Strengthen Core and Keep Aligned to Help with Gardening and Yard Work
Bending over Gardening and Yard Work, especially for hours, can irritate the lower back. This is mini video should help stop and alleviate that along with too much computer work.
The whole idea of this is to strengthen up your core and help keep your spine in alignment.
Most of the reps are 3 to 5. The goal isn’t to get a great workout but to feel good and loosen up.
This is generic so only do what you feel comfortable doing.
Only do the position that you feel you can handle. Make sure your surrounding area is safe. Have cushioning under your knees when doing the push-up exercises and behind you when doing the back exercises.
Reps can be between 5 and 20 (a rep is one complete movement)
Sets can be 1 to 3 (a set is a number of reps)
Progression can be a change in body position and the number of sets and reps.
Make sure you’re breathing!
Usually there’s at least three people involved so I’m still working on lighting, etc.
I was invited to join @verddure and was amazed by the clip of the living wall. I wrote to my cousin Yvonne that she should check out the @verddure Instagram site. Than I remembered Yvonne’s amazing garden of plentiful and very large vegetables and fruits. She was kind enough to let me interview her over the Internet.
I am always so fortunate that my garden thrives. My favourite moment was when my grandson said that his lunch would be what he could harvest for himself. He had sugar snap peas, lettuce and raspberries for lunch that day. That is what makes it all worthwhile.
What got you into growing gardens?
I have always enjoyed being outside and love nature. It felt like a natural step to grow flowers and vegetables. In fact my flower garden is mostly perennials to free my time to focus on the vegetable garden. There is nothing like fresh food one grows from seed. While researching my family history, I discovered that my grandmother’s parents owned a greenhouse in Toronto in the early 1900’s, so guess it is in my blood.
Your vegetables are much bigger than the average garden. Is there a special soil and/or nutrients you use?
I focus on composting. Every kitchen scrap from my kitchen goes directly into the compost. This includes coffee grounds, tea bags egg shells and vegetable peels (not meat or bones or dairy). Over the past three years I also made “chicken poop tea” from the manure my backyard chickens generously leave in their coop. I actually did an experiment two years ago with my pepper plants. I used the “tea” on half of the plants and within a week they were six inches taller than the others. Obviously I gave the rest of the plants a little “drink” after that.
Cold Frames to extend the season.
How did you get the raspberries to grow so high?
I make sure I cut back all dead canes every spring. I also use lots of the fall leaves as mulch and of course top fertilize with compost. The mulch helps keep moisture in the ground so the raspberries flourish.
Your cucumbers are the size of zucchinis. Did you plant the seeds earlier than usual?
No I planted at the proper time. Sometimes you just get lucky with weather conditions. I followed the same procedures for all my garden. Compost, water, mulch when possible (a good mulch can be grass clippings).
No chemicals, just sunshine, rain and compost and of course a little TLC.
When a plant is larger does it change the taste at all?
Yes, if a zucchini gets too big it no longer tastes tender and nice, but chickens really like to eat those as a treat. Cucumbers will start to taste bitter if they are allowed to turn yellowish. The same holds for beans, peas, and radishes. Lettuce will become bitter or “go to seed” once the weather turns hot. Most greens are best in the spring or early summer. A second planting can be done late in the summer for a fall crop as the weather cools.
I couldn’t keep ahead of the zucchini. It felt like they were getting bigger as I stood there watching.The tomato plants grew so tall they were falling over. Some tomatoes were so large, you only needed one slice for a sandwichA size comparison.Thanks Everyone! Hope you enjoyed this interview.
This is an excellent book by Anthony B. Carey, M.A., C.S.C.S.
I just finished a Functional Training Program Specialist course through ACE and part of the curriculum was to read The Pain-Free Program.
What I really enjoyed about the book is it’s realistic and based on real life.
The exercise and stretch program is designed to help alleviate pain and increase functional ability by correcting imbalances in the body.
