OGGIES, ESPECIALLY OUR SENIOR OGGIES, CAN BENEFIT FROM SWIMMING TO MAINTAIN LEAN MUSCLE AND BURN CALORIES…ALONG WITH YOGA, SWIMMING IS IDEAL FOR OGGIES OVER 60 DUE TO ITS LOW IMPACT…WE HAVE EXCERPTED HERE AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES….

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/fashion/21fitness.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin 

Researchers at the Counsilman

FULL SPEED AHEAD Stanley Shechter, 75, has shaved time in the 100-yard freestyle. Photographs by Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York Times

Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University have found that the larger population of Masters swimmers (made up of 42,500 members ages 18 to 100-plus) has become faster over the last 20 years in age groups from 25 to 55, said Joel Stager, the director of the center.

As people age, they lose muscle mass and cardiovascular capacity, which declines at a rate of 1 to 1.5 percent annually. But for those who exercise regularly, the rate of decline is slower, researchers say.

“Before, it was thought that athletes peak at 25,” said Scott Trappe, the director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Ball State University. “But now this whole paradigm is getting shifted. People are paying attention to their own fitness and nutrition.”

Swimmers can compensate for their body’s natural decline mostly because the water rewards those who are more technically proficient, and also because unlike running or cycling, the sport is non-weight-bearing and enables prolonged participation. “People can and do get faster, despite the fact that they may be 10, 20 years older than when they first started,” Dr. Stager said.

Stanley Shechter, 75, is still trying to master the dolphin kick, but finds an alternating-leg flutter kick to be more effective.

Mr. Shechter straightened his arms, keeping them close to his ears, and held the pose underwater. “It’s tough to hold your arms for that long,” he said. “But it works.”

Mr. Shechter attributes his improvement to practicing five days a week, but is mindful not to go too far. That approach, too, represents advanced training filtered down from many elite programs.

Coaches and swimmers have discovered that less is sometimes more, especially in events no longer than 100 yards, as is the case with Mr. Shechter. In 2003, he swam the 100-meter freestyle at the Masters national meet in 1:23.46. In May, he won the 75- to 79-year-old division at the nationals in the 100-yard freestyle in 1:12.67.

THIS BLOGSITE REALLY HATES PLAYING “DEVIL’S ADVOCATE” BUT THE “TEMPORARY” INCREASE THAT HEALTH CLUBS ARE SEEING IN NEW MEMBERS AND EXISTING MEMBERS INCREASING THEIR “CASUAL EXERCISE” IS GOING TO MISLEAD MANY PEOPLE INTO THINKING THAT THEY WILL SLIM DOWN AND GET INTO BETTER SHAPE….WE ARE CONCERNED WITH OGGIES TAKING INSPIRATION FROM MICHAEL PHELPS

Michael Phelps celebrates the U.S. win.

IN THE SHORT TERM AND INCREASING EXERCISE RELATIVE TO DIET….THIS WILL ONLY INCREASE HUNGER AND RESULT IN LITTLE IF ANY WEIGHT LOSS AND NO BELLY FAT REDUCTION…

IT’S THE DIET….DIET….DIET….EAT SMALL PORTIONS, EAT OFTEN, EAT RIGHT AND KEEP THE CALORIE CONSUMPTION TO UNDER 2,000 CALORIES PER DAY…DO SLOW, CORE ISOMETRIC EXERCISES IN SHORT BURSTS ALL DAY….TAKE THE STAIRS, OFTEN….TIGHTEN THE CORE ABDOMINALS WHILE YOU DRIVE, WALK, ETC….

THE EXCERPTS BELOW ARE FROM WBIR.COM IN TENNESSEE: 

http://www.wbir.com/news/health/story.aspx?storyid=62498&catid=3

You don’t have to be a gold-medal winner or even an athlete to benefit from the Olympics.

Since the Olympics started on the 8th, local gym owners say memberships are way up and they say more members are showing up again.

“We’re seeing a lot more folks coming into our pool, thanks to Michael Phelps I think and some of the relays, and we’re seeing a lot of kids coming into our gymnastics classes as well,” said YMCA employee Sidd Vivek.

