Keeping Coach's (Dharma) Wheel...do you got what it takes?

a word to the wise seekers of wholeness; use my monthly Practice Stats as inspiration, NOT as guidelines...i'll even spot you my age and being a new daddy...my Message is wholeness; not competition. don't try to compete with my Practice Stats just enjoy your own version of Wholistic Fitness® as she unfolds before your regular attempts at sweat and stillness...
self photo this morning of Dewa and Abba by Dewa and Abba.

Coach's Practice Stats for June:

races: none - right hip healing from crash in May...didn't dampen my Practice, only deepened it. to wit:


strength training hours:
6.75

cardio training hours:
43

asana hours:
27

meditation hours:
19.5

average calories per day:
1760

note; Do NOT attempt to mimic these numbers on such a low caloric intake! i have been on SUNRIDER Herbs and MAP Amino Acids and Pranayama many, many years if not decades longer than you and you will get injured if you attempt to physically keep up with my numbers while on such low kcals per day!

Practice Stats for April

keeping the hips open while competing at podium levels in endurance sports at national levels...
not such an easy yoga is WF!
ilg in floating full lotus as captured by www.JamesQMartin.com

If WF is about anything, it's about cultivating a humble, yet practical and fiercely determined individual Personal Path which uses daily life as spiritual Practice.

note that i wrote "daily life" instead of merely fitness or sport performance...both of which are simply by-products from the intensely transformative lifestyle principles and teachings of WF.

unencumbered by fixations or attachments upon religious, political, racial, cultural, or even fitness affiliation, WF graces upon her practitioners a keen and ever-deepening sense of the Everyday Sacred. a simple click on any of our Path's precious previous posts wipes away any sense of pretense, commercialism, or attachment to body-oriented fitness schemes which is pandemic during this apex in our Kali Yuga epoch.

i loved using 'apex' and 'epoch' in the same sentence just now.

ilg winced and had to breathe deeply when using 'i' in the above sentence.

let ilg ask the far more intellectual Thee:
how does one write in public without using "I" or "me" or "mine"
when ones spiritual work is all about destroying, deconstructing, demolishing
the
"I" or "me" or "mine"
?

send your answers to me in the ever effervescent WF SanghaLounge: DL Cave.

thank you!

now:
thighs and biceps still quivering in Sacred Sweatisfaction (yes, that is another ilg word) from an evening trail run/bouldering session within the pranic punchbowl known as evening Brahmamuhurti (the hour of God) on Animas Mountain.

as Grandfather skimmed His giving Light like a fatigued skipping stone across Ponderosa pine needles and still naked Gambel Oak limbs, ilg cavorted upon the silky sandstone boulders which have been my Blessed lifelong friend.
not as nimble, nor as strong as once ilg was,
yet,
the sweatisfaction
was as serene as a forward fold after a backbend at the end of an asana session.

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ilg does not post these often, yet, ilg figgered that his Precious Sangha might be interested in how well i was able to keep my WF Practices intact during a month whereupon the intensely complicated energetics of moving into a new home with a 2 year-young, squeaking onto a podium without much specific training at all, beginning a new yoga program in a local facility, and having serious sewage issues rampage our new home, while attempting to launch an whole new vastly enhanced website (coming soon!).

well, my life is an open-book (hopefully helping others along the Higher Way, however feebly):
let's see how ilg did:

ILG's APRIL PRACTICE STATS:
strength training hours: 9.75
cardio hours: 36.75
asana hours: 36
meditation hours: 23.75
total calories: 52604 (average of: 1,753 kcals/day)

Podiums: 5th place AG; Sqauwker Stage Race: 6th in Time Trial, 9th in Crit, 6th in Road Race

so,
how did your feeble coach stack up?
is ilg still walking his Talk after, uh, 3+ decades of going public?


if you'd enjoy having Coach in your Corner
either through Online Studies,
or a very cost-effective Coaching Retainer,
or
through a Membership at our soon to be released new Membership Only website;
you drop me an email...

and in the meanwhile: go(o)d luck keeping up with your feeble coach!

Give Me MultiDisciplined Fitness or Give Me Death!

Tracking Ilg; on the web, monthly stats, and 3 Q&A's

tracking an ilg requires versatility, forbearance, and a 'whole' ton of focused fun...

ilg feet, wearing YogaToes®, during a subzero bird-feeding ritual...it is a WF Tenet

to feed Other Beings, before feeding oneself. the rather un-lovely right big toenail

is still blackened from Imogene Pass Race in September!

