HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008

Yes now we have this New Year again. Then its time to make New Years resolutions and hopefully keep them also.

For me who started with Nordic Walking for only a month ago I must give at least two promises.

Number one is to keep on Nordic Walking and two is to keep this Blog living.

To go on walking I think its not to hard because in one or other way you must go on with your training. So if you go with poles do not make a big difference.

Make the Blog to survive I think its more difficult because you must have some substances written in. Ok I have not promised to make it as an expert’s report. Only like a beginner course in writing and a personal relate of a novice Nordic Walking and writing Blog.

So now I make an announcement that now today is the first day of the New Year 2008. Hopefully the best year ever!

Have a nice Nordic Walking year.

Poo and Henry

Physical fitness is a fresh thing!

Use it or you lose it.

Today is Christmas Day so Merry Christmas to everybody.

Today it is one month since we started Nordic Walking Poo and me.
Thanks for the poles sister Doris. They have been of great use and value. The poles had made this end of the year to a training month because of the new way of fitness. The new tools have given us a kick.
Myself I had missed only two training sessions of this first 30 days. Ok I know I have a lot of time. But normally there are always coming days when you like to have a lazy time. I had this feelings also but then I always decide to have a walk. The poles in the corner of the room always make you remind of the necessity of a walking round.

Then I have registered the time I walked every day. Now when I counted them I saw I have been Nordic Walking on average 70 minutes each day in the last 30. Not to bad for a beginner.
But if you really think that is what you normally have to move each day for good health. Physical fitness is a fresh thing. You can not keep it without permanent training sessions. Like an old Australian friend in Cha am told me about your body.
“You have to use it or you lose it”.
He was 72 years old and ran every day.

Soon it’s a New Year again and time for the obligatory New Year’s promises. Why not make the year 2008 to a Nordic Walking year.

Idiosyncrasies when make physical activities

Now for the first time in over two weeks I had a break in my walking with poles. Not because I felt for that. I had to go for regenerate my Thai visa.

It is not altogether a bad thing to leave out a training session.
It’s also a necessity.
The body needs a pause to recharge ones batteries.
The muscles need rest for a recovery. It’s easy to exaggerate with things you have newly started. The result will be an opposite then what you like to have. When you receive an injury and must make an undesired brake. Can make you to put away your poles and then forget everything. Better have a settling-in period and later increase the training sessions.
But it’s easy to say. Myself I always start with the highest gear. Go straight ahead and hope I will keep up the speed.

Another thing I also do is always have a timekeeping in everything I do. I must know how long it takes from one place to another. Next time I do the same thing I always try to break that time.
People ask me why I must always have an eye on the watch. Why not just walk and enjoy instead of let oneself be hypnotised by how long time it will take. Maybe they are right. But I have always been in that way. Not able to stop even if I sometimes try.

To note down and register everything it’s another oddity I have. How many kilometres, minutes, laps, days or whatever it is. Everything has to be booked in the mind or in a notebook.

I can not say if it’s right or wrong. I think everyone has to do as they feel for. The most important must be that you are active and keep in good health. How you do it its irrelevant.
So pick up your poles and go on Nordic Walking in the way it suitable for you.

Give the body good fuel

With faulty liquid and solid fuel the engines hacks and cough.

Yes of course I had my Nordic Walking this morning too. Poo make me company so the pole walking was both nice and worthwhile. One hour walk felt like half.

Then I always try to take photos in the same time. You see I like photographing more than I like to exercise. Now I can do both. Take photos for my blog. So I have something to put on my blogs.
Nordic Walking are not only walking and perspiration. You must have fuel too. To have stamina and strength you must eat and drink. That is more important in a country like Thailand where the climate is warm and heavy for physical exercises. You perspire more and must often have liquid.
But to drink all kind of compensations for water it’s not good. The most of them contains all kinds’ unwholesome substance. Not good for your teeth or your insulin balance. The same bad thing they do for your wallet. Better drink water.

