He's back - in hospital with a beaming Victorian Premier, John Brumby.
Brumby should be ashamed of himself. He's been dudded by his health bureaucrats and suckered by Rudd for a few hundred million dollars in a grubby self promotion exercise, the upshot of which has been to pour more public money down the medical black hole.
The health of Australians continues to decline in direct and inverse proportion to the degree to which this bloated and inefficient medical industry is protected by Australian governments.
On the track
On the stepper for 40 minutes all at level 8. That's good. 618 calories and 808 steps.
In the meantime stay tuned and keep Kevin Rudd out of hospitals.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Thursday, June 3, 2010
WASTED EFFORT - Friday May 28th 2010
I had a call from my mate, Graham Dodd today.
We went to University together and did PhysEd - before it had been taken over by Human Movement Science, biomechanics, perceptual motor mechanics and the rest of it. Science has destroyed academic physical education. The simple has become complicated. Graham and could no longer get into university to do a PhysEd course because we're too dumb.
The ability to be a good teacher has little to do with academic achievement in maths and science.
How smart do you have to be to teach children how to kick and throw and catch and how to keep themselves fit for life? Not very.
Looking back we agree our profession had done a dreadful job.
Just about everyone under 60 in this country has had some sort of a PhysEd program when they were at school. They didn't learn much. Look at them, fat, weak and depressed.
There are kids leaving school as I write in just plain dreadful shape. What sort of reflection is that on our profession.
The new national curriculum is going to set out guidelines for PhysEd up to the end of year 10. After that, God knows.
What I do know is that for many kids years 11 and 12 are so stressful it nearly crucifies them. They stop all physical activity just to get through their exams.
Graham and I busted our boilers writing books, running the PhysEd professional association and publishing the Daily Physical Education (DPE) program.
Where is the DPE now - gathering dust on staff room bookshelves.
We should have spent more time with our families.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk run.
In the meantime stay tuned and don't take yourself seriously.
John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.crookback.com.au
We went to University together and did PhysEd - before it had been taken over by Human Movement Science, biomechanics, perceptual motor mechanics and the rest of it. Science has destroyed academic physical education. The simple has become complicated. Graham and could no longer get into university to do a PhysEd course because we're too dumb.
The ability to be a good teacher has little to do with academic achievement in maths and science.
How smart do you have to be to teach children how to kick and throw and catch and how to keep themselves fit for life? Not very.
Looking back we agree our profession had done a dreadful job.
Just about everyone under 60 in this country has had some sort of a PhysEd program when they were at school. They didn't learn much. Look at them, fat, weak and depressed.
There are kids leaving school as I write in just plain dreadful shape. What sort of reflection is that on our profession.
The new national curriculum is going to set out guidelines for PhysEd up to the end of year 10. After that, God knows.
What I do know is that for many kids years 11 and 12 are so stressful it nearly crucifies them. They stop all physical activity just to get through their exams.
Graham and I busted our boilers writing books, running the PhysEd professional association and publishing the Daily Physical Education (DPE) program.
Where is the DPE now - gathering dust on staff room bookshelves.
We should have spent more time with our families.
On the track
Out with the boys for a walk run.
In the meantime stay tuned and don't take yourself seriously.
John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.crookback.com.au
FITNESS INDUSTRY SUCKS UP TO THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY - Thursday 27th May 2010
I was reading an article put out by the Fitness Australia - of which I'm a member.
Here they are meant to be supporting and protecting their own industry and they're sucking up to the medical industry and it's preventive health agenda. How you prevent health beggars my imagination. The question Fitness Australia should be focusing on is how to stop people ending up in surgeries. It prompted me to put pen to paper. and send them a note.
It's time Fitness Australia got off it's backside and got the fitness industry firmly placed at the primary health care table.
When most of the people in this country are in just plain dreadful shape the Commonwealth Government has budgeted $57,000,000,000 for medical services in its next budget.
The Government just doesn't get it that you can't solve a fitness problem with a medical solution.
The Preventive Health Task Force is a limp and useless tool. The big money continues to go to the medical industry.
For every person who loses a kilogram, someone else will put on 2.
For every one who can score another lap on the 20m run, another person will score 2 less than they did last time.
For everyone who eats an apple a day, 2 more people will eat a Mars Bar and down a bottle of Coke.
The bulk of the money pledged for sport will end up funding Olympic Sports who could hold their AGM in a phone box.
For every dollar the Government spends funding 'social marketing campaigns to raise national awareness of the risks of obesity' the junk food industry will spend $1,000,000.
This is yet another snow job by the medical industry bureaucrats.