Six Forms are used. Each form describes a posture. Examples are kyphosis–rounded upper back, and lordosis–excessive curvature in lower back.
Within each Form are three possible groups: Physical Worker (construction, etc.), Dexterity Worker (accountant, etc.), Multi-tasking (stay at home parent, postal worker, etc.).
Once the Form and type of work or lifestyle are determined an individual and design a program suited to them.
I’ve greatly simplified this. The goal is to demonstrate why I like this book so much.
Below are some examples to help you out should you follow the book.
Hard to believe these pictures were taken fifteen years ago.
Front view with lines to determine imbalances: model: Krystal G nee HSide view with lines to determine imbalances: model: Krystal G nee HKyphosis view with lines to determine imbalances: model: Krystal G nee HLordosis view with lines to determine imbalances: model: Krystal G nee H
My original intention was to have two or more websites. One for writing, interviewing, guest writers, artist, models etc., and promoting my books. The other one, with my co-blogger Taylor Norris, RMT, for exercise instruction with a tinge of humour when possible. However, I can only download videos on Caedar-writing-artwork and put the link to the video on Twhealthhumor.
The mini workouts are meant to be instructional. I suggest you don’t go to failure while doing the exercises. Focus more on the techniques for breathing, posture, and movement. The quality isn’t quite where I would like it. Because of the isolation I’m director, cinematographer, instructor, and editor. As soon as possible for you and me there will be someone else behind the camera and/or in front of it.
No Taylor in this video, nor my niece Andraya behind the camera, or any of our other friends. But that will change in the near future!
Keep Safe!
Click HD to get a clearer picture:
The video was made with a Nikon D7100 and Nikon mic.
Take your time and understand how to do the movements properly. That’s much more important than just swinging your legs around. This isn’t meant to burn you but to warm-up the limbs using proper posture. Only do what you feel you can. It’s a short workout but it is a workout. 3-8 reps. Do all the movements than if you’re bursting with energy repeat. But leave some energy for the rest of the day.
Circling the feet didn’t get on the camera so just do them on your own, slowly, in both directions.
Normally Andraya would be behind the camera and Taylor would be in the front working with me or one of our other friends. We’ll have to wait awhile before that happens again. So be patient with the lighting and other video misalignments.
This was filmed with a Nikon D7100 camera. Audio recorded with a Nikon ME-1 mic. Edited with filmora9 and converted to MP4 with Wondershare.
I reviewed Cixin Liu’s “The Three Body Problem” awhile ago. For someone who is not from the East and did not grow up in China I found Cixin Liu’s book refreshing. His technical knowledge is far beyond mine, he is a computer engineer and more, but he explains the theories in a way most people can grasp.
In his second book of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy he deals more with philosophy. The Dark Forest is technical but it suggests philosophies we as Earthlings really need to consider as we go to other planets and try to communicate with the rest of the galaxy. The major philosophical discovery made by the main character, Lou Ji, is terrifying!
This is a link to a short Interview about and with Cixin Liu (Liu Cixin in Chinese).
The body will say what it feels; the mind will conceive of a plan based on what it sees and wants; but the soul speaks what is real. The soul’s language is not conceived but dwells in the depths. And it is a language so hard to let out. I have read the word images of Shayleene MacReynolds’ over the last while and have come to realize she is speaking from the soul.
Astrophysics can be complicated with astronomical formulas to determine distance, speed, mass, gravity and much more. If you want to know how formulas were used to prove theories in astrophysics you can purchase: On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy edited and with commentary by the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
If you want an overview of space exploration that gives simple experiments to grasp the concepts without the formulas: An Earthing’s Guide To Outer Space by Bob McDonald is excellent!
Bob McDonald hosts CBC’s Quirks and Quarks
It’s an easy and good read that talks about how space travel came about, what it’s like to blast off in a rocket and live on a space station, and the effects living space has on the body. He also talks about planet movement, event horizons, and what the sun is made of. I’ve simplified what’s in the book so you can enjoy what I haven’t mentioned.
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