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Friday, February 20, 2004
Lee: Going to the gym
By Kelvin King Lee
Babble On
All I got out of the mess was enough body pain to last me the rest of the year. Every conceivable corner of my body hurts like heck, even parts of my body I didn't know existed hurt.
I REALIZED that I needed to do something about the salbabida-sized bulge around my waist. It is easy to come to this conclusion when one gets winded reaching for the last piece of doughnut in a box. When the weighing scale does two full revolutions before finally settling on a number. When taxi drivers refuse to take me on board for fear of damaging the shock absorbers of their car.
I admit it. I weigh perhaps double what I should, or was it triple? It was hard to check with the weighing scale damaged after I stepped on it.
So I did what my brother suggested. I ran (actually, I drove) to the nearest gym and signed up for the fastest weight loss program available. Now, my brother is a big man who goes to the gym regularly. He is strong enough to throw me out the window with his pinky finger and is as fit as a fiddle, and he has his gym to thank for that.
By going to the gym I would be a hulking mass of muscle in a few short months. A modern day Adonis with abs of steel. I would be a Mr. Universe, with a body women would die for.
On my first training session at the gym, I warmed up on the treadmill. After trying out the treadmill on wimp mode, its lowest setting, I started perspiring enough sweat to fill up a dry riverbed. The next step was to try out weight lifting. With some help from fitness trainers, I was able to expose my body to different kinds of self-torture exercises designed to increase muscle mass. However they only served to increase muscle pain for me. I mean, I could barely lift the barbell stick, much less the actual weights.
If it was any consolation, at least the fitness trainers were friendly and easily amused. The fitness trainers were particularly amused when they found me nearly crushed under some ten-pound weights that they had handed to me. Needless to say, I wasn't amused.
I was also asked to try doing sit-ups. I did the first one easily enough. But thirty minutes later, when I finally did the third sit-up with my abs quivering like jello, I realized that this whole gym thing might not have been that good an idea.
To make a long, painful story short, I didn't lose any weight. All I got out of the mess was enough body pain to last me the rest of the year. Every conceivable corner of my body hurts like heck, even parts of my body I didn't know existed hurt.
And yet, I am still going to the gym. After all, I have to do something to improve my donut lifting strength, even if the process does hurt like heck. At least I'm trying right?
(I do hope you realize I ain't serious here.)
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The Alumni Association of the Asian Institute of Management (AAAIM), together with its worldwide federation, the Federation of Alumni Associations of the AIM, and the Faculty Deans of the Asian Institute Of Management, join efforts to hold the 1st AIM International Leadership Conference on March 04 Thursday, 2004, 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Via Live Video Conferencing, the activity will be held simultaneously in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
Some of Asia's top business leaders, such as Manny Pangilinan of PLDT and Gov. Timothy Ong, the deputy chairman of the National Insurance Company Berhad (Brunei Darussalam), shall speak at this conference. The deans of the Asian Institute of Management, Dr. Eduardo Morato, Dr. Frederico Macaranas, Dr. Alejandrino Ferreria and Dean Sonny Coloma, shall also share their opinions on the conference's theme.
If you are interested in attending and for more information, call (02) 892-4011 local 541 and 451, or email lco@mail.aim.edu.ph.
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Congratulations are in order for my good friend, Gaurav who is from India and is getting married soon. Gaurav, who is a classmate from a marketing course I took at the Asian Institute of Management last year, has finally taken the plunge into the deep waters of marriage, bidding good-bye to his status as a singleton. Best wishes my friend, on this new chapter of your life.
(Email me at babbleon@atenista.net)
(February 20, 2004 issue)
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