Pennsylvania’s been blistering hot, so the last thing I’d expect you to do tomorrow is take part in a Civil War reenactment. To put on a 100-percent woolen uniform and walk about with a musket while role playing whatever happened to your character more than 160 years ago in a field outside of Harrisburg, Hanover, or Gettysburg.

Which, considering the carnage of that war, could very well mean playing dead for a good part of the afternoon.

Then again, I might be wrong. You might find the opportunity to experience what war was like back then so enticing that you’ll gladly endure the itching, chafing, and sweating that’s in store for any Civil War reenactor tomorrow.

Now whether or not I just described your Sunday, you must be wondering why you’re reading about it. For starters, it’s a fitting example of the saying that serves us all well to follow: “To each his own.”

An especially fitting example for today since there’s been a Civil War reenactment of sorts raging in my body for nearly 20 years. But it seems a third party’s been able to negotiate a ceasefire.

A supplement I’ve been taking for one month: BruiseMD’s Bromelain Quercetin Duo.

“To each his own” serves as a polite way to acknowledge that different people like different things, a sentiment that needs to be a part of any discussion about improving, maintaining or enhancing health and fitness. For as well as individual likes and dislikes, we all have lines we will not cross for one reason or another.

I, for one, refuse to stop cycling as hard as I do twice a week. Something that, in light of my age and the residual effects of a half dozen or so serious bike crashes, a few people have told me I should no longer do.

These people, however, offer that opinion only after they hear about what I need to do in order to get my body to go hard and how it feels the day after.

But my body’s been feeling much better “the day after” after taking the aforementioned supplement. And those hard rides are going better, too.

I only started taking BruiseMD’s Bromelain Quercetin Duo because it was pitched to me by Chloe Licht, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice-President of the Light Years Ahead public relations agency. As a result, I agreed to have my brother and me use it for 30 days and to write 800 words or so if doing so proved successful.

It certainly did, so much so that I could easily double that word count — though I won’t

But I will write about the seventh day I took the stuff. On that Saturday, I rode about 10 miles to meet my riding partner to do our typical Saturday ride. It wound up, though, being a bit longer and hillier than normal.

Yet I felt better than normal for just about all of the 52 miles, particularly near the end — and especially on the 10 miles to get home. Usually by that time, I’m aching, pedaling really slowly, and praying for it all to end.

On that day, however, I said no prayers, for I felt as if I could keep going. The only reason I didn’t was because of what had been going on on recent Sunday rides.

They’re supposed to be easy three hour spins, yet the last few had been anything but. I had been experiencing a good deal of discomfort in the areas adversely affected from the aforementioned crashes — my hips, glutes, and hamstrings — during the first hour and last half hour of the rides.

Not this time.

While at the start it did feel as if I had ridden hard the day before, the previously injured areas felt fine from the first pedal stroke. In addition, that sluggish feeling abated in about 20 minutes.

And I’m pleased to report that the weekend rides since then have been just as pleasant and productive — which is a pretty solid reason for why you may want to try using the supplement I just started buying now that my free samples are gone.

Just as solid a reason is found in the tale my brother tells.

Probably because he throws about 250 batting-practice pitches two to four times a week eight months a year, for about six months he had been experiencing a dull ache in his right shoulder upon waking up that would continue off and on throughout the day. An ache that would sometimes escalate into extreme pain when he warmed up to pitch or lift weights.

Two weeks into his experimenting with BruiseMD’s Bromelain Quercetin Duo, however, the extreme pain had gone away.

Plus, the dull ache “for the most part” had done the same, he said. The off-and-on discomfort he had pegged at a 6 on a scale from 1 to 10 was now never more than a 2 or a 3.

So if you’re looking for a similar sort of lessening of your aches and pains, here’s what I suggest.

Spend some time at the BruiseMD’s website and read about this product. If you like what you read, talk to your physician about taking it, just to be safe.

Then make a purchase and start your own experiment.