Here and there

I missed the gym yesterday because of a ridiculously long tech call.  As a result I did an EA Active workout.  I actually did the 20th and final  workout of the 30 day challenge.  The 30 day challenge is awesome, it’s too bad it took me 3 months to get it all done.  For various reasons I just have not had the time or motivation to workout an additional 20 times on top of  my already 5 day a week gym routine.  The last workout was tough as expected, especially on the lower body. 

I questioned the wisdom of having  jumping squats as the third exercise when my body was not really warmed up yet.  On top of that I was doing regular squats, squats with a hold and calf raise, rear lunges, front lunges, side lunges with a toe touch and the dreaded split lunge jumps.  I went through the challenge on medium difficulty, if you can complete it on hard level you are definitely no fitness slouch.  There is no mercy.  

I wanted to mention something odd about Transformers 2.  In one section Shia LeBouf is being seduced by a hot college co-ed.  Well at one point she has him pinned on a bed and all of a sudden a big metallic tail came out from under her dress and she attacks him with it just as Megan Fox showed up.  This made zero sense.  Never has a transformer had the ability to become a human being made of flesh? They have always been MECHANICAL beings that turn into machines.  It was really out of place as for a moment I thought I was seeing a skin job from Battlestar Galactica.    This was really a disservice to the hardcore Transformer community in my opinion.  Everyone knows Transformers can NOT transform into humans.

Have you ever heard of people that treat symptoms instead of problems?  Doctors and especially pharmaceutical companies LOVE these type of individuals, hell they try to breed them.  The game works like this.  People willingly abuse their bodies via smoking, overeating or lack of exercise (or any combination) and as a result they develop health conditions.  The pharmaceutical companies then will happily swoop in and give you a miracle pill to treat the symptoms of your ailment.  In their ideal world people will simple continue to abuse their bodies so they continue to suffer the symptoms so they can profit as a end result.

To me, it’s pure insanity for someone to rely on a plethora of pills to maintain their day to day existence when they could simply work on the real source of the problem and address it directly.  I mean really, wtf?  If you kept hitting your hand with a hammer every day would you continue the behavior and just keep taking pain pills for the pain or would you stop swinging the hammer? (or at least get some better aim) 

Of course as much is in life, it comes down to convenience/laziness.  It is far easier in many peoples minds to just take some pills than to change a lifestyle that they deem comfortable.

It’s a dreadful cycle that has been exploding over recent years.  Self responsibility becomes trivialized when you can rely on modern medicine to keep you alive despite your best efforts to the contrary.