Lazy Days

My trainer had a baby boy this week so our sessions were postponed to allow them time to bond as a new family.  That was no excuse for me to skip exercising but I told myself I would wait until we rescheduled.  I continued to watch what I ate but made little to no effort in exercising that week.  I even awoke Saturday morning and decided it would be a lazy day.................

A brick workout is when you do one workout immediately after another.

Correctly setting your alarm clock is a very important thing.  A couple of Saturdays ago, I thought I had set up my clock to go off at 5:15am.  But when I woke up at 8, I looked to see if maybe just maybe I had overslept.  No in fact it was user error; I had inadvertently set it for 5:15pm.  So I had completely missed my brick* workout and post workout breakfast at our trainer’s place.  But I didn’t think to worry, I swiftly pulled up the gym calendar to see what they had on their schedule.  Quickly I found the Whipped class, which is kind of a boot camp where stations are arranged in the cardio room and everyone moves around.  You do all sorts of exercises; it’s a full body workout. 

For example, you could do a swim followed by a bike or a bike followed by a run. There is no special way you have to do a brick workout. However, the most effective brick workout is one that most resembles the race you will run. So more than likely you are better served doing a swim to bike or a bike to run brick workout for triathlon prep.

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Internet has changed the way we socialize

Every minute there something that needs our attention. Email, voicemail, text message, facebook,  the never ending list. The new generation has grown up being able to watch TV, update facebook, email on their laptops and chat to friends on the phone all at the same time (Multitasking). This is how technology has affected how we interact with other peoples.

We can say that our social lifestyles of today's center on the cell phone, it seems texting has become the normal way of communication. Texting has affected the phone's ability to be a social link between two people. Texting takes time, going back and forth, time that could have used to dial up your friend and talk to them, saving you a lot of fingers movement.

The Internet has changed our lives with television viewing.  Just as television changed the way that radio was listened to, the Internet has changed the way that we watch television. We can wait a day or two and watch the same program with no commercial on the internet, or if you wait a little longer you can watch on Netflix and see a complete season in one day, commercial free!

 The internet can be a good or a bad thing and needs to be used in moderation, like everything in life excess is never a good thing.

Deflated Water Wings

From an emotional distance, the backyard pool can waver like a mirage. That’s when my commitment to daily swimming fades like an old bathing suit. Anchored down by to do lists, my water wings feel deflated. Fortunately, I’m developing alternate routes to good health.
Here’s the strategy:

Stay shallow:  Swimming in the shallow end of the pool can offer the same health benefits as deep water laps. Likewise, small bursts of exercise can yield as much value as a longer session.

Run errands: Food or Fitness? That’s the choice I face when my schedule forces me to choose between shopping and swimming. Hint: In that battle of the bulge, the empty frig always wins! But if I walk or run to the store, the dry cleaner or other errand stops, I can fill the frig and my daily exercise quota.

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The Exercise Resolution

There are many things in life which we do on a regular basis. Things like eating, brushing our teeth, and driving just to name a few. We do these things with such regularity that we oftentimes run on autopilot and these activities become a force of habit. Although we do not take note of most of our regular habits there is one which would derive a great deal of benefit if we only practiced it consistently…Exercise. Exercise seems to be for us an unattainable goal at times. Something in which we have the best intentions when we start but we end up stopping only to gain an impetus to start again and stopping once more. This cycle continues for some time until we look back and say to ourselves, what progress have I achieved? I’ve been exercising for months now but I still don’t see any appreciable results……..

Media Use and Copyrights

New technologies, new challenges for us. The web, computers and digital equipment provide real time access to large data of information and knowledge. With today’s new technology we can send, copy, and digitize all kinds of data faster and easier than ever. This technology makes very attractive to us to download illegal material.
Illegal downloads seems convenient and inconspicuous, when is fact this is stealing other peoples work and property without their consent. Depriving the author/artist of income can become a larger problem for any industry. In the days of Napster we saw the income of the music industry decline day by day

We have a moral obligation to integrity and trust; every time we participate in an illegal download we are encouraging and contributing to piracy.
I found the following report on the web:
One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes. For copies of the report, please visit www.ipi.org.

So next time you are tempted to download something illegal think what are you contributing.