Tuesday's Day off training and general thoughts

Today as always is an off day from training.  But in keeping with the general conditioning kick I have been on, I took it to Columbia Park in Dunellen and took a 3 mile walk around the track.  Columbia Park has a real nice half mile loop that goes around the running track, football field, and 2 baseball fields.  I walked the loop 6 times while pushing my son in his blue truck.

As for the conditioning, I'm trying to get enough conditioning that I can increase my general physical preparedness (GPP) while also increasing my lung capacity.  I figure if I'm going to get after 800 pound squats in the near future, I have to have the lung capacity to hold my air through the lift without passing out.  Here is where the conditioning comes in.  I've even talked about this with my training partners who have been encouraging me to continue walking, and say there is nothing wrong with hitting 15 minutes of cardio as well once or twice a week.

I am amazed however at the general laziness of the average American.  I have never been a guy who was afraid to walk.  I will walk somewhere 2 miles or more away without thinking about it, even when I'm not on a GPP kick.  The comments people make just reflect their attitudes, and the way Americans have become so reliant on automobiles, that the thought of walking is to them preposterous.  You walked?!?  Is your car broken?!?  Why did you do that?!?  And we wonder why America is battling an obesity epidemic like never before. 

The other day I watched They Live with Rowdy Roddy Piper and it made me think of how advertising manipulates our thinking.  People actually believe that Nutella is healthy and part of a balanced breakfast because the commercial said so.  That is the job of marketing, to sell us on lies.  As my man Flava Flav once said, Don't Believe The Hype.  Thats part of the problem, people believe what they are told, and do not question things.  I mean if people will believe Nutella is part of a balanced breakfast, then I want those people to holla at me, I got magic beans for sale.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

In closing, I remember when I broke my right fibula prior to the start of football season a couple of years back, and I was laid up in bed and in a cast for 6 weeks.  In the beginning all I thought about doing was playing ball, and lifting weights.  Every night I would dream I was at Red Brick Gym in East Newark NJ putting it in.  By the end of the 6 weeks I was dreaming every night about walking.  Point is look at the things that we take for granted, things as basic as walking.  So when people say to me you walked?  I simply reply, I got legs that work.