Well I’ve been feeling generally lazy and unfit lately, mainly because it’s been hard to get into a groove after coming back from my trips. I haven’t been going to the gym as regularly as I used to. With gas prices so high, and the gym being much further away than it used to be (when I lived on Nash, it was about a 2 minute drive, now it takes 20 to get there) I feel even less motivated. As a result, I spend a lot of time feeling kinda flat and unenergetic. Today I decided to ride my bike down to the mall to grab a chinup bar to tide me over between trips to the gym. On my way there I realized how unfriendly drivers are to bicyclists. Share the road, people! Man, I got pushed out of the way and honked at and shouted at several times, and I was just riding safely, watching for traffic and staying to my lane. It was still kinda fun though. Crazy stuff.
Anyway, I bought a chinup bar at Canadian Tire, and while I was there I bought one of those inflateable rubber balls for stretching and doing crunches on. It came with a fun red syringe thing. I may try to incorporate that into a Hallowe’en costume of some type… hmm…
Currently I’m using the crazy syringe to fill the ball with air. That is a workout in itself. It’s like filling a bucket with a teaspoon. It’s working though.
The chinup bar is great. You basically turn the inner part of it to make the outer parts screw outwards to secure themselves to the inside of a doorframe. I tightened it up and heard a cracking noise. It was basically ratcheting the doorframe apart. Oops. I’ll have to find a better way to secure it without ruining my house. I’ve done some chinups already and my arms and back are tired but happy. I’ve realized that I need regular exercise or my body starts to rebel.
Anyway, back to the lab… I must finish injecting!
that’s one carazey picture! cross processing, yo
I and i know too well what it’s like to not be able to get back to the routine. so much organization and will power necessary! damn it
I am sure you can do it though 😀
Just spotted your blog…thought I’d comment on the ball thing :p !
I have one of those insane ball things too, (Well 2 actually) I bought one from Habitat as it looked quite funky. Its metallic blue and has plastic soft spikes all over it. It kinda looks like a mine with blunt spikes. Well I tried it out rolled onto it to do some sit ups and the supposed ‘soft’spikes really hurt! I had marks on my back where they’d been! Well that was that, it now resides deflated at the bottom of my wardrobe and i now own a normal orange one. I last used it, hmmm, about 6 months ago! My gym actually do aerobic classes with the ball. It would be such a funny class to spectate as there are often new-comers who have never used one of the balls before, they always fall off or crash into other people, or their ball rolls away from them across the other side of the room as the air-con is set super high. He he, it makes me chuckle.
Anyhow, thats enough exercise rambling for me. Must catch some sleep.
I have a 12-pound medicine ball. Those are versatile like a swiss army knife, man.
Great for all kinds of workout, especially core. Painful indeed….i gotta use it more often =P
And about the picture…..you look WASTED!!!
Ah I love the ball I have one myself. If you get bored with it I have about a million and one things you can do with it, it’s quite handy and versatile for building core strength. Yay for the chin up bar too 🙂 You have the will power to get back into the groove the transition is hard after so much excitment but I know you can do it.
Maybe all the honking and hollering was because they thought you had a nice ass 😉
It’s ALIVE !!!
LOL, crazy pic bud … good for you, riding instead of driving!
Geez, Kev… that is a very nightmarish picture! It scares me but it fascinates me at the same time kinda like episodes of Mama’s Family!
that is one psychotic picture o.O
My brother used to have one of those balls (probably still does, but I don’t see it when I’m down there..) and he uses it to sit on from time to time. Aparently trying to stay balance on it while watching a movie or something is good for his psoture/back. My brother has a lot of crazy toys though – that’s what he gets for being a broken rugby player (at age 21 😛 )