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Enjoy reading ilg quotes on the internet?

an alert reader spotted two recent ilg-intellectual scat:

How To Find A Yoga Studio

and

Importance of Breathing In Yoga

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THINKIN' ABOUT KEEPING UP WITH YOUR OL' COACH?

ilg's personal practice statistics from January 2010

Strength Training Hours: 12.5

Cardio Hours: 34.50

Asana Hours: 39.25

Meditation/Svadhyaya Hours: 43.75

Average Number of Calories Consumed Per Day: 1,243

ski days: 12

Bodyweight at last race: 149 lbs

Height: 5'9"

Age: 47

ilg's personal performance results from January 2010:

1/9 - 5th place AG - 10k Classic ski - Durango

1/10 - 3rd place AG - 10k Snowshoe - Flagstaff

1/17 - Overall Combined Champion - 10k Classic ski/5k Snowshoe Duathlon - Chama

1/31 - 2nd Overall, 1st AG - 15k Classic ski - Flagstaff

lowest elevation raced: 8, 187'

NOTE: PILGRIMS BEWARE!!!

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPEAT ANY OF THE ABOVE FIGURES!!!

ESPECIALLY COACH's EXTREMELY LOW CALORIC INTAKE

MATCHED BY THE HIGH ALTITUDE, HIGH CALORIC EXPENDITURE:

YOU WILL GET INJURED OR SET UP DIS-EASE

COACH's PRANIC CAPACITIES HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY

INCREASED OVER 3 DECADES OF STEADFAST WF PRACTICE!

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Three Questions To Coach:

#1:

Dear Coach,

thanks to your inspiration, i'm focusing on 'attacking my weaknesses' like never before.

i have A LOT of weaknesses.

beginning with coffee.

i need like 3 cups per day...

what can i do?

Coach Answers:

drink Folgers! *

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#2:

Dear Guruji,

how do you do what you do

for as long as you have done it?

Coach Answers:

have you ever even read the ingredients of Quinary?! **

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#3:

Dearest Teacher,

the Message of Wholeness that you are trying to Teach seems

lost to an iPod-and-entertainment addicted

eon...

what keeps you so convicted upon your Path of Wholeness?

Coach Answers:

the Grace of the Divine Mother

and the Love of those few who

travel our precious Path.

in a way a candle lights the darkest cave,

those of us that see the Light of

Wholistic Fitness®

see and feel

the spiritual ignorance of Kali Yuga.

feeling and seeing such spiritual ignorance among the masses

is a great Blessing

for it shifts with sudden power

external motivation into internal motivation

and sets the stage for Divine Motivation.

* - what we think Coach jestfully means is that many people who know they need to cut down on their coffee consumption still drink too 'tasty' of coffees. it's easier to drive less for pleasure when your vehicle is an ox-cart rather than a Porsche.

** - Quinary is a foundational whole-food herbal formula from SUNRIDER Herbs, the official Herbs of Wholistic Fitness® since 1983. Quinary is designed to nourish and balance the Five Major Organ Systems of the body and contains an unmatched profile and concentration and enhancement of over 50 different whole-food herbs.

Monthly Practice Stats; January 08! "A Winter Of High Content!!!"

before the "intimidating Practice Stats" of your coach,
by popular request...my softer side...
courtesy of
more Dewa!...


OTHER PHOTOS ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS ACCORDING TO MY TEACHER's WISHES...
these two photos approved for EVERYONE HOWEVER!!!



...the Lotus-Eyed One born within multiple Auspicious Signs... photo by Ananda; Dewa about 2 months ago. Some are "recognizing" Dewa in a Tibetan sense of the word...





..."And truly, it's Dewa's mommy that is being the Champion around this house full of Champions! To truly love your baby? Love and care for her mother..." i took this photo this morning.

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Oh, sure January was another great month for the ol' WF Creator to walk his talk; qualifying for Nationals, cranking Nordic Ski Marathons, busting through technique plateaus in tele skiing, creating more Champions in my coaching...however, without a doubt the Highest High of January was the ever-growing Radiance of my Lotus-Eyed BuddhaFull Girl; Dewa! And truly, it's Dewa's mommy that is being the Champion around this house full of Champions! To truly love your baby? Love and care for her mother...


I know i load DL with a lot of spirit for all of us to have our Atman's munch upon...however, the thing i love MOST about our Tribe? our Monthly Practice Stats reveal the Sweat that drives the Spirit Higher!...

check these out and let's keep it cranking toward Enlightenment THROUGH the intelligently trained, versatile, and deeply functional body!

head bowed,
the mountain yoga


TOMORROW: RACE DAY!!! The Flagstaff 10k Classic Ski Race and the first event of the Arizona Cup and the second event of the Flagstaff Winter Triathlon! i go off at 9:00 am...time to TEST THE SPIRIT AGAIN and AGAIN and ENDLESSLY AGAIN!!!!


