{"id":3187,"date":"2025-01-16T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2025-01-16T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:43:41","slug":"3187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3187","title":{"rendered":"Training for Your Future Self"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, my late dad\u2019s birthday is right around the corner. \u00a0If he were alive, he\u2019d be 102 this year. \u00a0That got me to thinking (as usual) about life and about karate, haha.<\/div>\n
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Dad was active and enjoyed a good life during his retirement years. \u00a0He had retired at 62 years old and everything went smoothly until he suffered a stroke when he was 74. \u00a0He recovered and lived, albeit at a slower pace until the ripe old age of 88. \u00a0I mention this because I recall the physical therapists and nurses who guided him through therapy would sometimes comment to me about how muscular he was for his age, especially his legs. \u00a0I guess medical professionals notice things like that. \u00a0When asked, he replied that he had spent 36 years as a milk deliveryman, carrying bottles and crates filled with milk or juice. \u00a0It\u2019s interesting to me that so much of the muscle and strength he had built over his younger years were still visible in his 74-year-old body a dozen years after he had retired.<\/div>\n
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When I was young, Dad had often advised me to find a career using my brain and not my body if I possible. \u00a0He warned me of the cumulative damages that could result from a lifetime of manual labor. \u00a0He said that injuries incurred from a physical occupation (think professional football) could come back to haunt you in old age. \u00a0I followed his advice and spent all my 46 working years performing various forms of planning\/research in office environments. \u00a0This year, I’ll be the same age that Dad was when the therapy staff were marveling at the condition of his legs (very important for therapy and recovery). I know that my legs will never match the muscularity he built through his decades of hard work. \u00a0I had a \u201csedentary\u201d working career; but fortunately, the years spent practicing and teaching Karate-Do have helped me maintain strength and coordination in my body, particularly with our emphasis on the legs and hips.<\/div>\n
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Everyone knows that karate training greatly benefits your mind, spirit, and body in the present day \u00a0– \u00a0but like my dad, these accrued benefits can stay with you for many years in the future. \u00a0So, like depositing money in your IRA or encouraging your kids to do well in school – it’s never just\u00a0about today is it? It is an important investment of your time and effort… for the\u00a0<\/span>future<\/b>. \u00a0The young ones will grow bigger, stronger, and faster; while those in their 30<\/span>\u2019s-50\u2019s will be striving to maintain their strength and increase their flexibility. \u00a0Meanwhile, us older folks will be working to keep tone and balance to combat osteoporosis and as fall protection. \u00a0For each of us, the training we do today is really preparing for a better tomorrow\u2026and to perhaps develop muscular legs in our old age.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, my late dad\u2019s birthday is right around the corner. \u00a0If he were alive, he\u2019d be 102 this year. \u00a0That got me to thinking (as usual) about life and about karate, haha. Dad was active and enjoyed a good life during his retirement years. \u00a0He had retired at 62 years old and everything went smoothly until he suffered a stroke when he was 74. \u00a0He recovered and lived, albeit at a slower pace until the ripe old age of 88. \u00a0I mention this because I recall the physical therapists and nurses who guided him through therapy would sometimes comment to me about how muscular he was for his age, especially his legs. \u00a0I guess medical professionals notice things like that. \u00a0When asked, he replied that he had spent 36 years as a milk deliveryman, carrying bottles and crates filled with milk or juice. \u00a0It\u2019s interesting to me that so much of the muscle and strength he had built over his younger years were still visible in his 74-year-old body a dozen years after he had retired. When I was young, Dad had often advised me to find a career using my brain and not my body if I possible. \u00a0He [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}