Old Dogs in Training LLC

04/09/2026

Quick introduction to FitOldDog's PAD Training Plan. A simple progression, in 20 lessons, designed to save your feet from the ravages of peripheral artery disease (PAD). This is based on over 10 years personal experience of severe PAD.

-kev

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04/08/2026

With Kym McNicholas – I just got recognized as one of her top fans! 🎉

04/06/2026

Peripheral artery disease, or regular old aging for that matter.

Here's my most popular, PAD exercise, one I use myself everyday. It will also help those struggling with aging, and especially with their sense of balance, as they learn to feel the ground through their feet.

Do 25 to 100 reps, and you'll sure feel the difference when you get out of bed in the morning. This exercise also helped me a lot while stuck in a hospital bed a few weeks ago. I now use it each morning as I recover from a CABG, op successfully. Have normal left heart function now, and will start Ironman training as soon as possible.

-kev aka FitOldDog
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04/05/2026

For those not signed up for my weekly newsletter, which includes the report on my recovery from heart surgery (quad bypass). It's going really well. Ultrasound report indicated that left heart function is normal.

Lucky guy!

-kev

Double hill I use for training repeats. This side is a 4% upgrade x 200 yards (you are looking down the slope), the other side has a brief 3% upgrade (50 yards), followed by about 250 yards of a 1% upgrade. Walking repeats gets my heart rate up, gently.

04/05/2026

This was a short extract from a Collateral Nation Podcast, kindly created by Kym McNicholas

07/20/2025

OUR SENSES
I know you are all familiar with your sense of pain, but what about your other senses, and there are many.
That was the subject of my recent weekly newsletter, which some of you might find of interest, especially the section on our complex sense(s) of balance.
-kev
Here's the link, fyi.

Time to talk about sensory perception, again, because I’m surprised so few people sense what I sense in the “Wiggle Your Finger Proprioceptive Intelligence Test,” which you will come to in a moment, but first:

06/14/2025

Friedrich Nietzsche — “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” -k

disease

https://youtu.be/oFlyOcQ_6iI?si=ob6ozRPjPqZzaKGc

04/21/2025

Hi folks.
FYI, to show what an old dog can do if they don't give up.
-kev aka FitOldDog

It's taking time, but I'm finally finding ways to run with pretty severe peripheral artery disease (PAD), including lack of a dorsal pedal pulse on my right ...

03/19/2025

PROGRESS REPORT (FOR PAD)

I'm finding this pumping approach really works as I walk, and increasingly so as I run, which is MUCH tougher than walking. Stop foot pumping, which I do relaxed and gently, as I walk or run, and back comes calf claudication.

The trick is pace of training and movement. It is essential not to tire, or strain, your feet.

Glad I can finally train effectively for my next race, White Lake 70.3 Ironman. Will be at the back of the pack, of course, where you meet the nicest people.

-kev aka FitOldDog

I created this simple video, comparing the pumping action of our feet, done right, to the action of a diaphragm pump. Contracting the muscles in your feet wi...

03/02/2025

MANY PROBLEMS I address are related to a similar issue - how we move, and how we keep going. Here's a recent post I placed on the PAD Support Page. Some of you may find this to be of interest, who knows.

Have fun!

Life is brief:

--ooOoo--

IT'S A FUNNY THING!

I find people to be really strange. Probably due to my Aspergers-like personality. But that's another story. I never know which of my stuff they like, and which they don't.

I just spotted growing interest in one of my less recent PAD videos, linked below. The traffic is steadily growing, unexpectedly. Reaching patients is tough, especially when I get no help from any out there, that I know of, apart from an ABI diagnosis, and a "do three 30-minute walks a week." No way that's enough.

Are you out there, doc?

Like Kym McNicholas, and with her kind help, I work to find ways to improve mobility and avoid amputation in PAD patients, once physicians have done all they can. I do this using my background in veterinary medicine and pathology research, along with extensive body movement training. I also employ experience gained from my personal struggles with this horrible disease.

I use any media I can lay my mind and limited resources on, to explain the importance of exercise to grow collaterals, and changing the way we move to improve blood flow to, through, and back from our feet.

Fight back! Don't let PAD steal your toes, your feet, your legs, or your life. Here's that video I made in my truck a while ago, along with subsequent help from iMovie, and excellent a free online tool.

Cheers,

-kev aka FitOldDog

This video compliments the book, "How to Fight the Crippling Pain of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), by Kevin Thomas Morgan.Having managed to continue Iro...

02/17/2025

F*ck and it's not time for polite discourse. They are threatening our lives, literally. Read your history. At 81, I lived it. Hitler's bombers and subs killed my relatives and gave me rickets. I still remember playing on those bomb sites of Bristol, England. They were everywhere.

JUST DO SOMETHING TO FIGHT THEM EACH DAY. BETTER STILL, FIVE SOMETHINGS.

Have a nice day.

-kev

"Over the weekend, Trump posted a statement that said,

"He who saves his country does not violate any laws."

That may be the most undemocratic, most fascistic statement ever made by an American president. It is a claim that the president is above the law so long as the president believes he is “saving the country.” The worst dictators in history have used the same logic to enslave, destroy, conquer, and kill their own people." RBH

February 17, 2025