coach ilg, Strength and Conditioning Coach of the famed, "Team 7-Eleven" pro cycling team from the eighties, still cranks out indoor cycling intervals, especially as a new father! photo by Ananda.
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CYCLE IN, BREATH OUT
"Turning our minds to our Breath produces a moment of purity.
No clutter. No random thoughts. No Drama."
- Coach Steve Ilg
in the current issue of:
HomeGym Magazine
Sangha Note; this issue provides some pretty interesting juxtaposition as Coach Ilg's dharmically drenched article appears alongside the conventional fitness counsel from Chris Carmichael, Gabrielle Reece, and others. Fun Stuff! We think you'll be very 'proud' of how nobly our Coach still takes the Highest Road toward inspiring mainstream fitness athletes.
here is another excerpt from Coach's article in the current issue of HomeGym Magazine now on newsstands;
"When a yogi practices pranayams (conscious breathing techniques), especially those pranayams involving breath retention, he or she is producing (from a Western perspective) a higher ionisation count throughout the fluids of the brain, creating neuronal hook-ups within the 80% of brain matter which the common man never develops. Yogic breathing, if done regularly and wisely, shifts the vibratory state of the innumerable cilia onto higher electrical plateaus, transforming our entire body/mind into a far more sensitive state and upshifting our entire metabolism as well. Perhaps you now understand why, when I taught Indoor Cycling classes throughout Los Angeles in the nineties, I would include "Silent Spinning Intervals" as an effort toward diminishing what I call, "Cilia Abuse" from non-stop, loud music.
May each of your workouts be Blessed with divine insight and showered with sacred motivation to help all Beings in all Realms...
Head bowed,
coach steve ilg"
HOMEGYM MAGAZINE/Fall 2008
www.homegymmag.com
