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A simple fitness program that's music to your years . . .

A study conducted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company shows that orchestra conductors live 38 percent longer than the general population. The reason is simple--conducting is good cardiovascular exercise. In this book, Dr. Dale Anderson has adapted the conducting motion into a fun and easy upper-body fitness program that will help you:

Strengthen heart and lungs
Improve posture, flexibility, and balance
Reduce pain and stress
Lose weight
Feel better by raising your endorphin level

Anyone can benefit from this breakthrough technique--a great alternative to full-body workouts that doesn't require special equipment or a lot of time. The Orchestra Conductor's Secret to Health and Long Life also includes other innovative health advice, supplemental exercises, and suggested music to "conduct" to.

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Healthy Living

Health

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	20 janvier 1997
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781620459287
Langue	English

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The ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR S
SECRET
to HEALTH LONG LIFE
Conducting and Other Easy Things to Do to Feel Better, Keep Fit, Lose Weight, Increase Energy, and Live Longer
DALE L. ANDERSON, MD

CHRONIMED PUBLISHING
The Orchestra Conductor s Secret to Health Long Life: Conducting and Other Easy Things to Do to Feel Better, Keep Fit, Lose Weight, Increase Energy, and Live Longer 1997 by Dale L. Anderson
All rights reserved. Except for brief passages for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means-electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise- without the prior written permission of Chronimed Publishing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anderson, Dale, 1933-
The orchestra conductor s secret to health and long life / Dale
Anderson.
ISBN 978-1-62045-713-9
Editor: Jeff Braun
Cover Design: Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios Inc./ NYC
Text Design: David Enyeart
Figure Drawings by Margo Bock Exsted
Art/Production Manager: Claire Lewis
Printed in the United States of America
Published by Chronimed Publishing
P.O. Box 59032
Minneapolis, MN 55459-9686
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About the Author
Dale L. Anderson, M.D ., an assistant clinical professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, has been a physician for over 38 years and has practiced as a family doctor, a board certified general surgeon, and a board certified emergency physician. His current practice is in the Urgent Care Department of a large Minnesota clinic. Dr. Anderson is a member of the American Medical Association, The American College of Surgeons, the American Association of Therapeutic Humor, and the National Speakers Association. He is past president of the Medical Speakers Association and the Minnesota Speakers Association. He coordinates the Minnesota ACT NOW ! Project, which adapts theater art techniques that play out well on the health stage. He is one of America s leading health edu-tainers and conducts seminars internationally through his speaking company, J ARM , Inc.
To many inspiring patients who over the years have repeatedly demonstrated that we can often choose the right health moves to magically elevate the inner uppers that raise our spirits and get us high on life.
Acknowledgments
A special thanks to:
Minnesota physician and health care friends and colleagues, and the many hearty and wonderful Minnesota patients and friends who have helped make Minnesota the healthiest state in the nation.
James Reinertsen, M.D., C.E.O . of HealthSystem Minnesota, A. Stuart Hanson, M.D ., President of Institute for Research and Education-HealthSystem Minnesota, and Glen D. Nelson, M.D., Vice Chairman of Medtronic, Incorporated-who were instrumental in fostering and promoting the health education program SHAPE . The program has helped add days to the lives of many and life to the days of all who learn and follow its teachings about healthful lifestyles.
Jim Toscano, Vice President and C.O.O ., Institute for Research and Education-HealthSystem Minnesota, for encouraging the writing of this book.
The talented friends of the National Speakers Association for setting high platform standards and for inspiring me to strive to achieve their expected quality of performance excellence.
John Pope for his promotional advice and counsel.
Douglas Toft for his editorial and writing expertise.
The dedicated and professional staff of Chronimed Publishing.
And last and most importantly, with much love-to Britta, Ethan, and The Anderson Clan.
Notice: Consult your health care professional
Readers are advised to seek the guidance of a licensed physician or health care professional before making any changes in prescribed health care regimens, as each individual case or need may vary. This book is intended for informational purposes only and is not for use as an alternative to appropriate medical care. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information is the most current available, new research findings, being released with increasing frequency, may invalidate some data.
Contents

Chapter One: A Call to J ARM
Your amazing arms
J ARMING as a form of exercise
J ARMING is smart exercise
What this book includes

Chapter Two: What J ARMing Can Do for You
Improve your heart-lung efficiency
Improve your flexibility and balance
Strengthen your muscles
Raise your endorphin level
Regulate your weight
Improve your posture

