We are the researchers; we always think and do lots of mental work. We know the benefits of physical exercise: swimming, jogging, tennis, walking, golf. Do you also give the same exercise to your body?
Yes, of course Miranda, physical exercise is good for mental capacities and brain functionning; perhaps first because of its primary function: better oxygenation of the body. To my mind , it allows to decrease stress, anxiety …, which free the mind (personal experience based on an "ancient" :-) practice of Aikido, , but not up-to-date).
But if physical exercise is not regularly practiced, it is more and more difficult to do it with age. We take the pretext of the few time we have , but physical exercise require in fact more and more effort with aging because of a decrease of our performances. So, a vicious circle.
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Didier
Not only for scientists and researchers all the living things are to be need movement,how and when is depends on need based situations. physical exercise create lot of health benefits.
Friends, I forgot to say earlier on that I work with colleagues who say: 'At the end of a busy day, I want REST and food, not exercise.'
Yes, of course Miranda, physical exercise is good for mental capacities and brain functionning; perhaps first because of its primary function: better oxygenation of the body. To my mind , it allows to decrease stress, anxiety …, which free the mind (personal experience based on an "ancient" :-) practice of Aikido, , but not up-to-date).
But if physical exercise is not regularly practiced, it is more and more difficult to do it with age. We take the pretext of the few time we have , but physical exercise require in fact more and more effort with aging because of a decrease of our performances. So, a vicious circle.
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Didier
Human body is a holistic entity, you cannot separate your brain from other body. So, if for example you don't walk every day, probably you will have problems in mind some day...
@Didier. You´re right if you start your exercises at first with high age. You must do them if you are young. Exercices don´t give fun, so young people prefer sports but no exercises. And here you find the complete problem. Fun especially after a hard day of works. Happy the one who started early. A short remark: obviously we need sports or if you prefer exercises for our health and brain!
One looks at people like Steven Hawking and it is clear that the physical and mental can be maintained separately. Personally though, I treasure my physicality. I was for a time a professional dancer, in between jobs as a soil chemist and coal analyst. I loved that time and continue to maintain as much physicality as I can. It is a great pleasure for me to work physically. I recently built a deck on my house. I have added rooms, built half a house, reroofed a section of an old house, done plumbing, landscaping, motor mechanics, built fences, made models for experiments. For me physical experience is more like a meditation not work. Now at 62 I have found that gardening is a new pleasure.
I never exercise, but I fill my days with physical activity.
Yes, it's the people who participated actively in Sports when they were kids or teenagers, who continue to exercise and enjoy it. Most of my students that I meet on the track were athletes and sports people. I played netball and hockey, now I run, jog and brisk walk. I'll respond to your posts as soon as I can...
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Physical exercise is very important for good health, it helps stress decreasing and a better oxygenation of the body. The person feels better as well as her/his thoughts would be more clear. I was custom with aerobic and yoga exercises (2 at 3 hours per week) it was very pleasant. There are not sufficient places were doing exercises in my country and the schedule time is often not appropriate for women who work a full day time. It would be very interesting if offices organize a room for their employees where they could perform 30-45mn of exercises (1 or 2 times per week. Sure that productivity and the social relationships would be better.
Dear Miranda, dear all, thanks a lot for such an attention-grabbing topic!
The involvement of physical exercise among scientists and researchers is a strange topic for many - if not all - researchers, especially in third world countries (I don’t like this term, bus I must use it in this topic) who prefer to take a chair and have a sit at the sun with a book in the Hand and work mentally, instead of dividing their daily time between physical and mental work. For many researchers is sharing mental work with physical work something less important than mental work. This point of view is gathered from my collegial and home-based environment, because both of us, my husband and me – are researchers and I didn’t succeed in changing the habit of my husband and making him forget his books and scientific projects for a meanwhile and go swimming or jogging or doing another physical enjoyable work together. The answer is always “I must finish this work, this article, this book, this correction of exams etc.” but happily this habit had no impact on our children, who have physical training twice a week and are successful in their studies.
