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Absolutely knackered after boot camp session, arms were shaking when driving on the freeway home, had to use my knees.

After an intense boxing session, our new fitmate after being encouraged (hassled) to attend a session, eventually made it down but was still realling from the aftermath.

Working in a tool shop wasn’t great as he was struggling to lift even the lightest drill, not great when your mates at work are giving you a hard time about it.

Our Fitmate had a high calorie burn at Bootcamp this morning. After 60 minutes of high intensity exercise, he managed to burn 800 calories. An awesome effort after allowing for the warm up and cool down/stretching components.

Thanks to his heart rate monitor, it gave a fair indication of the total energy burnt during the Bootcamp taking into account his age, weight, height and maximum heart rate.

If you’re looking at a way to measure your fitness, try the beep test.

The last time one of our Fitmates burnt 800 calories, they wanted to know if it was ok to eat 3 Mars Bars as they contained the equivalent amount of calories (energy).

The main thing for achieving weight loss is balancing energy intake verses energy expenditure. Once you have it skewed more towards the energy that you burn, you are well on your way to achieving your weight loss goals

Great to see smoking is banned in cars where there are children. As there is an acknowledgment by the government about the dangers of smoking in confined spaces, this ban should be introduced/extended across any confined public space.

Yes it is fantastic that it will be illegal to smoke while a minor or person under 18 years old is in the car as it is assumed that a minor is powerless to stop an adult from smoking.

I find it strange how smoking is still allowed in cafe’s, restaurant’s and bars where there is a wall missing, ie the window and front wall has been removed with the wall being reinstated further back to create an pseudo open space.

Is it possible for 100% of the smoke in these pseudo courtyards to miraculously rise without disturbance to the ceiling and travel out towards the street and towards the heavens? NO I don’t think so. We have this situation in Australia where the smoking lobby puts undue pressure on the government and the addiction to sales tax revenue on cigarettes is too string, the public are subjected to this health threat.

There has been some movement with the Moreland Council proposing a 5 meter smoking ban from Childrens playground that highlights the dangers of secondhand smoke. More importantly that the council acknowledges that exhaled cigarette smoke does not necessarily travel towards the sky.

We need to follow the leadership taken by the Queensland government in introducing more appropriate anti smoking laws.

When it comes to health, smoking is one aspect that has a huge impact. Unlike other staes in Australia, Queensland has shown true leadership in introducing smoking bans that actually reduce the exposure of secondhand smoke to innocent bystanders.

Pretty simple stuff, outdoors means no roof or a ceiling or enclosed by a solid covering, surrounded by walls (as my example), high fences and timber palings.

Pretty logical stuff, while there are always loop holes in these definition, it catches most places in Victoria that are legally defined as outdoor but really are enclosed.

So what’s stopping Victoria from adopting these tougher smoking laws in public spaces?

When food is the closest to it’s natural state, ie not highly processed, then this forms the basic guidelines of what to eat.

Part of my daily diet includes eating a breakfast muesli called Kapai Puku that resembles bird seed with it’s natural mix of seeds & grains. Well this morning I was surprised to find that after lifting the strainer from the drain hole in the sink there was plant life. A seed left over from cleaning my muesli bowl had started to grow, pretty freaky stuff but a testament to how a product that isn’t processed can still nurture life.

Unprocessed foods, grows from sink

Quite often our foods are highly processed and undergo various processes of pasterisation, heating, extruding as well as chemicals being added for colour, taste, flavor enhancement, preservation, binding of ingredients, consistency, shelf life, transportation etc to create the end product. Well if a product can sprout a shoot after being in the most inhospitable environments, there mustn’t be much in the product other than all natural unadulterated ingredients.

This also applies to our fruit and vegetables that can also be submitted to a whole host of processes and chemicals to get them into your supermarket aisle all year around. A great example is garlic, I recently did an experiment whereby I compared organically locally grown organic verses the imported variety.

The results were as I expected, the imported version can last for months versus the local version that lasted about 4 days before sprouting shoots.

So when buying your produce or food, be careful of what you are really eating and avoid the highly processed varieties..