Gradually… How do people get healthy? One little bit by little bit at a time. So it seems to work with exercise. Gretchen Reynolds did a nice short review in the July 9th, New York Times on studies of short versus “long” exercise. One group studied – young men from Beijing. Monitors looked at changes […]
How Much Exercise is Enough? (10/31/12)
Lots of people ask me how much they should exercise. First I have to ask them what they think “exercise” is. What Is Exercise? Any use of voluntary muscle. The body is an information processing unit which considers and takes account of innumerable elements of which we are not consciously aware – like how physical […]
Singing in your sleep (7/25/11)
Composing New Songs Do you sing in your sleep? Or just write music as you slumber? Barry Manilow does. Often he hears songs for the first time in his dreams. Keeping a recorder next to his bed, some of his biggest hits, like “One Voice,” appeared to him fully fleshed out as soon as he […]