Examining the correlation between physical activities and mental work, I think that mental work will be positive, if it is combined with physical enjoyable time-out. All scholars, researchers and scientists should to their best to be intermittently physically dynamic and active, in order to protect their muscles and bones from rusting and to improve basically their health and increase its fitness. Through physical exercise, many undesirable health outcomes can be easily stopped. Physical activities ameliorate in generally the average health of researchers to good physical shape, and protect them from the risk of developing chronic diseases and of getting current chronic illnesses or disabilities. This notion gives an overview of research findings on physical activity and health. The box below provides a summary of these benefits.
I personally ca not work mentally without having a time-out during the week or sometimes the day. Unfortunately my researcher friends don’t like to share these physical activities with me because, they say, they don’t have time for it. I’m a writer (short stories, poems.) and I combine this mental work with movement at the nature, I go jogging a lot with the dogs, I offer sport course for women from the countryside at the middle of the forest where I live, we dance also, my sons I me, we play music (we have a music room), when we see each other during the weekend, and this doesn’t mean that we don’t work mentally, because the quality of the work we do after this break is very high. I also involve my students in my point of view, through lectures with topics about the benefit of the combination of the weekly or daily mental work with physical activities, because they are the present and the future and it’s our duty to make them know what is important for them, when they become researchers or teachers.
It’s true dear Miranda, my colleagues say the same to me, when I try to invite them to go jogging or swimming together. They say that after a hard day they must have a rest and they ignore, that their muscles must be trained after a hard day. It’s a cultural matter too. Many people say that they will move enough when they are pensioners, but they don’t know what they are missing at the present.
Vasil Surducan:
I don’t think so, because the challenge of physical activity is to integrate the movement of the human body with and across the mental movement and not to lock 100% ones intellectual thinking during the activity of the body. General physical activity should affect many organs of the body and engender health and mental conditions. If you move outside your home, your home-office, your laboratory, your lecture hall, you feel free from all daily burden and you nourish your mind with new impulses. You feel free like a bird across the see. You stimulate and increase your mental health and avoid depression and other diseases such as high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, you strength your muscles and endurance and injuries or sudden heart attacks, and in one word you remain young in your mind and intellect and think positive …
Dear Miranda
The researcher rarely has time and interest in physical activity.Do not just have a productive mind if we don't perform physical exercises because they are very important for maintaining bone quality, better blood supply ,help the metabolism of glucose,cholesterol, etc.besides being a very healthy practice providing wellness. Physical activity should be continuous and lasting. We all need best quality of life
In my first answer, I wanted to add a box about the benefits of physical movement, but i don't think that it is necessary to do it, because we have mny specialist researchers hier, who can discuss this point with us.
It's true, dear Nelson Elias, we are responsable for the quality of our life, we can improve it or destroy it. However many of us rrealize it when it is too late. Not to have time and interest for physical activity means to make an end for one's health security and to increase the degree of thehealth vulnerabilty.
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@Mark
Yes; the case of Steven Hawkin (suffering from Lateral Amyotrophic Sclerosis, so praralized) could be an example of possible "dissociation" between mind-brain and the rest of the body. But in majority, the interaction between the brain and body is strong. However , like for blind people developping their other senses than vision, in particular cases, we are able to develop other body functionings. In fact, brain necessitates only O2 and glucose to function , even at very low levels. The person who have few physical capacities increase their efficiency to give at disposure to the brain these two essential "nutriments".
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Didier
@Miranda, I do consider myself very lazy in terms of physical activity. My family force me to walk every day! I like the last part of @Nelson response :" Physical activity should be continuous and lasting. We all need best quality of life" ! I agree but I do not implement , unfortunately, like many!
@Vladimur, just by thinking or are you exercising saltos and handstands together with your beloved PC? :-))
It is all about making it a habit ! Anyone can scrape 20 minutes a day to exercise a little bit.
