Investigate Before You Sign
Speaking of New Year’s Resolutions, here’s a good article on how NOT to get screwed contractually by a gym while trying to fill that New Year’s Resolution of yours.
Finally, Live Up to Your Resolutions
Do you know that January is the most profitable month for gyms? It’s true! People have resolutions to lose weight and get in shape. The thing is, public gyms know this. They also know that people will throw their resolutions right out the window in three months when it becomes “too hard”. That’s the reason you must sign at least a six month contract at a gym, most of them are a year.
The Public Gym is here to help you with some tips to get your lazy ass into shape for 2008. Even though people say it was too hard, or they didn’t have time, or this or that, beating around the bush making excuses, the bottom line is that the reason why people quit going to a gym after a while and waste their money is because of two reasons: They either don’t know how to work out, or they feel uncomfortable working out with other people. The latter, I can’t help you with. That’s a psychological problem and, even though I’ve taken some psychology courses, I’m not an expert and I’d just tell you that you’re wuss.
For the former, though, I probably can help you…People don’t know how to properly work out at a gym, they get sore almost immediately mainly because they try to push too much weight or run too many miles after a year of their muscles practically at the point of atrophe from sitting around so much.
There are so many books and postings on the Internet that tell you how you should work out, how you should eat, when to go to bed for the best weight loss, what kind of diet pill you should take….You don’t know where to start. Here’s a good place to start: Start with you. You, above everybody else, know your body better than anyone. You should consider which workout would be the best for you and then tailor it even further to suit your needs.
Now, when you first work out, you’re going to be sore, that just comes with the territory. Have no fear, it’ll only hurt for a couple days, you pansy…Don’t try to bench press 200 pounds for the sake of seeing the other guy do it, you’re not gonna be able to lift that….start in the mid two digits. If you’re a cardio person, only run for about 5 to 10 minutes on the treadmill…don’t go for the 5 mile marathon right off the start.
Before you do anything, you have to stretch. This may seem like a waste of time, but in order to get your muscles loose you have to stretch. This will also help with the soreness afterwards. Also, like I said, you’re going to be sore, so if girly-man can’t stand the pain, I suggest an ice wrap to put on your muscles for at least 20 minutes a day, five times a day, for several days. This also works for muscle pulls and muscle spasms. If you have a muscle pull, don’t go all hypocondriac, just treat it with an ice pack, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than physical therapy rehab.
Overall, ice packs will help with anything relating to muscle damage, whether it’s a pulled hamstring or a muscle spasm to general muscle soreness. Just by an ice wrap and some topical aesthetic muscle and joint pain relief cream and you’ll be fine. Gyms are expensive, don’t waste your money by going there for only three weeks and paying for it for the rest of the year.
SqlSpace Banned on Digg? For What?!?!
This post is in no way related to anything gym, fitness, cardio or socially related, although it must be shouted from the rooftops. I would consider this blog fairly controversial, if not downright evil on some of the problems that we have in the world, and I spew information unto the world via my skewed sense of how things are vs. how things should be.
It seems Microsoft, that greedy corporate wasteland garbage heap in Silicon Valley, is up to its usual unethical corporate manipulation yet again. Here’s the scoop: SqlSpace, a non-partisan and viable news source forum dedicated to everything from politics and technology to sci-fi and humor has been banned from Digg for posting a screenshot of Windows Marketplace hosting Ubuntu, an offshoot of Linux/Unix, about half a month ago. For SqlSpace doing this, they got banned from Digg because Digg chose to cater to Microsoft.
Now, most of us know what Digg is, it’s a social media news forum. Anybody can post pretty much anything they want up there, as long as nobody gets mentally and emotionally hurt. Basically it has everything from politics and technology down to nostalgic lists like “The 10 best Atari games of 1981″, stuff like that. In any case, Digg is a pretty entertaining read for anybody with a little time on their hands.
Either way, Digg has also been a champion of Linux/Unix platforms for a looooong time, not because Digg chose this, but because since it’s a social media outlet, people chose to post how cool Linux and it’s open-source offshoots really were! Now, Digg is burying any story that mentions SqlSpace and Linux.
The bottom line is, who knows why Digg chose to ban SqlSpace, other than the fact that Microsoft is Digg’s ad provider, and MS basically pays Digg’s bills. Now I have absolutely no problem with Microsoft’s products, even that “shitty shitty” shit called Vista that everyone complains about. I have it at home and I personally have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with, though, is Microsoft’s shady underhanded unethical business practices to hold on to the technological top spot by a string of spit.
I imagine they’ve heard enough about Linux products and realize that after the public backlash of Vista, they need to resort to some kind marketing ploy to regain some market share…it’s not enough to only have 90% of the market instead of 95%….The only thing is, their marketing budget is geared towards suppressing other platforms’ marketing, thus making every other platform go away….And Microsoft wonders, up their on their throne of lies in Silicon Valley, why nobody adheres to Microsoft’s technological ideals anymore. Because people can smell BULLSHIT eventually.
Mr. Bill Gates, you are a fraud. You hide behind your goofy nerdy face and your coke bottle glasses and your righteous charities while, even though you “stepped down” from your position at your own company, you continue to have your hands on the puppet strings. You’re a billionaire, you made your money all the while consciously running a monopoly on technology. Yeah, you may have gotten away with it in the government’s eyes, but not the people’s. You proved that you’re the best, now call it a day and give everyone else a shot.