Talk about anti-climax. My grandpa, who is 95 and still very healthy - he can still cycle 6km and not even sweat, and I cycle for 10 minutes in the air-cond gym and I feel like collapsing - whom I met over the weekend was giving me advice for my body and soul (he does this every time we meet, and as usual I listen but never practice) and he was telling me that I should do some deep breathing and stretching exercises every morning when I wake up. There I was - while being awed by how flexible he was, and while thinking that I would be screaming pain if I do the same movements - going like 'I have seen these before, where yah?' when it hit me that they are the same movements taught in my 3R classes! Well, it's this really cool (I thought so, at that time at least) class that teaches breathing and stretching techniques that is supposed to be a combined 3-in-1 yoga-taichi-alexander technique class which was supposed to help me reduce stress and remain in an oasis of calm, which I was telling everybody to sign up. And there was Grandpa doing the same movements which he claimed is one of the reasons why he is still very healthy even at 95 (of course he doesn't binge on Whoppers and Coke and doesn't come back from work at 10pm and doesn't reamin in artificially cooled environment for 20 hours a day)! Been doing it all his life too. So much for being cool and forward with this 3R thing! :)
The good thing out of this is that there is a living proof that it does work!
And don't ask me what the R stands for - Rest, Relax and ... Reproduce? Not. :)
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Ripe, Raw, Ripple...
I thought you hung out at Burger King for other reasons :)
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