{"id":35381,"date":"2026-06-21T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35381"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:31:56","slug":"dammit-and-i-just-mastered-tai-chi-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/21\/dammit-and-i-just-mastered-tai-chi-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dammit, And I Just Mastered Tai Chi Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not <em>mastered<\/em>, but I did just <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/book-report-chi-walking-by-danny-dreyer-and-katherine-dreyer-2006\/\" target=\"_new\">read a book<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/805099\/\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>, we learn <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-06-nordic-significantly-depression-symptoms-weeks.html\" target=\"_new\">Nordic walking significantly reduces depression symptoms in as little as five weeks, trial finds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nordic walking: You know, walking with poles, like you&#8217;re cross-country skiing, not like you&#8217;re a wizard leading a party on a quest.  Which would probably also help with depression unless your scrying indicated your quest was doomed to failure, but you have to try anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Remember NordicTracks?  They were a staple of television advertising at one point.  They&#8217;re still around, part of a fitness conglomerate which has rejected my applications several times.  But NordicTracking in your hovel is probably not the part that fights depression.  One wonders if being part of a supervised study, thinking that you&#8217;re part of something greater than yourself even for a brief time, is enough to lift a bit of depression.  But I&#8217;m not a researcher, just a blogger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not mastered, but I did just read a book on it. Now, courtesy Instapundit, we learn Nordic walking significantly reduces depression symptoms in as little as five weeks, trial finds. Nordic walking: You know, walking with poles, like you&#8217;re cross-country skiing, not like you&#8217;re a wizard leading a party on a quest. Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35383,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions\/35383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}