EXTREME SKIING in TELLURIDE!

come on over to DL Subscription!
i just logged my entry where i take YOU extreme skiing with me in Telluride
after i just won the World's Highest Nordic Ski Race earlier in the day!

learn my yogic breathing techniques i use during extreme skiing, check out my pics,
and even learn why it is vital for yogis to take their Practice into Extreme Terrain and COLD!


c'mon Heart Brothers and Sisters!

let's RIDE!

New WF Logo!

I would like to extend my personal thanks to WF Devotee Brad Gantt of Sherman Oaks, CA
who once again,
unasked,
created from his love of WF
this logo:




this wonderful, powerful image will soon grace the Landing Page of WholisticFitness.com

Ask not what your Wholistic Fitness Path can do for you,
ask,
what YOU can do for the Path!

i bow to Devotee BG on this Night of Nights...

Thunder Stealer inspires Student BG to a new Desktop!

Noble Thunder-Stealer Ilg,
Must have been something special in the air up in Telluride. Wonderful DL today. I was inspired to enlighten my desktop immediately.

Head Bowed

hsbg

Part II; King Of The Mountain (Intermission Due To Spring CHI!)

special thanks to Shishya Leslie for providing the killer quotes for this entry, Namaste LH!

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Teaching #3; Do the DO!

"How can you come to know yourself?
Never by thinking; always by doing.
Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
And what is your duty?
Whatever the day calls for."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

i spend my Recovery Weeks doing things that keep my Heart Rate RELATIVELY low...
although my adrenalin spikes while doing some 'high ball' bouldering might beg to differ.
just days after winning the Worlds Highest Nordic Ski Race, my WF Conditioning allows me to
enjoy non-endurance sports such as climbing and bouldering at a terrifically fun and meaningful level.
the WF Master Student can change his or her body within a matter of days to whatever he or she wants.


the philosophy of WF is excruciatingly simple:
one must develop and be able to control the body (in all physiologic realms)
before ever even HOPING to control the mind or, certainly,
the spirit!

TODAY ON DL SUBCRIPTION:

6 WF Master Student Lifestyle Teachings accompanied by
great photos of everyday activities backed with DharmaTeachings
and quotes from Goethe, Thoreau, Dr. White

on TODAY's DL SUBSCRIPTION FORMAT; DO NOT MISS IT!

6 GREAT TEACHINGS THAT ARE PRACTICAL YET POWERFUL FOR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS!

rare opportunity!



COMING TOMORROW:

DL SUBSCRIBERS GO EXTREME TELE SKIING WITH COACH IN TELLURIDE!!!!!

COME ON, JOIN THE WACKED BUT TAPPED TRIBE OF THE NATION's ORIGINAL ONLINE TRAINING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPERSONAL FITNESS!

PART I: THE KING OF THE MOUNTAINS, BABY! (at least i get braggin' rights for one year!) My Sacred Sweat Finish To My Sacred Winter

See that Cheshire Grin on my face again?
wanna know why?




CUZ, I JUST BEAT THE LOCALS IN TELLURIDE ON THEIR OWN MOUNTAIN!

I JUST WON THE WORLD'S HIGHEST NORDIC SKI RACE!

i got what matters most among mountain athletes; BRAGGIN' RIGHTS in the pubs! FREE DRINKS all year baby!

THANK YOU Brahman for WF! 45 years young and still kickin' it!

LOVE IT! only one year after a decade of sucking smog in LA to regain TOP FORM in these brutal high altitude endurance sports!

i am sorry, you will just HAVE to put up with me for a second cuz i am still just pinchin' myself:

let's revisit what WF produced this winter for your ol' coach who now can train you ever better than ever;

1st Place: Flagstaff Winter Triathlon
2nd Place: Arizona State Nordic Championships
4th Place: Langlauf 30 kilometer Freestyle
Overall Pairs Championship; Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon
Fastest Ski Descent; Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon
Overall Classic Champion; TopatenK - The World's Highest Nordic Ski Race
38 ski days out of 90.

Wholistic Fitness.
The Mt. Everest of Personal Training.

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READ COACH's RACE DAY ENTRY WITH PHOTOS ON TODAY'S DL!

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COMING UP NEXT IN DL SUBSCRIPTION:
TAKE A GUIDED EXTREME SKI DAY WITH ME!

just
in case you have never tele-skied (or boarded, or alpine skied) Extreme Terrain, c'mon, let's drop in together!
coming up next from the Coach Who Still Does!

Temple Gong Rings!!!!!!!!!!!!Coach Stuns Locals; WINS WORLD'S HIGHEST NORDIC SKI RACE!!!!!

Telluride, Colorado -
Saturday Night, March 10

Although unavailable for direct comment due to partying in downtown T-ride,
it is confirmed:
Coach Ilg has finished his remarkable winter performance season with yet another overall victory, sweeping the honors out from under stunned local T-rider's
who are now, at this moment, buying him drinks.

