FeralGoth’s BodyBlog

I can’t wait - its time to start practicing administering various fitness tests and such on friends and family.  At first I was a bit unsure about asking my boyfriend if I could practice checking blood pressure on him, but turns out his Dr. has been pestering him to monitor his bp regularly and he hasn’t (laziness), so its a win for both of us and he doesn’t mind.  He’s finally taking a good look at his eating habits and exercise, so I hope that over time he’ll be able to see an improvement in his general health and bp.  As for everyone else, I’m coordinating a little "track day" to administer a few submaximal walking/jogging tests.  Should be fun - I’m going to make sure that it will be for everyone… there will be participation prizes, and no, there will not be pizza!  Having grown up in a house where my Dad was always practicing new psychological assessment tests on me (He was a child/teen/family doctoral level psychologist at the time), its good that I finally get to practice testing other people, finally.  I should give HIM some of these tests just to even the score - he’s in good shape so he’d probably like having some numbers to be proud of.

Really making some nice progress - by the time swimming season rolls around I may just have to actually *go outside*  maybe dust off the ol’ skimboard and use it as a fun excuse to do some sprints at the beach… who knows - its possible without being embarrassed about myself now…  and thats a great feeling.  I’ve even *gasp* picked out a bathing suit for such an occasion!!!  Woohoo!   Also doing some research into how some friends in my life with personality disorders have caused me a little damage - just a research has helped out a whole not - realizing - HEY!! I’m not the crazy one here, I just need to set up and stick to my personal boundaries.  Thats not so bad - and its been working :)

I really need to get around to posting a progress picture…. seriously…