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Chris Rice
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11-20-19 08:29 AM - Post#890553

It's time for me to make a Christmas list for m kids. thought I'd ask for one of Percy Cerutty's books. He has more than one - which book would you all recommend?

Dan John
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11-20-19 08:50 AM - Post#890554

I have always thought "Training with Cerutty" was the best. The author, I came to find out, lives basically somewhere in Colorado completely off the grid. Cerutty's books (the new publications) tend to be less organized...IMHO.

Daniel John
Just handing down what I was handed down...

Make a Difference.
Live. Love. Laugh.
Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude)
Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk.
Wear your seat belt. Donâ€™t smoke. Floss your teeth.
Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights.
Reread great books. Say thank you

Chris Rice
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11-20-19 09:08 AM - Post#890557

Thanks Dan

vegpedlr
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11-20-19 11:51 AM - Post#890564

I recently read Be Fit or Be Damned. It was . . . interesting. Mostly from a historical perspective. At a time when many doctors advised against exercise and said diet didn’t matter, Cerutty pushed what seems obvious now for everybody.

Neander
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Neander

11-20-19 02:22 PM - Post#890572

Anyone read this one . . . and what did you think.
It looks interesting, worth buying maybe.

https://www.amazon.com/Success-Sport-Percy-W ells-Cerutty/dp/152281431 0

Life's too short to worry about longevity.

Old Miler
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11-20-19 04:50 PM - Post#890576

I second Dan. I found that book (by Larry Myers) in a second-hand bookstore 35 years ago and possibly still have it in the loft somewhere. It was a really great presentation.

The others by Percy himself, I read decades later, and you can see why people at the time thought he was a tad eccentric.

I once went to stay with relatives in Melbourne, and made a "pilgrimage" to Portsea to find the famous sandhill, on the basis of the pics in the book. Funnily enough, one of the lifeguards on duty had actually heard of him; I wasn't the first pilgrim. Probably a few too many shrubs had moved or grown to find Herb's 5-minute "ti-tree" circuit, sadly.

Andy Mitchell
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11-20-19 05:22 PM - Post#890577

I live 20 minutes from Portsea, a lot of those areas are now protected from erosion.

Nice legs-shame about the face

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