Here’s a quick update on the health front.

What I’m doing:

• Treadmill for 30 to 40 minutes.
• SLIM IN 6’s Slim & 6-Pack [Amazon.com]
• Sun tanning (when there’s, you know, actually sun. unlike today)

What I want to do is complete these three every day of the week, but so far I’ve been hitting it six or five days per week. I figure that that’s not bad, but it’s also not where I want to be. On the other hand, I’m pretty comfortable with what I’m doing. This is definitely not a collection of healthy habits that I dread doing.

The worse part about this exercise plan is that it requires about two hours to finish, mostly because of the sun tanning. The treadmill is done in 30 to 40 minutes and Slim & 6-Pack requires 10 minutes. That’s pretty much an hour right there. Toss in sun tanning and you have another 40 minutes (20 minutes front & back).

The excellent news is that I can now occasionally jog about half of my time on the treadmill. That just rocks, especially for a guy like me who’s had problems with asthma.

My diet is typical for me, but I’m leaning more towards a better diet. For example, my dinner today is going to be orange roughy [Wiki] and this delicious spinach stuffed with cheese and more bits of spinach. It’s similar to ravioli only with out all of the unhealthy stuff.

edit: Well damn, I didn’t know that this fish was nearly endangered. Blast it. :-/ (I just read the wiki)

I’ll have to get the correct names later, but it’s a nice, healthy dinner that’s not terrible on the taste.

Anyway, that’s all from this rambling health nut for today.

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I finally got the results from my X-Rays. As the subject says, the rib is cracked.

The doctor has issued a note saying that (to paraphrase), I “shouldn’t receive blows to the ribs for two weeks”. Heck, at this point I’m not sure that I even care. Do I want to go back? Do I want to spend lots of money on protective gear simply take part in kumite practice? The answer to that last question is definitely, “No, no I don’t.”

At this point I’m beginning to lose track of the time that I’ve been away because I’ve been away for so long.

On the bright side, it’s not completely broken, it “just” came close to breaking. It’s also healing. There’s not much that can be done about it other than to wait and to protect it while it’s mending. Obviously I won’t be rejoining karate class any time soon!

Later folks.

Technorati Tags: health, injury, injuries, karate, self-defense, martial arts

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, I’ve missed about four or five karate classes so far.

It’s an interesting situation. The last class that I was in ended with kumite, which is fine. It’s not something that I’m particularly good at, but it helps you learn how to use the stuff that you’re learning, right? What’s most frustrating about it for me is that I can’t wear my glasses because it poses a risk: They could get knocked off, broken, or cause an eye injury if the sparring partner should lose control of their attacks or some other mistake happens.

So it’s rather ironic that I got nailed so hard partially because of the fact that I can’t wear my glasses during a match. Heh. Of course, my sparring partner is definitely to blame as well.
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