As I wander well into my eighth decade I have recently decided to take my health seriously. Apparently some new (to me) research suggests the remarkable finding that vigorous exercise is a good thing. What got me thinking was when I found this:
Pending the AAW BOD commissioning a large scale, multi year, peer reviewed study from our professional development funds supplemented by re-purposed educational development funds, I am seeking anecdotal evidence to support my bias that 12 hours of active turning equals or exceeds the requisite one hour of vigorous excercise.
For Starters a few examples of my personal such evidence:
- Starting my chain saw (20 pulls average, not counting cursing, marching around, and throwing it into a pile of chips) is worth a good five minutes
- My lathe yesterday hurling one half of a 10 inch bowl into my turning muscle (never mind the semi circle of bruises on my tummy) surely raised my heart rate to constitute another 14 minutes and 22 seconds.
- Every few minutes I walk, quickly, to the grinder, and back to the lathe. 10 steps round trip. Should I move the grinder upstairs? Or down the block to my buddies shop? Or more reasonably (less lost time) do jumping jacks to and from the grinder.
- Surely shop cleanup, constant log rearrangement, sealing log ends, searching for "stolen" tools, is of continued benefit
- I believe sincerely that my Tuesday midnight runs in my PJ's to neighbors' garbage cans to find room for shavings is of great, and certainly of measurable value. (As if they didn't know where the spillover on their sidewalk came from.)
- Hiding and retrieving logs hidden from my wife under her overhanging azaleas and rhododendrons while futile at one level (she finds them easily) does keep me and her quite active.
This is in reality a momentous matter to me. I need to make every year I have left count. Every time I have felt the urgency to vigorously exercise I have been in the habit of diverting my attention to turning. I hope this will not requre an intervention of some sort that leads to less time turning and more time doing........
I welcome serious contributions on this important subject. I am asking Betty to add a regular column by Mr. Ellsworth (a pioneer in such turning and health matters) on "Turning and your Heart" to the Journal. I believe this type of material would attract "healthy" numbers of new readers and AAW members.
Thank you for your consideration.
"The Institute of Medicine recently released a lengthy report recommending that, as part of a routine regimen to maintain cardiovascular health and ideal body weight and body composition, we should all engage in 60 minutes of daily vigorous physical activity."
Pending the AAW BOD commissioning a large scale, multi year, peer reviewed study from our professional development funds supplemented by re-purposed educational development funds, I am seeking anecdotal evidence to support my bias that 12 hours of active turning equals or exceeds the requisite one hour of vigorous excercise.
For Starters a few examples of my personal such evidence:
- Starting my chain saw (20 pulls average, not counting cursing, marching around, and throwing it into a pile of chips) is worth a good five minutes
- My lathe yesterday hurling one half of a 10 inch bowl into my turning muscle (never mind the semi circle of bruises on my tummy) surely raised my heart rate to constitute another 14 minutes and 22 seconds.
- Every few minutes I walk, quickly, to the grinder, and back to the lathe. 10 steps round trip. Should I move the grinder upstairs? Or down the block to my buddies shop? Or more reasonably (less lost time) do jumping jacks to and from the grinder.
- Surely shop cleanup, constant log rearrangement, sealing log ends, searching for "stolen" tools, is of continued benefit
- I believe sincerely that my Tuesday midnight runs in my PJ's to neighbors' garbage cans to find room for shavings is of great, and certainly of measurable value. (As if they didn't know where the spillover on their sidewalk came from.)
- Hiding and retrieving logs hidden from my wife under her overhanging azaleas and rhododendrons while futile at one level (she finds them easily) does keep me and her quite active.
This is in reality a momentous matter to me. I need to make every year I have left count. Every time I have felt the urgency to vigorously exercise I have been in the habit of diverting my attention to turning. I hope this will not requre an intervention of some sort that leads to less time turning and more time doing........
I welcome serious contributions on this important subject. I am asking Betty to add a regular column by Mr. Ellsworth (a pioneer in such turning and health matters) on "Turning and your Heart" to the Journal. I believe this type of material would attract "healthy" numbers of new readers and AAW members.
Thank you for your consideration.
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