Category Archives: Fitness

01.19.04
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Come Back (Light Therapy)

I’ve been back for 22 hours now – it was an all-day trek and then some to get back from Miami, and I’ll have more fun to explain tomorrow. My system is right off its rocker because I was going to bed at 3AM every night on the cruise, so here it is 1:30 and I’m not tired yet. Gotta get back in the groove.

Thanks to Cliff and Alex for posting while I was gone. My comments after a brief once-over:

a) Cliff, the water on yet?

b) I have no use for NASA in general. Can someone tell me exactly why we’re still allowing our tax dollars to go towards useless trips into outer space? Unless we’re planning some sort of simultaneous jump to Mars when the Earth starts to burn up I fail to see how this is more valid than health care, education, or me owning a PlayStation 2.

c) The Atkins Diet is crap. Alex’s opinion does not yet matter because he hasn’t been on it for over 12 months. Just because it helps you lose weight doesn’t necessarily make it good. For example, you could lose 25 lbs instantly by slicing off your head, although I wouldn’t recommend it. Eat smart, and eat less than you work off. I don’t agree with either “eat to live” or “live to eat”, but I’m pretty sure there’s a happy middle.

Most importantly..

SOMEBODY GO TO THE JAYHAWKS/JOSH ROUSE CONCERT WITH ME ON TUESDAY!

Cheers!

01.26.03
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Stockholm in a Flash

What? No responses to that fancy chocolate bar? I smuggle it uneaten back from Heathrow Airport and this is the thanks I get? Darn all of you! Darn you!

In other news, the Flash presentation for my Stockholm trip is now complete and available for your viewing pleasure in the Image & Video Gallery. It’s a shorter one than usual so I allowed the pictures to stay on the screen a bit longer, so you’ll all get a chance to see them a little bit longer. Hopefully you enjoy.

And, finally, the Weight Loss Challenge is finished with Rob Williams winning with a 2 point BMI loss, achieved via an 18 lb loss. He was closely followed by Alex and myself with a 1 point BMI loss – 10 lbs for Alex and, officially, 11 lbs for me. I say officially because I promptly gained 11 lbs at the start of the contest after my cruise, so my weight loss for the year actually came in at 22 lbs. Steve held steady, and unfortunately, our fifth entrant gained a BMI point.

I’m thinking I might keep the challenge going strictly for myself and update my personal progress over this year. The goal is another 29 lbs before January 2004.

Cheers!

10.29.02
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Zee Crunch Master!

Wow. I just got back from the gym, and although the physical weight loss isn’t where I was hoping it would be, something else interesting happened. I’m typically much more adept at weight training than cardio, I just feel more comfortable with a set of weights than I do running or biking on a stationary appliance. Today, I did my requisite walks/jogs around the track, not straining too hard because I’m still rehabbing the busted ankle. I moved on to the bike for 20 minutes and didn’t have much problem there. The ankle was starting to twitch and I figured best not to push it today and headed over the crunch machines to finish off my workout. Normally I can do quite a few crunches with breaks in between, but still find myself feeling the burn around 50 crunches. I’ll often push it to 100, take a break, do a couple more sets of 100 and head in.

Today, I did 500 straight, no break, and could have kept going. The only reason I stopped was because I was nervous that my pain receptors weren’t working and I’d feel it later, so I’m playing it be ear for now. 500 straight crunches seems to be an awful lot for someone who’s been lax with his gym visits in the last month. Hrm.. :/

Off to hit the showers. I don’t hit the gym showers for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the fear of not knowing what disease lies on the shower floor from previous users. I’d rather take the quick trip home and jump in one I’m familiar with, y’know?

Season premiere of 24 tonight, and I expect everyone to watch. If you missed it last season, you missed the best show on TV for sure. It takes place in real time – 24 60-minute episodes that represent 24 hours in the lives of the characters. Tonight’s episode runs in real-time, commercial free, on FOX. Check it out.

Cheers!

07.26.02
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Oh. My. God. Obese Man

Oh. My. God.

Obese Man Sues Fast Food Chains

What part of the article do you like best? Is it: “They said ‘100 percent beef.’ I thought that meant it was good for you,” Barber told Newsday. “I thought the food was OK.” Perhaps you prefer “Those people in the advertisements don’t really tell you what’s in the food,” he said. “It’s all fat, fat and more fat. Now I’m obese.” Now let’s see those marketing wizards on Bay Street come up with a catchy slogan for that! I can’t even begin to tell you how much it bothers me when people just refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. Caesar Barber is a corn-fed mouth-breather because he chose to shove his fat face full of greasy hamburgers and fries, and now he expects the courts to agree that anyone with brains above those of a tsetse fly could not realize that this food was bad for him. All because some wretched old battle-axe once won a lawsuit for spilling coffee on herself. Caesar, you’re fat because you choose to be fat. You’re not fat because Burger King threw your dimply arse on the floor and poured poutine down your throat. You’re not fat because Grimace and Hamburglar promised you riches untold for just one more Royale with Cheese. You’re fat because you’ve spent the last 50 years jamming crap down your pie hole in excessive quantities. In the amount of time it’s taken you to find a lawyer willing to soil their reputations at the hands of Dave Thomas’ Bacon Mushroom Melts you could have joined a gym and trimmed a few off the side.

Don’t mind me, every now and then a boy has to vent.

In other news, I tossed a quick design up for my buddy Alex so he can have his own blog. We’ll update it as time goes by – he wants something that looks like the Matrix. Right now, he has something that looks like a blog template. But he’s got a lot to say, bookmark it and check in now and then.

.. i think he went over here ..

Cheers,
Rick Jessup

06.25.02
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Another boring day of typing

Another boring day of typing and staring and typing and staring. I guess the good news is I had a good 90-100 minute session at the gym where I worked my shoulder at about 75% of my normal weight capacity and it held up quite well. A few pops and crackles but no deep pain to speak of so that made me happy. I really gave it a good workout – everytime I did something and it didn’t hurt I’d do something else to it. Good stuff.

In preparation for hopefully taking that cooking course that eluded me in April this September I’ve begun trying to cook fancy stuff again when Mar is home nights. Last night it was Cumin-crusted chicken soft tacos with cheddar-lime corn. The tacos turned out really well, and the corn should have been better, I got carried away with the lime. I love lime and can often get a bit carried away. It was a neat combo, though – next time I’m going to use less lime on the corn and try a dry white cheese, like blue. BTW, does anybody else take advantage of this time of year to only use corn on the cob? I love that stuff, I NEVER use frozen or canned corn in the summer months. Just soak them in the husks for a half hour or so and you can safely cook them on the BBQ or in the oven with the husks on and allow the sugars to caramelize inside. Trust me. :)

I bought some bleach for the fuzz I have left on my head, and then I realized if I go through with this I’m going to look like Flea from the RHCP. Hrm. I might do it anyways and keep the goatee dark so I look like a real freak.

Me tired go work now,
Rick Jessup