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hey Byron

Thanks for the add. How are you feeling?

Byron!  Join us brother! 

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Hope all is well,

Mike Arnstein

Hello Byron! Thanks for the friend invitation. Yes, may knees are feeling much better, thank you for asking. I went to chiropractor for a bit, did some knee strengthening exercises, and bought a pair of vibrams, and I haven't had any problems in months. :-D

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My banana smoothies can’t get any more simple than they are. 96 ounces usually takes 15-18 bananas, about 10 ounces of water, and 2 cups of ice. That’s it! Sometimes I’ll toss in some mangos or strawberries. I really like to add raisins if I’m adding something. But that’s about it until the berries get in season.

Crohn’s disease! I believe you are the only one I know that has that. I am completely ignorant of challenges of Crohn’s disease. I’ll check it out, but give a quick 1,2,3.

As for other nutrition; my last 2 Ironmans I used juiced grapes and celery. It’s great stuff, but gets too sweet for me after 3 or 4 bottles. I should try that again in 1 bottle, then use other stuff too. In my last 2 ultras (50k in March and 36 miles in April) I soaked raisins in water overnight, then combined that water with coconut water. Very tasty. Might be a bit low on the calories, but was loaded with sodium.
That’s enough words for now. Take care.

Byron,
Good idea to continue here.

Yes, you got it. Just like any other daily activity - for example brushing your hair. As a child, that's tough to do. You can see a yound child thinking through every movement. But, after enough repetitions, there's no thought given to the muscles in the hand the wrap fingers around the handle, or the action of the biceps, or triceps, etc. You just think "brush hair" and it happens. Learning Pose was very similar to that for me. Man, it was hard to learn. Then, being with Nicholas for a weekend and seeing how easy he makes every movement look - that was inspiring. He is unbelievably talented. The biggest thing I took from that clinic was to just do the movement - in everything you do. He did a thing with one of the participants and pushups. The guy couldn’t do more than 5 pushups, because he was thinking about pushing with the triceps and squeezing with the pectorals, etc. Nicholas convinced him to only think about lowering his shoulders to the ground and raising them. That’s really all a pushup is – you lower your shoulders to the ground then raise them.

There was an adaption phase for sure. But, I did that over the winter, so I was able to build up slowly, and I never wore socks when I first started Pose in my Puma H-Streets. On real badass, rocky trails I’ll still take a beating if I wear my H-Streets – but it would have to be a nasty trail with pointy rocks. I’m still searching for the perfect trail shoe for me. I like the Inov8 f-Lite 230, but I blew holes in the uppers after only 200 miles – wide feet (4E). I’m too cheap to go through shoes like that. I get over 1000 miles out of my H-Streets. I still have my original pair that I take out from time to time. My current pair has over 500 miles and they still look and feel new.

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