I was reading this article on obesity, and how it was talking about how pushing obese people to exercise is counter-productive. I agree, to a point yes, it is. Abusing people because of how they look, how much they weigh etc etc, is wrong. I accept that.
But, there is a point where I have to disagree. If a doctor, who has a clinically obese person in their care, and doesn't say "hey listen, if you keep this up, you are only going to live 5 more years", if that person dies in five years, the first person that gets the blame is the doctor. Lawsuits ensue and then boom, doctors are more afraid to talk to their patients.
What I can't comprehend, is that if someone is obese and is unhappy with it, they eat more, get more obese rinse and repeat. Where, or when does that little voice in the back of your head fire, and say.. Hey, I am dying here, help me, let's do this!"? I honestly, just can't fathom this. Where is the point, that you say enough is enough. If someone was hitting you, sooner or later you give in and hit back, fight, or attempt to survive long enough to get assistance. Yet, when we abuse our own bodies, we are okay with it, yet as soon as the help arrives in someone saying, you are unhappy, why are you doing this, people take it as an assault on their freedoms. Yes, I know a lot of people are not nice about it. I have been on the receiving end of it as well. I can now say, that I have taken my shirt off in public during the heat MANY times in the last few years, yes, even when I weighed 175lbs much of that being belly fat, and was good with people looking at my back, after many years of abuse from normals, but you know what, if there was an exercise I could do, or a diet I could go on to correct it, I would be all over it like a bear over salmon. I would work my arse off to achieve flatback status, just so I could go swimming without drowning, to show off my hidden eight pack... it is only a 4 and a bit pack due to scoliosis, but fuck, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Which gets me to the point. There is nothing standing in the way of someone who is obese due to poor living habits other than themselves. I sympathise with them more for not finding that inner fire to do something about it than anything else. It amazes me, the things that we will do to ourselves, and allow others to enable us to do ourselves, yet we get our pets checkups, give them the right food, make sure they have room to run around in to burn off their energy, get angry at people feeding infants unhealthy food, yet, we don't get angry at ourselves. Humanity is fucked up. We have become so used to a life of comfort, instant gratification and ease of access to just about everything going on around us, that we have become nothing more than a bloated plague of wasps devouring every source of food around us, while others starve or struggle to find clean water. That in itself is cruelty and abuse.
Yes, these are not what people want to hear, but really folks, we only have ourselves to blame for things that happen to us, when we have the ability to stop it with a concious thought or action. No-one but ourselves.
24 April 2011
23 April 2011
The Internet...
Is a very strange and sometimes nasty thing.
Occasionally, it shows us some very beneficial stuff, and today that stuff is BodyRock Television. This link was posted as a conversation piece by two of my FB friends, and then Paula got her hands on the link.
Ok, I am honest, my first thought.. was daaaammmmmnn!! That is HAWT! It is pretty much how girls should look in their sports wear. (I know I am going to take hate for that, but sorry, if you have several muffin tops, Lululemon is not for you if you want to wear it as casual wear. Further in though, I actually started watching what the exercises were like, and all I could say is that she definitely has worked hard for it. I think Paula has become a fan, and is now going to most probably give up her gym membership. I unfortunately can't do much of the stuff in there, but I will be looking for the things that I can do and try and incorporate those into my work out. Go on, check it out, if not for the exercise, just the view alone is worth it.
Enjoy you day, rest, or even do some exercise.
Occasionally, it shows us some very beneficial stuff, and today that stuff is BodyRock Television. This link was posted as a conversation piece by two of my FB friends, and then Paula got her hands on the link.
Ok, I am honest, my first thought.. was daaaammmmmnn!! That is HAWT! It is pretty much how girls should look in their sports wear. (I know I am going to take hate for that, but sorry, if you have several muffin tops, Lululemon is not for you if you want to wear it as casual wear. Further in though, I actually started watching what the exercises were like, and all I could say is that she definitely has worked hard for it. I think Paula has become a fan, and is now going to most probably give up her gym membership. I unfortunately can't do much of the stuff in there, but I will be looking for the things that I can do and try and incorporate those into my work out. Go on, check it out, if not for the exercise, just the view alone is worth it.
Enjoy you day, rest, or even do some exercise.
21 April 2011
Nothing Fitnessy today!
Ok, today is going to be a bit about Nerdery, and I even promise I won't rant about the toilet issue yesterday!
