 

Still,..... this caused some interest in other names I have know over the

years. One was John C. Grimek, a strongman of the 30's and 40's He

lived to be 88. http://www.cbass.com/grimek.htm

 

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Grimek was also the only man to win the Mr. America title twice, and was

also a member of the 1936 US Olympic weightlifting team. He won the Mr.

Universe in 1948 and the Mr. USA in 1949. He was also an expert swimmer,

diver, acrobat and muscle control expert. He was also very strong, and

capable of a 400-pound jerk.

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There was a few other names I tried to run down. I did find out some

information about them, but could not tell how they died or at what age.

 

Back to exercise, I do just enough to keep a small amount of muscle tone,

not get stiff, and not loose all the remaining strength I have as I get

older. The main thing I like to do is hiking in the woods with a day

pack. While we don't have mountains here, we do have hills that are a few

hundred feet high. Doing 4 to 6 miles per day in this terrain does stress

the muscles a bit.

 

One of the doctors I trust.... ( or did ) Dr. Campbell Douglass, is the

one that wrote some information about doing exercise with oxygen

therapy. He fully convinced me to the point that I went to a bit of

trouble to get the oxygen.

 

Of course he is a human just like us, and he could be dead wrong.

 

If one is barely able to exercise, the oxygen can get a person up off his

rear and allow him to exercise.

Granted, Greg has pointed out problems. Still there must be some benefits

to the oxygen. We can take the additional anti-oxidants to hopefully

overcome this down side. Even if we don't use oxygen, we still need to do

this. So.... when I use oxygen, I will double the amount of

anti-oxidants. I need to do more research on this before I give up the use

of oxygen.

 

This sounds like the crazy way Americans make tea. Make it hot, then add

ice to make it cold. Add sugar, then add lemon to make it sour.

 

Last night I did the treadmill without using the oxygen.

 

Oh well....... any ideas, suggestions, or criticism are welcome.

 

Wayne