There were a fair amount of comments on Instapundit about it. Many were cynical, some argumentative, but some were positive. And, some folks just used the link to talk about some other diet or exercise regimen they swore by while they had no experience with the article linked. And, many wrote that they might be interested in trying but did not think it feasible due to some health issue. Bad knees seemed to lead the list.
I have been doing some form of this my entire life and I really, really like it and feel it contributes to my seeming good health*. The topic of exercise, running, etc. has come up many times during my life with friends, family, co-workers, strangers. It’s a popular topic. One will be at a dinner and someone mentions some article he or she read (just as I’m doing now) and an interesting conversation follows. Over the years I’ve explained my sprinting regimen to many people, and told them how great I feel when I do it. Yet, I don’t think I’ve ever convinced anyone else to try it.
Most all of us sprinted a lot as children. A simple game of tag at recess involved dozens of quick sprints; basketball, football, kickball, baseball, soccer, tennis, bombardment, hide and seek… Simply walking to and from school everyday, or going to the store for my mother, or going to a friend’s house. I’d see how long I could keep up with the city buses or trains. Most everyone who is in decent health as a child sprints a lot. Yet, it seems like most all of us lose the drive or desire to sprint as we age. Somehow I never grew out of it***.
In other words, this seems to work for me, but your mileage (pun intended, of course) may vary. Somewhere in my mid to late 30s I noticed I could no longer string together 100 meter or 200 meter sprints without soon tweaking a hamstring or gastrocnemius. In one of many efforts to recover from a minor hamstring pull I tried sprinting uphill and found that was the trick I needed. For decades since I’ve been doing uphill windsprints and rarely get injured. My theory is the slope slows me down just enough that my leg turnover speed is not fast enough to cause injury. Then, somewhere around age 60 I discovered nature (aka “aging”) had slowed my leg turnover speed enough that I can now “sprint” on flat ground again**.
Also, I’ve done a fair amount of slower, longer running and cycling. For decades I very much enjoyed jogging (although my pace was typically more aggressive), but I never felt it was healthy. I did it because I had to do it; I simply love to run. But running miles, day after day seemed, to me, likely to carry potential for bad health outcomes. Yet sprinting never feels like it is harming my joints. There are a lot of different bodies and body types among homo sapiens. I definitely don’t think exercise (or diet) is a one size fits all paradigm, but I won’t be surprised to learn that pushing oneself to near total exhaustion in short bursts produces better outcomes for most people than a 70% – 80% effort for long intervals.
If you are in OK shape and don’t have a heart condition, and are curious, I recommend giving it a try. Start in a field or stretch of sidewalk with a slight slope, mark off 30 or 40 yards and jog up it to get your joints ready. Walk the first few steps, then work up to a jog. Walk back to your starting point and almost immediately set yourself and this time jog the entire distance. Walk back to the starting point and repeat, but maybe with an 80% effort. 3 is probably a good place to start. 2 or 3 days later go back and start the first one in a full jog. Then #2 is maybe 80%. Then try close to full speed for 1 or 2 and finish with an 80%. If you like it, work your way up to 5 near or at top speed then start increasing your distance. I find 65 to 75 yards feels about right for me on a decent slope with 5 to 10 reps, depending on how I feel.
* At least my Dr. likes my vitals and bloodwork, but I’ve never run the control experiment to see if they would change if I didn’t do this. Could just be genetics, or some other lifestyle choice(s) I follow? I recently had my regularly scheduled colonoscopy and in recovery the nurse anesthetist said she had to keep calming everyone when the pulse rate monitor beeped an alarm. She said, “I had to keep telling them, no, his normal pulse really is that low.”
** 2 summers ago I decided to add “ladders” a few times a week (50, 100, 200, 400, 200, 100, 50) and time the sprints (I rarely do) to see if I could improve my 400m time. After getting used to the longer sprint (after decades of not timing myself in a 400m) my times were similar to my 400m splits in a 5k race. Relatively very slow to my youth! My 50m and 100m times aren’t bad, and I can hold it together decently for about 200m, although there is a drop off compared to the 2, shorter distances. But I find it impossible at my age to “sprint” for more than about 200m. And I’m very curious why that is? Lung capacity? Fewer red blood cells? Leg muscles being much less efficient? BMI skewed? I’m carrying about 30 more pounds than when I ran 5ks at that pace and more of those pounds are fat than muscle now, but why do I fall off a cliff, pace-wise, if I’m going much further than ~180m? Any geriatric physiologists in the crowd?
