I know most blogs are interesting when they talk about personal stuff rather than just giving out links to cool/funny stuff. So here’s an update on me: I have a cold, my throat is totally sore and it’s annoying.
Wow, it feels to get that out in the open.
There’s no doubt that The Daily Show is one of the smartest, funniest shows ever produced on television. They have made parody into a high art.
What, you need some proof?
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I managed to see Shaun of the Dead already. The trailer really piqued my interest (as it should yours) and I went into watching it thinking it’d be a funny zombie movie.
And it was. What I didn’t expect was it to be such a GREAT funny zombie movie. There are some real “moments” in this film where the reality of how horrible your community being overrun by zombies is, which are gloriously offset by the absurdity of it all.
The movie releases in North America on September 24th, and I can’t say enough about how great it is, and how everyone should see it as soon as possible.
It’s funny how you get a bit of elitism after you learn how to do something properly. When I’m at the gym I can’t help but notice what I call “tourists”. These are the people that walk in without a plan and get nearly nothing worthwhile done. They seem to think that if they do a tiny bit of a workout on each machine and do several different cardios for about three minutes, it’s all good.
Don’t get me wrong — I get cross-training. That’s not what these tourists are doing. They’ll come in and get on a stationary bike on the lowest level and bike for about five minutes. They don’t sweat and their heart rate barely increases. Then they get off and stand around for a bit looking for another machine to go to. Usually it’ll be a different cardio machine, like the treadmill. Then they’ll get on that for another 5 minutes, again on the lowest possible setting, again not sweating or raising their heart rate at all, and then they’ll get off. What follows after that is usually a half-hearted jumble of weightlifting stations on the lowest weight with a set of ten reps and then moving on.
They hit the gym, screw around for 15 minutes, and then leave. Ok, it’s better than not going to the gym at all and sitting on your fat ass, but what if they actually came in with a plan?
And that’s a huge strength of Body For Life — it gives you a plan. An extreme plan to be sure, but a good one. And you learn what you’re doing right simply by doing it.
Rant over.
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