Melbourne Boot Camp

It’s amazing how easily we acclimatise to different weather conditions.
There have been experiments in the past with people going to the Antartic for months on end.

Two groups were used, the first group submersed their body’s in an iced bath leading up to their departure while the second group did nothing.

Interestingly the first group tolerated the colder climate better than than those who didn’t acclimatise. They experienced less susceptibility to colds & flu’s.

Similarly people from warmer climates closer to the equator may find 25 degrees cold enough to wear clothing more akin to Autumn/Winter.

I always find it amusing when pre-global warming Londoners would be in T-Shirts & shorts in 15 degrees if the sun was out and 25 degrees was considered a heatwave:))

With all the warnings and the revised packaging is it really having an effect?

Well yes and no, my neighbour is utterly mortified by the cigarette pack that has a picture of a female with mouth cancer.
So disturbed in fact by this graphic image that he will keep an old packet so in the event that he gets the lucky dip of cigarette packets with the image of the female with oral cancer the contents can be transferred.
Yes it is having the desired effect but the behavior is being modified to get around the effect.

Something that has worked anecdotally in New Zealand have been the banning of ANY outdoor smoking, including any area that is merely covered by a roof with open walls.
The result, to $%^%ing hard for people to smoke, result they are forced to give up by the situation as the highly restrictive nature of smoking makes the effort greater than the reward.

So in Australia we have relaxed the laws and outdoor smoking has replaced indoor smoking at bars, cafes & pubs.
The Australian Government’s lack of leadership in following the Kiwi’s initiative demonstrates that the real effects of such a ban will really take effect, not for the premises where the smokers attend but to the the taxes generated from cigarettes.

I don’t know about you but I have never, I repeat never seen smoke from either :
a. A cigarette
b.The exhaling smoke from a person smoking going in a directly vertical direction.
With all the publish research about the effects of second hand smoke, why does the government surrender their powers to other interested parties?

We have all experienced this at sometime, looking over our shoulder while driving or at something on the side of the road.

Invariably we tend to steer the car into what ever direction we are looking without any conscious thought.
To avoid this happening we have to consciously train ourselves to make adjustments while we focus on something other than the road directly in front of us.

Sometimes we need to take a similar approach to our life, do you have a destination or goal within your sights or are you looking over your shoulder and going in a different direction?

No one rushes to the movies to watch pre movie ads about why we need to spend $400 on Prada sunglasses so why not use the time for some fun exercise

Why not make the most of the time waiting for the ads to finish, why not squeeze in a an exercise, cinema squats:)))