*** Maybe I’m just very immature!
The lead editorial today in the WSJ is even better than usual.
Democrats bemoan the USS Abraham Lincoln but won’t fund the Navy.
Democrats this week are expressing outrage over press reports of low morale and tough conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier deployed for 250 days, much of it supporting President Trump’s military action in Iran. This is a new level of chutzpah from the party that won’t pass a bill to finance military operations, and the causes of declining naval readiness aren’t new or mysterious.
The navy lost 12 billion last year ,specifically money for subs ,but they dont know where it went. I am certain they lost more ,but the sub money was specific. Our fast attacks are getting old.
Rufus T Firefly:
Thanks for the observations about the sprint training, I plan to start that next week, walking just isn’t the same as any running!
Very informative post, RTF, and thanks. I don’t run, or even do much distance walking, because of a minor but annoying hip problem. I’m going into physical therapy next week to learn what I can do to help this and what I ought not to do. Meanwhile, I have begun modifying my time on my rowing machine: 3 minutes at an easy pace, then three minutes at a much faster pace, repeated five times, with a cool down at the end. My heart monitor shows this routine gives me exactly what my physical trainer recommended, 80% of the workout at a moderate heart rate and 20% in my cardio zone. The rowing machine avoids the pounding on hips and knees from walking or running.
Lovely story of an unusual romance! We need more of these positive moments in our news feeds!
Emily Gallagher – a Democrat Socialist member of the New York State assembly … snip … Journalist Leighton Woodhouse wrote: ‘People steal toothpaste and soap to sell them to fences who then sell them on Amazon and Facebook Marketplace. I don’t know if it’s that lawmakers are this dumb, or that they think the rest of us are this dumb.’
Rufus T Firefly:
Thanks for the suggested training, there is a spot in town used for Cross Country races that has the slope (grade) and distance that will fit it to a tee, and unlike the HS 400 m track, is not locked away from the general public’s use. The HS track used to be open for us serious interval addicts but that changed about 5 years ago (grumble, grumble).
Kate, in my last annual work related physical the Physican’s Assistant highly recommended rowing machine, though I haven’t figured out the form.
Karmi– what’s the point. The news media blames Trump for everything that happens. You think they’d stop if he said– ‘this one’s on me’ or would they double down? They blame him as a general reflection of their TDS, and then get the opportunity to blame him again—only in 72 point headlines.
The media is still reeling from their 2016 loss when they couldn’t drag their candidate to a W and finish the fundamental transformation Obama started.
RTF,
I despise continuous running, but sprinting is just fine. That’s why reffing youth soccer works well for me. It’s 20-30yd sprints. And I’m looking forward to the fall season even at the ripe old age of 74. I have adjusted to doing centers for U12 and under as trying to keep up with a 16 year old on a full field is now too much. But I still can do assistant ref for all ages if I cheat a bit in staying a bit ahead of the last defender in case of a fast break.
I also do daily stretches and light weights. And getting my second cataract done on Monday. Now, when the parents yell, “Ref are you blind!?”, I can say not any more. 😉
Brian E – Fair point on the media’s TDS, no argument there. But that’s a separate question from whether the pattern’s real.
Look at the record: “the buck stops with everybody” during the 2019 shutdown. “I don’t take responsibility at all” on COVID testing in 2020. Compare that to Truman owning the atomic bomb decision, or Reagan saying “the buck stops here with me” on Iran-Contra even when he wasn’t sure he was to blame. Trump doesn’t do that. Credit’s his. Blame goes to Biden, the generals, Congress, whoever’s handy.
The media being unfair doesn’t make that pattern disappear. Both things are true – they pile on, and he still rarely owns it.
The dude in the photo has a most revolting beard.
RTF – my running days are over. I exercise everyday — mainly deep knee bends, neck rolls and pressure on neck from head (Chiropractic stuff I read about for neck and shoulder issues), something for any joints with issues, and a six-minute ride on my recumbent bike. Added walking at least a mile everyday not long ago, and then tried the ol’ Airborne Shuffle for a couple days—during that mile walk. My right hip joint and lower back area stopped my exercising for few days. If something hurts I try working on that area…
Karmi, what’s the upside for admitting any mistakes in this political environment?