Call it motivation, inspiration or Olympic fever. Whatever it is, everyday athletes here say they’re working out longer and harder while watching the Olympians over there.

“Definitely more motivating. Usually I only spend five minutes warming up, during the Olympics I’ve been pushing a bit longer,” said YMCA member Ruben De Alba.

“You think to yourself if they can do, I can do it, maybe not to their level, I can still push myself,” added YMCA member Kate Larsen.

Sports psychologists agree and say most of us identify with a sport’s hero.

Asked if you could win a metal in any Olympic sport which one would it be?

“I’d probably say swimming,” said De Alba.

“I’d say track and field. I’m just amazed by the runners, especially the runners doing the short distances-those bursts,” said Vivek.

“Actually doggie paddle Olympics for swimming. I had dreams of being a winning swimmer, I just usually putz around the pool and I think I could take gold in that,” said Larsen.

We’re pretty sure she could too.

DANIEL CRAIG TURNED 40 IN MARCH AND IS A CERTIFIED OGGIE…HIS LEVEL OF FITNESS AND FLAIR MAKE THE JOURNEY TO THE IDEAL SHAPE FOR OGGIES FUN, VERY FUN…WHO WOULDN’T WANT TO BE JAMES BOND 007 AND FOR THAT MATTER WHY NOT CHRONICLE HIS ACHIEVMENTS…HERE DANIEL IS INTERVIEWED BY EXTRA! …..

WE WILL NOT GO NEGATIVE FOR TOO LONG BEFORE THROWING OUT SOME POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT….DANIEL CRAIG IS THE BEST 007 OF THIS GENERATION…A MAN’S MAN WHO PRESENTS A VERY ATTAINABLE IMAGE WORTHY OF NOTICE…IDEAL SHAPE WITH CLASS.

OUCH….THE TRUTH IS REALLY GOING TO HURT OGGIES…”FOUR PACK”, YES THIS BLOGSITE, IS PREACHING AND HAS BEEN PREACHING THAT “IT’S THE DIET, STUPID”…PORTION CONTROL, EATING RIGHT AND EATING EVERY THREE HOURS UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 2,000 CALORIES PER DAY IS THE GOLDEN RULE…A FOUR PACK (OR MORE) CAN BE REALIZED BY THE 80/20 RATIO (80% DIET TO 20% EXERCISE)…

…NEW SCIENTIST.COM JUST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ONLINE AND THE CONCLUSIONS ARE GOING TO SUPPORT OUR STAND HERE….

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14558-gluttony–not-laziness–to-blame-for-obesity.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14558

“Greed - not sloth - might be responsible for the obesity epidemic, according to research showing that we’re doing just as much physical activity as we were in the early 1980s.

An increasingly inactive lifestyle is often blamed for the soaring obesity rates in the developed world, but few studies have measured whether lifestyle changes have decreased the amount of energy we burn.

To address this, John Speakman of the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Klaas Westerterp of Maastricht University in the Netherlands looked at the amount of energy used through physical activity over the past 25 years in 393 people from across the US and 366 from Maastricht.

In these subjects, energy expenditure has been measured since 1982 using a technique called the “doubly labelled water method”, which measures the throughput of water labelled with isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen. By comparing the daily energy expenditure in the early 1980s with current data, the researchers showed that there has been no significant decline in the energy the people studied burned through physical activity.

The obesity epidemic had already started by 1982, but Speakman argues that people have always been fairly inactive during the evenings, and that although activities such as watching TV and playing computer games might be relatively new, they have not affected overall energy expenditure.

“Prior to widespread TV ownership we probably spent this time listening to the radio, before that reading, and before electrical lights were discovered we would have been asleep,” he says.

If we are not less active, then we must be eating more food, suggesting that trying to increase our energy expenditure through physical activity may not be the best way of tackling obesity.

“If we want to reverse the obesity epidemic it would be much better to focus on trying to decrease caloric intake,” says Speakman.

But Paul Zimmet of Monash University in Victoria, Australia, warns that a complex problem like obesity requires a complex solution. “Addressing the current obesity epidemic requires an integrated approach over and above modifying energy intake,” he says.”

