Having taught swim lessons in municipal recreation, through the Red Cross, as well as in the YMCA, I have a good perspective on the different ways to teach. There are literally hundreds of children I’ve taught to swim, and hundreds more under my supervision. Not only that, but I watched my own three kids […]
Our Not-So-Fit Children
A good while ago, when I was a child, I’d go out the door on a dead run to play, I might, or might not, come home for lunch. But my mother never worried since we knew everybody in town, or where I played, and SOMEONE would feed the kids playing nearby their house. […]
The Best Form of Exercise is Swimming
Have you ever noticed running tracks at secondary schools and colleges—and some public park tracks? They are made of a kind of almost bouncy material, which is actually a synthetic latex rubberized composition. There’s a reason for that. For track competition, where the athletes’ joints take a lot of pounding, there are international standards […]
Don’t Forget Your pH!
It’s something we don’t tend to think about—our body’s pH. Our doctors don’t talk about it, so therefore it must not be important, right? WRONG! Our doctors actually aren’t even taught much about it in med school. But the drugs they are taught are our Godsends help mess up our pH, big-time! Our bodies will […]
Football Season in Texas
If you haven’t experienced it, let me explain. It is SERIOUS BUSINESS! There are four seasons in Texas: Summer, Football, Christmas and Spring Football. And I’m serious. High school football in Texas is like college football in the rest of the country. And when the Texas A&M Aggies or the University of Texas Longhorns play, […]