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Solvitur Ambulando GAINZZZ"Don't underestimate the low-key power of walking," says this article. I walk three miles per day, most days of the week, and I'm not alone in reaping the physiological, mental, and emotional rewards of walking. In his New Yorker article, "Why Walking Helps Us Think," journalist Ferris Jabr writes that when we go for a walk, we perform better on tests of memory and attention; our brain cells build new connections, staving off the usual withering of brain tissue that comes with age; we can actively change the pace of our thoughts by deliberately walking more briskly or by slowing down; and our attention is left to meander and observe, helping us generate new ideas and to have strokes of insight. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a single bout of moderate-to vigorous activity (including walking) can improve our sleep, thinking, and learning, while reducing symptoms of anxiety. I realize a couple of those might not be on all readers' Favorites lists, but you get the idea. Harvard writes of the five bonus benefits of walking. 1. It counteracts the effects of weight-promoting genes. Harvard researchers looked at 32 obesity-promoting genes in over 12,000 people to determine how much these genes actually contribute to body weight. They then discovered that, among the study participants who walked briskly for about an hour a day, the effects of those genes were cut in half. The Art of Manliness, "Solivtur Ambulando: It is solved by walking." Solvitur ambulando. The article provides some quotes intended to do just that:
"When I see the discomforts that ablebodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or half a mile on foot, the abuses they will tolerate and encourage, crowding the street car on a little fall in the temperature or the appearance of an inch or two of snow, packing up to overflowing, dangling to the straps, treading on each other's toes, breathing each other's breaths, crushing the women and children, hanging by tooth and nail to a square inch of the platform, imperiling their limbs and killing the horses--I think the commonest tramp in the street has good reason to felicitate himself on his rare privilege of going afoot. Indeed, a race that neglects or despises this primitive gift, that fears the touch of the soil, that has no footpaths, no community of ownership in the land which they imply, that warns off the walker as a trespasser, that knows no way but the highway, the carriage-way, that forgets the stile, the foot-bridge, that even ignores the rights of the pedestrian in the public road, providing no escape for him but in the ditch or up the bank, is in a fair way to far more serious degeneracy." --John Burroughs, "The Exhilarations of the Road," 1895 "I have read that the Scotch once had a custom of making a yearly pilgrimage or excursion around their boroughs or cities -- 'beating the bounds,' they called it, following the boundaries that they might know what they had to defend. It is a custom that might profitably be revived. We should then know better the cities in which we live. We should be stronger, healthier, for such expeditions, and the better able and the more willing to defend our boundaries." --John Finley, "Traveling Afoot," 1917 "I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,--who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived 'from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre,' to the Holy Land, till the children- exclaimed, 'There goes a SainteTerrer,' Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean....For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels." --Henry D. Thoreau, "Walking," 1862 That etymology seems a little fanciful. EtymologyOnline says it probably comes from the French sauntrer, which itself is a contraction of/evolution from s'adventurer, or "take oneself out for an adventure." Which is also a nice etymology. The "aller a la sainte-terre" etymology actually comes from one of the oldest English dictionaries. This is the etymology given by Samuel Johnson in his great dictionary (1755): But just because it's old doesn't mean it knows what it's talking about. My word as a Biden. No one's sure where the word comes from so if you prefer the "Sainte-Terrer" explanation, there's no proof against it.
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It's good to have a workout buddy. Don't pull a "Jonah Goldberg." This isn't very funny, but here is a compilation of clips of men passing out after completing a heavy lift. Not exactly an advertisement for GAINZZZ. Consider it a caution. This is probably fake but I just don't know what's real any longer. | Recent Comments
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