Well, great. Not only is this piece on popular myths about exercise telling me that stretching is bad, it’s also hinting that all my efforts are futile to begin with:
Most surprising is that exercise can have no effect at all on some people. Dr. Claude Bouchard, Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, discovered early in his career that there’s enormous variation in how people respond to cardiovascular exercise, with some not responding at all.
Maybe I should be a bit more patient, but I’m beginning to suspect that exercise isn’t doing me any good. I haven’t lost a pound yet (well, judging from the way my pants still fit…) and I’m still panting like a dog in the summertime when climbing a few flights of stairs. Damn it!
Link to the myth piece found at the venerable BoingBoing.
Today was the third time I went running. And today was the first time I managed to get through twenty minutes without a single panting stop. Which in my case is absolutely fantastic. You see, I’m so badly unshaped (I can’t use “out of shape” here, considering that I have never really been “in shape”), I wonder how my body managed to cope.
I mean, running for twenty minutes is more or less the most extreme thing I can do right now. If I’d run another two minutes, I’d have had such a violent heart attack, I’d have fallen off the track and into the Danube canal, without a chance of a dignified funeral, considering that my body would by now be floating somewhere near the Danube Island, and probably surface sometime in summer, discovered by a 70 year old nudist enjoying the benefits of retirement.
So, yeah, I guess it was time I started running.
PS: The fact that the Danube canal wouldn’t really take me out to the Danube Island may be filed under “artistic freedom”. Just in case you’re like me and take pleasure in correcting other people.
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