#26th April 20
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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.
I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day Seventeen I’m going to reflect on the 26th Amendment.
“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge
Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.
It looks like this.
Challenge Guidelines
- View the daily video and mirror what you see.
- Complete all 30 daily exercises
Day 20-Tai Chi and Slowing Down
Alan’s Day 20 exercise routine can be viewed below:
April 20th-26th Amendment
After seven decades of life, you often find yourself revisiting history with people much younger than you. Just the other day, I was explaining to someone in their twenties the irony faced by some of my high school classmates—at 19, they were eligible for the Selective Service draft in the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet they were not allowed to vote.
In times of crisis a US President often utilizes an Executive Order. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order lowering the minimum age for the military draft age to 18, despite the fact that the minimum voting age—as set by the states—remained at 21.
That led the US Government having to deal with criticisms surrounding the slogan “Old enough to fight, Old enough to vote“. That sentiment grew much louder during the Vietnam War. It wasn’t just people talking but it became protests and eventually Congress heard the message.
On March 10, 1971, the U.S. Senate voted 94-0 in favor of the proposed 26th Amendment. On March 23, 1971, the House of Representatives passed the amendment by a vote of 401-19, and the 26th Amendment was sent to the states for ratification the same day.
Just a little more than two months later, on July 1, 1971, the necessary three-fourths (38) of state legislatures had ratified the 26th Amendment. Eighteen-year-olds were first able to vote in a federal election in 1972.
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