Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard Man OFFERED: Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for the record > Congrats! Herb! I hope to be able to use my Leica MMMXXXII when I'm 90! > > Chris, that's a myth. You don't have to kill yourself exercising or eating > food you don't like. Healthy eating and living don't necessarily equate > that!<<<<< Hi Richard, Chris is absolutely wrong and for a young lad I find it very sad he has that attitude about killing oneself through exercise! And as far as eating foods you don't like???? That thought never crossed my mind. If one is hungry enough or on the brink of starvation? Chris would be amazed what a human being will eat to survive. I wont go into that one! Exercising and killing. Hey Chris how be you lie down on the floor and do 80 sit-ups and have enough left over that you could probably knock off 95! :-) Go for it lad, no sweat! :-) On my 80th birthday day before our celebrating family group during an outdoor BD party. I flopped down and did 80 sit-ups which at the beginning my several grandchildren, upper teens and into their twenties were having fits I was going to kill myself because some of them admitted they couldn't do 10. :-) Then they started making bets on whether I'd make it or not. By the time I hit 60 they cancelled all bets and started to chant out the numbers and cheering me on! By now every guest was watching and either telling me to stop or cheering to keep it up! I reached the 80 mark with hardly an effort! Everyone was cheering. I sat up and did one more.... "then offered the grandsons this word of advice.... "Boys that extra one is too show you, if you get out of line, Grandpa can still kick - ass!!!! " :-) To an even greater amount of cheering! Then I stood-up and drank a fairly good sized single malt scotch to a loud hail of "Cheers G-pa!" All glasses held on high! :-) If one kills them selves exercising it's quite simple really.... They're idiots and pushing themselves beyond their limits. The key is, do something every day whatever you find comfortable and do it every day! Better twice a day if possible! Heck even ten sit-ups is a starter! I hear people say... "I don't have time to exercise!" Quite frankly that's a pile of cow dung! People find time to eat and sleep. And yes to sit and watch the idiot box while knocking back a few. So don't anyone tell me they don't have time for a 15 minute walk around the block every single day, sun, rain or snowing! If it's Genetics that allows us to last longer that's great, but maybe? Just maybe a walk around the block every day may make all the difference in the world between 19 and 95! Regardless of genetics? My plan is, I fully intend to die on my 100th birthday day! That's after I've completed 100 sit-ups. :-) Now that's the plan and I've got 17 years for training! No reason I wont make it! Anyone want to make a bet? ;-) Well what the hell, I did my first and only solo parachute jump a day or two after my 65th birthday just because I'd always wondered what it would be like? Fabulous by the way! :-) On the 76th BD day, I flew about the sky doing all kinds of wild and crazy dog fights in a P51 Mustang simply because it was a lifetime dream!!!! And loved every second of it! Why not ? It's a beautiful feeling to love life! Chris it isn't the exercising that will kill you......... IT'S THE LACK OF DOING IT THAT WILL KILL YOU! cheers, Dr. ted :-) > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Chris Crawford OFFERED: < > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > >> >> I think that health and long life are largely luck. Genetics play a huge >> role, and I'm not sure that killing yourself exercising or eating foods >> you don't like make much difference. I loved visiting my great-grandpa >> when I was a kid. He always had a gigantic bowl of candy on his kitchen >> table, and if my mom complained about me eating too much of it, he told >> her to shut up and quit bitching, then he'd give me another piece! >> >> - >> > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information