The Fitness Industry has nothing in common with these dills. Ignore them.
Concentrate on
1. getting members of the Fitness Industry recognised as a primary health care providers with all the rebates and perks that the medical industry receives
2. getting people into fitness centres.
3. getting the Government to alter the medical tax levee scales so that fit and healthy people get rebates for keeping themselves in good shape. There has to be an incentive for people to keep themselves fit and healthy.
4. getting the government to subsidize the fitness centre costs of people who are in good shape or getting themselves into good shape.
This preventive health stuff is a side show, a diversion away from the main game - which is fitness professionals being supported in their work of getting people fitter and healthier.
On the track
I don't think there was any track today either. More slack than track.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and if you want to prevent health, keep yourself in exceptionally good shape.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Here they are meant to be supporting and protecting their own industry and they're sucking up to the medical industry and it's preventive health agenda. How you prevent health beggars my imagination. The question Fitness Australia should be focusing on is how to stop people ending up in surgeries. It prompted me to put pen to paper. and send them a note.
It's time Fitness Australia got off it's backside and got the fitness industry firmly placed at the primary health care table.
When most of the people in this country are in just plain dreadful shape the Commonwealth Government has budgeted $57,000,000,000 for medical services in its next budget.
The Government just doesn't get it that you can't solve a fitness problem with a medical solution.
The Preventive Health Task Force is a limp and useless tool. The big money continues to go to the medical industry.
For every person who loses a kilogram, someone else will put on 2.
For every one who can score another lap on the 20m run, another person will score 2 less than they did last time.
For everyone who eats an apple a day, 2 more people will eat a Mars Bar and down a bottle of Coke.
The bulk of the money pledged for sport will end up funding Olympic Sports who could hold their AGM in a phone box.
For every dollar the Government spends funding 'social marketing campaigns to raise national awareness of the risks of obesity' the junk food industry will spend $1,000,000.
This is yet another snow job by the medical industry bureaucrats.
The Fitness Industry has nothing in common with these dills. Ignore them.
Concentrate on
1. getting members of the Fitness Industry recognised as a primary health care providers with all the rebates and perks that the medical industry receives
2. getting people into fitness centres.
3. getting the Government to alter the medical tax levee scales so that fit and healthy people get rebates for keeping themselves in good shape. There has to be an incentive for people to keep themselves fit and healthy.
4. getting the government to subsidize the fitness centre costs of people who are in good shape or getting themselves into good shape.
This preventive health stuff is a side show, a diversion away from the main game - which is fitness professionals being supported in their work of getting people fitter and healthier.
On the track
I don't think there was any track today either. More slack than track.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and if you want to prevent health, keep yourself in exceptionally good shape.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
LOWER BACK STRETCHES - Wednesday 26th May 2010
Talking about the future, Arthur C Clarke said, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
Well the future is here in the form of YouTube and it definitely is magical.
If you've got lower back pain and you're looking for back pain stretches I recommend you go to YouTube.
There you'll find a host of exercises that you can troll through and then do on a regular and systematic basis to relieve back pain.
YouTube is not just an entertainment portal, it's an incredible online community that willingly gives of its time, effort and thought to help other people. There just seems to be a lot of people out there wanting to share their knowledge. It says a lot for the generosity of mankind.
At YouTube, there are hundreds of stretching videos that people have taken in bedrooms, offices and fitness centres and then up-loaded, some more professional than others, but all designed to help you restore poor function to good.
Most of the people who submit their videos are from the Yoga or fitness industries. That's because back pain is not a medical problem it's a fitness problem. Many of these people are real experts in the field of musculo-skeletal health, many are unsung heros and you're getting the benefit of their wisdom for free. Most of these people have already helped hundreds of people relieve their back pain. They can help you. It's a fantastic resource.
Self help
What I like about the back pain stretches on YouTube is the fact that all the videos, and there are hundreds of them, promote self help. This fits in with one of the principles I encourage people to adopt and that is; 'it's a big ask expecting to get better by having someone do something to you; sooner or later you have to do something to yourself.'
Once you've cottoned on to the fact that it's muscles that move bones out of alignment and that the cause of the pain is rarely at the site of the pain, you can start looking for exercises that will strengthen and loosen those muscles that are the cause of your pain. Focus on loosening hamstring and buttock muscles and strengthening trunk muscles - front, back and core.
I was on YouTube the other day looking for back pain stretches. Sheesh, I could have spent weeks there. It was like shopping in an oriental bazaar; going so far down streets and ally ways I got lost and couldn't find my way back to where I started.
