Workout FAIL
June was a month of vacation, travel, celebration, and gluttony so it’s no big surprise. July will be better!On the weekend, I built a lat pull down station to help me build up to my first pull up. I figure this is probably the best way to go about this (doing the actual movements with the right muscles in the proper orientation). If I hadn’t kept trying to cheap out of it and just done it in January, I’d be doing pull ups by now.
Here are the results, and don’t forget to track my progress for the year on the Goal Tracker page.
June 30, 2009
Pullups goal: 11 (actual: 0)
Pushups goal: 60 (actual: 51)
Waist around navel: 36” (actual: 36.5” )
Canadian, eh?
CANADIAN.... Eh !
So, What Do We Canadians Have To Be Proud Of ?
1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.
4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll , ON
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Apple pie is Canadian
9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers
10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts
11. In the war of 1812, started by America , Canadians pushed the Americans back past their White House. Then we burned it, and most of Washington .. We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and partied........ Go figure.
12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER. (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.
16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
(That's more information than I need!)
19. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.
20. We don't marry our kin-folk (except maybe for Riders fans 
).
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis and the telephone. Also short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
23. A Canadian invented Superman.
24. We have coloured money.
25. Our beer advertisements kick ass {Incidently...so does our beer}
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
OOOoohhhhh.... Canada !!
Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.
There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic
There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic
Epidemiologists (scientists who study the incidence and occurrences of disease) agree on one thing - there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic.
An epidemic is when a certain disease rate within a population surges above normal rates. The most famous examples are the plagues of the dark ages or the flu of 1918.
What epidemiologists have found is that disorders with a true genetic cause such as Down Syndrome, Tay-Sachs, etc... have a common rate over history. In other words, the rates at which people are stricken stays within a normal, narrow range.
So why are we to believe that diseases whose rates are skyrocketing in the new millennium are due to genetics? Autism, cancer, heart disease, even diabetes and obesity are being blamed on our parents! Not sure why you have cancer? Must be bad genes. Depressed? Bad genes. Heart disease? Bad genes. Diabetes? It wasn’t your lifestyle; it must have been bad genes. The reality is that whenever the medical community has no answers, it blames your genes.
The real answers are coming out. The Canadian Cancer Society admits that a vast majority of cancers is caused by lifestyle. Smoking, bad fats, even the known carcinogens in our water and personal care products are causing tumours to grow. A report released by the Breast Cancer Fund (http://www.breastcancerfund.org) found that there is strong evidence that the chemicals in our lotions, soaps, and shampoos are causing the increased cancer rates in men, women, and children.
There is plenty you can do to avoid lifestyle diseases. Here’s a list:
- Change bad fats to good fats in your diet
- Cut out sugar and white flour
- Quit smoking
- Exercise! Do something - anything!
- Change to personal care products that are chemical free (http://www.chooseorganics.com)
- Get adjusted to boost your immune system and overall level of health