Ok, just started reading a great series by Markus Heitz called The Dwarves. I have been having a fantastic read on this series. It is like reading Tolkien, but without the feeling like you are walking through brain jelly. The book is fast paced and pretty entertaining. The character dynamics are worth the read alone. I have never seen such a weird blend of characters duking it out against all odds like this one before. I have just started reading his second book The War Of The Dwarves, but unfortunately haven't gotten anywhere in it yet, as Paula banned me from reading for a few days so I could "sleep properly". I blame the author, and my boss for keeping me up until 2 in the morning two days in a row.
Ok, if any of you can find it, easy if you live in the UK, just go down to some of the big arse book chains in London, you can find a few compendiums of HP Lovecraft. The one I am reading is The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories!. This series is fantastic. I do recommend that you stop reading around 9 at night. For some reason, it really messed up my sleep for a few days, when I was reading it til 11pm. It has NOTHING to do with Dogon and a town of fish people intruding unwantedly in my dreams WHATSOEVER!!
Also on the go right now is Mass Effect: Retribution. I have read a bit of a way in, and I must say it does tie the game in quite well. These books are desgined to be read with the game and the Comic series. This all culminates in the final installment of the game Mass Effect 3 which, this link points to ME2 as there is not a full site up for it yet.
Well folks, I know it wasn't filled with fitness stuff today, but you do have to embrace the inner nerd sometimes, so I did lol. Please, definitely get your hands on a copy of the Dwarves series... fantastic read. I can't wait for more!
Ok, just started reading a great series by Markus Heitz called The Dwarves. I have been having a fantastic read on this series. It is like reading Tolkien, but without the feeling like you are walking through brain jelly. The book is fast paced and pretty entertaining. The character dynamics are worth the read alone. I have never seen such a weird blend of characters duking it out against all odds like this one before. I have just started reading his second book The War Of The Dwarves, but unfortunately haven't gotten anywhere in it yet, as Paula banned me from reading for a few days so I could "sleep properly". I blame the author, and my boss for keeping me up until 2 in the morning two days in a row.
Ok, if any of you can find it, easy if you live in the UK, just go down to some of the big arse book chains in London, you can find a few compendiums of HP Lovecraft. The one I am reading is The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories!. This series is fantastic. I do recommend that you stop reading around 9 at night. For some reason, it really messed up my sleep for a few days, when I was reading it til 11pm. It has NOTHING to do with Dogon and a town of fish people intruding unwantedly in my dreams WHATSOEVER!!
Also on the go right now is Mass Effect: Retribution. I have read a bit of a way in, and I must say it does tie the game in quite well. These books are desgined to be read with the game and the Comic series. This all culminates in the final installment of the game Mass Effect 3 which, this link points to ME2 as there is not a full site up for it yet.
Well folks, I know it wasn't filled with fitness stuff today, but you do have to embrace the inner nerd sometimes, so I did lol. Please, definitely get your hands on a copy of the Dwarves series... fantastic read. I can't wait for more!
15 April 2011
The Rotor Cuff, or Rotator Cuff...either way..
That freaking thing can hurt.
Having the good ol' Kyphosis thing going on, brought about a few interesting points. First thing that came to mind, was an interesting article by a good friend, and probably one of the best rehabilitation/athletic personal trainers I have met. Dean Somerset, you can find him here wrote this little gem on Scapular Stability. Now, don't hate him for the little picture of the banjo boy from Deliverance, I think he has a fetish of finding terrifying images, but the article that can be found here is awesome. Why I link this, is for several reasons:
A: With spinal injuries/deformations, it changes the position of your scapula which then changes how your muscles direct your scapula across the range of motion of a regular shoulder movement. The main problem here, is that with either the injury or a deformation, certain movements if not supported correctly can actually lead to a worse injury, then you just snowball downhill from there.
B: A lot of people these days tend to do the whole desk jockey thing. Now, I know some good desk jockey's and Paula, who is a prime example here. Before working out, I think she had around 7 visits to the chiro. It helped to a certain degree, but just wasn't helping enough. She had a few years of competitive rythmic gymnastics under her belt, or scapula to be more precise, and had a terrible weakness in it. As Dean would say, she had, if she wanted to do it, winged shoulder blades. This is where the muscle is weak enough, that your scapula move to the absolute bottom of their range of motion, and "wing". Now, when Paula started at the gym, and actually started using TRX FORCE PACK, she had a rapid gain in muscle tone over about 5 weeks or so, and started noticing a significant increase in her posture as well as her shoulder strength.