It's a fascinating journey. I bookmarked a few sites, wrote to a few people to let them know I admired their work. I also looked at a range of gadgets and devices people are using to decompress their vertebrae, loosen tight back muscles and strengthen abdominal muscles.
Many of the exercises to fix back pain come from yoga. I'd bet on them; they've been around for thousands of years. In fact if you're looking for a good set of lower back stretches I'd seriously encourage you to join a yoga class, go a few times a week and spend some of your own time doing the exercises they recommend while you watch TV. The cost will be far less than lining up at the chiropractory every week for a crunch and a rub down.
If you think you've got all the answers on relieving back pain, think again. Go to YouTube.
It's magical.
There's only one catch; the people who've posted the exercises can't do them for you.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and if someone has found an exercise useful and bothered to upload a video of themselves doing it, there's a fair chance that it might do you some good as well.
On the track
Out with the boys on a walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and go to YouTube for your lower back stretches.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Well the future is here in the form of YouTube and it definitely is magical.
If you've got lower back pain and you're looking for back pain stretches I recommend you go to YouTube.
There you'll find a host of exercises that you can troll through and then do on a regular and systematic basis to relieve back pain.
YouTube is not just an entertainment portal, it's an incredible online community that willingly gives of its time, effort and thought to help other people. There just seems to be a lot of people out there wanting to share their knowledge. It says a lot for the generosity of mankind.
At YouTube, there are hundreds of stretching videos that people have taken in bedrooms, offices and fitness centres and then up-loaded, some more professional than others, but all designed to help you restore poor function to good.
Most of the people who submit their videos are from the Yoga or fitness industries. That's because back pain is not a medical problem it's a fitness problem. Many of these people are real experts in the field of musculo-skeletal health, many are unsung heros and you're getting the benefit of their wisdom for free. Most of these people have already helped hundreds of people relieve their back pain. They can help you. It's a fantastic resource.
Self help
What I like about the back pain stretches on YouTube is the fact that all the videos, and there are hundreds of them, promote self help. This fits in with one of the principles I encourage people to adopt and that is; 'it's a big ask expecting to get better by having someone do something to you; sooner or later you have to do something to yourself.'
Once you've cottoned on to the fact that it's muscles that move bones out of alignment and that the cause of the pain is rarely at the site of the pain, you can start looking for exercises that will strengthen and loosen those muscles that are the cause of your pain. Focus on loosening hamstring and buttock muscles and strengthening trunk muscles - front, back and core.
I was on YouTube the other day looking for back pain stretches. Sheesh, I could have spent weeks there. It was like shopping in an oriental bazaar; going so far down streets and ally ways I got lost and couldn't find my way back to where I started.
It's a fascinating journey. I bookmarked a few sites, wrote to a few people to let them know I admired their work. I also looked at a range of gadgets and devices people are using to decompress their vertebrae, loosen tight back muscles and strengthen abdominal muscles.
Many of the exercises to fix back pain come from yoga. I'd bet on them; they've been around for thousands of years. In fact if you're looking for a good set of lower back stretches I'd seriously encourage you to join a yoga class, go a few times a week and spend some of your own time doing the exercises they recommend while you watch TV. The cost will be far less than lining up at the chiropractory every week for a crunch and a rub down.
If you think you've got all the answers on relieving back pain, think again. Go to YouTube.
It's magical.
There's only one catch; the people who've posted the exercises can't do them for you.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and if someone has found an exercise useful and bothered to upload a video of themselves doing it, there's a fair chance that it might do you some good as well.
On the track
Out with the boys on a walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and go to YouTube for your lower back stretches.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
THE GUY IN THE GLASS - Tuesday 25th May 2010
I found this on Linkedin.
The Guy in the Glass
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.
He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.
You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.
Dale Wimbrow, The Guy in the Glass
On the track
No track. Read a book saying you shouldn't train every day.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and watch out for that guy in the glass.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
The Guy in the Glass
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.
He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.
You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.
Dale Wimbrow, The Guy in the Glass
On the track
No track. Read a book saying you shouldn't train every day.
In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and watch out for that guy in the glass.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
A NEW HEALTH SYSTEM - Monday 24th May 2010
I'm a member of Linkedin, an internet directory.
Crace Couter, also a member asked this question:
‘I need to catch up on timely healthcare reform information and speak intelligently about it quickly. What reliable and updated resources can someone recommend to me that I can quickly digest (i.e. Cliff Notes)?’
