So called because that’s what Tony Horton says in the Kenpo X DVD that I just completed. Tony Horton is only one year younger than my father. And if you saw my Dad, well… listen, he’s a fun guy and a smart and nice guy, too. But I doubt he could do one regular pushup much less a one-handed pushup.
I own several fitness DVDs. P90X is only one series that I have. I enjoy DVDs because I can work as hard or as light as I want to and nobody is around to worry about it. Just me. And Tony and the Gang.
There are so many things I would like to change in my life. Well. Maybe not CHANGE so much as Improve. The fact that I’d like to have a flatter stomach and bigger biceps is really just one minor thing. It’s important to me to be fit and healthy, but the appearance stuff is just icing on the cake. I started taking my vitamins again. One mens multiV, some flaxseed oil capsules and some MSM/Glucosamine stuff. For your bones and joints. They say it might work. I’ll be 30 next year but I think because I act very goofy sometimes and my appearance people usually think I’m about 24. So that’s a five year cheat. That’s good right?
I’m taking online classes and I keep putting off doing my homework in favor of surfing the internet, watching TV and… um… blogging??? But it’ll be okay.
For many years now I have been very “into” Bushido and martial arts. I’ve read several great books about it, from “Hagakure” to “Budoshoshinshu” and The Art of War and Five Rings. Finally in July for the first time in my life I started taking martial arts classes. I take a proprietary blended martial art that is mainly based on Karate, Ninjutsu and Judo. So far I am a yellow belt. I go twice a week and practice faithfully at home but I don’t think I’ve given the internal potential a chance in my life.
What I mean is, despite the classes and all the books about Zen and Tao and such… I still remain largely a very SNARKY person. I tend to be sarcastic and biting when confronted with opinions that differ from my own. I really don’t enjoy that about my personality and I am trying to change it. Even my poor wife has to put up with my stupid comments about her devotion to Twilight and her viewing of “House”. But she doesn’t do that to me, no matter what I am interested in.
I really need to learn some new characteristics and be silent and appreciative of everyone who is my friend and all my loved ones.
