Melbourne Boot Camp

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:)))

Too often we are too rushed before participating in a sporting event such as a football or netball game to commit to an adequate stretching session.

Especially if you’re younger the perception may be that “I’II be ok” or that “stretching is a waste of time” or playing the game without stretching is shown as a form of toughness amongst their team mates.

Without adequately warming up the muscles and stretching, we risk damaging muscles or ligaments.

How often have you heard of a player saying that they “have done their hammy or groin”
Obviously there is a little more to these injuries but some basic pre-exercise maintenance can go a long way to avoid such injuries