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more fun please!

i would do the unfun things in life more often if they were fun. heres a few examples:

• work out
• eat healthier
• take out the trash

you make working out fun like playing basketball all the time? id do it twice a day. you make boring salads taste like delicious cheeseburgers? id eat more greens. you make taking out the trash like playing a video game? id take out the trash every 2 hours.

ive really noticed that this fun factor really drives kids. when i was teaching tennis, id have to make the boring part of practice (picking up all of the tennis balls after they had hit them all over the courts) a fun game. red light green light worked well. bribing them with popsicles also worked well.

from the video, it looks like the fun factor affects all ages. everyone likes a little fun.

i must like being told what to do.

ive been on p90x for about 3 weeks now, and i love it. not so much the exercise part of it per se (although it does kick a lot of ass), but more the daily routine.

every day, i pop in a dvd, and tony horton yells at me for about an hour. i dont have to think about whether or not i should be doing cardio vs resistance training, what part of the body i have to work out, etc. i just have to follow the schedule, and mimic (poorly) tonys movements on the dvd. i rest when its a rest day, work out when its a work out day. it has been both the toughest and easiest workout routine ive ever done.

its mainly because i dont really have a passion for working out. i do it because i sit in front of a computer all day. i do it because i need exercise. okay okay, i do it so my mom will hopefully stop calling me a fatty. the point is, it doesnt really matter if im runing, biking, precor-ing… whatever. to me, its all just moving around until i sweat profusely. having someone tell me what to do when i dont really care about doing it is nice.

im goign to try to apply this same routine to my meals – especially lunch. it’ll probably work because i also dont really care what i eat. one summer, i ate nothing but chicken and heads of lettuce. sometimes, when im too busy, ill even forget to eat. thats when this eating schedule will come in handy.

hopefully, if something tells me what to bring for lunch, ill bring it. no more boring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

via the washington post

bounceback week.

okay im ready to finally talk about last weeks football events.

cal
wow. i have not seen a blowout like that since… the tom holmoe days. *shudder* just sad sad sad. jeff tedford is an intense dude. i would not want to be at his practice this week. i bet there will be lots of puking. maybe some crying.

verran tucker needs to shut his mouth and concentrate on playing football. a dropped pass in the first quarter for an easy touchdown, and a taunting call that negated a p.i. call in the endzone? those might have definitely swung the momentum of the game and put the bears up ahead. cal is a different team when playing with the lead. le *sigh*

also, if a tight end is going to score a billion touchdowns in the first half, you might want to make some adjustments and maybe put a guy on him. just saying.

49ers
also crushing, but in a totally different way. so close. if were going to claim to be a running team, we have to convert on a 3rd and 2 dont we? first down ices the game. why not a fullback run? works for me in madden all the time.

and to everyone who says, oh we should have never been in that position since we gave up a kick return for a touchdown. um yeah, but we also blocked a field goal and returned it for a touchdown – possibly 10 point swing. two freak plays cancel each other out. in fact, we got the better end of the deal.

im really ready for a bounceback week for both teams.

go niners. go bears.