"You gotta love the southwest," was all we could get from an obviously high-as-a-kite ilg.

coach won the 10 kilometer Classic division by nearly 5 minutes in a wire-to-wire effort that is surely having the spirit of Steve Prefountaine as well as all the nordic gods from above smiling ear to ear.

Nordic Ski Racing, accepted as the Standard of Endurance Epitome by Exercise Scientists is generally recognized as the most brutal endurance sport.

The Topaten-K Race,
which coach won today in convincing fashion
starts at an heart-pounding elevation of 11,000' and goes UP from there.

Story and photos by coach himself comining only to DIRECT LINES SUBSCRIPTION on Monday...errr, maybe Tuesday because it's snowing today it's gonna be a Bluebird day of tele skiing at T-ride tomorrow, and i...err, i mean, Coach might need to extend his visit back to his h(om)eland to capitalize on the conditions.

thanks for reading WF Warriors,
i skied brutally hard today because i know in my heart,
you expect it from me.

i done go(o)d.

ain't NOTHING like WF, baby!

and there ain't NOTHING like my Beloved Southwest. i got the CHI down here!

45 years young and crankin' because i know you Trust in me...and our amazing Path.

the Proof is in the podium(s).

om so ti,

gotta go...my bro's are calling me...

Emptiness is Arising...or is it Anger? plus; i set a new PR during MahiMana experience

i point toward one of the only two directions that i have cared about in my life;
Upward. the other? inward. endlessly, inward. photo; several hundred feet above my Zen Center in Jemez, New Mexico. i would often invite my other Zen peers to come and run or hike or climb with me outdoors. few ever brought their Zen off the cushion. sad.

One day Tesshu, the famous swordsman and Zen devotee, went to Dukuon and told him triumphantly he believed all that exists is empty, there is no you or me, etc. The master who had listened in silence suddenly snatched up his long tobacco pipe and struck Tesshu's head.

The infuriated swordsman would have killed the master there and then, but Dokuon said calmly,
Emptiness is quick to show anger, isn't it?

Forcing a smile, Tesshu left the room.

- from the Sufi Tradition

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no matter how often i say it.
regardless of the fact that even my WF Application To Study says in black and white:
if you come here to Study WF, your cup must be empty

the very moment this Steep and Direct Path starts pushing ego buttons, attachments, emotional adhesions,
even the Devoted Ones quit.
even the ones that called me "Guru", quit in a fit of anger.
even the "Never Quittin'" ones? quit, rationalizing, "Well, WF wasn't what i expected,' or "I don't like the direction Coach is taking with WF," and many other similar rationalizations to soothe their agitated ego.

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for 25 years i have only led each and every one of you in one unfaltering Direction;
inward.

right where your Gunk is.

sure, get mad at me.
quit the Path.
i have done my SvaDharma; i have shown you precisely where your Highest Workout remains!

this is why my Teachers told me, "I don't want Students...i want sacrificial goats."

now, i see Why.

i am far less fierce than my Teachers.

yet, still, most will Quit this Steep, Direct, and Proven Path of Transformation.

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yesterday i set a new Personal Record while 'skinning' up Agassiz Peak.
for those of you who are not familiar with that term, it means applying a glue-based 'carpet' to the bottom of your cross country skis and trudging up a ski slope. the carpet, which can be peeled away once at the summit, allows the skier to creep up extremely steep terrain.

most of the fittest local ski warriors can skin up Agassiz in a little over an hour.

yesterday, i cranked it in 47:42.
nearly a quarter hour faster than the fastest local.

that was after tele-skiing for 2.5 hours. and it was snowing and windy.

it was a Breakthrough for me. i have often made the ascent in just over 50 minutes. yet, i was determined to break the 50 minute barrier.

yesterday, i creamed it.

a new Standard was set; physically and metaphysically.
during the Ascent i experienced a sustained state of what yogis know as MahiMana.

i cannot Teach you this in this forum.

it would confuse you.

let me just say this; though yesterday's ascent was one of the most remarkable athletic feats i have done in my life,
it was less athletics to me
than an hour long meditation.

oh, and i skied down to the base in 7 minutes.

yesterday, i skied up and down a mountain from 9,300' to 11,500' in less than one hour.

that, my Friends Along The Path, is yoga.

High Performance Yoga.

"The Path works, when YOU work the Path."

Make the Decision to live WF.
then,
Live
The
Decision.

i promise you this much;
your Emptiness will never be as Sacred, as Fun, and as Meaningful
if you do.

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though i will attempt to update DL, i am heading off to Telluride to compete in the nation's highest altitude Nordic Ski Race.

Internet access is sketchy and i have a couple of Secret Mountain Yogi escapades to do in the backcountry before and after my race, so enjoy the Archives and Live the Path until i get back, okay?

"Going forward is a matter of ordinariness."
- Zen


om so ti,

the mountain yogi