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PRACTICE STATS (as compared to December)

FOR SAFETY's SAKE, MY PRACTICE STATS ARE RESERVED FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

and HIGHLIGHTS:
• 15 ski days = 28 skier days so far this season
• Strength Training UP by 6x and up by 2.75 hours; i FEEL the STRENGTH!
• Cardio Down by 8.25 hours due to Racing tapering/recovering
• Yoga; UP by 1.25 hours; Mr. Consistency with BABY!
• Meditation; UP by 3.25! Mostly MantraWork
• Nutrition: UP by 118 ckals/day = LEAN and STRONG! strong through "Flu Season"...thanks, SUNRIDER Herbs and MAP Aminos!!! YEAH BABY!!!

*2nd place in AG; 40kilometer, high altitude Nordic Ski marathon
*Qualified for USSSA Nationals one week later at 10k Snowshoe Race!!!
* Teleskiing/Snowboarding is GREAT! GREAT WINTER!!! BIG SNOW!!!
* The biggest Highlight of my month; DEWA IS SO FUN AND HEALTHY!!!

The Coach That Still Does: DECEMBER's PRACTICE STATS are IN!

Whenever there is a "ROAD CLOSED" sign blocking the entrance to a forest road, then chances are likely that the true reality of the sign is that it is a Winter Warrior's Gateway into a most Blessed Outdoor Yoga Studio of Silence and Cold Sweat. This portal is only a few minutes from my front door. Quick access to quality winter training grounds for snowshoeing, nordic, and alpine terrain is vital to even come close to my Practice Stats below. Just as an actor must move to LA if she or he really wants to break into 'The Business', so too the mountain yogi must move to areas where the Prana gushes forth from high altitudes in order to sustain the imperative training of the subtle anatomical fitness along with the more elementary physical fitness training. photo from my cell phone before a 2-hour snowshoe workout; Wing Mountain FR 222.

LEGEND:
ST = Strength Training
CV = Cardio Training
Y = Yoga (asana)
M = Meditation (includes Pranayama)
N = Nutrition


December is a crux month for a Winter Athlete. with no racing on the schedule, it is crack down time for instilling devoted on-snow training with little room for inconsistency. Winter endurance sports are the most brutal on this plane(t) and without a completely focused mindset and firm dedication during this month of holiday distractions (not to mention a 3-month old baby), each day required drawing the Warrior Sword of Manjushree-like passion for lifelong Practice.

I am very pleased and confident going into my Winter Racing Season with my New Daddy Practice Stats during this month. i managed to ski, snowboard, or snowshoe 13 out of 31 days and nailed my extended-interval sessions (average HR above 165 for 1 hour) once per week while maintaining discipline to keep my other CV Practice Sessions within Zone 2ish. Just the past week i started short/power/speed interval sessions.

NOTE:
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPEAT THE FOLLOWING MATHEMATICS OF MY TRAINING! YOU WILL GET INJURED AND/OR OTHERWISE PUT THE KIBOSH ON YOUR OWN NATURAL PROGRESSION! THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE IN MY EXTREMELY LOW CALORIC INTAKE VS. CALORIC EXPENDITURE; I CAN ONLY PULL OFF SUCH NUMBERS SAFELY DUE TO 20+ YEARS OF DOING SUNRIDER HERBS, AMINO ACID SUPPLEMENTATION, AND MOST OF ALL MY YOGIC PRANAYAMIC PRACTICES! I REPEAT; I PUBLICLY POST THESE NUMBERS ONLY TO DL SUBSCRIBERS TO SERVE ONLY AS INSPIRATION FOR ALL 'AGING' AND 'NEW DADDIES' AND CHRONIC PAIN WARRIORS AND EVERYONE ELSE TO GET THEIR INNER DISCIPLINE CRANKED UP IN THE FACE OF OUTER WORLDLY CHALLENGES AND 'OBLIGATIONS.' THE ONLY TRUE OBLIGATION IS STEADFAST TRAINING FOR OUR BARDO ENTRY TO SERVE ALL HUMANITY BY WORKING TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT.

MAY YOUR PRACTICE REMAIN STRONG AND SINCERE IN THE NEW YEAR...