Chapter Three: How to J ARM
Before you get started
Music for J ARMING
Tools of the trade
When and where to J ARM
Basic J ARM
Intermediate J ARM
Advanced J ARM
Special exercise challenges
Back arching
Posture habit retraining
The Relaxing Stretch
Responding to pain
Ways to supplement your J ARMING program
And always-the laughter prescription

Chapter Four: J ARMing and the New Science of Health
The placebo effect
Choosing positive attitudes
The power of imaging
How these discoveries can help you J ARM

Chapter Five: How to Extend the Benefits of J ARMing-Becoming a C Personality
Conditioned
Connected
Challenged
Committed
Controlled

Chapter Six: You re a J ARMer
How to J ARM : A quick review
The bottom line: Raising a family of pleasure-seeking J ARM ers
Satisfaction guaranteed

Suggestions for Music

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index
CHAPTER

A Call to J ARM
Where words fail, music speaks.
-Hans Christian Andersen
It was George, a delightful retired line worker who said to me when he was 67 years old, I know I need more exercise. But with my bad hips, it s painful to jog. I don t like swimming, and I feel self-conscious at the health clubs with all those trim, beautiful, perspiring young women putting the rush on me. (George had a vivid imagination.) He also spoke of the three M s that made him shy away from health clubs: machines, mirrors, and massive muscles.
George recalled as a young man in his 20s that he was trim and fit as a fiddle. Back then he and his wife did a lot of dancing, and he even worked for a few years as a band director and sang in a barbershop quartet. Those were the active good old days, Doc, never felt better. Music around me, music within me. Just the memory of those times strikes up the band in my mind.
Profound, I thought, as I listened to George. He brought to mind the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Too many people die with their music in them. Unfortunately, too many people don t even know that they have a fantastic orchestra within- an orchestra for which they can become a masterful conductor.
How did it feel to be a conductor? I asked.
George thought for a moment. Then he told me how healthy and happy he felt when he was actively conducting. You know, it was kind of like jogging-with the arms, he said.
From that simple observation came the word J ARM- (J)ogging with the (ARM)S . George s reply was the seed for a harvest of health benefits for him, as it can be for you.
Professional conductors have known about the benefits of J ARMING , even if they didn t use the term. Great symphony orchestra conductors tend to live longer-an average of five years longer, in fact-than the general population. They also are said to be healthier in both mind and body than many others in their age group. In 1980, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company published the results of a study on the longevity of conductors. Researchers looked at the lifespans of 437 active and former conductors of regional and community orchestras across America. The conclusion: Mortality among symphony conductors was 38 percent below their contemporaries in the general population.
For example, Toscanini died just two months and two days before his ninetieth birthday. Leopold Stokowski lived to be 95. Arthur Fiedler was 85, and Bruno Walter was 86. Even Leonard Bernstein, who died at the relatively young age of 72, beat the odds. God knows, I should be dead by now, Bernstein remarked a couple of years before his death. I smoke. I drink. I stay up all night. I m overcommitted on all fronts. I was told that if I didn t stop smoking, I d be dead at 35. Well, I beat the rap.
One of the things that helps these people beat the rap is the sheer fun of conducting-making those grand, sweeping motions of the arms surrounded by an ocean of sound. There s a large element of play in conducting. You can t be serious 24 hours a day. You have to take half-an-hour or an hour a day to be childish, said Vladimir Horowitz. Conducting is a real sport, noted Aaron Copland. You can never guarantee what the results are going to be, so there s always an element of chance. That keeps it exciting.
We can t say there is a direct, cause-and-effect relationship between conducting movements and living into one s eighties or nineties. Other factors are probably at work-among them, commitment to a vocation, connection to other people, and a passion for music. (More about these factors in Chapter Six on the C personality ) Yet the correlation between conducting and the health of these musicians is striking.
Many of us can recall with fond memories times when, as children, we captured something of the excitement these great musicians must feel. At those times we directed music naturally. We threw our arms up in the air and marched around, moving to the music. Some of us even pretended that we were leading a large orchestra as we stood in front of a mirror. Many of us who see a conductor at work have to fight back the urge once again to become like a child and mimic those movements. We d love to let go and allow our bodies to flow with the music.
J ARMING gives you the excuse. In this book you get a prescription from a physician to let yourself go, regress a little bit, and at the same time regenerate in both mind and body. You can lift a baton and become a conductor, band leader, or choir director. You can recapture that excitement, that feeling of b