Then to eat good after a training session is more important.
Abundantly with fruit and vegetables many times the day. Make fish to your protein spring instead of meat and pork. Then you leave out fat which are bad for your body. Good for your cholesterol balance. Good for your waist measurement.
Here in Thailand the food culture is excellent. Everything I just told you they have in affluence. Myself I am now the second winter time here in Thailand. Last winter I lost about 15 kilos of my weight. Now I am near my weight when I was about twenty.
So today we had a vegetable and fruit shopping day. We went for the market to have freshly picked greenstuffs. Fresh-caught fish from the sea. Then it’s also a delight to the eye to walk around and only look.

Swift Nordic Walking in the morning and then a good morning meal.
Then the whole day will be splendid.

Pick up good advice on web

Yesterday in my blog I grumbled over things which happened when you try to load pictures.
Now I have more to criticize the webmaster who invents this blog.
Photos I put in the blog. Today everything was removed.

Of course I did wrong way. But I did not expect that could happen. But anyway it was not worse it cannot be put right. So the photos are on their place again.

Today its two weeks then I started my Nordic Walking. Time goes fast when you do something you enjoy. So I celebrated the day and walked two times. Early walking with Poo and lonely in the afternoon. So the physical fitness becomes better and better for every day. The poles are going my way. Feels like friends after this two weeks.

Good way to learn Nordic Walking and not have somebody who teach you is to go on WEB. I find good teaching in You Tube. There I found videos which I could have good advices from.
Move your arms in the correct way.
Find the correct unit of length on the poles.
For a novice excellent advices who never used poles when walking.

But when I come to Sweden next summer I sure will have an instruction from a Nordic Walking instructor. Maybe also one course so I can teach other who will be in the same dilemma as I am now.
But now I try to fix it myself. Teach from web.
Indeed a very good teacher.

Walking and talking

Good afternoon

and have a nice Saturday.
I’m happy that I’m retired and have all the time in the world to make my obligations. I do not say that I do everything because I have time. But I have nobody to blame if I don’t do that.

I promised you to give news from the Nordic Walking world. But all my time goes to design this blog. I change and change again. Never under any circumstance satisfied. So I erase and start again. The time is flying away.
Today in this morning I had company of Poo on my walk. Nice because the training session goes faster when you can talk in the same time. That’s the good thing with walking. You can be talking. With the sticks to assist you have like four legs to steady on. More motive to walk with poles.
On the scout camping ground where we walked was full activities.

Full up with kids eating in the morning. So we both feel the hunger when walking. We had only drunk some water before we start our constitutional. But they say to burn fat you have to walk without breakfast. So maybe we burned more fatty tissue this morning. Good for me maybe but not for Poo because her 45 kilos can not be too much.
Have nice time to next time. Now I start my designing again. Maybe will be ready one day.
Here should been another photo. But it was removed. Do not ask how? But this blogwriting make me crazy many times. You like it to behave in your way. But I think the blog master make it to give the authors headache and cerebral haemorrhage.

But one day maybe I will learn it.

Now I publish it before everything will be taken away.

Suitable Blog for a Country filled of colours

Good afternoon.
Ok not very late but just after noon.
Had a good healthy lunch with a lot of vegetables and brown rice. To that wholesome meal some cups of herb tea and now feel very healthy.
But before that I had an enjoyable walk with my sticks. Good walk for more or less 50 minutes.
Normally I have a walk with Poo in the morning’s weekdays on a jogging track near the beach. But today she had to go work on her Spa earlier.

Today I walked on a Scout camping ground. Very nice and noiseless place normally. But today full up with boys- and girl scouts. So I had a lot of new observers. An older pathetic farang (stranger) walking with poles. But advertise Nordic Walking for young people maybe make it popular in the future. Then a lot of Hellos make you only more motivated.

Now I have to start styling my Blog for this subject field.
Not so easy for a beginner. It took me two days before I published my first lines. Now I start it making specially designed for health and Thailand. Thailand is a country with a lot of specially colours for different days and objects. Have to make it suitable so it fits into the context.