Since I realized that, I will never fit it in my schedule to go to the gym, I started parking far from the school :) At least, walking a long distance every day should help :)
Physical exercises make you healthier especially if you spend a lot if time in the front of the computer.
Some universities have a workout centre. University of Bucharest does, not sure on the attendance and popularity...
Miranda, I run habitually long distances > 10mi every other day or so. It helps clear my mind and I've written (in my head) whole paragraphs while running - running is a private space that allows me to think. When I don't run I begin to feel slow and domesticated.
When in grad school I quantified the numbers of smokers in front of the different colleges (students/faculty must smoke outside) as a class project - I was glad to find that the college of natural resources (my college) had one of the lowest numbers of smokers, while the college of law and the college of bioinformatics had the highest numbers of smokers! The college of sports and athletics thankfully had the lowest numbers of smokers. So, it seems that academic discipline was an important determinant of physical health and activity among academics.
Brisk walking, cycling and climbing the stairs help a lot to entertain new ideas to flourish.These things I do regularly , at least five days a week. Moreover, to test fitness I personally favor long distance cycling at least once a year - a stretch of 90+ km in one go (with minimum intermittent rests ). It simply boosts the inner spirit and a self confirmation - " If I wish, still I can"- a desperate effort to rise above the self constructed definition of mediocrity. (It is so difficult to get rid of petty bourgeoisie legacy !!)
Dear friends, I see that you are all are aware that we must exercise, and you have started doing it :) Getting started is at least one-quarter the battle won, what do you think? Yes, we must continue at it.
@Ljubomir, you have a great family! For the sake of everyone, you must exercise.
I find that when I move all the large muscles (legs and arms), I feel a lot better and healthier and more alert. But I can't run or jog for an hour, so I brisk walk. That's the good thing about walking, we can go on and on.....
@Nelson, would walking help to BURN FAT? I don't want to burn just glycogen, or to get muscle cramps. What else will HELP burn fat, rather than glycogen only?
@Dariusz, Michael, Merish: do you need good weather for your exercises? Or are you the indoor gym people?
Well, nice question!
In Cairo, I used to walk a lot...
In the Netherlands, I used to live very close to the University. This was not a good idea at all... because, I felt that I would turn crazy without any physical exercise. So, I moved far and decided to get to Uni and back home every day by bike.. about 10 km/day approx. 45 minutes... I was satisfied, but then I started to feel that this is not anymore enough! So, I have started again to walk and run. Now I really think about a gym...
It is not only for new ideas and refreshment! It is because we sit veryyyyyyy long time starring at PCs...
Yes, Alaa. I also stare at the PC during morning hours when I'm not in class. Just like you, long hours there...
One of my friends went to Germany recently. He was surprised that the people there walk such a lot. I live inside my college campus most of the time. If I leave the cubicle at about 5.30 pm, I can be on the track by 6 pm, and finish all my exercising by 7. By the time I can cool down and shower, it's late, quite late.
I want to remind all of you with a very easy and quick exercises that I spontaneously do allover the day: STRETCHING
stretch you arm muscles while sitting at your desk!
raise your legs to the height of your thigh while sitting on your chair and keep it that way for one minute... You will realize that it is not easy, but it is indeed very good practice :)
Dear Miranda,
Going in for sports is necessary from the very early childhood, and the earlier, the better. Playing sports are said to be the most useful, but I preferred the individual ones: skating, skiing, swimming, cycling, track and field athletics; however, when I would like I could play football with boys. Besides, at the age of 12-15 I engaged in sporting (apparatus) gymnastics (which I liked very much) in sport school.
Fortunately, that my sport experience turned out to be quite enough for the harmonic development, inasmuch as later I had no any time for sport (see, please, the discussion on my another question in RG: “On varying speed of flow of time over our life”). Of course, I understand that we are living up to we are moving and thinking, and I try to use any necessity and possibility to give any exercise to my body during the work and at home.