So, my theory is, that because of the scapular placement due to the scoliosis, which is the same reason I can no longer swim freestyle, that my rotator cuff is going to be the thing to watch.. my next article, I will tell you about other parts of the back and how the function/dysfunction with scoliosis/kyphosis can be assisted with a good series of workouts.
Having the good ol' Kyphosis thing going on, brought about a few interesting points. First thing that came to mind, was an interesting article by a good friend, and probably one of the best rehabilitation/athletic personal trainers I have met. Dean Somerset, you can find him here wrote this little gem on Scapular Stability. Now, don't hate him for the little picture of the banjo boy from Deliverance, I think he has a fetish of finding terrifying images, but the article that can be found here is awesome. Why I link this, is for several reasons:
A: With spinal injuries/deformations, it changes the position of your scapula which then changes how your muscles direct your scapula across the range of motion of a regular shoulder movement. The main problem here, is that with either the injury or a deformation, certain movements if not supported correctly can actually lead to a worse injury, then you just snowball downhill from there.
B: A lot of people these days tend to do the whole desk jockey thing. Now, I know some good desk jockey's and Paula, who is a prime example here. Before working out, I think she had around 7 visits to the chiro. It helped to a certain degree, but just wasn't helping enough. She had a few years of competitive rythmic gymnastics under her belt, or scapula to be more precise, and had a terrible weakness in it. As Dean would say, she had, if she wanted to do it, winged shoulder blades. This is where the muscle is weak enough, that your scapula move to the absolute bottom of their range of motion, and "wing". Now, when Paula started at the gym, and actually started using TRX FORCE PACK, she had a rapid gain in muscle tone over about 5 weeks or so, and started noticing a significant increase in her posture as well as her shoulder strength.
So, my theory is, that because of the scapular placement due to the scoliosis, which is the same reason I can no longer swim freestyle, that my rotator cuff is going to be the thing to watch.. my next article, I will tell you about other parts of the back and how the function/dysfunction with scoliosis/kyphosis can be assisted with a good series of workouts.
07 April 2011
Facebook...
Apparently, I can no longer post my blog on facebook, because someone either reported it as abusive, or apparently I have spammed it. 11 blogs is spamming, whereas a friend of mine posted a link for the last year EVERYDAY, and his blog is still there. Could the populace be jealous of the bicep, or could it be that somewhere, I hit a nerve?
A Sentence of Awesomeness, and then a rant!
Today, I topped out at 15 reps, on my 4th set of Seated Calf Raises, at an awesome 275lbs. 33 more lbs, and I am then pressing 2 of me! Isn't that cool?!?! Yeah you know it is.
Now, for my rant, I hope this picture will give you a rough idea.
Book Banning and Burning
Book banning and burning, has long been a tradition held by extreme elements of society, to stop either the progression of thought (ie the dark ages), the progression of heresy (the Spanish Inquisition had many of these), the destruction of an old ideal, to forge a new identity (Nazi Germany and the Holocaust), right wing religious nutjobs who think that books will turn their children into Satanic little wizards, running around spewing anti-capitalist, pro homosexuality little hellions that will destroy the very fabric of society (ie, the Christian Right and the Taliban).
See what I did in that last sentence? Yes, you did, didn't you? I put the Southern Baptist Tea Party supporting Republican nutjobs, and their big foe, the Taliban on the same footing. Yes, folks, you read it here first! Or maybe you didn't. But this is my rant and not someone elses, so I declared it first, on my blog!
When I was growing up, books were something to be treasured. Before I had left highschool, I think I had read nearly 75% of books, that certain zealots would have you never lay eyes on again, because they cover things like open thought, friendship, homosexuality, mistrust of governance, self reliance, and oh, heaven's forbid, Allegory and thought through subversive means of animal's acting out things that humans die over on a daily basis, Free Thought and Speech. I know, totally shocking isn't it? Well, to some people, yes it is. I think I had read all of the Richard Blade books by grade 8, I always liked how the hero would end up getting laid at lest three times a book, and often wondered if real life hero's got the same treatment. Then, I started reading the bad books. 1984 by George Orwell. Fantastic book. Scary, in the fact that I see it happening around me. Animal Farm, was another awesome Orwell novel. The brave sheep, the caniving super intelligent pigs. The loyal Clydesdale, they all had their place in the perfect socialist utopia, but found out that it all ends up in the hands of one person. If you ARE looking for the perfect Socialist Utopia, I have a few ideas, and an avid interest in a small nationstate. Feel free to apply.
