#Unsung April 8
We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post.
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 Eight I’m going to revisit an UNSUNG Inventor.
“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 8-Tai Chi for Building Resistence
Alan’s Day 8 exercise routine can be viewed below:
April 8th-Unsung Inventor
Often people become so synonymous with something associated with their name we might not realize what other accomplishments they have had in their life. That is the case with William Powell Lear. Yes, he is the inventor of the Lear Jet.
Powell’s life is fascinating and not entirely filled with success stories. Powell took the existing 4 track technology that existed in the 1960’s and became the unsung inventor who created the 8 Track.
8 Track players in cars were very prevalent in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The first car manufacture to offer a factory installed player was Ford in 1966.
There is a YouTube channel called “Feed My Curiosity” which has a short YouTube video on the evolution of the 8-track player.
Recent Comments