If I could return my body to the manufacturer I would. Lately I’ve been waking up to pounding headaches, and spend most of my day battling it. It leaves me tired, completely uninterested in getting any work done and wanting only to stay my ass in bed. In fact, work is a chore and it takes all sorts of convincing to get me to do anything.
Obviously I’ve even less energy to go to the gym and its almost two weeks now. The result? I feel guilty about not getting work done and not going to the gym, so not only do I have a pounding headache, I am super annoyed at myself as well.
Sigh.
Times like these I try to channel Karl Malone. He said in an interview once that his ‘secret’ is that he works out more than anyone else in the league. While everyone is out partying and living the life of a superstar – athlete (this was the 80s when physical training was considered either gay or faddish), he was in the gym pumping weights, getting himself bigger and stronger so by the time the season starts he’s pushing 40 points while everyone’s just shaking off last night’s hangover.
Then there’s Larry Bird (and also Chris Mullin), who practically lived in the gym. Back in the 80s his training regimen was to just ‘run and shoot hoops all day’, while his specialized diet was 7-up and popcorn, to lose 20 pounds before the 1987 Playoffs. 7-up and popcorn. Jesus.
Anyway, he realized something was wrong, so his physical therapist gave him a notebook full of flexibility, cardio and strengthening exercises and nutritional guidelines. The result? 47 points at the 2nd game of the 1987-88 season, and a 44 point, 22 rebound game against the Pacers.
And you wonder why our Dads idolized him?
A decade ago I could dunk. I know thats hard to believe now, and I don’t blame anyone if they don’t. But I could, and I didn’t even think anything of it, thinking I always could.
Now, I’m pushing 220lbs., and going through emotional ups and downs due to whatever the fuck chemicals going nuts in my system. Is it too much sugar? Too less? Is it what I ate the other day? Did someone slip some monosodium glutamate in my food while I wasn’t looking? It feels like I’m having a fucking period. From one moment, super productive, to the next, wanting to sleep all day. WTF.
Gary mag Enervon ka, try mo dali, hehe. Baka psychological lang din ang effect sa akin pero so far it’s doing me good.
this from a girl whose blog title is ‘kape, ito ang sagot!’ :)
I have less than a month to reconsider, if my no-coffee regimen sticks, I’ll probably change my blog’s title. “Probably” being the operational word hehe. Gary, try mo green tea or better yet black tea, twice as much caffeine kick, I think, hehe.
now that post sounds very depressed!!
since marami na sa atin na health conscious, siguro naman merong pwedeng magguide sayo on what a proper diet should be. Di mo naman kelangan sundin un religiously but at least you get an idea of what you should and should not eat.