Get off your a$* or quit trying

First of all….I hate television.  I can’t think of anything productive from even owning one and when I use my own I am aware that I’ve essentially lost a small battle in the constant war against becoming more stereo typically American.  I admit that while traveling abroad I have been embarrassed to appear too “American” to the natives in whatever place I visited.  I’m not ashamed of my country as a whole, our world leaders, or our history……I am ashamed of our people.  With each passing year we are getting fatter, lazier, and incredibly dumber.  I don’t know what came first the chicken (in this case the dumbing down of our nation) or the egg (the increasingly widening asses of my fellow Americans).

Does it matter which came first if they both suck?

Either way I think they go hand in hand.  The dumber we allow ourselves to become, either by spending 100x more on defense than education or replacing things like learning with American Idol, simply wreaks havoc on our quality of life by forcing us to depend solely on a handful of practitioners to make every important decision about our bodies.  The next time one of my elders tells me “I was just fine until I went to the doctor”, I am going to poke my temple with a fire poker.  Yes, we are that fucking stupid that we allow this to happen to ourselves and simply expect the medications to fix it to not only be affordable but provided at no cost to us as consumers.  This stupidity contributes to the expansion of our hind sides and general decline in health which forces most of our sub-human com-padres to solely sit on their asses and turn on the idiot box or some other form of life wasting activity.

As for the egg in the scenario, it isn’t innocent by any stretch.  I’ll admit that it is very entertaining, however many of us watch it while doing things that are simply terrible for our health and well-being.  It is all too common for us to shove food in our faces while sitting on our asses and watching television.  Something should click at one point that this activity just isn’t healthy.  The more time we sit in front of the shit box the worse we get. Not only is it addicting, watchers get more out of shape and less likely to actually get up and move.

Race for the Cure

This year I will be taking part in the Race for the Cure to help bring awareness to Breast Cancer. 

• My Race for the Cure Page: http://austin.info-komen.org/site/TR/RacefortheCure/AUS_AustinAffiliate?px=8436594&pg=personal&fr_id=1985
• My Team Page: http://austin.info-komen.org/site/TR/RacefortheCure/AUS_AustinAffiliate?pg=team&fr_id=1985&team_id=144154

What am I doing?
I’m running to support the Austin Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure because I want to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. Please help me reach my fundraising goal by making a tax-deductible donation today.

You may donate online with your credit card by clicking the “Donate” button on this page. Your support helps us get another step closer to a world without breast cancer.

Your breast health…
The greatest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and growing older. Breast cancer knows no boundary, be it age, gender, socio-economic status or geographic location.

The key to survival is early detection. Three simple steps for early detection are regular mammograms, clinical exams and breast self-exams. And, remember, breast cancer affects more than just the patient; friends and family need support too.

We Will Find the Cure!

Magic Bullet

Three months from now, as long as things go as planned, we’ll get Battleground Austin. One thing that has resonated with me since the Forney race is the effect something small like a 5K can have on a persons perspective. Regardless of how it was promoted, this race was essentially a “fun run” for all involved completion required almost no physical fitness, and the obstacles were pretty easy for anyone who trained for the event. As the dash nears I have been able to zoom out a bit and simply observe those of us who are “training” for the event. Even though the first Texas race wasn’t as difficult as advertised, those of us going back for round two are training harder. This seems counter-intuitive since I just mentioned the actual work wasn’t killer, however these fun events could be the closest thing to a magic bullet as many folks find.

We all have seen hundreds of different approaches to “lose weight and get in the best shape of your….” or “get bigger and stronger than….” and we’re all guilty of trying one, two, or all of these innovative approaches which inevitably don’t work. They don’t work for us but with each different method there are hundreds of people who swear it is the ONLY WAY. Truth is the reason these people found success is because that program caught them at the right time in their life to trigger the magic bullet effect. The effect I am talking about isn’t rocket science, instead it is just the perfect combination of MOTIVATION and CONSISTENCY. The time has to be almost perfect to hit on what I feel like are a handful of opportunities to actually achieve our goals. For a handful of people The Dash will present one of those opportunities to make a change for the better.