Discipline

I do what I can with what I have.

I'm friendly but I keep to myself unless engaged. There were three gals talking in the weightroom area. I had done cardio, warmed up the rotator cuff and had already done a delts circuit. I was on my second heavy set, minding my own business, when Carol showed this new gal her squat form... pushing up her chest and back her butt... and I lost concentration completely. After wasting time at the treadmill until they left, I went back for my last remaining power sets and finished my heavy workout in perfect form, without injury.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust my sail. To adjust, I withdrew.

I also love real chocolate ice cream but I can't have any and haven't had any in years. I'm still in irrational love with The Ex, but withdrew there too... I will not have anything to do with her, and haven't in years... after shedding many a tear. I can't choose how I feel but I can choose what I do about it.

Life's all about accepting and exerting self-control, which is no easy feat sometimes. How else would you live this day?


- © 2010 by Willy

Who Needs Anybody?

Need to bring in a 4'x4' 100-lb Easy Chair, solo? Who needs anybody! Watch this...
























As easy as rolling a box! Next watch me get in a new 7-foot 200-lb sofa. Hoooaaah! Who needs help? Solo is GOOD!

- © 2008 by Willy
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Outlive The Bitches?

You've surely heard the story of the 98-year old lady who, when asked by her preacher what her secret was for not needing to forgive her enemies, remarked that she had outlived the bitches.

There was a Time magazine article earlier this year that presented Worry and Stress from risk based upon number of fatalities. The bottom line was that we shouldn't worry about dying in a car wreck, where only 40,000 of us die yearly in this country, but we should indeed worry about cardiovascular disease and cancer, where 1.2 million a year of us die (30 times more). And we can minimize this risk with a healthy diet and daily exercise.

We've all know for years that being fat and out of shape increases risk for heart attacks and strokes, but this week a superstudy (a study of 7,000 cancer studies) stated that there is direct correlation between overweight and cancer... you lower the risk of cancer 20% by reducing your weight by just 10 pounds! Wow!

My old buddy Mike divorced a few years ago. They have a life insurance policy that would pay off to the surviving ex-spouse. He is trying his darnest to live a clean and fit life so that his ex-spouse can't profit from his death.

Even though I'm all about quality of life as compared to quantity, these two do correlate, like it or not.

I may end up doing like that little old lady, and my friend Mike, only because I do plan on continuing to get more fit, eat a better diet, do consistent daily exercise, continue support groups, read more comedy, and give up stressful people. Thus I might end up outliving the bitches and aholes as a side effect.

Might even remember who they were.

If I do, I will dance on their graves.

- © 2007 by Willy
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Cardio

Of course, losing 40 pounds earlier this year makes a huge difference in how I feel (there is less huffing and puffing, I move faster, etc), but also quantitatively, in my heartbeat, my ride speed and my distance. My heartbeat, given a specific load, has dropped 20 beats! I can't reach my old max heartbeat (165) any more... I seem to be muscle-limited now rather than lung-limited for the same perceived exertion. My ride speed increased 2 mph average on bike commutes, and my long-and-slow Sunday ride miles have doubled.

I do plan to continue this weight loss to drop maybe 10 more pounds... the fat atop my abs... but not at the expense of my hard-earned muscles. I've just now, months later, gotten back to the weights I had been pushing.

So, the plateau being over, it's time to drop more weight... get back to the diet and get serious again on cardio... I am going to add more gym cardio machines to my bike commute, because I can better gauge progress or get a metric with them, since I don't want to overdo it. I am also dangling that new-bike carrot, and my goal is to ride solo a week, credit card ultralight, maybe to the beach.

Hope you're having a great day!

-©2007 by Willy
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