I asked Grok “has any other president been universally, continuously been attacked by a hostile mainstream media in modern times?”
No modern U.S. president has faced media coverage that matches the sustained, high-volume negativity directed at Trump from the major mainstream outlets (the big three networks, major newspapers, CNN, etc.). Quantitative studies document this clearly.
Media coverage comparison
Pew Research and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center analyzed early presidential coverage:
Trump’s first 60–100 days: roughly 62% of stories carried an overall negative assessment of his words or actions, with only about 5–11% positive. Coverage focused heavily on character and leadership rather than policy.
Comparable early periods: Obama ~20% negative / 42% positive; Bush and Clinton each around 28% negative with substantially higher positive shares.
Later tracking (including Media Research Center analyses of evening network news) has repeatedly shown network coverage of Trump in the 80–90%+ negative range during both terms, far exceeding the negativity directed at recent predecessors. Biden’s early coverage was markedly less negative than Trump’s.
I suggested to Grok: “people that have interacted with the President in private situations often state he is nothing like the public persona. Is this just a role he’s playing?”
Yes, a substantial number of people who have interacted with Trump privately describe a clear difference from the public persona. This is one of the more consistent observations across decades of reporting, from longtime employees, business associates, political figures, and casual encounters.
Private vs. public accounts
Longtime aide Norma Foerderer (who worked with him for over 25 years) said there are essentially two Trumps: the public one who is deliberately outrageous to generate coverage and sell the brand, and the private one who is “the dearest, most thoughtful, most loyal, most caring man.” Other accounts echo this:
Softer, quieter speaking voice in private (described as wavering or more measured rather than the hectoring public style).
More listening, curiosity, and soliciting of others’ views in small settings or one-on-ones.
Charm, politeness, and attentiveness toward staff, workers, or dinner companions when cameras are absent.
Occasional personal gestures (handing out cash to workers, showing solicitude) that contrast with the confrontational public image.
Ben Carson, Paul Manafort (during the 2016 campaign), various dinner guests, and some foreign leaders have made similar observations: the stage version is amplified for effect, while the private version is more cerebral or restrained. Trump himself has said he is “somewhat different” and “a much nicer person than people would think” off-camera, while also sometimes insisting there is only one Trump.
This pattern fits a high-profile performer who has spent decades managing public image. The Apprentice (and earlier media appearances) refined and amplified an existing larger-than-life, decisive, tough-boss character. The catchphrase delivery, boardroom theatrics, and dominance displays were television craft layered on top of traits already present in his business career—showmanship, self-promotion, and a preference for bold, attention-getting moves. As he noted in The Art of the Deal, being “a little different or a little outrageous” generates coverage.
How much is “just a role”?
The public persona is clearly performative and strategic. It works as branding, rally energy, and media dominance. Private accounts of greater calm, charm, and thoughtfulness are numerous enough to take seriously—they come from people with no obvious incentive to invent them, including some who later became critics.
However, core patterns appear continuous rather than purely theatrical:
High dominance, need for admiration/loyalty, and tendency to externalize blame show up in both settings (though expressed more theatrically in public).
Impulsivity, mood shifts, and focus on personal loyalty are documented in private White House and business accounts as well.
The private charm often coexists with the same self-focused orientation; it does not automatically mean the public style is pure fiction disconnected from character.
I don’t think he’s going to change. He is who he is.
Brian E — yeah, he can’t change now. I think Susie Wiles has kept him from a lot of his previous ‘Blame Games‘ during that first term.
• A Team: 92% turnover (60 of ~65 top Executive Office of the President positions) by the end of the first term.
• Cabinet: Unusually high churn relative to recent presidents (supported by Brookings and other analyses).
He just needs to watch what he says and who he blames until the midterms are done, IMHO.