Om So Ti,
coach ilg


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bodyweight: 148lbs*
bodyfat: 5.8%

ACTUAL PRACTICE STATS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS FOR REASONS OF SAFETY

* dropped precisely the 3lbs i wanted from November using SUNRIDER HERBS and ahara-jaya (yogic discipline of "mastery of food." i will now slowly build up caloric intake in preparation for my winter endurance sports.

Monthly Practice Stats; Let's See How Being A New Daddy Affected Coach's Training Stats...

For safety's sake,
my Monthly Practice Stats
which are giving in all Disciplines of WF
(Strength Training, Cardio, Yoga, Meditation, and Calories Per Day)
are available only for DL SUBSCRIBERS

MONTHLY PRACTICE STATS; Summer of 2007

Most Noble Sangha,
okay, yesterday was the poetry,
today? the PAIN!

below are my Monthly Practice Stats for July, August, and September.

i always wondered how my Practice would uphold if i had a baby.
others made it seem like having a baby completely destroys Abhyasa (Steadfast Practice).
so far, Dewa has only deepened my Practice in sacred, impossible to describe ways.

ironically enough, eleven days after Dewa was born i attained my
Fourth Overall Podium in Four Different Sports in the calendar year of 2007.
That's not Age Group victories, youngsters, Overall Podiums:

• January - 3rd Place Overall USSSA Western Regional Snowshoe Championships
• February - 1st Place Overall; Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon
• March - 1st Place Overall; Topaten Nordic High Altitude Ski Championships (new Course Record)
• September - 3rd Place Overall; Flagstaff Marathon 10k

Clever, eh? Too bad such versatile fitness is overlooked by our Addicted to Sport Specificity world.
In fact, if my cycling season didn't suck so bad thanks to the ongoing asthma i gave myself at Topaten in March,
i maybe, just maybe could have squeaked out 5 Overall Podiums in 5 Different Sports in this calendar year.
i've pulled stunts like these throughout my life. i smile deeply when i recall when i once pulled off a Bodybuilding Podium and a 50k Mountain Running Race Podium; in the SAME MONTH! that is about as extreme a physiologic gap as a human athlete can bridge, at least in my opinion. so, yes, it feels very go(o)d to have had this banner year, my first such
one since my 10-year Dharma Mission in Los Angeles.

what makes my inner smile especially deep from this season of racing; is to have experienced and contributed to every step of the pre-natal, delivery, and post-natal Journey of my baby daughter during such a Wholistically Fit year. there was no trace of your typical obsessive/compulsive athlete in my season.

fact is; i love being a Wholistic Fitness athlete. i love being brave enough to let go of sport mastery to become a Beginner again in a new one throughout the year. i love being recognized as a cyclist by cyclists, a gym guy by gym guys, a skier by skiers, a climber by climbers, a yogi by yogis, a mountain runner by mountain runners...i like always showing up on their playing field and giving the Sport Specific addicts a run for their money. i only wish more of them would play the widespread (wholistic) game! it's lonely in a way, the Path of the WF athlete. however, the karmic, physiologic, emotive, and spiritual return on being a WF athlete instead of a Sport Specific athlete is far, far too much fun and merit-full to turn around walk downstream, along with the ego-strengthening current of the Discipline-Specific 'main-stream'. ilg prefers his little tributary of Wholistic Fitness and the body/mind symmetry and balance she imparts.

the slight dip in Cardio Hours during the month Dewa was born (September), is due to
getting off the bike -which requires longer training hours - and into mountain running and inline Ski Skate mode which mandate less training hours, something that helps a new daddy warrior!

So, may these foot-tracks inspire your own Abhyasa
and may your insights from Direct Experience of Sweat and Stillness empower your ageless life...

head bowed,
the consistent one


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NOTE: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MIMIC THESE TRAINING VOLUMES ON MY VERY LIMITED CALORIC INTAKE!



SORRY: DUE TO HISTORY OF PEOPLE TRYING TO "KEEP UP" WITH MY TRAINING STATS AND LIMITED CALORIC INTAKE AND HURTING THEMSELVES,
MY MONTHLY PRACTICE STATS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS

Coach's Practice Stats; May of 2007

"Life is what one wants in one's soul."
- D.H. Lawerence


Due to safety considerations, my Monthly Practice Stats which seem unbelievable to the conventionally trained masses, are now kept in the Tribal Safety of DL Subscription Format...come on in and join our often misunderstood Tribe of America's Original Multi-Disciplined Yogis!

photos;
1) Most Noble and Cherished Online Student; Steve Mackel moments after the meditation closing of my HP Yoga Sweatfest in LA.

2) the Cave of Mark Blanchard's Yoga Studio in Studio City, LA before my Workshop and Master Class.

photos by Noble Student RJ!