But what this all really boils down to is this, there are people in the world, who get a small amount of power *cough* library and schoolboards. These are usually dominated by people who have a self-professed air of righteousness, and feel that by informing children of reading age, that they can learn to have a voice, will turn them into little wand waving Satanists, and not the good little citizens that Cold War Democratic America strived for. People, this is scary shit. Really scary. So instead of children learning morals and guidance from actual anecdotal books, like Huck Finn (he stuck up for the slave kid remember), or Animal Farm, which taught you that while there is someone who says they are looking out for you, really, you should start to work together and look out for eachother.
If there is anything that they should try and ban, is governments spending less of their GDP on blowing other people up, because you want their shit, and more on spending people how to read, learn and make the world a better place. Remember, for every dollar you take out of education, you are removing a chance that a child may learn that they want to be the one doctor that will cure cancer, or HIV. Or they may find a way to increase crop yields safely so that no kid will go to bed with an empty stomach. And logic forbid, that through reading, that they may realize, that being in control of one's emotions, and thoughts and actions, you may not need the Tea Kettle in the orbit between the Moon and Mars threatening to poor hot spicy tea on your head because you did something bad, and actually say "Hey, I did something wrong, and I appologize. What can I do to fix it?". You know, human's just might grow a little more if we read a fucking book. READ "BANNED" BOOKS people, and learn.
Now, for my rant, I hope this picture will give you a rough idea.
Book Banning and Burning
Book banning and burning, has long been a tradition held by extreme elements of society, to stop either the progression of thought (ie the dark ages), the progression of heresy (the Spanish Inquisition had many of these), the destruction of an old ideal, to forge a new identity (Nazi Germany and the Holocaust), right wing religious nutjobs who think that books will turn their children into Satanic little wizards, running around spewing anti-capitalist, pro homosexuality little hellions that will destroy the very fabric of society (ie, the Christian Right and the Taliban).
See what I did in that last sentence? Yes, you did, didn't you? I put the Southern Baptist Tea Party supporting Republican nutjobs, and their big foe, the Taliban on the same footing. Yes, folks, you read it here first! Or maybe you didn't. But this is my rant and not someone elses, so I declared it first, on my blog!
When I was growing up, books were something to be treasured. Before I had left highschool, I think I had read nearly 75% of books, that certain zealots would have you never lay eyes on again, because they cover things like open thought, friendship, homosexuality, mistrust of governance, self reliance, and oh, heaven's forbid, Allegory and thought through subversive means of animal's acting out things that humans die over on a daily basis, Free Thought and Speech. I know, totally shocking isn't it? Well, to some people, yes it is. I think I had read all of the Richard Blade books by grade 8, I always liked how the hero would end up getting laid at lest three times a book, and often wondered if real life hero's got the same treatment. Then, I started reading the bad books. 1984 by George Orwell. Fantastic book. Scary, in the fact that I see it happening around me. Animal Farm, was another awesome Orwell novel. The brave sheep, the caniving super intelligent pigs. The loyal Clydesdale, they all had their place in the perfect socialist utopia, but found out that it all ends up in the hands of one person. If you ARE looking for the perfect Socialist Utopia, I have a few ideas, and an avid interest in a small nationstate. Feel free to apply.
But what this all really boils down to is this, there are people in the world, who get a small amount of power *cough* library and schoolboards. These are usually dominated by people who have a self-professed air of righteousness, and feel that by informing children of reading age, that they can learn to have a voice, will turn them into little wand waving Satanists, and not the good little citizens that Cold War Democratic America strived for. People, this is scary shit. Really scary. So instead of children learning morals and guidance from actual anecdotal books, like Huck Finn (he stuck up for the slave kid remember), or Animal Farm, which taught you that while there is someone who says they are looking out for you, really, you should start to work together and look out for eachother.
If there is anything that they should try and ban, is governments spending less of their GDP on blowing other people up, because you want their shit, and more on spending people how to read, learn and make the world a better place. Remember, for every dollar you take out of education, you are removing a chance that a child may learn that they want to be the one doctor that will cure cancer, or HIV. Or they may find a way to increase crop yields safely so that no kid will go to bed with an empty stomach. And logic forbid, that through reading, that they may realize, that being in control of one's emotions, and thoughts and actions, you may not need the Tea Kettle in the orbit between the Moon and Mars threatening to poor hot spicy tea on your head because you did something bad, and actually say "Hey, I did something wrong, and I appologize. What can I do to fix it?". You know, human's just might grow a little more if we read a fucking book. READ "BANNED" BOOKS people, and learn.
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