Please, take my experience into account in physical training of your children.
Dear Friends,
There is a "strange" effect of practicing sport on our mind and body. To my knwoledges,there can exist an "addiction" to sport, and it could be explain by its physiology. Indeed, practice triggers in our brain secretion of endorphins and enkephalins (equivalent to exogenous morphin) , probably because, when we are not used at the beginning, and that it can be a stress for our muscle. And we could feel pains, that could be the contrary of we want to feel. Then, pains decrease with practice, the secretion of endorphins also, and it's like a withdrawal syndrome leading to practice again. That appears more evident in bodybuilders. But the sensations after sport are most often happiness, wlle feeling ...And on a mental point of view, there is a good positive stengthening, because we have been able to surpass ourself in general, and we increase our performance. On the body, evidently, that is good to increase its capacities: heart, breathe ..and to continue to practice it obliges in general to stop smoking; all indirect effects good for health.
But is there an increase in life expectancy practicing sport ? Certainly indirectly by the precedent effects, and obliging us to change our life modes, but not demontrated by a direct effect I think . By contrast , intense practice can decrease a good body state.
So, always, and for all things: the "way of middle".
Regards
Didier
Dear Miranda,
Like everybody here, I’m aware of the benefits drawn from regular exercise. I never feel as well as when I practice sport or do exercise. And it acts directly on my efficiency at work. As Didier noticed, it’s certainly a matter of oxygenation of brain cells, which boosts mental faculties. Mental and physical are tightly linked and constitute a whole entity. Yet, there are times when it’s not so easy to take time to have physical activities, because of work but also family, and as far as I’m concerned it’s just one of these times, so right now, I try to walk as much as possible, instead of taking the bus, for instance.
By the way, since you’re much involved in music, I think that you could ask a similar question about the positive impact of playing music on intellectual faculties.
All the best,
Sébastien
Well, dears, someone, years ago, suggested to have as much time for mental activity as for physical one. Than we may expect optimum. My colleagues who have been doing with dental research, beside teaching and practising, for over 20 years, conclude that it is the right way, to be 'update' till 70 and better. servus. Tomasz
Dear friends,
I was a very sedentary girls growing up. I didn't like moving or playing sports, and nobody motivated me to do so, since both my parents don't do sports of physical activity at all. By the time I was 15 started an aerobics class at school. At the university I walked a lot and had a part time job in the afternoon so I walked and moved a lot. But along came grad school.... I became sedentary again and eventually gained weight. A year ago I started running and doing some exercise at home and felt awesome! I lost my way for a few months but I'm decided to start again right away!!
I think what others have mentioned here is so true. When you have an active childhood is easier to stay active as a teen ager and young adult. But I think that if you're not exercising by your 20's it's really hard to keep up. It has to be a part of your life so don't see it like extra work. But as one of your entertainments!
I love exercising, it makes me feel better with myself, more energized! Although, it's still hard for me to make it part of my daily routine, specially once I fell off the wagon!!!! One of my resolutions for this year (that I'm turning 30) is to run a 5K or 10K!!! At least one!!! Hope I make it!! :D
Miranda and others,
This comment is in regards to the effect of age on athletic ability. I have noticed anecdotal support for an age-threshold in physical ability at about 45 years old. Above this threshold, physical ability and perhaps survival/health begins to decline more rapidly. I only say this because I have been looking at data from our local running club, and I have been stat consulting some women's exercise research... There appears to be weak support for this in the data I have looked at. Has anybody else seen support for a age-threshold in physical ability or survival/health for humans, other animals? Just curious.
@Ustinova, thanks. I train my students, only the long jumpers. Like you, I like the apparatus gymnastics: the clubs, ribbon, ball etc. We call it 'gymrama',
@Vasile, thanks. Friends, if at 85 years, we can still walk 6 km a day, as in the case of your friend, it's a miracle. So far, I don't have joint pains yet, I praise God.