Brian E why would he change ? So far it’s been working for him.
om, the form is pretty easy to do, unless I’m doing it wrong. The trick, once I bought my own C2 rower, was to read the directions. It said the best cardiovascular workout is between resistance numbers 3 and 5. So I set it at 4. A stronger person (as in, male) might use 5 or 6, I suppose. Push with feet, then almost immediately pull straight towards your tummy on the bar. I exhale on the pull and inhale on the release. Ideally you should feel the “catch” on the wheel with each stroke.
My trainer told me the Concept 2 machines are the ones competitive rowers use for training. They’re durable and give you the best “feel.” Usually this is the kind found in gyms.
Rufus T. Firefly:
What you called “ladders,” I always called “interval training.” I started doing that in high school track, and would recommend it to anybody as a training technique.
For years after high school, I’d do interval training to stay in condition–more or less. Unfortunately, that’s all gone by the wayside. First came bad knees, then a heart condition. Getting old isn’t for …
Interesting on the USS Lincoln. When I was in, late 1960’s, early 70’s, our cruise was a 9 month deployment. Standard. We didn’t have cell phones, internet. Mail was weeks in coming. And I imagine the food is better and the berthing spaces better. This is a sign of the young kids can’t hack it.
Thanks for great note, Rufus. There’s a great sport you should know about, Ultimate Frisbee. 7 v 7 on a smaller than football field with an end zone.
Throw to a teammate who catches it on the end zone for a point. Catches it before the end zone, stops, no running with it, and must throw it within 10 seconds, which the other man-on-man defense guy counts. Turnovers and the other team’s player picks it up and it’s immediately in play. If it’s blocked, or hits the ground/ not caught, or out of of bounds, or caught by the other team, and the direction changes,
The Most Fun you can have doing Wind Sprints.
I am proud of my significant role at bringing Ultimate to Slovakia, first team Mental Discorders. Since college, I’ve Loved playing it. Please look for a local team.
Football teams & cross country teams know how efficient wind sprints are, but as an exercise they’re both hard and, often, a bit boring/ so tiring that you stop.
Sadly, I had a blood clot heart problem which made me stop. Then, a few years after that heart hospitalization, I was feeling good and was running again. The played a couple Ultimate training games, outside, end of summer. Then tried some internal (b-ball court) ultimate and … tore my Achilles tendon. 3 years ago.
Now I’m 70, maybe never play again, but due to back problems.
I’m sure finding intervals to run, sprinting, is the single most effective exercise a man can do, likely also a woman but I’m unsure.
Ultimate Frisbee/ disc. Wind sprints. Health, if you’re still healthy enough.
om, I hope you let us know how it goes. I think we are similar in age. I like that it’s a fairly quick workout (5 – 10 sprints with a walk between doesn’t take much time) that feels very complete and exhausting.
Kate, om, in Winter I ride a stationary bike inside at a gym on cardio days (3 days weights*, 3 days cardio) and last year I decided to give the rowing machines a try and started doing that after cycling. I’m not sure I was doing it right, but I didn’t hate it. I plan to do it again this Winter.
physicsguy, I thought about your soccer ref’fing when I wrote my 1st comment and almost included it. I’m sure it keeps you in tremendous shape. Also, like Tom Grey wrote, exercise that is a component of some other activity that holds your focus is great! It’s wonderful when using your body to its fullest is part of accomplishing something beyond exercise. I’ve only been able to downhill ski a few times, but I really enjoyed it for that reason. It was great exercise, but one is so busy and focused one is nearly completely distracted from the physical effort of it all.
*The other 3 seasons I do the uphill wind sprints right after the weight workout, and cardio days are for cycling.
I haven’t been able to open the Jerusalem Post for a couple of days now. Anyone know if it’s under some kind of attack?
Mike Plaiss:
Just now I tried and I had no problem getting to it. So my guess is that the problem is with your computer in some way.
Re fitness, many of you are describing what has, relatively lately, been referred to as the “Japanese Method” (or vice-versa), which basically just means changing the intensity of your exercise pace, within the exercise session, on a more-or-less regular basis.
For example, slow-fast-slow-fast, etc. (or relaxed-intense-relaxed-intense-relaxed, etc.).
If you do this on an elliptical machine, you’ll find you can sprint / run / jog with LOW-to-NO IMPACT. (One can, of course do this while swimming, walking, etc.)
The elliptical machine is boring as hell, but the change of pace makes the time go by. (One can always find ways to make it a bit more exciting, I guess—e.g., listen to THE ODYSSEY?)
