If you’re busy doin’ this:
And you have time to do this:
Then you’re not doing enough of this:
Having a Television set as part of your stationary bike mayy not be a good idea?
All I’m sayin’.
Posts Tagged ‘exercise’
All I’m Sayin’
Posted by Sean on December 5, 2009
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Exercise Will Increase My Metabolism Right?
Posted by Sean on May 27, 2009
Start exercising and you’ll become a round-the-clock, fat-burning machine, right?
diet doesn’t matter so much as long as one exercises?!!
Unfortunately this has been the public consensus for many years. A new study at the University of Colorado would like to tell you enlighten you:
Exercise not likely to rev up your metabolism – Smart Fitness- msnbc.com.
“You can’t out-train a bad diet”
Carpe Diem
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Slayed The Dragon
Posted by Sean on April 25, 2009
Meet the Dragon:
This was the result of cutting down limb, branches, twigs from some of the trees surrounding our house. It’s hard to understand and appreciate the magnitude of this pile. I should have had my wife or someone stand next to it.
Meet Our Weapon of Choice:
This was the wood chipper we rented from a local rental company. We had this baby for 4 hrs (that was the agreed upon rental-contingent price). So we had to ‘kick -it-into-high-gear’ for 4hrs to utilize our weapon.
We slayed the beast in less than 2 hrs with the help of our neighbor and his trusty chainsaw.
He offered us some additional manual labor if he could ‘utilize’ the weapon for other trees and branches he’s been wanting to eliminate. It was a win-win situation.
An hour later here is where the ‘chips’ fell.
Beast Be-Gone
I had plans of visiting the gym for my workout training session. After re-evaluating my afternoon activity and listening to what my body was telling me post dragon slaying. My dragon slaying served as a very good training session. All the elements of some great training: total body movement, heavy lifting, stretching, high intensity interval training (a lot of hurry-up stop-and-go action).
I think I might have a revolutionary new workout on my hands. What do you think?
Carpe Diem
Posted in fitness, humor | Tagged: exercise | 4 Comments »
Burpee
Posted by Sean on April 18, 2009
Apparently it’s more than just an exercise? Heh heh. This was a kiosk for gardening gloves at the grocery store. Ya learn sumtin’ new everyday. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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By the Numbers
Posted by Sean on April 17, 2009
Posted in fitness | Tagged: diet, exercise, weight loss | 1 Comment »
I (Yes, Me)
Posted by Sean on April 16, 2009
Image Source: The Art Of The Brick
There is no ‘I’ in Team!..
However, there IS an "I" in ExercIse.
- I can have the best laid plans.
- I can have access to the very best equipment.
- I can be trained , pushed and educated by the most elite fitness professional.
- I can follow a meal plan counseled by the most educated dietician and/or fitness trainer.
- I can wear the very best workout clothing.
- I can have extra time to do complete all that I want, with no time constraints.
- I can have a body that bends and never breaks.
I can have all this and still fail.
- It is "I" who must answer the why.
- It is "I" who must answer to when.
- It is "I" who must answer to where.
- It is "I" who must move.
- It is "I" who must exercise discipline.
- It is "I" who must be consistent.
- It is "I" who must sweat.
- It is "I" who must say no those sweets and other ‘addictions’.
- It is "I" who has to be honest with myself.
- It is "I" who must live with whatever lie I tell myself to make myself feel better.
- It is "I" who is responsible for my achievements.
- It is "I" who gets ‘bragging rights’.
I see only one person in the mirror, yes me.
In the end, the difference between setting my goal and accomplishing my goal is I, yes me.
Carpe Diem
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As Little AS Possible
Posted by Sean on March 17, 2009
Another ‘new’ study is giving society yet another excuse. Giving our obese nation more fuel to fire the ‘as little as possible’ attitude that continues to infect John Q. Public.
A new study finds that people who walk to keep in shape can achieve the right intensity if they take at least 100 steps a minute.
A pace of 100 steps a minute or more, they calculated, was enough for the workout to be considered of moderate intensity.
‘at least’
‘enough’
This is the root of the problem.
Instead of trying to purport more, more, more. We are conducting studies to rationalize less, less, less.
Carpe Diem
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Are You a Morning Person?
Posted by Sean on March 3, 2009
Image Source : NYTimes
I’m a morning person. But my exercising is NOT. I somehow cannot get my ‘exercise on’ until late morning or early afternoon no matter how hard I try, no matter how hard I plan.
Seems that I’m not alone according to the New York Times this morning.
How about you?
Carpe Diem
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You are NEVER too old
Posted by Sean on January 19, 2009
This woman is 72 years old! It’s of course in a foreign language, but just take a look at her!
Is that not motivation?!
Courtesy of http://www.straighttothebar.com
via Straight to the Bar ( straighttothebar.com ) on 1/19/09
72-year-old Svenska Wanja showing the value of training at any age. Nice one.
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Easy There.. Comeback Kid!
Posted by Sean on December 17, 2008
Yep we have all been there.
We hate to admit it, but we’re all going to be there at some point in our lives.
On the comeback trail.
Are you out of shape?
Have you been laid up?
Were you sick?
Were you injured?
Or maybe you’ve just been out of the ‘game’ for ‘just a spell’. (just a spell = years)
For me, it happened right out of high school, then again during college, and still again 2 years ago.
We lose our edge, and some how we slow down.. and …. we … become… out… of…. shape.
For most of us, life just simply got busy. For me, I was the former athlete turned healthcare professional.
No matter how you got there, you’re now in the same boat as everyone else. You’re making a comeback. You’re wanting to get back ‘into it’.
Whether it be exercising in general, or a more specific activity, we all make the same stupid mistake. 
For some reason we think our aging, un-taxed, un-tested bodies will perform the same way ‘we remember’ no matter what we’ve not been been doing!
Why do we blindly ‘pick up where we left off’?. Even if the time frame ‘left off’ is dated years back?
Time and time again, we’re stubborn and idiotic enough to run, jump, push, pull, twist, turn and lift our bodies in a previous manner thinking just because we could do it once before at some point in our lives we can do it now.
Reality has a funny way of teaching us a lesson about our bodies. The lesson is usually painful, agonizing, and riddled with injury.
So instead of feeling good about ourselves because we’re ‘back in the game’. We’re using extremely colorful language to describe how ‘great’ we feel, and how ‘genius’ of an idea this whole ‘game’ really is.
All you comeback kids out there, listen up.
Start SLOWWWWWW. In fact, start SO slow that you don’t even feel like you’re in motion. Make your progression embarrassingly slow. You’ll be glad you did.
It’s better to move in a forward manner at a slow pace, then to blast forward initially and have your progress halted by pain and injury.
Slow is better than stop.
Carpe Diem
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