@Sebastien, yes, most of us know that our challenge is time for exercise. It gets crowded out, even though exercise is important to us. TOLGA and some others said the same earlier on.
I like this photo of the little violinist. Is it your son? If I had children, I would insist they learn music and ballet /dance or sports.
@Tomasz and Cinthya, congrats and welcome to our club of Keep Fit RG members!
@John, I'm not very sure if 45 is the threshold age; is it the latest? Because, with better knowledge and nutrition, it may vary. If I have info, I will pass it on to you. Thanks all of you.
Dear Miranda, yes, yes and only yes!!! I cannot imagine my life without various sport activities: running in the morning, multiple workouts throughout the week, skiing with and bicycling my friends - this list in very long in my case. From my point of view, sport is the best relaxation that my body can have after 3-4 hours of intensive mental work. First, it makes me healthier. Second, it allows my mind to lose its focus from merely work to the surrounding world - it is big and interesting! Third, in many cases some inspiration comes to me exactly during my sport activities. Fourth, it is just fun!
Yes Pavel. I missed you, for some time you weren't on my threads. But it's understandable, you must be busy! Yesterday, I also had a deadline, to submit a revised paper before 5 pm. Managed :)
Concerning INSPIRATION and good ideas, I agree. Maybe it's rhythm of brisk walk' so the mind becomes more creative. Besides, INSPIRATION also means breathing in. How wonderful if with each deep breath, great ideas just come to us!
Yeah, I was a bit swamped around - tomorrow is the deadline for my abstract as well, so I worked pretty nerdy to get it done. Now life seems to be easier, so I am back to RG. Hooray!
Dear Miranda,
I would like to say that you and I like still some different kind of gymnastics. Your ‘gymrama’ is, apparently, woman calisthenics, and my sporting gymnastics is apparatus work, where apparatus are rings, horizontal bar, parallel and uneven bars, balance beam, vaulting horse, and floor exercise. Your ‘gymrama’ is fine and very feminine.
A healthy mind is in a healthy body, to summarize much of what has been shared on this forum.
I, myself, do not miss any 10 KM marathon and I play soccer with my students. Every year, we have sport competitions between departments. I always form my team and play (usually all kids around me) but thanks God I can manage to make their game difficult since I play defense. It is a joy, very demanding, and keeps me having more fun in my teaching and research activities.
Yes I love exercise and yoga. Exercise, yoga, music are part of my daily activities. I do 70 minutes brisk walking in the morning with stretching before and after walking and yoga before bedtime. I confirmed that 70 minutes brisk walking keeps my blood pressure stable to 120/80. Stepping exercise (100 steps) and 50 counts sit-ups good for me. Mind body and soul are inseparable and affecting each other. Exercise is therapeutic. Life is not always smooth sailing. Exercise, yoga with music add courage and strength to sail in turbulent flow.
@Ustinova, thanks. Now I understand your meaning of 'apparatus'. I always admired the Russian gymnasts. They're very strong, very rhythmic.
@Flor, Hussin, thanks. Yes, exercise helps physical stamina and strength. As Hussin has said, we need a healthy mind and body, to enjoy our life and work in teaching and research :)
"Do you also give the same excercise to your body? "
Noo. (Disaster).
It's necessary to dance more... (This is good).
Is very important to maintenance all body properties, mechanisms, biological function, relation of all systems.
(Stop and move...) Go out, to refresh... All this is good studying.
I remember that when I was young I studied walking many times.
@Miranda, I forgot to mention that I am an avid fisherman. When fishing from a boat, there is not much activity, but walking along the river and searching for fish means good physical activity. Tomorrow is a fishing day! :)
Otherwise, physical activity does not depend on someone years!
Physical exercise is physical activity in various ways including dancing. Walking along the river and fishing are great. Nature is therapeutic and enhances sense of well being.
