Friends,
It is more than just "visualizing" the resistance to create high tension in VRT. (Or visualizing or 'picturing' your goals, or picturing how you want things to be in your life).
"What you think about, you bring about" is a common saying, but more mportantly, "what you feel about, you bring about" has even more truth. Not just feeling the resistance, but feeling good, feeling elated, feeling excited, feeling gratitude, feeling that real sweet feeling; all these feelings make your entire life better, for thoughts are created by feelings.
Research has shown that thoughts create corresponding feelings (i.e., get mad in your thoughts at someone, and you will just feel the angry feelings swarming around in your system), and likewise, feelings can create thoughts (feel lousy, and suddenly you think that nothing's going right in your world today).
I react to this by going out of my way to feel GREAT when I do VRT, no matter what exercise I happen to create; and if I purposely generate the feeling of feeling GREAT today, and towards everything that I will attempt today, it will actually proceed that way!!
Think about it (no, better yet, feel about it) and give it a try.
Greg Mangan
Mr. VRT
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
VRT as an Incredible Solution to a Wounded Knee
Friends, John mentioned that the Hindu push-up solved a shoulder injury that he had had from a martial arts workout years before, and Wendy mentioned the "high reach" from the Miracle 7 solved a shoulder problem she had.
Recently I have had my own somewhat miraculous cure. I had a knee injury back in the summer of 2006 when sprinting with kids during an adult/kid game at a Cub Scout camp (I carved a walking stick with my knife, and hobbled around the rest of the week). I had it looked at by an Orthopedist, but he couldn't tell me if I had a torn meniscus or not without a $1000 MRI. So I opted it against it. It took several weeks to heal.
Then, on the this past weekend of August 30th, I bought a small dirt bike for my 13 year old son. It was a used dirt bike, and we both attempted to get it operating correctly by taking rides on it and fiddling around with it. It is a small (80 cc) dirt bike, and I wiped out on it. It was in my back yard. And guess what got re-injured as I got up from the dirt? I severely twisted my left knee, and the injury exacerbated once more.
I put ice on it and bandaged the knee, and my wife lent me a cane to hobble around on during Labor Day weekend. I was upset that this was re-injured and spoil the next however-long weeks until its recovery. Then I proceeded with a VRT-like exercise to strengthen the joint, whereby I laid on my back, and pushed my legs up and down in the air under great tension as though I were pushing a block of stone up a ramp, then pulled down under tension as though pulling back on some heavy springs. All the while thighs and calves were under tension, contraction, or flexion, whatever you want to call it. It was an upside-down squat done in the air. But tension was in both directions.
An hour later my wife came home, and saw me walking about freely without bandage or cane. Amazed, she said 'how did you do it?' I told here about my mini-"breakthrough."
I don't know what happened; but it is completely relieved. If you have knee problems, try this. Something straightened out in the ligamental area of the knee joint. And I'm glad it did. I am not the type who wants to have knee surgery.
--Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Recently I have had my own somewhat miraculous cure. I had a knee injury back in the summer of 2006 when sprinting with kids during an adult/kid game at a Cub Scout camp (I carved a walking stick with my knife, and hobbled around the rest of the week). I had it looked at by an Orthopedist, but he couldn't tell me if I had a torn meniscus or not without a $1000 MRI. So I opted it against it. It took several weeks to heal.
Then, on the this past weekend of August 30th, I bought a small dirt bike for my 13 year old son. It was a used dirt bike, and we both attempted to get it operating correctly by taking rides on it and fiddling around with it. It is a small (80 cc) dirt bike, and I wiped out on it. It was in my back yard. And guess what got re-injured as I got up from the dirt? I severely twisted my left knee, and the injury exacerbated once more.
I put ice on it and bandaged the knee, and my wife lent me a cane to hobble around on during Labor Day weekend. I was upset that this was re-injured and spoil the next however-long weeks until its recovery. Then I proceeded with a VRT-like exercise to strengthen the joint, whereby I laid on my back, and pushed my legs up and down in the air under great tension as though I were pushing a block of stone up a ramp, then pulled down under tension as though pulling back on some heavy springs. All the while thighs and calves were under tension, contraction, or flexion, whatever you want to call it. It was an upside-down squat done in the air. But tension was in both directions.
An hour later my wife came home, and saw me walking about freely without bandage or cane. Amazed, she said 'how did you do it?' I told here about my mini-"breakthrough."
I don't know what happened; but it is completely relieved. If you have knee problems, try this. Something straightened out in the ligamental area of the knee joint. And I'm glad it did. I am not the type who wants to have knee surgery.
--Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
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