A few years ago I found a quote from a guy named Og Mandingo. I had no idea who or what he was but it struck me and hence the name of the blog. The link to quote is here. At the time I was (and still am) very focused on triathlon and training along with life in general and the quote spoke to me about how it is really up to us about how we choose to live our life, the fact that if we want something it is us that needs to go out and get it, that no one (or anything) has the ability to create happiness for us.... and so I sweated and cursed and bled.
And now many years later I am embracing my Atheism and have seen this quote as a building block towards this. I have never been religious...EVER... I have been lucky to miss the taint. Both my parents had religion forced on them but they made the choice not to do the same to their two sons, that they would allow us to find our own path.
I refuse to believe we are not the controllers of our destiny or more importantly that some unknown, unproven deity is. From a pseudoscience point of view all things point to the non-existence of a God.
In essence I refuse to be a sheep of belief of a fairytale figure that rules peoples lives through threats and human interpretation of a story not even written at the time of that figures existance, that these same sheep believe we are only a few thousand years old, that in this vast cosmos we are the only sentient beings and that it is all for us.
Refuse the Sheep.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Another New Beginning
Its obviously that time for an annual update of my stunning lack of anything :D Things haven't been that dire really but there hasn't been any consistent push of physical exercise. Saying that for the last 5 weeks I've been running every second day and for the last 3 weeks I've been using my new TRX Force. Its been good, good enough to use it consistently for the three weeks and even better my core stability feels much stronger.
Disappointingly I've not lost a whole lot of weight, a couple of kilos at most, but I am going to not focus on that so much as taking measurements of bicep-chest-waist-hip-thigh.
Last night was the first measurement
It could have been much worse, in so far as my waist is smaller than my hips.
My actual WHR is 0.974 and my BMI is 30.336.
So it correlates to say I am carrying more abdominal fat than I should or in the case of the BMI i am 0.336 into the Moderately Obese range.. always makes you feel happy to hear that...
Ok enough of the flogging, the plan is to try and get to my BMI (-1 BMI = -3.72kg) by my 40th birthday in December.. not looking too great at the moment but just keep trying, I'll get there. If I can manage that then it will work for my two other goals for 2013/14 - to do accelerated freefall parachute jump and to run a marathon.
Disappointingly I've not lost a whole lot of weight, a couple of kilos at most, but I am going to not focus on that so much as taking measurements of bicep-chest-waist-hip-thigh.
Last night was the first measurement
- Bicep 49cm
- Chest 119cm
- Waist 116cm
- Hips 119cm
- Thigh 70cm
It could have been much worse, in so far as my waist is smaller than my hips.
My actual WHR is 0.974 and my BMI is 30.336.
So it correlates to say I am carrying more abdominal fat than I should or in the case of the BMI i am 0.336 into the Moderately Obese range.. always makes you feel happy to hear that...
Ok enough of the flogging, the plan is to try and get to my BMI (-1 BMI = -3.72kg) by my 40th birthday in December.. not looking too great at the moment but just keep trying, I'll get there. If I can manage that then it will work for my two other goals for 2013/14 - to do accelerated freefall parachute jump and to run a marathon.
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