Journal reference: International Journal of Obesity (DOI:10.1038/ijo.2008.74)

NEVER FORGET THAT ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL OF A “FOUR PACK” AND IDEAL WAIST SIZE AND WEIGHT WILL HAVE ITS BENEFITS…THE JAMES BOND 007 MYSTIQUE IS SOMETHING THAT MAKES LIFE INTERESTING AND WORTH LIVING…THAT BRITISH CIVILITY AND BOND’S DETACHED LOVE OF WOMEN (NOT ENCOURAGING 007 AS A ROLE MODEL) AND ACTION CAN COMPLETE THE VISION OF LIVING A LIFE DEDICATED TO STAYING IN SHAPE…HERE IS A HEINEKEN AD FROM THE CASINO ROYALE MOVIE CAMPAIGN FEATURING EVA GREEN….VERY FUN. 

CERTIFIED OGGIE PIERCE BROSNAN (55) WILL BE SLIMMING DOWN TO MAKE HIS NEXT FILM…EVEN AN ACTUAL 007 ACTOR CAN LOSE THE WILL AND DEDICATION TO STAY IN SHAPE….WE WILL KEEP TABS ON HIS PROGRESS AND HOPEFULLY REPORT ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL “KILL” (WEIGHT LOSS)…THIS ARTICLE IS FROM THE HERALD IN IRELAND….

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/its-diet-another-day-for-pierce-1458024.html

“Former James Bond pin-up Pierce Brosnan wants to shed his excess weight before he starts work on his new film role.

The Navan man (55) insists that he looks fat in the new musical Mamma Mia! and is keen to shape up for Thomas Crown Affair 2.

Pierce will be working with director Paul Verhoeven for the new film, and he wants to be in shape to act the part of a ladies man for the director.

“Paul does sexy really well. I will have to go to the gym to lose my Mamma Mia! middle before we start the film,” Pierce said.

He will reprise his role as the debonair gentleman thief in the sequel to hit 1999 movie The Thomas Crown Affair when he wooed Rene Russo’s character with his looks and charm. This time, new mum Angelina Jolie is said to be in line to play the character’s young interest in the heist movie.

Pierce will have the challenging task of being both lead actor and producer in the next ‘Affair’ so he’ll need to be in good shape.

The former Remington Steele star, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as an over-the-hill hitman in Matador, wowed audiences this summer with his turn in the all-singing, all-dancing Mamma Mia!

Now he has to turn on the 007-style polish to convince cinema lovers that he is Thomas Crown, a playboy who amuses himself by stealing artwork.”

OGGIES, 40+ MALES SPECIFICALLY, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DIET. EAT NUMEROUS, SMALL, AND NUTRITIONALLY BALANCED MEALS AND SNACK THROUGHOUT THE DAY (EVERY 3 HOURS). STAY UNDER 2000 CALORIES IF YOU ARE 6′2″ AND UNDER IF YOU WANT TO STAY LEAN…

CUT BACK ON MACHINE BASED EXERCISE AND INCREASE CORE ISOMETRICS (SLOW POWER LIFTING OF FREE WEIGHTS, PUSH-UPS, SQUATS, LUNGES, CRUNCH SIT-UPS) WHILE KEEPING THE CORE TIGHT…

HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK “DIET FAILURE - THE NAKED TRUTH” BY PHOENIX GILMAN….

http://www.naturalnews.com/023888.html

“Diet Failure - The Naked Truth”, is …understanding that it is about a brain chemical …(serotonin), and the master communicator of all the brain chemicals that when it is depleted, for the brain and the body to function at its best, …this brain chemical has to be maintained. And so, therefore, the brain will do anything and everything to elevate it. And the quickest and by far not the healthiest way to do so is to consume high GI carbs.”

….”it is, however, about the type of carbs that we eat. It’s not about not eating carbs. I like the phrase that it’s about being carb-conscious. “

…”the GI, which stands for glycemic index, is the best way to describe how quickly when you eat a carbohydrate, it gets absorbed in your blood stream; because all carbs are recognized by the body as sugar, but they do affect the blood sugar level differently. So, the glycemic index is the rating of how quickly those carbohydrates will affect your blood sugar. So, the lower on the GI, the better. If I may continue to just say this, so you can take a low GI carb such as spinach or some sort of a green or you can eat berries. Berries are a wonderful low GI carb, but you can take a low GI carb and if you were just to eat it by itself, it would turn into a high GI carb, just for the mere fact that you haven’t eaten a healthy protein or fat with it to help lower it.

