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  1. Arterial stiffening is measurable. Better just get a full workup from a cardiologist including a stress test and CAC. EKGs are of very limited usefulness. Well, that's one, and all to the good. The risk of doing nothing is greater than that of doing something. Follow the advice of the cardiologist after the checkup.
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  5. Does this really rise to a Chicken Little moment? Could be a win all around, wait and see. True's always been good to me, DTAC and AIS weren't. If DTAC tech can improve True and extend the reach, great.
  6. Typically the attempts to "fix" things in Thailand at one's keyboard fixes nothing but merely indicates that one's own thinking needs fixing. The no parking "arrangement" on the beachside of beach road, and limited parking on the other side, had been the rule for years. And it helped. Closing a lane would create a big jam. COVID changed traffic conditions, so the no-parking rule could be relaxed. Nice while it lasted. OH--COVID's over, conditions are back to "normal," so now we need the old rule reinstated. Traveling on Beach Rd. nowadays on the weekends will quickly make you hope that it is ASAP. Simple as that.
  7. Or, worse, when members of the non-indigenous population do on the "right" side, for no particular purpose, and happen to crush an indigenous member: Brit pensioner 'crushed man to death while reversing pick-up truck' in Thailand
  8. Open your preferred note-taking app Open the other app (e. g., browser) Browse, decide to take a note, swipe left the bottom of the screen to switch to the note-taking app, type in your note Android Gesture navigation: At the very bottom of the screen, swipe from left to right. 2-button navigation: To switch between your 2 most recent apps, swipe right on Home. iOS must have something similar, google it up.
  9. Shock. Brilliant guitarist, had a great run. RIP. Tributes pouring in. Even Biden paid tribute: "I'm really going to miss Jeff Beckett, we were bandmates in the BirdYards back in the day, man." -Joe Biden
  10. Huh? TAT: ANF says that Russians only shop at 7/11. YES!!!
  11. Nonsense. A fantasy, nothing to be concerned about anyway. Business is business.
  12. No warmup needed using TUL properly. Fitness sites will never support TUL training, or low carb, as they're just too simple. No app needed, little advice, no complicated routines and diet tweaks, products. They'd go out of business. Their target market is young men who want to impress babes, Arnold wannabes who love to waste spend hours at the gym pumping. Eventually, probably by age 30 for most, most of them start burning out, run out of time, get discouraged (Arnold had them genes), get injured, and become weak and fat. But if we are completely honest, it often happens that even if we do 12 repetitions in one exercise, we do not reach the required 40 seconds or more. This can become a problem if you constantly fall below the required time under tension in your training. Spurious objection. Not 40 seconds, 90 seconds. Anyone gets used to a slower cadence and instinctively follows it. And you're going to failure anyway, and you can target that for 6 reps. Oh, you went to 8 before failure. So what? Stay there or next time use a little more weight. That's always been part of it since Arthur Jones, so this writer really doesn't understand the method or is pretending he doesn't. The writer is assuming the usual 80% max on a set. That's too easy, lacks intensity. Funny, in my gym I often have the feeling I'm the only one there really suffering. The rest are rapidly pumping up and down (using momentum), sitting around resting, or playing with phones. And if you really need to assure yourself, you can quickly add a drop set. So the timing really doesn't need to be extremely precise, kind of a laughable idea at our level of endeavor. I did use an interval timer when doing a good bit of isometrics during COVID because 30/30/30 is harder to track. He also failed to mention that you can use lighter weights with TUL. So, lighter weights, far fewer sets (1), and reps (6) min. No warmup needed. Better for old guys w/ their old joints? Obviously. And most of the gurus working in the area, such as P. D. Mangan, will recommend twice a week, so each muscle goes to failure after the TUL twice. Sessions of splits in the legacy models may only be once a week. better training results - for whom? We old guys ain't trying to be bodybuilders. No point, babes ain't gon' be impressed, and that'll just lead to injury. What we mainly need is functional strength and overall fitness with safety. And our time is getting shorter. Please don't gimme any more fitness site hack writing.
  13. A start by walking, swimming, etc. is good. Some will have to start slowly. Not a believer in lots of reps, use a much different technique derived from Arthur Jones/Mike Mentzer/Ken Hutchins/Drew Baye. Reading Doug McGuff's Body By Science first convinced me. Fast, efficient, better on joints, but intense. P. D. Mangan, 67, former microbiologist, is a prominent current exemplar. No cardio for him. Been working well. Kinda looking forward to my next checkup. (Unusual around here, eh?)
