Love/Health: The Big Definition

Victor posted:

I really love your quote where you said,

(1)   "Strong people live short life, while feeble ones live longer." 

Being strong doesn't always mean you can get the most out of your life. To be healthy, you should have proper nutrition."

Amazingly, readers are astonishing in spotting the very few but succinct words that sum up all arguments in piles of phrases and thoughts.

(2)  Another reader spotted the "T" concept which I have advocated in all my books about weightlifting. 

I argued that keeping the shoulders and the spine in perfect "T" configuration will improve strength, health, and fitness beyond all other means of training. Simply put, elevated shoulders ease the breathing and circulation and smooth the blood flow to the brain and vital organs.

(3) A third reader spread on the Internet a pivotal belief that I have advocated also in all my books on weightlifting. I stated:

 “If you do not do Goodmorning everyday, you should not live on Planet Earth.”

The anonymous reader cited my words in his blog. Google search engines picked it up and attached to my name. I became the original author of my original thoughts without having to seek  notarization. 

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(4) A fourth reader stopped me in a gym in Philadelphia and posed this question:

  "What did you mean when you stated that "distance was born when matter was created, time when radiation was?"

Originally, I attempted to simplify the classical paradox of assuming that distance, time, and mass were ultimate constants of nature which the special relativity refuted. I argued that distance was a property of mass, while time was a property of radiation, and since mass and radiation were two forms of the same entity: that energy, therefore, the three constants; mass, distance, and time (denoted by MLT) were indeed one constant, that is energy. 

As a Muslim by birth, simplifying issues to refer to the one universal entity, the Almighty, was in part a factor in approaching nature. It is hard to believe that any person could isolate his early ingrained beliefs from the way of viewing the world.

Returning to Love/Health, both entities share the same faculty that must initiate life and distinguish being from inert matter.

Well being must start from the soul. That where values and instincts are encoded into the subroutines of the DNA of all living beings. You would not enjoy the most delicious foods unless your soul could measure deliciousness in reference to your instincts. If your soul was damaged, such as in cases of orphan kids, nothing would be perceived as euphoric or delicious. 

It is the soul that defines the being.

And your soul, as well as mine, is nourished by the love of your mother. In my beloved culture, motherhood is equated with Allah's eternal Paradise. A place where only the most noble and chosen beings will live happily and forever. Those are the 50 percent of the human beings: moms.

Where do the rest 50% go? 

Iraq, Afghanistan, WWII, WWI, the Crusaders.... Wonder why moms seldom planned, plotted on initiated strategic defense initiatives? Except Golda Meir of Israel, Margaret Thatcher Britain prime minister, or Cleopatra of Egypt.

Definitely, it is better to be strong and on top of the planet earth rather than being feeble and emaciated.  But, health is a balance between your instincts and your purpose on this planet. Did this bodybuilder get there? My gut feeling that his knees will be shot as we speak due to his grotesquely enlarged upper body and mostly disproportionate weight bearing joints. This man would not walk home on his deltoids or triceps. He must carry those massive beef on his poor knees. Those knees would soon give way to a nursing home bed-ridden patient. There, nurses of Haiti and the poor Filipinos would have to turn him in bed and clean his mess as his ability to carry himself would be undermined by his own beef.

Empowering  women with weight lifting is a true revolution in our history.

Woobs, I got it all wrong.

My own native villagers who milk the cows and maintain the stables in the Egyptian rural areas were much into bodybuilding, from 4 am to 5 pm, 13 hours daily, and for thousands of years. The Egyptians women abandoned the thousands-year old bodybuilding after the electrification of their villages and the invention of the TV. It now more enticing to stay later at night and watch soccer and theatrical plays than caring for the manure of cows and the brutal demands of farming. Muharab, the only son of one of my employees in a rural village in Egypt, dreamed of dating an urban woman with high heels and manicured nails. His wife always smelled like the manure of the animals in his table.
I wish that Muharab is alive and well and could see the above bodybuilding chick.

 

Gold Meir could not find love in the great land of America and pursued the Zionist soul searching in Israel which took her to the highest ranks in the Israeli politics. A devout American Jew who visited Israel during the war in Iraq commented on the definition of the modern Jewish identity, on whether Jewish women should be smoking, getting tattoos, dating without marriage, or serving in the military. It all boils down to soul searching.

 

Love is encoded in the DNA. It defines Health in establishing the soul of the being. The mind and body follow the soul.

Jane Fonda's mother was manic depressive, committed suicide when Jane was teen. Her dad was a remote and cold actor. Jane suffered from Bulimia nervosa all her life. She married three times and ruined every marriage with her insecurity and confusion of her tortured soul.  Introducing aerobics to modern American society did not heal Fonda's wounds of the loss of her mother's love or her father's detachment. She married a French movie producer addicted to drugs, perverted sex, and total degeneracy which she took as norms of her reality. Her second husband, who married her in order to run for office, walked away as soon as she returned to the chaos of movie making. The last billionaire husband Ted Turner, was left to dry in vast and remote places after Jane walked out for the last time to return to Hollywood. This time, Jane was over 60 and Hollywood had no need for her obsolete acting skill.

By

Mohamed F. El-Hewie

     

Safety precautions concerning lifting weights at home

Lifting weights at home might appear a benign proposal on its face. with the gasoline prices climbing to unaffordable levels, one must take exercising at home very seriously. Here are few pros and cons to consider.

1. A fellow of mine whom I included in my book Essentials of Weightlifting died in his own home at the age of 44 in an electrocution accident. The subject was a well trained weightlifter. He extreme overweight hindered his ability to maneuver when he came in contact with a bare electric wire in a narrow alley in his house.

2. Another Goldmedalist Egyptian weightlifter was also electrocuted in his own house. That was Kheder El-Tony who won the 1936 Gold medal and was photographed shaking hands with Hitler.

3. In my personal life, once a knife fell from the kitchen table stabbing my foot between the webs tendons of the toes in a freak accident that could have been prevented had the table been organized.

4. In another accident that took place in an empty gym, I incurred acute low back pain during squatting that might have been crippling had I was not well aware of the management of such emergency.

5. Another well known accident occurred to an elite Russian weightlifter in the hotel room at the night before his Olympic contest. As I recall, the Games were in Korea and the lifter got his finger caught in the door slot that resulted in severe trauma preventing him from lifting.

6. The following video shows a mishap that occurred in the living room due to lifting in the proximity of a fish tank and the bed. The tip of the bar was caught under the bed frame resulting in tilting the bar which hit the fish tank.

 7. In contrast, Sjaak Smorenburg is a different kind of lifter. His training in the army and as a train engineer enabled him to take his home lifting very seriously.