My reply
The chances of finding timely health care information is remote. Most people equate the word 'health' with the word 'medical'. You'll find stacks of stuff about the medical industry. The medical bureaucracy, the medical research industry and the medical commentariat are burgeoning with hangers on all making a living out of bolstering a bloated, inefficient, greedy and expensive medical system. The interest of this industry in promoting good health is practically zilch. Over the last 30 years the medical industry has presided over the greatest decline in health since Adam.
The greatest of the health challenges are health-related, not medical-related.
The big challenges are:
1. How to get people to take responsibility for their own health, fitness and wellbeing.
2. How to get people to keep themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability.
3. How to gracefully run down a medical industry that is based on a 20th Century germ theory not the theory of personally-generated body-system dysfunction.
4. How to stop people from going to doctors for things doctors can't fix.
5. How to reduce the protection of a bloated, inefficient and expensive medical system.
6. Recognition of the fact that it's a big ask expecting to stay healthy without being fit.
7. Recognition that you can't solve a 21st Century fitness problem with a 20th Century medical solution.
8. Recognition that most of the health problems of the western world are personally-generated body system dysfunctions.
9. Most health problems are related to a lack of physical activity and junk diet.
10. Recognition that the three great dysfunctions, metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological are not medical conditions - until they reach a tipping point of grave and irreparable dysfunction.
On the track
Out with the boys for an early morning walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned highly tuned and do whatever it takes to steer clear of the medical industry.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Crace Couter, also a member asked this question:
‘I need to catch up on timely healthcare reform information and speak intelligently about it quickly. What reliable and updated resources can someone recommend to me that I can quickly digest (i.e. Cliff Notes)?’
My reply
The chances of finding timely health care information is remote. Most people equate the word 'health' with the word 'medical'. You'll find stacks of stuff about the medical industry. The medical bureaucracy, the medical research industry and the medical commentariat are burgeoning with hangers on all making a living out of bolstering a bloated, inefficient, greedy and expensive medical system. The interest of this industry in promoting good health is practically zilch. Over the last 30 years the medical industry has presided over the greatest decline in health since Adam.
The greatest of the health challenges are health-related, not medical-related.
The big challenges are:
1. How to get people to take responsibility for their own health, fitness and wellbeing.
2. How to get people to keep themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability.
3. How to gracefully run down a medical industry that is based on a 20th Century germ theory not the theory of personally-generated body-system dysfunction.
4. How to stop people from going to doctors for things doctors can't fix.
5. How to reduce the protection of a bloated, inefficient and expensive medical system.
6. Recognition of the fact that it's a big ask expecting to stay healthy without being fit.
7. Recognition that you can't solve a 21st Century fitness problem with a 20th Century medical solution.
8. Recognition that most of the health problems of the western world are personally-generated body system dysfunctions.
9. Most health problems are related to a lack of physical activity and junk diet.
10. Recognition that the three great dysfunctions, metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological are not medical conditions - until they reach a tipping point of grave and irreparable dysfunction.
On the track
Out with the boys for an early morning walk/run.
In the meantime stay tuned highly tuned and do whatever it takes to steer clear of the medical industry.
John Miller
www.millerhealth.com.au
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com
www.crookback.com.au
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
MASTERCHEFS - MASTERSIZED - Sunday May 23rd
If this country is the second fattest country on earth then no wonder.
The nation’s top chefs aren’t providing much in the way of leadership. On the contrary they’re leading by poor example. They’re overweight. It’s sending the wrong message to suburbia that when you cook good food be prepared to stack on weight.
We’re big Masterchef watchers in our family, though as far as I’m concerned the welcome is starting to wear thin. By the rate at which they keep chucking contestants off the show it looks as though we’ll still glued to the set in September.
Good, wholesome food shouldn’t fatten people up. When the nation’s chefs are fat you know that they’re either eating too much of a good thing, cooking the wrong sort of food, or stuffing themselves with fat, flour and sugar off camera.
While serial gourmand and food critic Matthew Preston sits in on the show raising his eyebrows and picking at food like a sparrow, the buttons on his sports coat look like they’re ready to explode across the room. It’s obvious he’s tucking in after the show.
Guest celebrity chefs are no different. While they lavish attention on the finer arts of food preparation and turn their noses up at pre-prepared mayonnaise, half of them look like they’ve been super-sizing themselves at McDonalds.
In this country you’d never trust a man who didn’t drink. It’s equally hard to trust a fat chef.
On the track
A good workout on the stepper. 40 minutes all over 140 bpm. 563 Calories and 746 steps.
In the mean time stay tuned, highly tuned and remember, most people who are overweight don't eat enough - of the right food at the right time.
John Miller
http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com/
http://www.globalbackcare.com/
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