It was truly an amazing day, Marathon Monday. I’ve never seen anything like it. The kind of energy that was being expended by these 22,500 runners, but also the energy of the crowd that was there to cheer them on. I can only imagine how it must have felt for the runners to be feeding off that energy for 26.2 miles. Truly amazing.
It was a lot of fun watching my little sister run, so much so that I might try to do it next year. GO HOOPS!!!
Check out Jamie Oliver every Monday night on TLC. In Jamie’s School Lunch Project Jamie Oliver is out to improve the school lunches for kids across the UK. In one amazing bit, Jamie asks the kids to identify a number of veggies. They struggle and can hardly name one. He then holds up a Domino’s Pizza logo and every kid in the room jumps out of their seat yelling Domino’s. It gets even worse when he holds up and McDonalds’s golden arch logo. This all has me thinking: America is FAT, not just overweight but FAT, orca fat and hardly anything is being done to fix the problem. For the first time kids born today are expected to live a shorter life than their parents. This is simply one of the largest, most important problems facing America today. Do you know anyone who has had a Gastric Bypass? Know anyone who has had a heart attack? How about anyone who is constantly dieting? Clearly we need to change the way we eat, exercise and live. Jamie Oliver is on to something, and in his show (TLC 7pm EST) he explores the idea that if we are going to change our eating habits we have to start with our children. Watch as he struggles to get kids to eat veggies, and works even harder to get their parents to stop feeding them crap.
Click below to watch the trailor from the original series in the UK, and join me in thinking about how we change America. Now I am certainly a business man, and I smell a HUGE opportunity in here somehow. The question is how do you improve peoples’ lives while still making money. Much like Whole Foods or your Local Gym, I believe that you can help people live a healthy life and make money doing it. Got any ideas on how to launch a business? I do and I will share them in an upcomming post.
Right now I am still just collecting and looking at the data from my rides and runs. As I learn more about my fiteness level and how my body reacts to various exercise, I will be programming specific workouts into the watch. Then instead of defining a workout as 1 mile easy, 2 miles up-tempo, 1 mile easy and guessing where each of those mile markers are, I will be able to know exactly when I’ve covered each mile at what pace and at what heart rate.
If you want one for yourself, check out the deal at Campersland. They have it for $60 less than most places are selling it for, and they upgraded my shipping to 2nd Day Air for free due to the fact that my order was backordered for so long.
Here’s another great ad… kind of. Reported over on Coolz0r, it’s an ad for something running/exercise/energy related. Too bad they didn’t make the logo bigger on the ad. My guess is that it is for Nike. Whatever company or product it is advertising, this is great because instead of big flashy lights to divert your attention away from the natural surroundings (like much of Time Square), the optical illusion that this advertisement creates in conjunction with its surroundings grabs you and makes you pause for a moment to think about it.
Could that really happen? You’d have to be strong. Maybe a super hero could do that… These were all the thoughts (yes childish) that flew through my head when I first saw this picture. What do you think of first?
The obesity epidemic due to poor eating habits and lack of activity that is strangling western culture seems to be permeating the east.
Search google for ‘obesity’ and ‘america’ and you will find TONS of websites talking about the obesity epedemic that supposedly is taking over America. Well, just today someone pointed out this article to me. It reads, “Girdles for paunchy guys a big seller in Japan…As Japanese waistlines expand, so is the market for girdles — for men.” As you probably figured out, there is now a girdle for men available in Japan. And it is being marketed to men who are more “fashion conscious”… not because Japanese men are becoming more overweight, but becuase they are “starting to pay attention to the lines of their body and their silhouette, just like women” said a spokeswoman at Triumph International, the company marketing the product. Not only is this thing just being marketed in Japan, but they are selling like hotcakes! The article goes on to explain that the boom may be explained by the “growing weight problem among once slim Japanese.” At least the writers of this article are not trying to spin this to be something different than it truly is. Triumph International maintains that “most of the demand is due to new styles in pants that are cut to emphasize the hips. ‘It’s really more about style,’ [the spokeswoman] said. ‘After all, there aren’t that many men in their 20s and 30s whose figures are giving way.’” Is she being serious here?! To be fair, I don’t know what proportion of 20-40 year olds are overweight in Japan, but in America that is a huge portion of the overweight population.
One would think that other countries and cultures would be able to learn from the gluttony of America before it seeped into their own cultures. But it looks like at least a portion of the Japanese population is completely oblivious to our widening waistlines. I would take the introduction of a product like this as a sign of general public health moving in the wrong direction.
Get outside and do something!
The world’s largest, most important sporting event is happening this summer. Are you ready? That’s right, coming this June from Germany is the World Cup. The best 32 nations will gather to battle over soccer supremacy in front of a television audience in the billions. To get you ready to cheer on the red white and blue check out the video below made by one of the US team’s rising star, Clint Dempsey. Thats right a rapping soccer player, and you know what I must admit the beat is kind of catchy. Alright, alright it’s a bit cheesy but I can’t get enough of it, call it a guilty pleasure. Whatever you do prepare for a great summer of soccer and click below to get on the bandwagon.
