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How to stay healthy during trial battle?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Regular Underdog readers know of my strong interest in improving physical, mental, and spiritual health to be a more powerful trial lawyer. That is why I practice t'ai chi daily, to improve physical health, reduce stress, and increase calm. Trial work involves battle and war, and no warrior should go to battle from the couch potato position.   Vigorous exercise also is good for health, and can release amazing endorphins. However, a fifteen-mile run is not advisable for a person who has been mostly sedentary for the last year; one must ease into such activity, which can rip up one's knees if all the running is on pavement for years on end. Bicycling and swimming are less punishing on the body than running, but lengthy long distance runs have been among my most ultimate thrills, including running eight miles after a snowstorm that included snowplow mounds on which to run, running in the soaking rain, running in high altitudes where the air is thinner, and getting second winds to speed up during the last half-mile of a long run...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).