Motivation

Growing up with an Irish family, I learned early the four essential food groups: sugar, fat, alcohol, and caffeine. A balanced meal was a cookie in each hand. My mother used to say, “If God meant for us to touch our toes, he would have put them closer to our […]

John Reversed His Diabetes & Beat His Family Genetics

19 Jun, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Fitness / Health / Human Interest / Motivation by Aqua Master Editor

High-protein Diets: Trading Your Health for Temporary Weight Loss Once again, medical doctors and the paperback book industry advocating high-protein and fat-laden diets are grabbing the attention of millions of desperate people. “Lose 20 pounds in 30 days!” “Eat all the bacon you want and be thin as a breadstick!” […]

The Keto Diet Revisited High-protein Diets Explained

16 Apr, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Fitness / Human Interest / Motivation / Nutrition by Dr. John McDougall

No record-breaking 200 Medley Relay, but fun! L to R Lauren Santamaria, Claudia Daly, Laura Worden and Christina Fox — A cold foggy day, a beautiful new pool, and a hopeful new year intersected to produce a fast Chehalem SCY meet on January 27, 2019, at the new Aquatic and Fitness Center in Newberg, Oregon. The meet hadn’t been held since 2016 while the pool, funded in a partnership by […]

2019 Chehalem Meet

18 Feb, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Human Interest / Meet Summary / Motivation / Records / Relays / Results by Claudia Daly

Kate before and after illness — You know what it is like because you live it every day. Work, kids, meals, homework, housework and it is a repeat cycle of “busy” until the weekend. Weekends are just as jam-packed until they are broken by Mondays and the start of the weekday cycle of activity all over […]

Kate—Terminal Prognosis Turns Into Tremendous Results

21 Jan, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Fitness / Health / Human Interest / Motivation / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Willard completed his 2019 USMS one-hour postal swim January 10. Steve Darnell timed for him at Propstra Aquatic Center in Vancouver, WA. He swam 2,852 yards this year. Twenty yards more than his 2,832 yards last year! Just short of his own 2017 National record of 2,885 yards. He held […]

OMS Super-Star Willard Lamb

21 Jan, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Long Distance / Motivation by Steve Darnell

Scott - Oct 24, 2006 — Scott Raphael, N.D. — Cures Type-2 Diabetes by Dr. Scott B. Raphael, N.D. My health problems started even before I was born. My paternal grandparents were grossly overweight. My grandfather, a butcher, always thought that animal protein was the way to good health. As a child, each meal was laden […]

Off the Block: January 2019

19 Dec, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Motivation by Aqua Master Editor

Old. Right there is a loaded word. Sometimes it is used as a pejorative, as in ‘old coot’ or ‘old geezer,’ but I like it, because I have earned the right to be called old and am enjoying my seniority immensely. Let me give you an example. Last month (October, […]

AGING WET

19 Dec, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Motivation by Joe Oakes

Ralph Mohr — “Dumbo” was a 1941 Disney animated movie that featured a baby elephant with very large ears. In the film Dumbo is picked on because of his ears, but with them he can do something no elephant could ever do – fly. Dumbo needs confidence, though. His only friend, Timothy Q. […]

Swim Bits – The Dumbo Effect

19 Dec, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Motivation / Swim Bits by Ralph Mohr

I am not a believer in numerology, but a confluence of related numbers caught my attention a while ago. Here is what I noticed. My next birthday would be my 84th. I started swimming in ’48. Over the years I have done 41 swims from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco. […]

Just One More Alcatraz Swim

19 Sep, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Human Interest / Long Distance / Motivation / Open Water by Joe Oakes