rawlife’s BodyBlog

   Sounds a bit hard to believe to me.  I was using a Precor elliptical type machine(a newer model, bit different) which gave me an HR reading of 180-188 for a full 20 minutes straight yesterday.  That seems a little unlikely to me.  Nonetheless, I had a great time doing it.  My feet fell asleep for the last ten minutes or so, but the rest of me was lovin it.  I don’t often do cardio although I’ve said on at least one occassion before that I am going to start doing it regularly.  Now I think I will.  Much like my new dedication to stretching(which I have kept up), cardio appeals to my sense of being a more well rounded athlete-which is pretty much the only thing that makes me work out these days.  As I’ve said on numerous occassions before, I’ve lost almost all drive to get bigger.  That’s become very unappealing to me; and part of that is due to a kind of obcessive thought or feeling I keep getting that my head will look to small for my body.  I see this all the time on guys, I wonder if I’m the only one. 

    Another reason is that I’ve become somehow very turned off by the whole ideal.  I haven’t actually thought that bigger is better for several years now…I don’t know why I should be striving for it.  My new idea as of late is to start doing things that I really think are fun and what I’ve always thought of as fun are puzzles(I did a TON of puzzles as a kid).  Right now, figuring out how to make my body work correctly and better than it has before fufills that desire.  Maybe when I get that straightened out, I’ll be turned on to competitive bodybuilding again as a means to create something visibly artistic out of something fully functional.  That’s an idea. 

   In other news, I am going on vacation this thursday.  It will be a week on the Faroe Islands, just under a week in Iceland, and then just under two weeks in the States.  I haven’t packed yet and I don’t know what I will be bringing.  I keep toying with the idea of not bringing anything, of just going and seeing what happens.  I don’t have enough money to stay anywhere, so the plan is the sleep outside.  That’s always been the plan; but I was originally planning on bringing a tent. The tent is out though.  It’s going to weigh too much and I don’t want anything that weighs a lot putting pressure on my spine.  They do have ultra light weight tents but they were out of my price range.  So we’ll see where I end up sleeping.  The thing about the Faroes and Iceland, I’ve heard, is that they are windy.  And rainy.  I do have a poncho.  In one way or another, it will get sorted out and I’ll have a great time.   

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