Come see us at the South Towne Center next week, It is such a blast hooking up with all my peeps there at the show. Swing by the stage, lets swap a story or two…
Wild Over Wood Ducks (WOW) and it’s Eagle Scout Service Program (ESSP) is venturing East to Mansfield, Massachusetts, where Jeremy S Ham is diligently working to finalize his Eagle Scout Service Project with the WOW Program.
Jeremy Spends the day with The DuckMan, learning the various aspects to the success behind the nesting boxes in the WOW ESSP.
As a gadget’eer, I pride myself in being able to sniff out some of the world’s coolest gizmo’s, and the IRUNNER app coupled with a heart rate monitor and pedometer have become my new new friends.
The meat and potatoes behind this app are simply amazing. Like any other HR monitoring system, the user specific HR zones are determined by entering your gender, age, height, weight, max HR, even resting HR. The app then generates your work zone chart, so that you can now enter your workout and track the effectiveness of your routine.
For example, I like to begin my workouts by warming up on a treadmill. This allows me to effectively warmup all muscle groups, raise my HR and increased circulation. In the above chart, I ran one mile at a comfortable pace of 6.0. By effectively studying the concept of stored energy consumed by increased HR, I have learned first hand how this applies. If I warm up at a pace of 6.5-7.0, my HR increases into the the next zone, where it then pulls from my bodies stored glycogen’s at nearly double the rate. If my intent is only to warm up, my body’s stored energy is significantly lowered before I even begin working out. As you begin tracking your HR, an effective measurement that will allow you to measure your hearts current ability to perform under physical exertion is your hearts recovery rate. This is also effectively tracked with this app. Note the direct fall of the HR line in the chart above. The numbers a crossed the bottom represent minutes in use.
If your goal is to increase distance ran, this app allows you to visualize your HR at a given pace, over a given time. The classic walk/run pace, increasing run times shows how the body learns to store energy as well as adapt to applied physical stress.
The chart above shows HR zone percentages. This app stores each days performance making it easy to refer back to and make comparisons of performance gains.
Thus far, we have only scratched the surface of this gizmo’s features and abilities; the IRUNNER app also tracks pedometers, cycling, spinning, even hiking. The units ability to track calories burned allows me to then couple this information with other health and performance related apps which I will blog about at a later date. If your looking for a HR performance related app, the IRUNNER ranks at the top for me. You create the desire, and these gizmo’s turn effort into productivity, ultimately fueling the passion!
CBT
Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resource offices have been swamped with response and questions regarding new law passed for predator management. They have built a page that will further assist answering the many questions they have been fielding.
http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/hunting/hunting-information/762
With the passing of the first month in our new year, our New Years resolutions have either became a habit, or have fallen by the wayside. If leading a healthier lifestyle was on your list, then
hopefully you have taken the basic steps to improve your physical wellness by enlisting better eating habits, getting more exercise, and giving your body the appropriate rest needed in this new life style. In this, we need to remember that nutrition plays a vital roll in our bodies ability to carry this new work load, and in this, diet and supplementation are often overlooked but are actually critical components to this body transforming process. Today’s market place is loaded with a variety of products that when used properly with diet and exercise will give the user increased returns on efforts expended, and pre-workout formula’s are one of them.
So by now, we are asking ourselves the question….what is a pre-workout supplement? And, this is a great question. Lets begin by understanding that the components listed in the “Supplements Facts” list on these products, are ingredients that science has proven to enhance athletes ability during a given workout regimen. Further, when key ingredients like vitamin B3, B6, B12, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium and branch chain amino acids, properly dosed and then stacked with caffeine, becomes a supplement blend in a “pre-workout cocktail” giving increased endurance, fighting muscle soreness and fatigue. additionally, enhancing nitric oxide levels and increased vasodilation, improving amino acid utilization, all this leading to increased stamina and an intense ability to focus during workouts. In short, these supplements will increase strength, aerobic and anaerobic exercises and an Increased performance during a given time; also aiding in a healthier muscle recovery.
Over the past three years, I have worked with numerous brand names, intensely studying the performance enhancing effects of these products and can honestly say that they are real. While I 
do know that each individual may experience slightly different effects from each brand name, I have had the best results from SUPERPUMP MAX, made by Gaspari Nutrion. I have recently cycled off this product, having used it for 5months straight, then one month off. I am currently using ASSAULT, a new product to the shelf produced by Muscle Pharm. Cycling should be a standard, 5 months on, and then one month away, allowing the body a rest so that it doesn’t adjust to the effects. Properly used, these “pre-workout cocktails” have given me a noticeable difference in my ability to perform during my daily lifting routines, AND, the increases “pump” is simply amazing!
Consult with your Doctor about the application and usage of these supplements and cardio activities.
