Got somewhat involved in a car accident yesterday. I was turning off at an intersection, in heavy rain, and as I turned, I lost control of my car, causing it to swerve wildly around the road. I'm not sure how I felt about the whole thing, throughout that ordeal, I was wrenching with the steering wheel and my only thought was of trying to regain control of the car.
I hit something behind me.
I came off lucky - a dent near one of the rear tyres, and one of the indicator lights on the other car put out. We exchanged contact details and were on our way. I came into work, and spent the time reflecting on what could have happened. Although it was a minor bump, it shook the idea that I always have total control of my car - and by extension, my life. Things happen sometimes that are simply beyond your control, and those kinds of things you want to minimise. It was also a stark reminder of my mortality. I am not invincible, and am vulnerable like others. I only have one life, so it's not like in a game where I can just do a corpse run from a graveyard back to my body.
We only have one life, so we have to give it our all - my friend put it succintly. If we only have one life, so why fear things? You'll end up simply missing out on life.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
The 300 Challenge
The movie 300 came out recently. It's so good that I went to see it twice. In fact, I loved it so much that I went to see it twice on the Easter weekend. A quick spiel on what the movie's actually about - it's based on Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name, which itself was based on the Battle of Thermopylae, one of history's most famous last stands.
Reading an article in Men's Health recently, I read about the punishing regime that the actors had to go through to have the lean, mean physiques that they have in the movie, actually creating Spartans. Some of the stuff would destroy you - and they had to do it for most of a day, for four months.
The actual 300 challenge itself is a test drawn up by the trainer who trained the actors, Mark Twight of Gym Jones.
The actual workout itself is a whole set of 300 reps of different exercises:
25 pullups
50 deadlifts with 60kg
50 pushups
50 jumps on a 60cm box
50 floor wipers
50 single-arm clean-and-presses using a 16kg kettlebell
25 pullups.
Let me emphasise here - there are NO rests between exercises, you do one and then straight onto the next one.
Out of the four people who took part in the training regime the actors went through, only four actually managed to get through the entire circuit.
Gerard Butler, actor who played King Leonidas, clocked in at just under twenty minutes.
It'll be interesting to see how I work up to the challenge of building up the strength, stamina, and endurance to push through that entire workout.
Reading an article in Men's Health recently, I read about the punishing regime that the actors had to go through to have the lean, mean physiques that they have in the movie, actually creating Spartans. Some of the stuff would destroy you - and they had to do it for most of a day, for four months.
The actual 300 challenge itself is a test drawn up by the trainer who trained the actors, Mark Twight of Gym Jones.
The actual workout itself is a whole set of 300 reps of different exercises:
25 pullups
50 deadlifts with 60kg
50 pushups
50 jumps on a 60cm box
50 floor wipers
50 single-arm clean-and-presses using a 16kg kettlebell
25 pullups.
Let me emphasise here - there are NO rests between exercises, you do one and then straight onto the next one.
Out of the four people who took part in the training regime the actors went through, only four actually managed to get through the entire circuit.
Gerard Butler, actor who played King Leonidas, clocked in at just under twenty minutes.
It'll be interesting to see how I work up to the challenge of building up the strength, stamina, and endurance to push through that entire workout.
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