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An accomplishment energy pill concept from the book The Most Effective Ways on Earth to Boost Your Energy

When it gets cold, I have a hard time getting my energy up, which is why this tip that "accomplishing stuff causes your energy to improve" is a great piece of advice. It's featured in the book The Most Effective Ways on Earth to Boost Your Energy. I suggest accomplishing a project, such as finishing one you started. The best way I know how to get that going is to start cleaning off a work surface (since that's where a lot of my "U.F.O."s are waiting!) Another is to sort through a box of supplies. I just went through my box of silk flowers and I thought of 2 projects I could make! I will be sure to share. Gotta go make 'em!

Click on this page from The Most Effective Ways on Earth to Boost Your Energy to enlarge and read about how accomplishing things is a great way to boost your energy.

More about the Fair Winds Press book:

The Most Effective Ways on Earth to Boost Your Energy:

The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about Using Nutrition, Exercise, Supplements, Stress Relief, and Personal Empowerment to Stay Energized All Day

by

Jonny Bowden

 The Most Effective Ways on Earth to Boost Your Energy shows anyone how to get more energy out of their body—naturally. Nationally known health expert Jonny Bowden presents small changes anyone can implement up front for big energy—such as what to eat for all-day endurance, when to time a workout for the biggest brain boost, or how working with (or against) natural light cycles can make your sleep restorative or slump-inducing.

Energy starts with attitude—you'll learn how to “think” like a high-energy person and use breathing techniques, meditation, and exercise to bust stress, beat fatigue, and boost stamina.

You'll also learn how physical factors such as toxins, eating patterns, and nutritional deficiencies can sabotage strength—and how they can be corrected with proper diet and supplements. 

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition, and health. The author of seven acclaimed books, including The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth and The Healthiest Meals on Earth. http://www.jonnybowden.com

  

How to get rid of a brake squeak from the book The Urban Biking Handbook

I love little tips and tricks that make fixing an annoying problem easy. That is what I have for you today. If you have squeaky brakes on your bike, try these tips from The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living.

Click on this page from The Urban Biking Handbook to enlarge and read about how to fix a squeaky brake on your bike.

More about the book:

The Urban Biking Handbook:

The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living

by

Charles Haine

Cyclists are everywhere, the cautionary bumper stickers tell you. More than ever before, bicycle culture is everywhere, too: from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, city planners are making big changes to city infrastructure for the increasing numbers of people who are leaving their cars at home (or deep-sixing them altogether) and upgrading to two wheels. Biking in the city is no longer just for bike messengers with a death wish.

The Urban Biking Handbook is a hardworking, illustrated guide to the cycling lifestyle. Not only does it teach tons of repair and maintenance techniques, it shows such popular skills as converting a multiple-gear bike into a fixed-gear bike (or fixie), building your own wheels, and how to build a Frankenbike from parts scavenged from several bikes. All the techniques and projects are framed by spotlights on urban bike culture worldwide: profiles of bike mechanics, bike builders, bike artists, and more.

Charles Haine has been a bicycle mechanic for over a decade. He learned to fix bikes at a bicycle co-operative at Oberlin College, followed by stints at several bicycle shops in his hometown of Washington, DC, including Blazing Saddles and Citybikes, and time at both the Bike Spot and Bikecology in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently the chairman of the Bicycle Kitchen, a non-profit bicycle education space in Los Angeles, where he has also been a volunteer for 7 years. He has taught beginning and advanced bicycle mechanics to countless numbers of both the general public and also other volunteers at the Bicycle Kitchen to help them hone their mechanic skills and better serve the community. In his spare time he gets into arguments about how to properly address brake squeak. Visit his web site at http://www.bicyclekitchen.com.

Interview with Charles Haine, author of The Urban Biking Handbook, on the online radio show Down and Dirty

We're mixing it up again here at Craftside! This time, it's with a link to an interview with Charles Haine, author of The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living on the online radio show Down and Dirty. Charles' interview runs from 14:00-24:50.

More about the book:

The Urban Biking Handbook:

The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living

by

Charles Haine

Cyclists are everywhere, the cautionary bumper stickers tell you. More than ever before, bicycle culture is everywhere, too: from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, city planners are making big changes to city infrastructure for the increasing numbers of people who are leaving their cars at home (or deep-sixing them altogether) and upgrading to two wheels. Biking in the city is no longer just for bike messengers with a death wish.

The Urban Biking Handbook is a hardworking, illustrated guide to the cycling lifestyle. Not only does it teach tons of repair and maintenance techniques, it shows such popular skills as converting a multiple-gear bike into a fixed-gear bike (or fixie), building your own wheels, and how to build a Frankenbike from parts scavenged from several bikes. All the techniques and projects are framed by spotlights on urban bike culture worldwide: profiles of bike mechanics, bike builders, bike artists, and more.

Charles Haine has been a bicycle mechanic for over a decade. He learned to fix bikes at a bicycle co-operative at Oberlin College, followed by stints at several bicycle shops in his hometown of Washington, DC, including Blazing Saddles and Citybikes, and time at both the Bike Spot and Bikecology in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently the chairman of the Bicycle Kitchen, a non-profit bicycle education space in Los Angeles, where he has also been a volunteer for 7 years. He has taught beginning and advanced bicycle mechanics to countless numbers of both the general public and also other volunteers at the Bicycle Kitchen to help them hone their mechanic skills and better serve the community. In his spare time he gets into arguments about how to properly address brake squeak. Visit his web site at http://www.bicyclekitchen.com.

Multifidus deep back work and flight exercises from: The Ultimate Body Shaping Bible by Karon Karter

OK designers and crafters-how many of you sit too long and get a lower back ache?

If this is you-read on!

The Ultimate Body Shaping Bible
Get in the Best Shape of Your Life with Targeted Workouts That Tone and Tighten Everything
By
Karon Karter

Your get-gorgeous encyclopedia packed with 300 step-by-step photos! Drawing from several fitness approaches, including cardio, Pilates, yoga, free weights, and interval and strength training, veteran fitness trainer Karon Karter will get your body in the best shape it can be. Karter gives readers the fastest solutions for every body issue they face, from saggy butts to slack arms, by offering an incredible range of exercises that fit every need. The Ultimate Body Shaping Bible provides several workouts for each body area that can be chosen by fitness level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and done in minutes. Each workout includes several exercises designed to hit a specific area to get maximum results fast. Also includes efficient, heart-pumping cardio sessions to get your excess fat burned off quickly.

Karon Karter (Dallas, TX) is an exercise guru featured on The Natural Wellness Channel’s Pilates for Real Bodies. She is the author of The Six-Week Bikini Countdown, The Core Strength Workout, and Pilates Lite.

 

Click on the two images to read how to do the multifidus deep back work and flight exercises that are great for building an beatable lower back and strengthen your posture muscles.

On to the day's question:

What is your favorite exercise? Or how do you take a break from your art and move around?

In addition to the above exercises I have just started hula hooping and let me just say it rocks! It makes my middle feel great.