Florencia Maldia: Not everyone is aware of the advantage of dancing for the whole body and all the brain. I learned in Germany that Oriental dance for instance offers many techniques which let move every part of the body and feel the rhythm of the own breath and lead into the own soul. Sometimes it is not possible to go out and walk or jog or do another sport, in this it’s very good to hear a good music and try to move one e’s body (dance), instead of pretending not to have time for physical exercises (sport), because our brain needs a break and our body must prevent its rusting and needs movement.
Ljubomir Jacic: Walking along the river and fishing is really great; you are lucky to have ariver near you.
Hussin Hejase: Thanks for remembring us the arab proverb "a healthy mind is in a healthy body", my parents uencouraged me to do sport , i learnd ballet and professional swimming more than 16 years, though i was a girl, and I was a very succesful at school and during my studies...
Florencia Maldia: Not everyone is aware of the advantage of dancing for the whole body and all the brain. I learned in Germany that Oriental dance for instance offers many techniques which let move every part of the body and feel the rhythm of the own breath and lead into the own soul. Sometimes it is not possible to go out and walk or jog or do another sport, in this it’s very good to hear a good music and try to move one e’s body (dance), instead of pretending not to have time for physical exercises (sport), because our brain needs a break and our body must prevent its rusting and needs movement.
Ljubomir Jacic: Walking along the river and fishing is really great; you are lucky to have ariver near you.
Hussin Hejase: Thanks for remembring us the arab proverb "a healthy mind is in a healthy body", my parents uencouraged me to do sport , i learnd ballet and professional swimming more than 16 years, though i was a girl, and I was a very succesful at school and during my studies...
@Rachida Zoubid: Thank you for sharing your knowledge on physical exercise. Your ideas are fully respected. I answered the posted question in my context. The choice of physical exercise is highly individualized. It depends on the age, purpose, health condition, time, location, culture, and etc. I do physical exercise to meet my own health needs physically, mentally, spiritually. Personally dancing and music are therapeutic. I did dancing too. Brisk walking, yoga and music are part of my daily activities. I go to the Slimmers World Gym and do various physical exercise for health promotion with physical fitness trainor .
@Ljubomir, I think you are the first to mention fishing. Yes, it's not just physical exercise that you'll get. I think fishing helps to develop patience (to wait for the fish) and tranquility, so that we don't disturb the fish :)
I studied in an agricultural university, but the courses became so diversified that we now we need another agric university. But at my time, the students doing Fishery used to say: 'working is only for those who can't fish' .....
@Rachida, thanks for summarizing! Yes, it's good that we got used to all this sports an exercise since we were young.
@Flor, you brought up 'The choice of physical exercise is highly individualized. It depends on the age, purpose, health condition, time, location, culture, and etc' Thanks.
Recently, in some places here, joggers and walkers were robbed, mugged! It's very sad. The police tried their best, but still there were such cases happening. I think that the criminals were foreigners and they don't care about our country at all. This year happens to be the 'Visit Malaysia Year'.
No I am stuck badly in studies that unable to do exercise. But I am thinking of its dire need because I become very tired after ending my study.
Dear Amir, allow me to give you a hint. Your studies are less tiring and sticking, if you do a minimum quant of exercising your body and soul. Try it, I was successfull with this techniques my whole life! :-)
@Amir and Hanno: Thanks; exercise is as much needed as work and study. They make up LIFE itself. :)
@Amir Ilyas
Try suggestion of Hanno Krieger. It is a good idea to make time for physical exercise of your choice. Do it slowly from 10 min, 20, to 30 minutes until it is integrated in to your system of daily activities. It is normal to stop exercising after you made a try. What is important is to repeat trying. Best wishes, more power, and success.
Dear Friends, I think we all realize that we have to keep up with physical exercise. What about mental exercise? For researchers like us, our brains are always working like a mill, as Vasile says!! What will happen to us if this must stop?
