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Well thank you, young word.smith
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 17, 2006 at 4:49 AM
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Pat
I'm sure I'll work it out one day, Pat, but for the time being, I'll keep practising.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 17, 2006 at 4:48 AM
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Hmmm....I think you managed a-okay!
posted by
word.smith
on August 16, 2006 at 2:35 PM
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Oh, yes, John...
it's a puzzler, all right -- how to get all that into one neatly wrapped ball of Blog. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on August 16, 2006 at 10:08 AM
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Blanche01
Attempt 5. I begin with 5 minutes of warm up on the bike and continue with 25 minutes of cardio on the bike. I am just keeping fit, Blanche so I can't really help you with weight loss. You would have to consult an expert (there are plenty online!) It depends a lot on from where you wanted to lose the weight.
My trainer had me doing 2 reps of 15 each starting with the lowest weights and gradually - over weeks and weeks - increasing the weight. I don't do the elliptical or the walking machines, but I know that most of the women who come in use them - looks too much like hard work to me.
Altogether, if we aren't socializing too much, I do 8 exercises, excluding the bike. When I'm doing that, Ell is doing aqua fitness in the pool. I think she works a damn sight harder than I do.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 15, 2006 at 6:38 AM
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Blanche01
I've written a reply 3 times, Blanche but the machine keeps crashing just before I post it. So I'm calling it a day and letting it cool down. Good night and sleep tight.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 7:52 PM
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Azur
I appreciate that it isn't possible, or sensible, to use something which has happened just because it has happened. Sometimes an anecdote can be used in a different situation but most of them are deleted in a larger work, and the ones which are used (that would be the best ones) are tight and will be even tighter. I'm glad you liked it.
One of my biggest problems is turning left onto a main two way road - at night. In the UK the edges of the road are delineated by yellow lines. Here, the yellow lines are in the centre of the road. I still tend, when I see the yellow line, to swerve to the the left of it because I think I am overshooting the road. Never mind, I'll get it right one day.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 6:57 PM
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JohnMcnab, I like the mishmash appraoch, just throw it all out there,
Segues are for wimps is a friend's motto! (Mine is: try to keep up!). Okay, I'm being facetious, I know good writing depends on clarity, but getting to that clarity for me involves a lot of wading through muddles puddles.
Anyway, I was going to ask a serious question about gyms, since I'm sort of overwhelmed to go back after my initial foray. There are bazillion repetition machines and the trainers are adamant that they will not help anyone who doesn't pay, so after do I do the cardio, which in my case is the elliptical, then what? This is where actually working of the muscles rather than concentrating on the machine and thinking about it comes into play (lol, TAPS). Where do you begin?
posted by
Blanche.
on August 14, 2006 at 6:06 PM
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Taps
I'm laughing at the fact that you were, and still are, laughing. It is really good for my ego to read comments like yours, Taps. Enjoy.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 6:00 PM
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DarkeThoughts
Now there is a great idea. I wonder if I could try it on a newcomer to the fitness room. Can you imagine? 'No, my dear, you don't have to
do anything. Just sit there and concentrate on the machine. Your brain will send signals to your muscles telling them that they are being exercised. Have a look around you. Can you see anybody actually working?'
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 5:57 PM
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mneme
I quite liked bincocular, mneme. As for the driving in a different country, it is the turning left at traffic lights that gets me - and my right arm getting sunburned instead of my left arm
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 5:54 PM
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mneme
It was a pleasure, mneme. I've done both of those things as well.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 5:51 PM
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fourcats
LOL at your friend helping the gymnasts. The guys at my fitness centre, when I'm cycling, offer to give me a ride and ask me when I'm going to get to my destination. I like the movie anecdote.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 5:49 PM
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Well those kinds of anecdotes are perfect
for blogs and some of them you can use in bigger works. The trick I think when using them in bigger works is not to meander too far - keep them tight then you can slip more of them in. At the workshop I attended the other week, we talking about how just because we'd seen something or been somewhere it doesn't mean we have to include it.
I liked the bike comment too.
Whenever I've switched into a vehicle with the wheel on the other side, it is a ritual that I must at least once drive down the wrong side of the road. It is easy to do on rural roads.
Sometimes I have left friends smiling when I've gone to get in the drivers seat of their car.
posted by
Azur
on August 14, 2006 at 2:36 PM
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Johnmcnab, I'm sitting here grinning like a fool and can't get my face straightened back out into blah. You are a blast to read whether you write the stuff or not.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2006 at 2:29 PM
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Whacky
I'm sure I would Whacky. My problem is sheer laziness.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 2:19 PM
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bel
Trust me, bel; it will never happen.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 14, 2006 at 2:19 PM
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Smile...you're on candid camera
Both the non-pedling cyclist and the non-existant steering wheel sound like good set-ups for the show. I'd like to see one where they were trying to convince the gym-goers to try the new weight loss regime of sitting on the cycle and not peddling.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on August 14, 2006 at 7:12 AM
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oops - I mean binoculars
that's the trouble with screw-top wine bottles - too easy to get them open.
PS - lived in NC for a while; worst problem was learning to change gear with my right hand. Then getting back to Oz (I'm a pom, but that's a long story) and turning the wrong way across a dual-carriageway. Not smart.
posted by
mneme
on August 14, 2006 at 3:11 AM
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Had to laugh at the cycling comment
- reminds me of the friend who tried to top up my wine glass without first removing the screw cap (sadly we now have screw-top wines bottles...sigh) - or Dubbya forgetting to take the caps off his bincoculars.
- Thanks for the laugh
posted by
mneme
on August 14, 2006 at 3:08 AM
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i have a friend who, any time he sees a jogger doing that vertical pushups
on the telephone pole trick for warming up, will run over and say, "here, let me help", throws his hands onto the pole and pretends to start pushing as hard as he can. it's very funny for onlookers.
have you ever seen the movie "parenthood"? in one scene, steve martin and mary steenbergen (sp?) are arguing, centered around a metaphor just moments before offered by steve's mother. steve is saying the point is stupid, mary says "oh yeah? well i think your mother is brilliant!" steve looks out the window and says "oh yeah? well if she's so brilliant, why is she sitting in our neighbor's car?"
posted by
fourcats
on August 13, 2006 at 11:50 PM
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Sometimes you have to just dive right in there!
And start writing. I bet you will surprise yourself.
posted by
Whacky
on August 13, 2006 at 11:47 PM
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Don't overdo that cycling!
posted by
bel_1965
on August 13, 2006 at 7:40 PM
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