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After a few days traveling and missing my gym appointment yesterday, I got on the elliptical machine and just couldn’t seem to get motivated this morning.
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My workout today was much less straining and more enjoyable because I could do more in less time and with less irritation in my hips and lungs. I’m actually feeling better already as far as sluggishness. I figured it would take at least a couple of weeks to be feeling better.
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Today’s workout consisted of a new machine, the elliptical machine. It takes a bit of getting used to because it’s so different from running on a treadmill. But because of my back injury, my chiropractor recommended it.
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Early next week, I’ll meet with my chiropractor at the gym to learn more about how to safely workout, stretch, and so forth.
Okay so I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, but after my back injury in November 2005 (disc herniation) I have had to commit to taking better care of myself. Furthermore, as a web developer, I sit for many hours every week and rarely get enough exercise.
So I did what everyone does (or talks about doing) at the beginning of the year; I got a gym membership and started working out.
Today was my first day in the gym and because I have yet to be shown the proper way to take care of my body considering my disc herniation, I simply walked on the treadmill.
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Of course I’d like to see this number come down a little, but because of my foot drop, I can’t walk faster than about 3.8 miles per hour. What is foot drop? That’s what happens with an L5 disc herniation where the nerves below your knee are basically shot and therefore you cannot lift your foot nor walk on your heel. There is also numbness along the calf and the top of your foot including your toes.
Later I met with my chiropractor, Nate Miller, for some therapy and a much needed adjustment. What a difference chiropractics can make. It’s been huge for me for the past 13 years.
I’ll try to post some pictures of my x-rays to show the birth defect that led to my disc herniation. I’ll also try to post the MRI image of my disc herniation. It was quite large according to the MRI technician.
So wish me luck in my recovery and with my new 24-month contract with the gym. I’m now fully committed to pay my bill, er, go to the gym and get healthy.
As I was leaning towards earlier, I have returned my Samsung PDA phone and canceled the service along with it.
Ultimately it didn’t do the job I needed it to do. It’s not a bad phone. It’s not a bad service. I just needed it to do certain things (read my previous post), and it was only so/so about doing them.
I look forward to 2006-2007 and what kinds of devices will come out in the mobile market to help with blogging, Internet access, and better overall browser support.
In response to Seth Godin’s question:
Is marketing the art of tricking people into buying stuff they don?t need?
Or is it about spreading ideas that people fall in love with?
I love this question. The answer is both tricking people and spreading ideas: tricking people to fall in love with stuff they don’t need!
This is evident in our over-indulgent, entitled, society today with just about everything we possess. Cars, food, music, entertainment, clothing, jobs, etc. Each one is bigger, faster, larger, and more titillating, but none more necessary to function each day from 20 years ago.
I would even go so far as to say that the reason our society is more addicted, overweight, indebted, bankrupt, depressed, suicidal, and welfare dependent is due to irresponsible marketers during the past several decades.
We have forgotten how to think for ourselves and even how to evaluate a product/service when presented with an advertisement because shrewd marketers have told us for years that they have already researched it for us and have found it to be better, if not necessary, for us to obtain one.
As Hollywood has accomplished for many years, marketers are now selling the story that they aren’t responsible for the overspending on consumer credit cards. But, I’m not alone in receiving up to 5 credit card offers everyday. I’m not alone in being exposed to some 3000 images daily of branded products that marketers feel important for me to see.
Coming down from the Christmas rush, it seems appropriate to note how ridiculous this spending-spree has become over the years. Christmas provides whole businesses a chance to survive that may not otherwise simply because of the ever-growing need to buy stuff that we don’t need. Why is it that we feel the need to buy things for people? Because we’re told that it’s more convenient, it’s just what this person or that person wants, everyone else is doing it, and you’ll be the fool if you don’t as well.
It’s It’s no longer a time where parents can purchase a toy car for Bobby, a doll for Jane, and a book for Joey. Now Christmas consists of and IPod for Bobby with new $100 basketball shoes, a gift card for overpriced clothes at the Gap, to say nothing for the rest of the kids. This “need” to buy things is no doubt spurred on by irresponsible marketers who have succeeded at tricking people to fall in love with buying things they don’t need.
I’ll now relinquish my post on the soapbox. Thanks for listening.