I think trainers call this approach HIIT (High Interval Intensity Training).
My rowing machine is parked near a window, where I can see trees and mountains; and there’s a TV to keep up with Stuart Varney in the mornings.
That is, High Intensity Interval Training.
Dan Bongino, former Deputy Director of the FBI, agrees with the radical idea stated by Bud Cummins (former US Attorney) on America’s Real Voice (interviewed by John Solomon and Amanda Head): it is better to have no FBI than one which will be corrupted again like Biden did.
—10% of FBI Agents left or were fired.
—There are now new guardrails in procedures.
—FISA reforms
—millions added to FBIs FOIA Department
—reform of case management. Defeating “go away” ditching of cases.
—call on Congress: MOAR Oversite needed!
What do with Counter-Intel duties of the FIB?
Make Congressional oversight of the FBI Ironclad!
In 12 minutes he segues into possible Social Security reform by Congress.
“Israel’s Christians rely on faith and allies as they fear rising harassment”
MOUNT TABOR, Israel — Sister Mayela wears her black veil and habit as she walks to work near where another Catholic nun was violently attacked in Jerusalem’s Old City – but she’s now accompanied by a Jewish volunteer for protection.
[…]
“I don’t want Christians to go out of their house in Jerusalem … and have fear,” said Yisca Harani, the Jewish Israeli educator and activist who escorted Sister Mayela. “I’ve gone through this 2,000 years in my Jewish history. I’m not going to let that happen.”
[…]
“If you stroll around in your habit, sooner or later you’ll get some spitting next to you,” said the Rev. Alberto Pari, who leads interfaith dialogue and Christian-Jewish relations as secretary to the Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic order ministering to holy sites across the region. “But it’s important not to generalize, because that unleashes antisemitism.”
Religious Freedom Data Center, the organization that Harani founded to track harassment of Christians, has recorded a near-tripling of incidents in Jerusalem from four years ago to the last three months recorded – about one a day now – virtually all by Jewish religious nationalists.
The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump’s tendency to avoid blame when things go awry
Enough said…
Instapundit linked to this article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-minutes-sprinting-bigger-impact-moderate.html
There were a fair amount of comments on Instapundit about it. Many were cynical, some argumentative, but some were positive. And, some folks just used the link to talk about some other diet or exercise regimen they swore by while they had no experience with the article linked. And, many wrote that they might be interested in trying but did not think it feasible due to some health issue. Bad knees seemed to lead the list.
I have been doing some form of this my entire life and I really, really like it and feel it contributes to my seeming good health*. The topic of exercise, running, etc. has come up many times during my life with friends, family, co-workers, strangers. It’s a popular topic. One will be at a dinner and someone mentions some article he or she read (just as I’m doing now) and an interesting conversation follows. Over the years I’ve explained my sprinting regimen to many people, and told them how great I feel when I do it. Yet, I don’t think I’ve ever convinced anyone else to try it.
Most all of us sprinted a lot as children. A simple game of tag at recess involved dozens of quick sprints; basketball, football, kickball, baseball, soccer, tennis, bombardment, hide and seek… Simply walking to and from school everyday, or going to the store for my mother, or going to a friend’s house. I’d see how long I could keep up with the city buses or trains. Most everyone who is in decent health as a child sprints a lot. Yet, it seems like most all of us lose the drive or desire to sprint as we age. Somehow I never grew out of it***.
In other words, this seems to work for me, but your mileage (pun intended, of course) may vary. Somewhere in my mid to late 30s I noticed I could no longer string together 100 meter or 200 meter sprints without soon tweaking a hamstring or gastrocnemius. In one of many efforts to recover from a minor hamstring pull I tried sprinting uphill and found that was the trick I needed. For decades since I’ve been doing uphill windsprints and rarely get injured. My theory is the slope slows me down just enough that my leg turnover speed is not fast enough to cause injury. Then, somewhere around age 60 I discovered nature (aka “aging”) had slowed my leg turnover speed enough that I can now “sprint” on flat ground again**.
