Have a lobstromonous new year

Well it’s that time of....inbetweenyness. I’ll be writing 2012 on my lecture notes until well into next December but my heart and plans are somewhere buried in 2015. It's been a great year, I survived secondary school and half a year at medical school. I gave up drinking (before NY which granted seems odd). I've made some new friends. I hope your year was as good as mine. But, as ever we look for ways to improve VIVA LA RESOLUTIONS.

Amongst my homojournal resolutions; I will post on time, I will post on time, I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies and they are people too: I also have some private ones.

As I’m away from university over the holiday season it means a month away from the gym. I can hear your gasps of suprise now. Yes, me, I, Mel who is lazy to the point of clinical disability goes to the gym regularly. Anyway, as a result of this so far two week but soon to be four week absence I can see that my arms and legs have already lost tone, clearly it has nothing to do with the noodles or pizza. (We’ll ignore my middle parts, the food baby is here to stay, deal with it).

Hence, therefore, thus, furthermore, in conclusion my new year’s resolution is to start an exercise routine I can do from home, and when I get back to uni, one I can do every morning without going to the gym.

In my quest for a workout for lazy nerds with minimal equipment I stumbled across nerdfit. Nerdfit is a site for nerds wanting to get fit....who’d have guessed. Anyway they have lots of user friendly videos and workout plans. Below is a link to the one I’ll be doing. Though, substituting the pull-ups and chin-ups with more press-ups as I’m weak and have no pull up bar, and adding in some V-sit crunches.

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/17/advanced-body-weight-workout-warning-this-will-kick-your-ass/

I warn you this is the advanced one so DO NOT START WITH THIS. They have a beginner version. I’ve gone to the gym on average for 2 hours a day for the last 10 weeks, and this workout is kicking my butt anyway, doing it from scratch will result in zombification and homicide.

Getting fit is probably the most common (if boring) resolution, but don’t take it too seriously. My motto in life is work my arse off in the gym so I can keep up with my pizza addiction. It seems to be working so far, as I feel better but look pretty much the same.

Here are some more links for any homojournalers hoping to get back in shape after the festive season.

The beginner’s body weight work out from Nerdfit.

Fitocracy, a site that makes exercise a video game. Collect points, complete challenges, level up in the game and life.

My fitness pal, a site that helps you balance your exercise with intake. It’s great because it means I can make sure I’m getting the right nutrients and enough pizza : D I hear their mobile apps are good, but lacking a smart phone or tablet I wouldn’t really know.

Lots of Love Mel

PS, sorry this was basically an excuse for me to nerd about my fitness routines and brag a little. The title of this post comes from the big fat quiz of the year on channel 4, which is available for UK readers to watch here...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/big-fat-quiz/episode-guide/series-9/episode-1

...it comes highly recommended.

Why commit to one sport when you can drool over all?

Since the sport I had chosen was stolen from me *stares at James* I decided not to commit to any specific sport. Drooling monogamy? Never heard of it, so here I present you with

A Hottie for each Olympic sport (well, some of them)


Not an easy task! I didn't imagine it being this difficult, not just deciding the hottest athletes but also what pic to put O.O So you better enjoy this!


Archery - Jake Kaminsky (ok I don't know much about archery and it's the best I could find)

Athletics - Jack Green

Boxing - Clemente Russo

Diving - David Boudia (Since we've already seen Tom Daley)

Football - David Beckham

Judo - Ashley McKenzie 

Rowing - Giuseppe Lanzone

Sailing - Bob Willis

Swimming - Michael Phelps

I was going somewhere with this post...

Imagine the least sporty person you know. Give them a level of sportyness from 0 to 1, where 0 is "not at all sporty" and 1 is "this guy is the definition of sport." Once you've decided on how (un)sporty the least sporty person you know is, divide that number by a thousand, halve it, divide it by a thousand again, then divide it by four, just for good measure. Hopefully you should have a number with so many decimal places it's practically zero. If not, you need a new calculator. If you do, then that's just a fraction of how sporty I consider myself to be. It will come as no surprise then when I say that I couldn't really care less about the Olympics, nor much else to do with it, frankly - I had to live with hours of delays and plenty of road closures when a little flame went down a road on an obnoxiously large gold stick IN THE MIDDLE OF RUSH HOUR.

However, I will confess that I have a bit of a soft spot for certain sports concerning water... basically anything involving a pair of these:

Forgive me if the next few paragraphs ramble, this photo is directly in my field of vision and hugely droolworthy distracting.

In most cases, I will also have a soft spot for the person wearing them - think Tom Daley or the guy in that photo, or Troy, or Colin Morgan (I'm not sure if the latter wears them, and I'm desperately wishing/hoping the former does). In all of those most cases, I'd rather there was nothing there at all. 

I hardly need to point out exactly what it is about this particular Olympic sport which is so attractive - good looking thin guys with just enough muscle, none of whom look like a walking forest and have just enough gear to be able to pull off the above look without a) anything spilling out or b) wondering if there is actually anything under said speedo. I confess, once or twice I may even have considered taking up swimming myself, although weather this was a) to learn how to save myself from drowning if I needed to, b) to get fit and be able to boast a body of above description or c) for the locker-room antics which will inevitably occur, I'm never quite sure. I'm sure one day soon enough, I'll see the light and realise that taking up swimming is of course the perfect excuse for all three options.

I realise I haven't exactly been on-topic for quite a lot of this post - I can still see a sizeable amount of bulge in that photo - so to distract my mind (and yours, if you're not still staring), I was going to point out all the handsome swimmers in this years Olympics, like the charming Monsieur Lefert of France (who, by the way, is competing in the 100m Butterfly, 4x100m and 4x200m Freestyle relay and the 4x100m Medley relay, just so you know). However, as I was scrolling through the photos, it struck me that many of them look like former guests of Her Majesty, and it occured to me that I would have to eat my words about all swimmers being good looking. 

So that I don't have to do that, here is further proof that all swimmers are good looking. 

God bless... Australia?!

Happy drooling.