Hmmm.. I need 6 pull-ups. Currently, I am doing 3…. soon…
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
My IPPT goals
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Calorie Count
Saturday, March 21st, 2009- 1 gram of carbohydrate = 4 calories
- 1 gram of protein = 4 calories
- 1 gram of fat = 9 calories
- 1 gram of alcohol = 7 calories
From: http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitness/how-count-calories-per-gram.html
Dieting’s Hierarchy of Pain
Saturday, March 14th, 2009I exercise daily now. When Denise suggested that we skip a day of exercise, I nearly freaked out. Here I was eating loads of apples just to skim off that few calories.. and here she was suggesting skipping a day of exercise. To me, it was far easier to do the exercise and have some decent calories going into the tummy. For her, it was otherwise. I just realised… hmmm.. maybe we have different hierarchies of pain (adopted from Maslow’s hierarchy of need). Mine should be something like:
Scratching The Itch
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009I seem to read somewhere some time back that software developers generally go about solving some problem that frustrates them daily… and in the process come out with a BIG BANG project. Hmmm.. is it possible that this “Scratching The Itch” phenomenon is one of the easiest way to develop truly solid products, i.e. over the conventional business plan with market forecasts, etc….
I can understand the itch. It is something that you are exposed to… and greatly irritates you.
Currently, I am in a FAT-FIGHTING phase of my life… and I guess… a lot of my blogs will be about such health issues. I am currently using a online portal to track my workouts and nutrition – http://www.gyminee.com. It works kind of fine save for a few problems:
- Does not allow me to key the details of my workout through an iphone/mobile app (pretty impt as iphone is like the defacto exercising companion nowadays)
- It lacks local data for the nutrition segment. Hmmm… wouldn’t it be great if the nutrition segment can tap of HPB’s vast repository of nutritional information… all localized with the average Singaporean in mind? – http://www.hpb.gov.sg/hpb/default.asp?pg_id=993
- Integration to Social Networking Sites… so that you can get your friends to be involved in exercising, dieting and living a truly healthy lifestyle!
Hmmm… I am itchy….. but do I have enough hands to actually scratch my itch?
A Solution to the World’s Power Problems
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I was thinking… man… one plate of chicken rice in the morning and it provides me with sufficient energy to work out on the thread mill, do presentations and work? Hmmm… maybe the human being is just one of the most efficient generators of energy! Imagine we can culture muscle tissues, feed them with rice… These tissues will be attached to pistons in which they will pull and push based on electrical signals send to them (to simulate those from the brains…)
Imagine the amount of energy just a bowl of rice will generate! Hmmm… fats might even start accumulating at its side if the load is not heavy enough!
Have u ever wondered why machines had to use human beings to power themselves in the matrix? Hmmm…… enlightenment…..
Fanatic about the weighing machine
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Warren Buffet was fascinated by the weighing machine during his childhood days. He will weigh everything from coins, to toy cars, etc… (based on Snowball – biography of Warren Buffet). Recently, I started behaving like this great man. I have been weighing myself many times a day… on a digital weighing machine….
And I see interesting results… its like.. my weight actually varies much like a random walk… but such … non-confirmity disturbs me. I mean… I like to see meaningful results… .and this Gyminee software that I use online… just does not give that. Man.. they should have worked in some kind of 30 day averaging graph. (Oh ya.. btw, did you know that the house price index is calculated through a series of complicated monthly averaging stats? they should definitely have adopted a similar approach…)
Frankly, most people can only be bothered about the long term trend. Surely, they are not interested in seeing short term fluctuations, and believe me… a LOT of such fluctuations are activities triggered, i.e. when u do a big business you lose between 200g – 1000g. If its small, it can range from 200g – 400g (Personal statistics..) .
Anyway, here goes my 3 day statistics. Tried to make it work a bit better by understating some results. I actually weighed 71.8kg today… but … did not feel it can be accurate… how can a person lose 2 kg in 3 days??? So rounded it up to 72kg. Hehe.. this the the manual way of doing the averaging… so that I can kind of see the hopefully… long term trend downwards?
Fighting Fats with Sit-Ups
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Today, I saw Denise doing a lot of stomach crunches to try to make her tummy slimmer. Hmmm… is that really the way to do it? Will it really help? Recently, I have been listening to Snowball – an autobiography about Warren Buffet. There was a section of the book in which he was talking about how Berkshire Hathaway (which was rich in cash) and National Indemnities (an insurance company) was a good fit, because the insurance companies need to be backed by an asset rich companies so that more capital can be put to work.
By working together, the capital at BH can be worked a lot harder, thus NI can generate a lot of revenue for BH. Likewise, should unexpected things happen, i.e. when a lion tamer gets eaten by the lion, BH can divert its funds to NI to pay for it. The funds flow freely to where it is needed.
I think Fats are just a storage of energy, just like assets is a storage of money. And money flows freely. In the event of consuming more calories than we are expanding, our body will store such fats at our tummy. However as long as we exercise more than we eat, the fats at our tummy will also be converted to energy (just like how funds from BH can be used to pay for unexpected risks in NI). Energy like money will flow freely. So as long as we just keep expanding more energy than we consume… surely… those stomache fats will go away… without any sit-ups.
So, what the heck am i trying to say?
Well, i think the most effective way to lose fats is to just focus on exercises that expands the most energy. If we have strong legs and lungs and these have a capacity to work extra hard and consume the most energy we should just run. If we have strong stomachs and these have the capacity to consume the most energy, we should just do sit-ups. It is all about choosing the vehicle with the highest engine capacity.. so that the most fuel can be burnt in the least amount of time.
Since fuel flow freely.. and the only thing that matters… is how much it is burnt.
So work with your biggest, most fuel hungry engines!
