Author: Eric Moss
re: oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-induces-strong-immune-response-early-trial-results
Let me be clear that what I’m going to discuss here is not intended to constitute medical advice. After all, I’m not in the medical field…technically.
So earlier today I was speaking with one of my personal training clients and she was telling me about an article that discussed a correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19. Here is a link to that article.
Vitamin D (something that you can either supplement or get directly from the sun like Superman) is known to play a role in having a healthy immune system. Correlation isn’t to be confused with causation, but it may be worth having a look.
As I got home, I checked the news app on my phone and saw another article this time giving hope about a potential vaccine from Oxford. Here is a link to that article. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-induces-strong-immune-response-early-trial-results-n1234191
When I analyze various training and nutrition programs, I look for patterns to see what kinds of things they have in common. If you’re looking at several different programs and they all seem to have one thing in common maybe that thing is worth further study.
And in the case of those two articles both of them speak about strengthening up the immune system. Exercise also is also well known to strengthen the immune system.
How? To be honest, I’m not really sure.
It’s also been known to help with the co-morbidity factors that can make covid19 so deadly, like diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
You can’t really tell by looking at me but I’m half Filipino and it’s a bit of a Filipino stereotype to be involved in healthcare. I often joke that as a personal trainer I represent the first line of defense. In a sense, it’s true since I’m in the business of helping people to get stronger, leaner and healthier.
As strength coach Mark Rippetoe once quipped “Strong people are harder to kill.” This quite literally could apply to fighting covid19.
And even if it doesn’t work at that, getting strong and healthy reaps it’s own benefits like being able to move a couch or chase around your kids/grandkids.
So to sum it up, get some sun and get stronger. It could help.
If you need help with this I have a free trial but I don’t have many spots left. Right now Tuesdays and Thursdays in the morning I have a bit more availability to help you out if you want to give it a try. Send me a text at 973 476 5328. I also have some availability in the early afternoons.
Eric Moss is a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, motivational speaker, and personal trainer. In the tradition of the strongmen more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a show and speaks on goal achievement for corporations, nonprofits, government as well as for schools and universities. His exclusive personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey, is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville and Parsippany New Jersey.
Is this normal?
First, it’s feats of strength Friday, and here is a video for your entertainment. I bend a steel carriage bolt and my daughter is especially cute here.
Earlier this week one of my personal training clients had asked “Is this normal?”
I said “Well what is normal really?”
What she was referring to was that she had noticeable increases in strength within the session. Being someone who was already in pretty good shape before she even came to me she wasn’t used to the way I do things and seemed to enjoy the strength that she had already attained.
What I was referring to was what people normally refer to as “normal” can also be considered “ordinary”.
My wife and I are a match.com success story. The opening line in my dating profile was “if you are looking for someone ordinary, keep looking because I’m not him”. This was also followed by the next line which said “Why settle for ordinary and boring when you can have extraordinary and fun?”
And I think that’s an issue that a lot of people face.
They settle.
They settle in their health by thinking they can’t do any better. They settle by thinking that what they are doing is “good enough”.
When I set out to be a personal trainer, I was always looking for better and better ways of training both myself as well as my personal training clients. That led me to the community of steel bending strongmen where I learned a bit of what I was (and what we are) truly capable of.
His other slogan was “What’s impossible for you is normal to us.”
With the one I was training this morning, she surprised herself. I wasn’t surprised because I knew she could do it. I know what she is capable of, and she is learning that too.
You won’t know what you are truly capable of, unless you set out to find out.
If you need my help with this I have a free one-week trial membership available where you can test my methods out for yourself. Send me a text at 973 476 5328.
Eric Moss is a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, motivational speaker, and personal trainer. In the tradition of the strongmen more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a show and speaks on goal achievement for corporations, nonprofits, government as well as for schools and universities. His exclusive personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey, is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville and Parsippany New Jersey.
Landscaping Spike – Feats of Strength Friday
Hey there!
In addition to being a personal trainer with a personal training studio on Main Street in Boonton I’m also a modern-day performing strongman…or at least I was until the recent pandemic had shut everything down.
If you are unfamiliar with what that is, in essence, I perform feats of strength as part of a live show. Sort of like a modern-day version of the sort of thing you would see in music halls, vaudeville theaters (like the Darress theater which is next to the Library across the street) and circuses that were commonplace during the turn of the century.
That’s also why I have those frying pans in the window, those were done in shows and I used them to decorate in a way my wife won’t let me do in my house. The chain of nails is another thing, though I did them for the sake of decorating.
Now since there are no gatherings of any sort and we still don’t really know what’s going to happen with schools (where I often perform), I figured I’d take my skillset onto youtube as part of a series called Feats of Strength Friday. Each Friday I would perform one of my feats…at least until things return to normal and I take the stage again.
Here is a recent one of me bending a landscaping spike. The kind used for securing railroad ties.
Even though this wasn’t the most recent one, I wanted to post it because my daughter Aurora is in it…and she’s cute 🙂
I’ll start posting them here as I do them.
Eric Moss is a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, motivational speaker, and personal trainer. In the tradition of the strongmen more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a show and speaks on goal achievement for corporations, nonprofits, government as well as for schools and universities. His exclusive personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey, is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville and Parsippany New Jersey.