Improving my vision: See how I see
June 10th, 2006
My last post on Vision for Life may seem like a bit of a downer for some people. In an effort to give everyone a better idea of my progress I’ve decided to create some visual aids.
Included in the program is an eye chart. This is used for a couple different exercises and will also be the basis for my visual progress aids.
Improving my vision: Day 11
June 9th, 2006
It’s been 11 days since I started the Vision for Life program to improve my vision. At this point I can safely say that the testimonials on the website worked.
After reading through the website and hearing how the program has helped others I was excited to see how it would work for me. Unfortunately I may have hyped myself up a little bit too much, which explains why I say that the testimonials had their intended purpose.
Getting physical
June 8th, 2006
After my dismal showing for the first week of the diet challenge, I decided to add some exercise every couple days. Push ups may not have been easy the first day and they certainly didn’t get any easier after that.
Physical soreness is either a welcome or unwelcome side effect of overexerting your muscles. For all the nay-sayers out there I’ll just say that if you’re playing a sport and you get some muscle pains you know it’s time to stop, that’s one example of soreness being a good thing.
Rollerblading = fun, especially by the river
June 6th, 2006
Tonight, after all the weighing in and talking of exercise, I decided to take a leisurely rollerblade ride down one of the many paths we have in b-e-a-utiful Calgary. If there was only one type of exercise I could do for the rest of my life, rollerblading would be it. The path I chose was one close to my house — weird how that works out eh — which just so happens to be very close to the South Saskatchewan river.
Because of some prodding by Chris and Colin, I’m testing out Calorie King’s Nutrition and Exercise Manager (Windows version here). The king suggests I do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day so I anticipated a 15 minutes out, 15 minutes back type of trip.
Push ups = not easy
June 6th, 2006
Not only do I feel and look fat but holy crap am I out of shape. Because of this diet thing and the fact I only lost one pound in the first week, some physical activity was needed.
My decision was to add some push ups and sit ups at least every other day. Since today is day one of week 2 there’s no better time. Uhhhmmm, nobody told me that after not working out for over a year they would be this hard. Oy. I’m sure I’ll be feeling this tomorrow.
At least I managed to do 20 pushups the first set and 10 the second. A nightly ride on the ol’ rollerblades may need to be introduced into this regiment.
