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The lazy guide to fitness

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:51:37 +0100

It might surprise you to find me blogging about exercise. But it is something I’ve been paying a bit more attention to recently, and I found this to be quite interesting – so I share it with you in case it’s interesting to you too.

I’m quite lazy, and so I look for shortcuts and efficiencies.

Don’t get me wrong – I like to do a lot, and I like to do that stuff as well as I possibly can – but I also like to do it with the least amount of effort and time spent. That way, I can do lots of other stuff too. Or just hang out. That’s fun too.

I’ve been trying to get a little healthier and fitter recently, but exercise requires time and effort – things I like to minimise. Also, gyms can be expensive, and I travel a lot – so really, what I need is a workout that takes very little time, uses no gym equipment at all, and does everything I need it to – i.e. keep me alive, well and feeling good – with energy to spare for other, more enjoyable stuff.

Lifehacker, the New York Times and the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health and Fitness Journal to the rescue. This interval routine takes just under 8 minutes, and “science” says it works. Essentially, you spend 30 seconds on each of the above exercises in this order, with 10 seconds rest in between each.

Now, I’m already doing the 10,000+ steps a day walking thing, as well as having at least one fresh fruit & vegetable juice per day whenever possible (and not the full-on, slightly scary ‘juice fast‘ that people seem so keen on) – but I thought I’d give this a try as well for 30 days just to see how I get on.

So far so good. It’s not easy – in fact, it’s pretty full-on – but it’s over quickly.

However – looking at the chart and setting timers is a pain. So I came up with a neat solution.

With Jake‘s help, I recorded myself introducing the exercises (“Next: push ups…”), indicating the halfway mark (“15 seconds…”) and counting down (“10… 5,4,3,2,1… and stop.”). That way, I can just listen to my iPod and do the exercises without having to continually look at the charts and a stopwatch.

Jake added a house track, which times in nicely so that (at 120bpm) the countdowns are in time with the beats. Works very well.

If you’d find it helpful, let me know if you’d like a copy of the mp3 and I’ll send it to you – with or without the music. Whatever works for you. Not everyone likes house music. I find it keeps me going and the repetitive beats take my mind off the unpleasantness of the task.

I can’t recommend the programme unreservedly, as I am no health scientist, and this is only day 2. But it’s worth a try. And it does seem to have been well researched by people who know far more about this stuff than I do.

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Let's get that Pete Wylie song to number one eh B3TA?

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:06:10 +0100

*Edit - Oooh thanks for the FP :)

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Surprise Africa

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:36:36 +0000

I was invited to Uganda today. I suspect somebody pulled out or became unavailable at the last minute, but as it turns out, I’ll be at Un-Convention 49: Doadoa, East African Performing Arts Market ’13 from the 6th to the 11th of May.

I’ve travelled a fair bit, but I’ve never been to Africa and I’m really looking forward to finally getting there. It’s kind of short notice, and completely out of the blue – but I’m going.

Of course, six days in Uganda is only going to give me a first little taste of that massive and diverse continent, but it’s a start – and more than anything, I’m really looking forward to discovering the music.

You think you’re having one sort of day, then all of a sudden, something comes along and you’re having another sort of day. Surprise.

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:)

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:36:07 +0000

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Pun!

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:36:06 +0000

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ho hum.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:51:36 +0000

Wow 1st Fp of 2013..ta!

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Hey, Are You Blind?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:51:42 +0000

I’m right here looking through the blinds, and suddenly I can’t see a thing!

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Richard Nixon and Robocop

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:07:24 +0000

Richard Nixon and Robocop

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Photo

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:51:39 +0000

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The most interesting conversation ever captured at a recording session

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:36:25 +0000

On November 4th 1940 John Lomax and his wife Ruby were in Atlanta, Georgia, looking for folk musicians to record for the Library of Congress.

As they drove past the Pig and Whistle, a whites-only drive-in barbecue, Ruby saw an African American playing guitar and singing for the customers. Blind Willie McTell, who was dressed in the smart suit, cap, collar and tie in which he preferred to perform, was 42 at the time. The Lomaxes had been told to look out for McTell and they paid him a dollar to turn up the Fulton Hotel the following day with his guitar.

November 5th was election day in the United States but McTell came to the hotel room where Lomax had set up his equipment and for two hours played his songs and talked. Unlike Robert Johnson, who was so shy during his two recording sessions that he would only sing while facing the corner, McTell gives a performance which is so confident and polished it’s almost a lecture.

He plays spirituals, gambling songs, rags and songs about chasing women. Unlike the bluesmen of the Delta his articulation is clear, which means the lyrics are intelligible. His command of the twelve-string guitar and bottleneck allows him to break off lines and let the instrument do the talking, in a way that Jimi Hendrix would do years later. Many bluesmen are hard to listen to for long periods. You can listen to Blind Willie McTell all day long.

Between songs he addresses the Lomaxes as if they were a public meeting, telling them about what “the country people” used to do in “the old days” and how one particular song dates from the days when “the blues first started being original”. He recounts the name - and full addresses - of all the various record companies he has recorded for under different names during the 30s. He is clearly a sophisticated, worldly-wise, seasoned, even slightly pompous professional entertainer.

Lomax, who had discovered Leadbelly, knew the white audience preferred its blues musicians miserable and oppressed and so asks if he’s got any “complaining songs”. Willie refuses to play along. Listen.

Then again, we do get this. One man and a guitar, in a hotel room, in the middle of the afternoon.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:51:58 +0000

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:50:43 +0000

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berenjenal: THIS IS BJÖRK!

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:52:04 +0000

berenjenal:

THIS IS BJÖRK!

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stephanieho: Poster for Metropolis, 1927

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:37:27 +0000

stephanieho:

Poster for Metropolis, 1927

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Urusei Yatsura - We Are Urusei Yatsura (1996)

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:53:32 +0000

Artist: Urusei Yatsura
Title: We Are Urusei Yatsura
Format: CD album
Label: Ché Trading
Cat. Num.: CHÉ 54 CD
Year: 1996

Tracklist:

01: Siamese
02: First Day On A New Planet
03: Pow R. Ball
04: Kewpies Like Watermelon
05: Phasers On Stun / Sola Kola
06: Black Hole Love
07: Velvy Blood
08: Plastic Ashtray
09: Death 2 Everyone
10: Pachinko
11: Untitled
12: Kernel
13: Road Song

Discogs

MP3 / EAC-FLAC

First Day On A New Planet by Urusei Yatsura on Grooveshark

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Brett Anderson & Morrissey, Q Awards, 1993.

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:43:29 +0000

Brett Anderson & Morrissey, Q Awards, 1993.

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Photo

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:36:08 +0000

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Hahaha very good

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:25:06 +0000

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Bless!

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:45:29 +0000

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Splittin’ Kitten Headache

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:07:04 +0000

Sure I look tired! I’ve had this kid on my back all day!

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