steve, Author at FitnessFor.Us

March 31, 2022April 7, 2022

Putting Practice: Month 3

For 2022 I set a goal of achieving 70% putting from 25 feet. That seems attainable enough, and if I go higher than that, well, all the better..

I’m working my way toward that goal by practicing regularly. Perhaps not regularly enough. I’m not throwing 1000 or 2000 putts a day. That would be great. But it’s not happening.

Now that I have my own basket, though, it’ll happen more often!

At the end of May I’m hitting the road with my partner, Fálki, for a prolonged journey. We will be living in our Aliner A-frame trailer and traveling all around the United States.

With that in mind, then, I bought a DGA Mach Lite Portable Disc Golf Basket.

February 14, 2022February 15, 2022

Putting Practice – Month 2

If you read my post last month about disc golf goals for 2022, you may remember that I set this goal:

70% putting from 25 feet

I’m working my way toward that goal by practicing. Simply practicing.

I’m not going to lie: when the weather is bad, I’m not going out. When I first started playing a couple years ago, I was out in all kinds of weather, but I’m over that now. While I am fortunate to live in South Texas, and was, in fact, out playing today, February 14, 2022, in beautiful, sunny 65-degree weather, there were a lot of days during the past few weeks that were too cold or rainy for me.

So I didn’t practice as much as I wanted to.

February 14, 2022February 18, 2022

World’s Best Vegan Baked Oatmeal

vegan baked oatmeal on a plate with blueberries, a blackberry, and a fork

My partner Fálki and I eat a lot of oatmeal. It’s a healthy choice for breakfast, although I know I tend to add more maple syrup than I probably should. C’est la vie.

I change things up by sometimes making Scottish oats or Irish oats, but usually I stick with rolled oats. Or maybe I’ll add strawberries or blueberries. Or some coconut-based yogurt.

Still, it gets boring.

Then one day I happened upon a recipe for vegan baked oatmeal in a Facebook group that revolves around eating a kidney-friendly, plant-based diet. I made it the next morning, and it was so good!

January 18, 2022February 14, 2022

Disc Golf Goals for 2022

I’ve been playing disc golf for right at two years now. While I am happy with my progress so far, and while I win my MA60 age-protected division somewhat often, I still need a lot of work on my game.

As we began 2022, I saw a lot of posts on social media about disc golf goals. Most of the goals I’ve seen from other people are about improving their PDGA rating, throwing longer off the tee, getting more aces.

A chase for aces does not make sense for the way I want to play disc golf. Ace runs for me most often do not lead to easy birdies. My goal on an ace-runnable hole is an easy birdie.

One thing I’ve noticed, though, as I golf more with good players, is that they are invariably better putters than I am.

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021

I love disc golf!

Disc golf. Who knew? My friend Zakk Shanks knew.

Back in December 2019, Zakk and I were talking, and he asked whether I’d ever played disc golf. I’d never tried it, and had only sort of heard of it, but was immediately intrigued. Golf? With frisbees? What’s not to like?

I say I’d sort of heard of it, because my other friend Paul Normandin and I had briefly discussed Ultimate Frisbee, which he plays. I had no idea what UF was, so in my mind it was disc golf. Our conversation that day was cut very short for some reason, so I never clarified.

Nevertheless, the day after that discussion with Paul, I’d ordered an Innova starter set from Amazon, for disc golf not Ultimate, and they’d been in my closet ever since.

Anyway, I love walking, but I like to have a reason for it, so disc golf sounded right up my alley. Zakk and I set up a time to play, and I met him at the Trinity University disc golf course for my first disc golf experience.

I was hooked. I sucked, but I was hooked. What a challenge!