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Animal rights activists continue working tirelessly against hunters, often times with self serving blinders on. Given the multitude of issues at hand caused by the reintroduction of wolves, I find it mind numbing that we continue to be led astray by federal wildlife agencies and their antics. Take for instance where consideration is being taking to introduce wolves into the
Baca and Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge in Colorado. The Baca, a mere 80,000 acre refuge system, is considering wolves as a management tool for their over populating elk herd…are they NUTS? Do they really believe that these wolves are going to be well mannered neighbors, only taking what they can eat, and not roaming? Perhaps these federal bureaucrats have dawned their timely blinders with the west’s current four legged transient that continues to be in the western regions spotlight, tagged as OR-7, originally from Oregon. This Apex Predator left his pack in Oregon last fall, wandering into California’s northern region by the end of December.
Just last week OR-7 came as close as 15 miles away from Nevada’s border sparking attention from Nevada’s wildlife officials. The California media has given so much attention to this wandering lone wolf, that he has become a celebrity of sorts, known in the news as “Journey”. With all the attention he has drawn, some folks are quoted as deeming this wandering adventurer as “romantic”…ROMANTIC? Perhaps a photo is in order to illustrate just how far from romantic these K-9 killing machines are.
To the distant northeast, in Michigan, the locals have been forced for nearly forty years to deal with the aftermath of these ravenous killers that prey on their livestock. Michigan’s upper Peninsula hosts a wolf population of over 600. Can you imagine how many animals it takes to withstand those kind of numbers? To the left is a graph showing Michigan’s wolf population and it’s growth over the last 15 years. Estimated at only 20 animals in 1992, the upper Peninsula wolf population had grown to approximately 687 during the winter of 2010-2011 – an all-time high since the population began to recover in the early 1990s.
Now, with the recent D-listing of wolves, the state wildlife agency is now faced with managing these wolves in Michigan. Brian Roell, a biologist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said, ” We want to show that we are capable of managing a healthy wolf population”. As a part of the D-listing of wolves there in Michigan, ranchers and livestock owners will now have the right to kill attacking wolves.
GreenBayPressGazette.com Article, Farmers eager to kill attacking wolves
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With the increased numbers of wolves within the surrounding states, dog predation has become a reality. Here is a real eye-grabbing-read: Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources has this link posted on their website so that public may be aware of potential threats to dogs by wolves.
Dogs Depredated by Wolves in Wisconsin-2011>>> CLICK HERE
So now that we have a greater understanding that wolves have a sever impact upon local ranchers as well as the states big game, why then would we introduce them into a tiny 80,000 acre refuge system in Colorado, believing that this time things might be different?
Further south, Arizona and New Mexico wildlife officials struggle to find a means of managing the areas mexican gray wolf population of fifty. These “50” wolves has these two states demographically barren states on the ropes? Consider the potential for issues on an 80,000 acre parcel.
Another full page article, full of issues caused by these so called romantic creatures. In short, look at the capital that is lost or has to be spent, and at who’s expense it comes.
The Washington Examiner reports this story on Tuesday, January 31:
Wolves senses tapped to keep them clear of cattle.
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In closing this weeks review on wolves, how can we even consider allowing these apex predators to propagate and freely cause so much destruction? The view of the animal rights groups has become so obscured, and their rational so dysfunctional…I have to ask, have we lost our minds?
Carl B. Taylor
In last night’s Republican Presidential Debate, Ron Paul was asked “Are you prepared too release your medical records (Congressman Paul chuckles) so voters out there know what your health is?”
Congressman Paul’s response: (Chuckling) “Obviously, because it’s about one page, if even that long. And I am willing to challenge any of these gentlemen up here to a 25 mile bike ride anytime of the day, in the heat of Texas.” (The audience erupted with laughter and applause)
With a smile Congressman Paul goes on to say: “And you know, that subject has come up, sometimes in fun, and sometimes not in fun, but you know there are laws against age discrimination, so if you push this to much, you better be careful…..”
Ron’s quick witted humor was well received by all.
The Republican Presidential Nomination is a marathon, not a sprint. So, if the Republican Presidential Nomination was a 25 mile bike race, what would be the outcome? My prediction is…Ron Paul pounds out a victorious 1st place, showing leadership right from the gates. Rick Santorum slides in a sloppy second place. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney finish days behind due to childlike bickering over who would wear the shirt “What Kind Of Man…” Both agreeing to share the title, but not the shirt.
So, I think we get this party started. Let’s do this 25 mile bike ride with Ron Paul and his supporters in Texas. Obviously, Congressman Paul would be ready to go at the drop of a hat, the other candidates may need some time to get their personal affairs in order, i.e. purchasing a bike and some equipment etc etc. Perhaps post April 16th would be more timely, given at least one the candidates is needing to closely focus on his taxes.
Carl B Taylor
In his SOTU address Obama said, “The Executive Branch also needs change. Too often,it’s inefficient, out dated and remote. That’s why I’ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate Federal Bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.”
I had hoped when i heard this, that he had come to recognize that perhaps he truly was not the man for the job. But then he went on to attack the way this system was so eloquently set up so that it wasn’t “leaner and quicker”. Is this not a step towards a dictatorship?
Here is a quote from the Washington Times, and it’s link:
Mr. Obama said Jesus Christ died for his sins, but the United States continues to suffer for the president’s mistakes.
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