Also, I’ve done a fair amount of slower, longer running and cycling. For decades I very much enjoyed jogging (although my pace was typically more aggressive), but I never felt it was healthy. I did it because I had to do it; I simply love to run. But running miles, day after day seemed, to me, likely to carry potential for bad health outcomes. Yet sprinting never feels like it is harming my joints. There are a lot of different bodies and body types among homo sapiens. I definitely don’t think exercise (or diet) is a one size fits all paradigm, but I won’t be surprised to learn that pushing oneself to near total exhaustion in short bursts produces better outcomes for most people than a 70% – 80% effort for long intervals.
If you are in OK shape and don’t have a heart condition, and are curious, I recommend giving it a try. Start in a field or stretch of sidewalk with a slight slope, mark off 30 or 40 yards and jog up it to get your joints ready. Walk the first few steps, then work up to a jog. Walk back to your starting point and almost immediately set yourself and this time jog the entire distance. Walk back to the starting point and repeat, but maybe with an 80% effort. 3 is probably a good place to start. 2 or 3 days later go back and start the first one in a full jog. Then #2 is maybe 80%. Then try close to full speed for 1 or 2 and finish with an 80%. If you like it, work your way up to 5 near or at top speed then start increasing your distance. I find 65 to 75 yards feels about right for me on a decent slope with 5 to 10 reps, depending on how I feel.
* At least my Dr. likes my vitals and bloodwork, but I’ve never run the control experiment to see if they would change if I didn’t do this. Could just be genetics, or some other lifestyle choice(s) I follow? I recently had my regularly scheduled colonoscopy and in recovery the nurse anesthetist said she had to keep calming everyone when the pulse rate monitor beeped an alarm. She said, “I had to keep telling them, no, his normal pulse really is that low.”
** 2 summers ago I decided to add “ladders” a few times a week (50, 100, 200, 400, 200, 100, 50) and time the sprints (I rarely do) to see if I could improve my 400m time. After getting used to the longer sprint (after decades of not timing myself in a 400m) my times were similar to my 400m splits in a 5k race. Relatively very slow to my youth! My 50m and 100m times aren’t bad, and I can hold it together decently for about 200m, although there is a drop off compared to the 2, shorter distances. But I find it impossible at my age to “sprint” for more than about 200m. And I’m very curious why that is? Lung capacity? Fewer red blood cells? Leg muscles being much less efficient? BMI skewed? I’m carrying about 30 more pounds than when I ran 5ks at that pace and more of those pounds are fat than muscle now, but why do I fall off a cliff, pace-wise, if I’m going much further than ~180m? Any geriatric physiologists in the crowd?
*** Maybe I’m just very immature!
The lead editorial today in the WSJ is even better than usual.
A Crisis in U.S. Naval Readiness, Revealed
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/uss-abraham-lincoln-democrats-congress-us-navy-pete-hegseth-cc37e5b5?st=WkiGGm
Democrats bemoan the USS Abraham Lincoln but won’t fund the Navy.
The navy lost 12 billion last year ,specifically money for subs ,but they dont know where it went. I am certain they lost more ,but the sub money was specific. Our fast attacks are getting old.
Rufus T Firefly:
Thanks for the observations about the sprint training, I plan to start that next week, walking just isn’t the same as any running!
Very informative post, RTF, and thanks. I don’t run, or even do much distance walking, because of a minor but annoying hip problem. I’m going into physical therapy next week to learn what I can do to help this and what I ought not to do. Meanwhile, I have begun modifying my time on my rowing machine: 3 minutes at an easy pace, then three minutes at a much faster pace, repeated five times, with a cool down at the end. My heart monitor shows this routine gives me exactly what my physical trainer recommended, 80% of the workout at a moderate heart rate and 20% in my cardio zone. The rowing machine avoids the pounding on hips and knees from walking or running.
Lovely story of an unusual romance! We need more of these positive moments in our news feeds!
Woke Brooklyn lawmaker suggests shoplifting should be LEGALIZED because thieves have ‘biological need’ for the things they steal
Rufus T Firefly:
Thanks for the suggested training, there is a spot in town used for Cross Country races that has the slope (grade) and distance that will fit it to a tee, and unlike the HS 400 m track, is not locked away from the general public’s use. The HS track used to be open for us serious interval addicts but that changed about 5 years ago (grumble, grumble).
