Loa’s Column
Go For The Gold
One photo can create an icon. That’s all it took for Dara Torres and her 41-year-old abs of steel. She appears beautiful and calm with a “shredded 8 pack.” One look at Robert Maxwell’s photo of her in New York Times Magazine and you can see, not only is she an amazing athlete, but years [...]
Still a Roar at 94
The New York Times released a story in 2006 about Josephine Tesauro–a 92-year-old twin who still drove, played bridge, and lived on her own near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of a study on aging, papers and magazines around the world picked up her story. I followed it and after seeing a video of her online, [...]
An Open Mind creates A Lean Body
Julie was about 20 pounds overweight and frustrated with her body. She tried lots of diets and still could not get back to her former size. Yet I could see by her performance in exercise class that physically she was strong and energetic. So a few years back when she asked about my fitness program [...]
Body Memory
Feel Like Dancing?
We were sitting around at a family reunion in the old town hall when two little nieces about four and six years old burst into a dance. With no music playing, there was twirling, free styling and assorted “fly girl” moves. It was unplanned; they just felt it and went with it as if the open space of the gymnasium floor had called to them. With laughter between his words my dad said, “wouldn’t it be great to feel that good-so good you just wanted to dance!” I wondered why some of us grownups don’t feel that way.