What I observe is that some friends who choose to retire early only enjoy their retirement for the first year when they can travel around the world. When they come home, there's not much that they feed their MINDS. Then they seem to have a lot of problems. SO what do you plan to do?
Dear Miranda, retiring mentally is no solution. What you need are short breaks of recovering. During these periods your neurons leave the constraints to a single action. They give place to often unconscious access to some interesting thoughts. Everybody knows the strange dreams you have when sleeping and the new powerfull restarts after a short mental rest.
@Friends, thanks all of you. I hope you enjoy this thread. I have holidays till Sunday for the Chinese New Year break, but I still have the mobile to read your interesting posts. Before I joined RG (and before RG was born), I spent some holiday time driving with friends and practicing driving, because it's not one of my natural talents.
@Ljubomir and friends, thanks very much for your kind thoughts and good wishes. I have done the normal round of Chinese new year visitation. It's good to be back at RG.
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Great Vasile. 'As we have received freely, so we should give.' I have no computer here, can't up-vote at all on this small mobile.....
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Ljubomir, Vasile, friends: today I'm back to work. I promised myself that I will keep to a very tight schedule, but I will still have time to exercise; and for some RG activities :)
Working from a desktop will help:)
Have you tried using mobile internet? Even when I am so careful in typing, I can still make mistakes in sending!
I agree with you Vasile. Behaving with positive assertiveness spreads a positive energy around us. Lower stress is like running the Marathon! Consequently productivity is boosted.
@Hussin et al., Thanks, '...productivity is boosted....'
I got back to work, even though my students are still on holidays. Lots of reading is needed when we begin a new project. This time I want to study about Motivation. So for 3 days, I couldn't even go for my normal exercise. How sad!
But yesterday evening was a break through. Breezy, 27 C and no rain. I had a good brisk walk for 45 minutes and breathed good fresh air and the aroma of newly cut grass :))
Friends, what games and exercises are you doing in this season? Anyone interested in the Winter Olympics?
@Miranda, mobile application for RG is needed immediately, or I am going to have more than 100 kg! Walking and RGating, right!
@Ljubomir, mobile internet can also be used when you go fishing. Fish won't be disturbed. But sometimes you need a break.
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Absolutely, Miranda. I swim five miles a day. It helps research and organizes the day!
@Nelson, so you have a heated pool then? I watch the news, US seems to have such an ICY winter. The focus was on Georgia, though...
Miranda, I go to the community center of my small university town. It has a heated indoor pool which I use. Most days I find that pool practically empty, but it is so beautiful.
@Nelson, you are fortunate. Most of us are at work at the time when you can be swimming :)
Ravi did say that the winter is so icy cold. I think he's in NJ.
I guess that physical exercise is a must and a duty towards ourselves, our family and our stakeholders, in this case our students. A busy mind will relax giving chance to stimulate other views while exercising a fact that adds more motivation to continue with our set objectives.
@Prof Hussin, I agree to 'physical exercise is a must and a duty towards ourselves, our family and our stakeholders'. Thanks.
Physical exercise is one key to quality of life in later years wen we all get older. I also throw away my bad habits of drinking coffee, staying up late nights with my laptop or mobile internet, etc
Dear Miranda, you are totally right with your hint for elder people. But don´t forget the fun and (I hope) health which young people have when practising sports.
@Miranda, You have asked me about weather and if I go fishing? I do not remember under which thread it was, but let me tell You that is nice weather, preparation are ongoing, and I hope that I am going to fish soon, for weekend! And if I am not wrong, this is my 1000 answer! :)
@Hanno, Ljubomir et al., have good fun fishing, exercising.
There's an unusual feature of blogging; we never count and then suddenly we see that we have posted many answers. I'm sure this is the experience of Hanno, Nelson, Emilia, Bassam, John, Tolga et al. I still remember the time when I had only 15 followers :))
Dear friends, this is one of our good friends, Lijo. Are we energetic enough to cycle 40 km in temperatures of 40 Celsius?
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