  14. I like Dr. Jo a lot, hits the basics, very knowledgeable. Tom Merrick has a great range of vids for beginner to advanced. And Jared Beckstrand's quite good on a variety of subjects, exercise oriented. Some of it is difficult at first but becomes much easier as the months go by. The biggest problem I have with it is that's about the most boring thing I do. I'll often procrastinate until almost bedtime! I usually put on a movie or series episode to watch while I'm at it. Here's an old guy proving that seniors are capable of being very fit and mobile: Steve Maxwell. An advocate of the efficient less is more (done correctly) school. Learned some things from him.
  15. Quite true. I did it. A great thing. There have been some informative threads recently about it in the health forum. I believe @scorecardhas been discussing it extensively, so you might also try PM.
  16. Diet and not smoking. But exercise works synergistically and offers its own needed benefits. I'd put strength training first to ward off frailty. If you can't get up off the sofa, you can't do any cardio. If done sufficiently and intensely, it can serve as cardio. But one recent study showed that best results are achieved from doing both. That assumed the average form of each, I suppose, not HIT or HIIT. Many people refuse to strength train, so certainly they should at least be trying to do their 150 min/week of moderate to intense walking or whatever. Opinions vary about the needs and benefits of stretching. I'm a believer that it's helpful after exercise, and I do it daily. With exercise comes muscle and tendon tightness that can cause various problems, and has for me. For example, my cardio tended to cause Achilles tendonitis. Stretching and eccentric exercise got rid of it, and stretching keeps it from recurring. Stretching also complements strength training by helping with mobility.
  17. The OP should be sure to work a couple of years at a company or institution that provides Thai SS. Then, upon leaving, keep up the modest payments for free healthcare & meds for life at Thai gov't hsps.
  18. Zero? That's up 2 you. Looking but more important feeling younger than you are, delaying the onset of morbidity, is certainly desirable. Health > vanity Ran across @joeoldlifter on Twitter the other day. Retired Canadian engineer at 75: Better to start strength training and a higher protein diet early to slow the loss of muscle mass as you age. 50's a good age, as around then the loss increases at a faster rate. Joseph Signorile, Bending the Aging Curve More on this here. Many start to suffer the usual chronic diseases in their 50s owing to poor metabolic health and begin the chase for docs and meds. Doesn't have to be that way.
  19. The Thai must be blamed 100% for shooting and killing and should be given max penalty, as noted. Earlier, CSI: ANF had solved the case by blaming his girlfriend and imagined lover who had set it up to steal the old Brit's assets. No problem believing that with zero evidence, 'cause we want to. Me, I doubt the Thai would be so enraged over nothing. He doesn't seem like a normally unstable, suspicious character. What it was exactly will probably never be known with any certainty. Could he be telling the truth? He might be, but I didn't say that he actually is. We may hope more evidence comes to light.
  20. Here ya go. This is listenable, watchable, and deserves max volume. Stay clear of the fingernails.
  21. His intent wasn't to provoke. It was to instruct. He was probably like our countless Brit ANF Driving Instructors here on the forum, indeed may have been one. So he'd had a few, got angry and couldn't restrain himself until he arrived home to hit the ol' keyboard, first having enjoyed his newly-purchased baked beans and toast. Rather, he began the Driving Lesson in real-time with honking. But then, according to the perp, he proceeded to drive it home with angry words and a few blows to the perp's car, making sure there had been no incomprehension, knowing how Thais often fail to pay attention to their betters. Chose the wrong student, as it turned out. RIP, and be warned. Thais don't like being honked at, as my first Thai gf warned me decades ago when I first started driving a bike here. Still, I haven't an issue so far giving a honk when clearly justified. Confronting with angry words (with, no doubt, cursing) and banging on a Thai's car in anger--very, very bad idea, if it happened (as it may well have). This isn't to blame the victim. Obviously, the consequences of the confrontation were criminal. I hope the Thai is punished to the max. Still, I think if the Brit could do it all over, he'd handle the situation much differently.
  22. Start Firefox with all extensions disabled and try your sites. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/start-firefox-in-safe-mode Could be some incompatibility. Some sites do seem to work better with Chrome, however. It has by far the largest market share.
  23. Excellent move. Welcome to our great city. Know the city Seal, of course: And pay your respects to Big Buddha and the bronze statue of Admiral of the Royal Thai Navy Abhakara Kiartivongse, Prince of Chumphon, at the Pratumnak Hill overlook. Drop by City Hall when you can and get the latest requirements for a yellow book and pink card. They're posted here somewhere but good luck finding them. Enjoy!
  24. We're all assuming it was in fine print to fit the narrative and excuse stupidity. I suspect it was in normal print, clearly stated, and he probably didn't read any part of the policy. Saw "worldwide," that's about it.
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