This morning at our Melbourne Bootcamp, I came across this abandoned guitar just after sunrise.
Mmm, I have seen some interesting things in the park, but never have I found something as valuable as a guitar even though it did look a little worse for wear with dents and scratches.
Hopefully the owner will make the journey back to this Melbourne Park at Edinburgh Gardens to reunite the guitar with it’s rightful owner.
Is the Biggest loser sending positive messages about weight loss? Stories are circulating about the weekly weight loss being based on the weight measurements being taken closer to every 10-12 days rather than the televised 7 day period. Not to mention the alleged dehydration techniques being adopted to reduce their weight leading up to the weigh in, is this sending a positive message about weight loss?
This tends to lend it self to the other end of the fashion world that promotes the walking skeleton look as the most desirable image women should strive to achieve. Rather the biggest loser promotes the audience and contestants to become obsessive about weight loss, whereby the end result is more about winning $$$ than being healthier. I would be very surprised if contestants who don’t win the $$$ saying they don’t care about the $$$, it’s all about being a healthier person.
Put simple weight gain happens over a long period of time so shows like the biggest loser promote the instant gratification, instant results, must have it now attitude. Weight loss starts in the mind and all the emotional triggers, belief systems and drivers must be addressed before attempting the first walk or modifying their diet.
Only then can you begin to start changing your diet and adopting an exercise program over a 12 month period, not 12 weeks as losing kilograms of weight per week can place your health at risk.
Unfortunately reality TV is more about the entertainment value and keeping the shareholders happy, documenting some ones weight loss without the tears and vomiting over a year may lead to less eye balls on the TV screen.
Today I was speaking to our painter about how our society is go, go, go and he started talking about how life was in the 1950’s.
It may sound like a bit of nostalgic but ne did make some interesting points.
Supermarkets didn’t exist so you purchased your fruit from the green grocer who often delivered freshly ripened fruit, so fresh and tasty that the peaches left an pleasant aroma in the air as he passed you in the street on his deliveries.
Even such things as Rock melons were apparently totally different to the variety we have today with the need for greater shelf life and transporation logistics requirring a more sophisticated fruit product when compared to this bygone era.
Bread wasn’t like eating a sponge covered in plastic wrap, it came striaght from the baker with less modified grains and different milling to the varieties we use today.
The average household comfortable paid off the house on a single income, no forms of instant communication so working outside the office just didn’t happen.
Less traffic on the road meant less pollution, less congestion and a safer environment for kids to get out on there bikes without the fear of being run over. With the advent of TV our painter remembers his older brother (12 years old) not getting home until 9.00pm as he was watching this new thing called TV from the window of a shop front, did the parents get stressed and worried, mmm, not really as kids often stayed out playing after dinner, no where to be seen.
Maybe just a case of nostalgia, or is there something to be said for living in the fifties.
You have to love technology, well at our Melbourne Boot camp today we had a max heart rate of 201 from Rebecca.
Generally the maximum heart rate is calculate by subtracting your age from 220 however this was based on data collected decades ago and placing a line through the middle of a plotted graph with the heart rate on the vertical axis and the age on the bottom axis. So as you can imaging, there were people that had recorded heart rates below and above this arbitrary line.
So based on Rebecca’s age, mmm I better not say exactly but it’s somewhere between 20 and 40, this would mean the calculation is inaccurate.
So if Rebecca reached 201, I’d say that this wasn’t her max, maybe 90-95% of HR max, so it’s more around 210.
With our Boot camp sessions, we use interval based training which involves short sustained bursts of intensity cardiovascular based exercise followed by a quick break.
A great way of calculating heart rate max is the beep test as this can push you reasonably close to exhaustion or to put it another way, when there is nothing left in the tank.
Best of all Rebecca burnt 554 calories as well
On the weekend in Melbourne, I went to a BBQ where this amazing rice salad was served. Best of all it’s Gluten free & dairy free.
WILD RICE, ALMOND AND CARAMELIZED ONION SALAD
1/4 cup olive oil
2 large onions (brown or red), thinly sliced
2 tblspns brown sugar
2 tblspns malt vinegar
3 cups chicken stock
8 cardamom pods, bruised
100 wild rice
2 cups basmati rice
2 cinnamon sticks
2/3 cup almonds, toasted (in oven or in dry frying pan, but watch carefully so as not to burn)
1/3 cup pine nuts, toasted (see above)
1. In large non stick frying pan (with lid) heat 1 tblspn of the oil on med-low. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, or until they soften but not browned. Sprinkle sugar over oion and stir until dissolved. Stir in the vinegar. Cook for a further 7 minutes, or until caramelised. Remove from the pan and set aside.
2. In a large saucepan, bring the stock to a simmer over a medium heat (or boil the kettle and dissolve 1-2 stock cubes). Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in the frying pan over a medium heat. Add the cardamom pods and rices and then cook, stirring for 2 minutes. Add the cinnamon sticks and stock to the pan and stir to combine.
3. Cover, bring to a simmer, then reduce heat to low and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat, then stir through the onion mixture, almonds and pine nuts.
Can be made up to two days before. Store in a sealed container.
If you’re looking for other great recipes, check out:
www.fitstyler.com.au/Health_Nutrition/Healthy-Recipes
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