There’s more to benefit from REAL exercise than just being in shape. It helps you live longer. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is slowed down when you do cardiovascular activity. And I don’t mean WALKING on the treadmill. I mean real exercise. Cell death is what makes you age. As your cells die, the new cells that replace them aren’t as good as the ones before them. They’re simply carbon copies that carry “almost” all of the information on the original. The more this process happens, the older we get.

Wanna stay young? Delay your cells from dying in the first place! Isn’t a good run or jog every day – or at least four or five times per week – worth staying young? There’s your fountain of youth… Drink from it…

On another note, I heard a woman next to me complaining about having to wax. Something about her having to wax “everything” for her husband. Ya know what? I don’t buy it! I think that’s just an excuse.. I think women do this to feel “feminine”. I think it has very little to do with men being unable to stand seeing hair on a vagina. Oh, my God! Hair on a vagina! I’m calling my attorney to work-up the divorce papers! Holy shit!

Anyway, I don’t believe women do this for men. I think they do it for themselves. And if you DON’T do it for yourself – and you do it for your man – and it’s not just to be nice – he actually demands it – go F! somebody else! It’s F’ing HAIR! Humans have hair! Deal with it. Grooming is an important part of life these days.. Nothing wrong with that. But if you don’t want to do it, than don’t do it.

And my last rant of the day… When you get the windows on your car tinted, it’s TINT. NOT TINTS! This nonsense started happening a few years ago and now I actually hear grown, intelligent men talking about getting “tints on their windows”. It’s TINT. Not TINTS. You had tint installed on your windows. Moron!

Oh! I just got paints on my car! Yeah.. Paints on my car and tints on my windows. Woohoo!

So when you’re casually shopping, you’re burning about sixty calories every half an hour. That’s not even a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. And you’re wondering why you don’t lose any weight “with all the exercise” you get. And then you have “briskly walking” in your target heartrate “fat burning zone”. Well that’s a bunch of sad wishful thinking. Yes, it burns fat – but the more effort you put into it, the better the results you’ll get. Walking faster than “briskly” will get you much better results – and might actually burn enough fat for somebody to notice.

If being in shape was easy, don’t you think everybody would be that way? Stop procrastinating and do what needs to be done. Stop waiting until next week to get started. Nobody’s going to hold your hand and do it for you.

If you’re a woman, all you have to do is get skinny. That’s the big challenge. Along the way you can lift a weight here or there and get toned. Easy. If you’re a man, well, that’s a different story. You have to be skinny AND big at the same time. Isn’t THAT a crock?! Not only do you have to sweat your jiggidies off doing cardio, but you have to break your back lifting weights that you can bearly budge to build muscle that your body doesn’t want (due to homeostasis). So have a good time fighting with mother nature. But for God’s sake – get started.