Music Monday: Nine Inch Nails "Down In It"
Just a song that got in my head while getting motivated to keep stride through the Holidays. Enjoy!
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A Peculiar Trend in Health and Voting
As this blog is supposedly fitness-esque this data from the Economist caught my eye. Everyone, even Donald Trump to a lesser extent, is trying to figure out what the heck happened in the election. Here's a trend that is suggested in this article is disparity in health correlating with Trump votes. It even goes so far as to suggest that if many of these folks were healthier, they may have put Hillary in the White House. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/daily-chart-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/ If this is the case, perhaps there is some additional reasoning behind peoples votes. Perhaps a portion of the population felt left behind in healthcare while other groups found increased coverage. Or perhaps having insurance through the mandate is poor incentive when care is still difficult to access. Regardless of political views, a healthy population is a good thing. It appears that while expanding coverage may be a noble path forward it is also important to increase...
A good morning for banana bread
Sometimes you just need a treat. Here's my preferred (base) recipe. Substitute coconut oil, Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips, add a little flax seed and substitute some of the white flour for oatmeal or oat flour for some variation.
Monday Cardio
I'm needing to sweat a little bit. The weekend provided me with a good alternative workout in the way of framing some interior partitions as a part of my basement remodel, but it didn't get my heart rate up. Tonight's workout will involve an indoor track (1/7th mile) and a jump rope as follows: Warm up: run two laps Main workout for 10 reps: 30 second jump rope 10 burpees 1 lap jog (slow enough to get some heartrate recovery) Cool down: Two laps Stretching Crash on couch to Monday night football
The Election and Football
This was a hard fought election season. In the interest of full disclosure, my presidential pick lost. It is a tough notion have had to wake up to. I sighed, said a little prayer that all be okay for this great land and prepared for my work day as I always do. Albeit, I'm in New Orleans for a program kickoff meeting, but I am preparing for work none-the-less A quick inspection of social media reveals a lot of animosity. Honestly, I'm surprised and a little disappointed how sore of losers some are being. I've seen blame and accusations generalized and directed towards whole groups/generations of people. I've seen vitriol spewed as venom towards the winning side. I've seen fear rise and cry out. I envision people acting like Cam Newton flopping on the sidelines in a tantrum. I've seen a small amount of smugness from the victors, but none of it so far was about who won, but relief about who lost. I don't want to write on the details of what went wrong...