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Some of you may have read my previous article on Aesthetically Astute Athleticism.    Please see here for reference  Aesthetically Astute Athleticism (AAA) by Atul Singh  if you have not.  The article generated a variety of responses and reactions. The most polarizing word in the article seemed to have been “vanity”. Some people did not relate to it, some found it downright offensive and others quietly accepted the import of it in the context in which it was served. For assuaging those concerns let’s modulate the drivers to be internal and external. External being the yearning to count for something in the peer group that one respects. As a follow up to that article I present another case study in similar realm, that of Ryan Hall. I just reference it here for people to read since this article speaks to it more eloquently than I ever could.  https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/marathoner-ryan-hall-transformation I also think that the definition of a perfect body regularly gets re

Aesthetically Astute  Athleticism ( AAA)   Through the last ten years or so when I have been actively engaged with endurance sports like running, triathlons and even hiking, I have come across two types of athletes. One  is  the gym rat. They are well built, buffed up, but look  generally stiff , bulky and out of range in appeal and possibility for average folks. Then there are the endurance athletes,  mainly runners .  Some  are slim, even stick legs and arms, if they are the serious ones who train all year round. Then there are others, who are in majority, who expand and contract based on whether they are in off season or training season. Bigger, smaller, bigger, smaller, year after year they go, with bodies not really changing in any significant way, appearance wise and constitution wise.  Many  a times, performance wise also, they stay within 10-20 percent of the first plateau they reach after the first couple of races they run and shift their label from a normal person to being a

Top 6 Folks, all of us are at an age, when, even though we are aware, we still need friendly reminders regarding our health and well-being. So here goes : Age brings lots of joys, like Seeing our kids come into their own Finally having paid off our homes and cars or getting close to it Friendships and intimate relationships maturing and providing us the feeling of security and warmth thereof Professional rewards both positional and financial Starting to build a real Spiritual walk and starting to get an understanding of the world that way.  All these, needless to say, need time and energy to enjoy. There-in lies one of life’s biggest contradiction. When we have all these things, our energy and mental faculties seem to start losing the edge. Clearly they wane with time and it accelerates between the ages of 50 and 60. But we all know that there are ways to keep the proverbial “Wolf” at bay. Hence this reminder.  My top six ways on keeping our elan’-vital from depleting over the next 10