We All Get Older, We Don't All Get Grown.

I just want to go on the record and say that the laziest exercise/machine at the gym is for sure the Hip Abductor Machine. I've felt this way for a long time. You just sit down and open and close your legs repeatedly. i don't know, it just annoys me to see girls use it for like 30 mins straight...and funny to see a guy on it. there's got to be a better exercise that works those muscles and others at the same time.

...a close second would have to be the ab bench thingy. you know what i'm talking about, the one with the handles and neck pad that moves up and down. it's not that the exercise itself is lazy, its more the people who do 5 crunches and then lay there for 5 mins talking to their friend.

(Best part of this post is the title.)



Update: Just googled, "hip abduction machine is the worst." and found this...

The Seated Hip Abductor Machine

"The myth: This machine is the best way to work your out thighs, including your glutes.

The truth: Because you’re seated, it trains a movement that has no functional use. And if done with excessive weight and jerky technique, it can put undue pressure on your spine.

The alternative: Work the same muscles, but while standing. Simply loop a resistance band around both legs, and position the band just below your knees. Now take small steps to your left for 20 feet. Then side-step back to your right for 20 feet. That’s one set. This is much harder than it sounds, but you can do it anywhere, and it’s also a great warmup for any sport."

My boy Hammer on the keys covering the Rugrats Theme Song. Just hearing this took me back to a magical place.

I was eating a vegetarian burrito today and I was by myself, so naturally I started thinking about something random. I started to think, "I'm pretty sure Jesus was a pescatarian." I've never done any research on this, but i couldn't recall ever reading in the Bible that Christ ate meat. One story that came to mind was, "The Feeding of the Multitude" or "Miracle of the five loaves and two fish". Wikipedia just told me that it's the only miracle, apart from Jesus' resurrection, that is present in all 4 Gospels...must be why I thought of this story. Anyways, what had happened was, there was a crowd following Jesus but all there was to eat was a few loaves of bread and a couple fish. So He said something like, "Let me see that son!(referring to the bread and fish)....BAM!" And the bread and fish were able to feed 5,000 men and who knows how many women and children...pretty cool stuff.

So I was thinking about all this and thought, "Well, if Christ was a Vegetarian, he wouldn't have multiplied the fish. He must be a Pescatarian!" JUST LIKE ME! That's as far as I got. You see, i've been on this whole "no meat" thing since late September and I'm still searching for the reason why i'm doing it. It hasn't been difficult for me, but at the same time i'd like to have a reason other than its just me being masochistic. Here is what i've come up with so far:

1. I really do love vegetables and fruit...seriously, i do.

2. I'm very sensitive to the sight of dead animals. Read the 2nd paragraph of this EXAMPLE to see what i'm talking about. I think i've just been conditioned to not think twice about a dead piggy or cow. But I just read an article in Men's Health about how much beef the average person eats in his/her lifetime and the total amount of cows that would add up to. I don't remember the exact number but i'm pretty sure it was something like 80,000+! I kind of felt disgusted after that. I'll update this once i find the exact number.

3. As a result I'm eating healthier. Not that I ate that bad before, but this lifestyle forces me to be a little more selective about what I eat...which translates to less late night, after party runs to grab mexican food.

4. And now I can add to the list that i'm more like Jesus! He was a pretty good dude, why wouldn't I want to be like him? He's probably fist pounding me from Heaven right now for my choices...

You know, I like that I have a little more clarity, but i also love the fact that i'm not the kind of person who flaunts this lifestyle. Hopefully i'll never be one to be "preachy" cause I already think there are way too many people who are taking life way too seriously, and I don't want to add to that.


Here was an interesting article I just read on Jesus being a vegetarian: Holla!

excerpt:
"The early Christian fathers adhered to a meatless regime...many early Christian groups supported the meatless way of life. In fact, the writings of the early Church indicate that meat eating was not officially allowed until the 4th century, when the Emperor Constantine decided that his version of Christianity would be the version for everyone. A meat eating interpretation of the Bible became the official creed of the Roman Empire, and vegetarian Christians had to practice in secret or risk being put to death for heresy. It is said that Constantine used to pour molten lead down the their throats if they were captured. Ironic indeed that pagan Rome here would have this longstanding influence upon Christianity.

In any case, I think we can all be thankful that it is a lot easier today to be a vegetarian. The occasional rudeness and social disapproval a vegetarian must tolerate is a pretty small inconvenience in comparison to Constantine's way of dealing with vegetarians."




Sidenote: Just went to search "was jesus a vegetarian" in google, and I got to "was " and the suggestions popped up as usual. Here's what it thought I may be searching for:

#1- "was lady gaga born a man"
#2- "was hitler jewish"
#3- "was jesus black"

in my opinion, i think it would've been cooler if the #1 suggestion was, "was lady gaga born of hitler, and was hitler black? jesus was jewish. obvious."

As many of you may have seen on my facebook status earlier, while I was at the gym there was some lady who was slangin' girl scout cookies. Seriously? I looked around the room to see if anyone else was as perplexed by this situation as I was. And I was amazed to see that nobody else was...is this normal? So I just chuckled quietly to myself as I walked by the small crowd of girls buying the cookies, and thought how just a few of those Samoas would counterbalance all the calories burned during that Turbo Kick Boxing class(or whatever it was)the girls just came from. I feel like the stunt this lady pulled is a close equivalent to buying a shot for an alcoholic. But hey, times are tough and you gotta do what you gotta do!

This did actually remind me of a story from when I was in the Philippines though. I was with my family out there and we were at one of the Supermalls of course(that's where everyone goes when its hot and they're looking for something to do). We all split up at one point and my Grandpa and I went off together. I had to go to the bathroom so gramps was waiting for me outside. I'm just going to put this out there: I had to go #2. Hey, everyone does it...well, everyone except for pretty girls. But that's a whole other story. Anyways, so my family fed me very well when I was visiting and it was that time...so I was in the bathroom, looking for a stall. There were probably 10 stalls or so and I went into just about every one. No toilet paper! So, naturally I went to grab some paper towels. Only hand dryers! This was messed up. Then I noticed something on the wall at the entrance. I walk over and to my disbelief I see a dispenser full of little bags of tissue paper...THAT YOU HAD TO PAY FOR! I've never experienced this in life, not even in some of the less developed areas of the Philippines...not even in Mexico. So I finally gave in and bought my last resort. I guess everyone is on their grind these days, gettin' their hustle on.

The part that brings joy to my heart even now, was when I walked out and gramps says in his thick filipino accent, "What happened to you? Did you fall in? AH HA HA HA!" Ahh, miss that guy.