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    Changing the Way You Move: Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years
    Changing the Way You Move: Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years
    Changing the Way You Move: Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years
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    Changing the Way You Move: Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years

    By Dr. Kevin T. Morgan

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    "It's not the fittest that survive, it's those most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin.

    Aging comes with major changes, to which you will need to adapt.

    Golden Years?

    Dr. Morgan, veterinary scientist and older athlete, provides a highly effective approach to elderly mobility, based on a life-time of experience:

    -Get your life back on track, after major surgery and other health challenges, for active elderly years.
    -Overcome poor movement habits for aging mobility.
    -Learn to fix your sprains and strains, with or without professional assistance, as appropriate.
    -Save money on unnecessary doctor's visits through increased body-awareness.

    In 2011, the author became the only person in the world to complete a full Ironman (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, 26.2-mile marathon) with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) stent graft. This success was the result of changing the way he moved. He developed strategies to reduce hip flexion and impact stresses during his grueling training. These movement modifications, which are described in the book, became the underpinnings of his Observe, Question, Solve (OQS) Method. They were based on an understanding of anatomy, AAA stent design, and extensive training in optimal body movement, including Martial Arts, Yoga, Pilates, Gyrokinesis, Continuum, and most importantly, Feldenkrais.

    You don't have to be a movement expert to apply the principals of OQS. Just six simple steps!

    Dr. Morgan uses stories from his life as a country veterinarian to clarify the underlying philosophy of OQS.

    Six easy steps that you can use for greater independence as you age:

    -Step One: Observing subtle movements.
    -Step Two: Questioning the obvious.
    -Step Three: Solving your issues like a detective.
    -Step Four: Sitting more effectively.
    -Step Five: Standing as your body movement laboratory.
    -Step Six: How to walk/run more easily, while remaining injury free.

    Don't join the old people, work to enjoy elderly mobility!

    Stay young at heart!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 29, 2017
    ISBN9781543904352
    Changing the Way You Move: Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years

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      Changing the Way You Move - Dr. Kevin T. Morgan

      CHANGING THE WAY YOU MOVE

      Six Simple Steps for Adapting to Aging to Enjoy Your Golden Years

      by

      Dr. Kevin T Morgan

      BVSc, PhD, DipACVP, ExFRCPath

      Veterinary Pathologist and Researcher, Ironman-Distance Triathlete,

      Student Of Optimal Movement.

      Men are born soft and supple;

      dead, they are stiff and hard.

      Plants are born tender and pliant;

      dead, they are brittle and dry.

      Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible

      is a disciple of death.

      Whoever is soft and yielding

      is a disciple of life;

      The hard and stiff will be broken.

      The soft and supple will prevail.

      –Lao-Tzu, translated by Steven Mitchell

      Front cover: Left, the author as a 12-year old schoolboy in post-war England, with the hidden scars of post-war nutrition. Right, at age 68, the first person in the world to finish a full Ironman race with an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft.

      For which he had to change the way he moved!

      Table of Contents

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      DEDICATION

      CHANGING THE WAY YOU MOVE

      PROLOGUE

      GOLDEN YEARS?

      INTRODUCTION

      SIX SIMPLE STEPS

      PART ONE: THE THREE OQS TOOLS

      CHAPTER ONE: THE FIRST STEP - OBSERVING

      CHAPTER TWO: THE SECOND STEP - QUESTIONING

      CHAPTER THREE: THE THIRD STEP - SOLVING

      PART TWO: APPLYING THE OQS METHOD

      CHAPTER FOUR: STEP FOUR—SITTING

      CHAPTER FIVE: STEP FIVE—STANDING

      CHAPTER SIX: STEP SIX—WALKING/RUNNING

      CONCLUSION

      EPILOGUE

      POST-SCRIPT

      APPENDIX A: ON BALANCE

      APPENDIX B: CLIFFS NOTES APPROACH TO OQS

      APPENDIX C: STRAINS AND INJURIES

      APPENDIX D: SUGGESTED READING

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      ISBN: 9781543904352

      Copyright © 2017:

      All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the author, Kevin Thomas Morgan aka FitOldDog.

      LIMIT OF LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMER:

      This document is based on the authors’ experience and has been created to provide information and guidance about the subject matter covered. Every effort has been made to make it as accurate as possible. Website links and content can change at any time. If a link is nonfunctional, please contact the author. The author shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information covered in this book, or decisions made based upon this book.

      TRADEMARKS:

      Any trademarks, service marks, product names or named features are assumed to be the property of their respective owners, and are used for reference only.

      SHARING THIS DOCUMENT:

      I politely ask that you please respect my work by not donating or reselling this book. This would be very much appreciated.

      MEDICAL DISCLAIMER:

      As a veterinarian, I do not provide medical advice to human animals. If you undertake or modify an exercise program, consult your medical advisers before doing so. Undertaking activities pursued by the author does not mean that he endorses your undertaking such activities, which is clearly your decision and responsibility. Be careful and sensible, please. Wishing you happy trails, FitOldDog, Old Dogs in Training, LLC.

      DEDICATION

      To my friend and fellow athlete, Frits with an s, who died far too young. Thanks for the Ironman Training Secret Sauce, my friend. You continue to be an inspiration.

      CHANGING THE WAY YOU MOVE

      Six Simple Steps For Adapting To Aging To Enjoy Your Golden Years

      Those who cannot change their minds

      cannot change anything. –

      George Bernard Shaw

      Step One: Observing

      You won’t fix what you don’t notice.

      Step Two: Questioning

      The pain may not be where the problem lies.

      Step Three: Solving

      First understand. Then solve.

      Step Four: Sitting

      Sit right to live right.

      Step Five: Standing

      Your body-movement laboratory.

      Step Six: Walking/Running

      You walk/run how you think and feel and vice versa!

      NOTE: If you want to jump straight into working on the way you move, read Appendix A: On Balance. Then go to Appendix B: Cliffs Notes Approach To Applying The  OQS Method.

      I recommend that you read the entire narrative before doing so. It all depends how you like to do things. We’re all different; that’s for sure!

      LINKS: This ebook refers to a number of relevant Internet sites. Sites that the author doesn’t control can go down or change at anytime. All recommended links in the book are indicated as (link), which will take you to the website http://changethewayyoumove.info. This permits the author to refresh links that go down after publication.

      PROLOGUE

      If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. – Albert Einstein

      Caring is the key! –FitOldDog

      1970 on a cold winter’s evening.

      It’s the end of a long day, tending to livestock. I’m ready for my dinner!

      I’d been working as a country vet on farms in the Southwest of England for three years.

      Tonight, an old farmer and I are in a cowshed by the light of a single, grimy light bulb. A bunch of old buildings, straw, hay, mud and hard work all around. Cobwebs hang from the rafters. Fifteen dairy cows, Jerseys, chewing the cud in the evening gloom. Delightful animals. Gentle as you can imagine and affectionate for cows.

      This nice old guy is just getting by. That’s for sure!

      He’s looking at me out of old, worried eyes, from a heavily wrinkled face. This man has seen, and is still living, hard times. But he cares about his livestock. I came to treat one of his cows for mastitis.

      As I write the ticket for the bill, he says,

      I guess you can’t do nowt for old Mabel, young man?

      I wasn’t one of the owners of the veterinary practice. A hired hand, an assistant, as opposed to a partner in the business. I couldn’t waste time or other resources.

      What’s up with Mabel?  I replied. Which one was Mabel, I had no idea!

      "She can’t eat, and she’s losing weight. Mabel’s

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