Kate, in my last annual work related physical the Physican’s Assistant highly recommended rowing machine, though I haven’t figured out the form.
Karmi– what’s the point. The news media blames Trump for everything that happens. You think they’d stop if he said– ‘this one’s on me’ or would they double down? They blame him as a general reflection of their TDS, and then get the opportunity to blame him again—only in 72 point headlines.
The media is still reeling from their 2016 loss when they couldn’t drag their candidate to a W and finish the fundamental transformation Obama started.
RTF,
I despise continuous running, but sprinting is just fine. That’s why reffing youth soccer works well for me. It’s 20-30yd sprints. And I’m looking forward to the fall season even at the ripe old age of 74. I have adjusted to doing centers for U12 and under as trying to keep up with a 16 year old on a full field is now too much. But I still can do assistant ref for all ages if I cheat a bit in staying a bit ahead of the last defender in case of a fast break.
I also do daily stretches and light weights. And getting my second cataract done on Monday. Now, when the parents yell, “Ref are you blind!?”, I can say not any more. 😉
Brian E – Fair point on the media’s TDS, no argument there. But that’s a separate question from whether the pattern’s real.
Look at the record: “the buck stops with everybody” during the 2019 shutdown. “I don’t take responsibility at all” on COVID testing in 2020. Compare that to Truman owning the atomic bomb decision, or Reagan saying “the buck stops here with me” on Iran-Contra even when he wasn’t sure he was to blame. Trump doesn’t do that. Credit’s his. Blame goes to Biden, the generals, Congress, whoever’s handy.
The media being unfair doesn’t make that pattern disappear. Both things are true – they pile on, and he still rarely owns it.
The dude in the photo has a most revolting beard.
RTF – my running days are over. I exercise everyday — mainly deep knee bends, neck rolls and pressure on neck from head (Chiropractic stuff I read about for neck and shoulder issues), something for any joints with issues, and a six-minute ride on my recumbent bike. Added walking at least a mile everyday not long ago, and then tried the ol’ Airborne Shuffle for a couple days—during that mile walk. My right hip joint and lower back area stopped my exercising for few days. If something hurts I try working on that area…
Karmi, what’s the upside for admitting any mistakes in this political environment?
I asked Grok “has any other president been universally, continuously been attacked by a hostile mainstream media in modern times?”
I suggested to Grok: “people that have interacted with the President in private situations often state he is nothing like the public persona. Is this just a role he’s playing?”
I don’t think he’s going to change. He is who he is.
Brian E — yeah, he can’t change now. I think Susie Wiles has kept him from a lot of his previous ‘Blame Games‘ during that first term.
He just needs to watch what he says and who he blames until the midterms are done, IMHO.
Brian E why would he change ? So far it’s been working for him.
om, the form is pretty easy to do, unless I’m doing it wrong. The trick, once I bought my own C2 rower, was to read the directions. It said the best cardiovascular workout is between resistance numbers 3 and 5. So I set it at 4. A stronger person (as in, male) might use 5 or 6, I suppose. Push with feet, then almost immediately pull straight towards your tummy on the bar. I exhale on the pull and inhale on the release. Ideally you should feel the “catch” on the wheel with each stroke.
My trainer told me the Concept 2 machines are the ones competitive rowers use for training. They’re durable and give you the best “feel.” Usually this is the kind found in gyms.
Rufus T. Firefly:
What you called “ladders,” I always called “interval training.” I started doing that in high school track, and would recommend it to anybody as a training technique.
For years after high school, I’d do interval training to stay in condition–more or less. Unfortunately, that’s all gone by the wayside. First came bad knees, then a heart condition. Getting old isn’t for …
Interesting on the USS Lincoln. When I was in, late 1960’s, early 70’s, our cruise was a 9 month deployment. Standard. We didn’t have cell phones, internet. Mail was weeks in coming. And I imagine the food is better and the berthing spaces better. This is a sign of the young kids can’t hack it.
Thanks for great note, Rufus. There’s a great sport you should know about, Ultimate Frisbee. 7 v 7 on a smaller than football field with an end zone.
