Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
Fit and active doctors inspire confidence in their patients
Dr Raju Easwaran, a Sports Surgeon, who rediscovered himself by getting fitter. “I feel exercise has taught me more than any medical textbook ever could. Let’s stop flaunting our gold medals & flaunt our biceps instead.”
Unfit doctors don’t inspire enough confidence in sick patients who come with all the hope to get back to life again. Start with yourself. Be their role models. Show them the way.
How should you Monitor your Heart Rate?
You have been trusting multi-billion dollar companies and start-ups alike for the heart rate zones you should be working out at. Do you ever question what is the assumption and is it specific enough for you? What do those numbers mean?
We need to embrace failure; it's alright not to succeed each time
Running has a lot to teach you about life and it has nothing to do with the winner or participation medals or certificates. It is to help you to become your best, for your own sake. Hence, run and bee.
Can experienced surgeons correctly predict the outcome of knee surgeries?
Knee surgeries have become rampant today. Arthroscopic Partial Menisectomy, one of the commonest orthopaedic procedures, is done for mensici ligament tear of knees. Can experienced orthopaedic surgeons predict the outcome of that procedure? It is in your best interest to know.
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If I can't do, I doubt if anyone else ever can
This is a biography of a disgruntled ultra-runner who truly believes that if he can’t do something, than obviously no one else ever can. He just suffers from what is generally the problem with the society at large today. He’s self-righteous but at the same time a nay-sayer, discouraging others to get started or keep moving. Who needs enemies when you are blessed with ‘fraternity friends’ like this.
Do we really know the human limits?
Who decides what we humans are capable of physically achieving? Is it the experts or is it our psychological self? It was amazing to witness ordinary people achieve extraordinary feats at this year’s La Ultra.
It’s not about running
Later today we’ll kick start the 10th edition of La Ultra - The High. With all the crew members and runners acclimatizing together in the mountains of Ladakh, conversations are meant to happen, ranging from life to running. Which set me thinking about the reasons behind I decided to create this run ten years ago, one of the toughest in the world. It's not about running. It's about what the experiences of being in the mountains teach you.
Sleep well so you are Awake better
We all sleep for approximately one third of our lives. It is for good reason, to recover and be ready for challenges the next day but yet it’s importance is under-rated for peak performance. What matters is quality, not quantity.
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Every Breath You Take, Make it Count
The commonest complaint of beginner runners, even of walkers is that they get breathless very soon, instead it's their heart that is ready to jump out and go for a run. Most don’t even breathe optimally while sitting and then expect it to magically function to its best when they move. Here is a simple trick using a basic tool easily available that’ll be a game changer for you.
Mindful Running
Most walkers-runners walk-run the way they drive and vice-versa. Try out any park in India and you’ll find it pretty difficult to overtake those in front of you, not for lack of speed or will but because they aren’t prepared to let go of that prime real-estate they have recently acquired, whether by hook or by crook. Let us become mindful while running for our own sakes and others around us.