….”you can also take a high GI carb and help lower it by combining healthy fat and protein.”

….”Fiber is included in those carbs…  it is really eating good healthy carbs, minimizing it, because again, carbs, if you eat more carbs than your body can utilize, they are stored as fat…(it) is entirely dependent on being able to maintain the serotonin because if you can’t, your brain will force you on a subconscious level to consume the things that will elevate it and it is only those high GI carbs that will do it. And those high GI carbs not only trigger the insulin to kick in, which affects our rate of obesity but all the other issues, depression, insomnia, PMS, migraines, schizophrenia, suicide, all the way down the line, it’s all triggered by these high GI carbs. 

To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more information by health experts on abundance, optimum health, and longevity just like Phoenix Gilman, please visit (http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com)

MOST OLYMPIC ATHLETES MUST WATCH THEIR WEIGHT AND STAY IN GREAT SHAPE…THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF THE FOOD THEY EAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. OGGIES ARE NOT ALONE IN THEIR MISSION TO BALANCE DIET AND EXERCISE AS YOUNGER ATHLETES ARE IN PEAK PHYSICAL SHAPE AND MUST MAINTAIN LEAN MUSCLE MASS WHILE TRAINING.

THE MESSAGE WHICH IS THE MANTRA OF “FOUR PACKS FOR OGGIES” IS TO EAT OFTEN…EAT RIGHT…AND MAINTAIN IDEAL SHAPE THROUGH PORTION CONTROL!!! THIS FIRST EXCERPT IS FROM A WEB ARTICLE  OF A CANADIAN OLYMPIC ROWERS BATTLE TO MAINTAIN IDEAL WEIGHT AND SHAPE…. 

Canadian Olympic Rower Chris Jarvis has Diabetes and must monitor diet carefully.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/rowing/story/2008/08/04/canadians-weight.html

Weights have been replaced with pilates. Desserts, salts, sugar and sauces, among other things, aren’t in her diet. Cameron now rows on average three times a day, always with a monitor to measure calories expended.

…drinking three or four coffees a day to speed metabolism…used to eat four or five big meals in a day she now has three small ones. Desserts aren’t on the menu. Exercise now includes biking with a sweat suit on, a plastic long sleeved shirt and pants that cause excessive sweating and draw out water weight quickly.

“It’s a science and an art. “The art is jazzing up the food,” she says, while limiting calories every way she can. The science is calculating calories and weighing food — literally. The night before a race she’ll weigh herself and use a food scale to measure the weight of the food she’s about to eat.”

THIS SECOND EXCERPTED ARTICLE IS FROM A CANADIAN SOCCER PLAYERS MUTLI MEAL DIET….

http://www.straight.com/article-156506/medalhungry-olympic-women-eat-compete 

“I usually have three breakfasts, because a lot of my training is done in the morning,” Groves told the Georgia Straight by cellphone after a training session in Victoria. “I find that breakfast food is the easiest to digest, and the most simple. I always start every morning with a couple of pieces of sprouted-grain bread with some almond butter and a cup of coffee. That’s pre-swimming. Then post-swimming, I’ll cook up some scrambled eggs and have some fruit—maybe some more toast!

“And then, after the second workout in midafternoon, I’ll have a bowl of goat’s milk yogurt with some fruit added, or I’ll make a turkey sandwich. I’ll just make sure that I’ve got a little bit of protein and some carbohydrates. I try to eat really simple foods, and I need to know the ingredients in everything I eat to make sure it’s whole foods.

“With dinner, I’ll have a really big salad, as that’s where I get my vegetables,” the 26-year-old continued. “There’ll also be some kind of grilled chicken or fish, so sometimes they’ll [our cooks] make buffalo burgers for the red meat. I usually don’t have beef. Buffalo is very lean and high in iron.”