Throw to a teammate who catches it on the end zone for a point. Catches it before the end zone, stops, no running with it, and must throw it within 10 seconds, which the other man-on-man defense guy counts. Turnovers and the other team’s player picks it up and it’s immediately in play. If it’s blocked, or hits the ground/ not caught, or out of of bounds, or caught by the other team, and the direction changes,
The Most Fun you can have doing Wind Sprints.
I am proud of my significant role at bringing Ultimate to Slovakia, first team Mental Discorders. Since college, I’ve Loved playing it. Please look for a local team.
Football teams & cross country teams know how efficient wind sprints are, but as an exercise they’re both hard and, often, a bit boring/ so tiring that you stop.
Sadly, I had a blood clot heart problem which made me stop. Then, a few years after that heart hospitalization, I was feeling good and was running again. The played a couple Ultimate training games, outside, end of summer. Then tried some internal (b-ball court) ultimate and … tore my Achilles tendon. 3 years ago.
Now I’m 70, maybe never play again, but due to back problems.
I’m sure finding intervals to run, sprinting, is the single most effective exercise a man can do, likely also a woman but I’m unsure.
Ultimate Frisbee/ disc. Wind sprints. Health, if you’re still healthy enough.
om, I hope you let us know how it goes. I think we are similar in age. I like that it’s a fairly quick workout (5 – 10 sprints with a walk between doesn’t take much time) that feels very complete and exhausting.
Kate, om, in Winter I ride a stationary bike inside at a gym on cardio days (3 days weights*, 3 days cardio) and last year I decided to give the rowing machines a try and started doing that after cycling. I’m not sure I was doing it right, but I didn’t hate it. I plan to do it again this Winter.
physicsguy, I thought about your soccer ref’fing when I wrote my 1st comment and almost included it. I’m sure it keeps you in tremendous shape. Also, like Tom Grey wrote, exercise that is a component of some other activity that holds your focus is great! It’s wonderful when using your body to its fullest is part of accomplishing something beyond exercise. I’ve only been able to downhill ski a few times, but I really enjoyed it for that reason. It was great exercise, but one is so busy and focused one is nearly completely distracted from the physical effort of it all.
*The other 3 seasons I do the uphill wind sprints right after the weight workout, and cardio days are for cycling.
I haven’t been able to open the Jerusalem Post for a couple of days now. Anyone know if it’s under some kind of attack?
Mike Plaiss:
Just now I tried and I had no problem getting to it. So my guess is that the problem is with your computer in some way.
Re fitness, many of you are describing what has, relatively lately, been referred to as the “Japanese Method” (or vice-versa), which basically just means changing the intensity of your exercise pace, within the exercise session, on a more-or-less regular basis.
For example, slow-fast-slow-fast, etc. (or relaxed-intense-relaxed-intense-relaxed, etc.).
If you do this on an elliptical machine, you’ll find you can sprint / run / jog with LOW-to-NO IMPACT. (One can, of course do this while swimming, walking, etc.)
The elliptical machine is boring as hell, but the change of pace makes the time go by. (One can always find ways to make it a bit more exciting, I guess—e.g., listen to THE ODYSSEY?)
I think trainers call this approach HIIT (High Interval Intensity Training).
My rowing machine is parked near a window, where I can see trees and mountains; and there’s a TV to keep up with Stuart Varney in the mornings.
That is, High Intensity Interval Training.
Dan Bongino, former Deputy Director of the FBI, agrees with the radical idea stated by Bud Cummins (former US Attorney) on America’s Real Voice (interviewed by John Solomon and Amanda Head): it is better to have no FBI than one which will be corrupted again like Biden did.
Go to 35m to begin. Bongino’s explanations of what has been accomplished under Trump to achieve institutional reforms here in this much abused and Left-weaponised LEO. https://bongino.com/ep-2574-when-did-you-change-your-mind
—10% of FBI Agents left or were fired.
—There are now new guardrails in procedures.
—FISA reforms
—millions added to FBIs FOIA Department
—reform of case management. Defeating “go away” ditching of cases.
—call on Congress: MOAR Oversite needed!
What do with Counter-Intel duties of the FIB?
Make Congressional oversight of the FBI Ironclad!
In 12 minutes he segues into possible Social Security reform by Congress.
“Israel’s Christians rely on faith and allies as they fear rising harassment”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/14/christians-israel-rely-faith-allies-fear-rising-harassment/