Old Dogs in Training LLC

07/20/2025

OUR SENSES
I know you are all familiar with your sense of pain, but what about your other senses, and there are many.
That was the subject of my recent weekly newsletter, which some of you might find of interest, especially the section on our complex sense(s) of balance.
-kev
Here's the link, fyi.

Time to talk about sensory perception, again, because I’m surprised so few people sense what I sense in the “Wiggle Your Finger Proprioceptive Intelligence Test,” which you will come to in a moment, but first:

06/14/2025

Friedrich Nietzsche — “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” -k

disease

https://youtu.be/oFlyOcQ_6iI?si=ob6ozRPjPqZzaKGc

04/21/2025

Hi folks.
FYI, to show what an old dog can do if they don't give up.
-kev aka FitOldDog

It's taking time, but I'm finally finding ways to run with pretty severe peripheral artery disease (PAD), including lack of a dorsal pedal pulse on my right ...

03/19/2025

PROGRESS REPORT (FOR PAD)

I'm finding this pumping approach really works as I walk, and increasingly so as I run, which is MUCH tougher than walking. Stop foot pumping, which I do relaxed and gently, as I walk or run, and back comes calf claudication.

The trick is pace of training and movement. It is essential not to tire, or strain, your feet.

Glad I can finally train effectively for my next race, White Lake 70.3 Ironman. Will be at the back of the pack, of course, where you meet the nicest people.

-kev aka FitOldDog

I created this simple video, comparing the pumping action of our feet, done right, to the action of a diaphragm pump. Contracting the muscles in your feet wi...

03/02/2025

MANY PROBLEMS I address are related to a similar issue - how we move, and how we keep going. Here's a recent post I placed on the PAD Support Page. Some of you may find this to be of interest, who knows.

Have fun!

Life is brief:

--ooOoo--

IT'S A FUNNY THING!

I find people to be really strange. Probably due to my Aspergers-like personality. But that's another story. I never know which of my stuff they like, and which they don't.

I just spotted growing interest in one of my less recent PAD videos, linked below. The traffic is steadily growing, unexpectedly. Reaching patients is tough, especially when I get no help from any out there, that I know of, apart from an ABI diagnosis, and a "do three 30-minute walks a week." No way that's enough.

Are you out there, doc?

Like Kym McNicholas, and with her kind help, I work to find ways to improve mobility and avoid amputation in PAD patients, once physicians have done all they can. I do this using my background in veterinary medicine and pathology research, along with extensive body movement training. I also employ experience gained from my personal struggles with this horrible disease.

I use any media I can lay my mind and limited resources on, to explain the importance of exercise to grow collaterals, and changing the way we move to improve blood flow to, through, and back from our feet.

Fight back! Don't let PAD steal your toes, your feet, your legs, or your life. Here's that video I made in my truck a while ago, along with subsequent help from iMovie, and excellent a free online tool.

Cheers,

-kev aka FitOldDog

This video compliments the book, "How to Fight the Crippling Pain of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), by Kevin Thomas Morgan.Having managed to continue Iro...

02/17/2025

F*ck and it's not time for polite discourse. They are threatening our lives, literally. Read your history. At 81, I lived it. Hitler's bombers and subs killed my relatives and gave me rickets. I still remember playing on those bomb sites of Bristol, England. They were everywhere.

JUST DO SOMETHING TO FIGHT THEM EACH DAY. BETTER STILL, FIVE SOMETHINGS.

Have a nice day.

-kev

"Over the weekend, Trump posted a statement that said,

"He who saves his country does not violate any laws."

That may be the most undemocratic, most fascistic statement ever made by an American president. It is a claim that the president is above the law so long as the president believes he is “saving the country.” The worst dictators in history have used the same logic to enslave, destroy, conquer, and kill their own people." RBH

February 17, 2025

02/15/2025

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GUY IS 80 YEARS OLD, WITH SEVERE VASCULAR DISEASE?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DVYX68F3/
Just buy the book to find out how he does it, with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) stent graft, and severe peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Peripheral Artery Disease? Use Your Feet to Save Your Feet: PAD Self Help From FitOldDog

11/03/2024

Hi folks,

I don't come here often, too many irons in the fire. I keep an eye on it, but right now most of my efforts go into other pages, writing books, my weekly newsletter and writer's website, inspirationalselfhelpbooks.com . If anyone wants a free ebook from amongst those listed on my website, just let me know by email, and I'll send you a BookFunnel link.

Hope y'all are well,

-kev aka FitOldDog, and getting older

olddogintraining@gmail.com

Easy, science-based, exercises, simply explained.

11/02/2024

Book review fyi, -kev

TITLE: "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating," by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

5.0 out of 5 stars

HEADER: "Delightful Revelations Due To Illness-Enforced Isolation"

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024

REVIEW: "Longterm illness made bearable by a molluscan companion. I learned a great deal about our cousins, the garden snails. A truly fascinating tale, a gift to students of gastropod physiology and behavior. The presence of such an unlikely companion could greatly enhance the life of many a convalescent human. Highly recommended reading."

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Wild-Snail-Eating-ebook/dp/B00408A828/

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

10/25/2024

Please for , and against or -kev

10/25/2024

Hi Folks.

Race report, fyi, in tge form of my weekly newsletter, -kev

A friend I lost, Frits (with an “s”), who comes with me on my races, and a medal I didn’t want. We had a blast, anyway, didn’t we Frits? Sorry you don’t look so impressive in that little bag in my left hand, but I had to get you through the swim.

10/24/2024

Signed up for Whitelake 70.3 Ironman