Alas the great Jack Lalanne has passed on and a person who I very much looked up to is with us no more. Mr. Lalanne left the world a wide cornucopia of valuable information on everything that is fitness, and despite a large series of "Medical Professionals" stating that strenuous exercise will do little more than cause injury-keeping in mind those theories were from the 1940s or so if I recall correctly-he continued on and showed us what being healthy is.
Jack Lalanne left us among others two very important messages with his legacy. To begin with, if you treat your body with respect, it will return it back to you, perhaps not immediately, but without a doubt eventually-unless you get hit by a bus a week into your new health regime. He also let us know that science, despite being in general my preferred system of beliefs is not infallible by any means, and a lot of times scientists are just as full of it as religious fanatics. Ultimately their paychecks have to come from somewhere, and morals tend to become blurred in the face of a cold hard lump of cash. That being said, I recommend to you as someone trying to lead a healthier life, or simply as a curious reader, that you take everything-and I mean everything-with a grain of salt.
Despite my relatively young age, fitness has become quite a passion of mine, and with it I have learned an amazing amount about myself and others. From the very start of my fitness endevour which amounted to an overweight 12 year old who literally could not do a push up, to my current level of fitness, I have always questioned, tested, verified, and refuted claims for myself. What has been borne from these years, and no doubt into the future, is the way I keep my body healthy. You'll find a lot of similarities, and a lot of differences in the way I do just that, and it is my hope that I will provide you-the reader-with some solid, personally tested, less biased, applicable info on subjects ranging from weightloss, strength training, cardio (my greatest enemy), and training your brain to do seemingly amazing feats as well.
To cap off my first post I'll give you some hopefully interesting information about myself. I was born and have lived for my entire life on a small island off the coast of southwest British Columbia (Canada). I've grown up on a farm with horses, dogs, cats, birds, deer, and other annoying animals, and I spend much of my free time hiking through woods.
My body type is mesomorphic, and this combined with drinking two soft drinks a day for two years until about the age of 12 made me gain about 20 pounds of extra fat by grade 8, which I was very self-conscious about. I started exercising around this time, but I did very little and mostly focused on Push ups, as I had no equipment or knowledge to do otherwise. About a year ago or so I started eating much healthier, and exercising much more regularly, which given me a large amount of confidence despite what little I've done compared to most others (more on that in another blog). My preferred method of exercising is calisthenics (bodyweight) but I currently and for the next five or so months I have access to a moderately equipped gym for free, and I've been focusing mostly on fundamental compound lifts (bench press, overhead press, squats, deadlifts), and I plan on doing so until I graduate.
I'm currently 17, and in my last year of highschool.
If you are still reading this, my passions are of course exercising, hiking, mentalism, sad attempts at lucid dreaming, poker as of late, walking around at night, and a few others which I can't think of at the moment. Oh as you can tell I love writing long winded articles. In school I'm an intelligent underachiever, and I tend to be extremely introverted unless I'm around people I know well.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading.
Ryan
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