Get better, get stronger!

Do you love cartoons? I love cartoons, I watch cartoon, I draw cartoons. In fact I would have been a cartoonist. I remember, while I was growing up, (and those in my age group will know this) in primary 1, we use chalk and slate, my Mum will give me one white chalk and maybe 2 colour chalks/day to write in school. After writing my ABC, I’ll wipe it off and use all my chalk to draw to the extent that I’ll have no chalk left to write other assignments and also I wouldn’t want to wipe off what I’ve drawn on the slate which wouldn’t go down well with my teacher (we call her Mummy). Before that time, when I’ve not started school, I use to draw in sand with sticks, while playing with friends. Later, when we started using notebooks, pencils and biro (pen), I would fill my notebooks with drawings of Superman, Spiderman, Ironman, Voltron and all other Super heroes. My Mum would chastise me “Dare, face your studies, don’t draw.” You know, our parents then just didn’t know how important it is to allow children follow their natural inclination.

Well back to my question, you see there is this cartoon or animated children movie called “The Incredibles.” In the film, the Hero, Bob – Mr. Incredible, had to battle this robot called – Omnidroid, created by his archenemy, the super villain named Syndrome. Of course, Mr. Incredible destroyed the robot, but the interesting this about the robot is that it is a learning robot, it learns from its defeats and gets better. So Omnidroid 2 was more difficult to fight, though he managed to also destroy it. And Omnidroid 3 totally knocks out Mr. Incredible.

Now you’ll wonder, “he is talking about cartoons, I thought this site is suppose to be about physical fitness.” Well, the point I’m trying to make is that our muscle is like that robot. It love challenges, it gets better and stronger to handle tougher and tougher challenges.The first day I started to jog, I plan to run down to the end of my street, couldn’t make it to the middle! Then today, I tried it again, and I made it to the end of the street! It was tough, I was all out of breath, at a point I nearly gave up, but I kept at it and I made it to victory! Waooo!!!

Then, I do some brisk walking half way back and did home run for the remaining distance back home. Then according to my plan, I did some press-up for my upper body exercise (formally, I could only do 10 press-ups, maximum of 15. Today I did 28!) Lastly, I did about 40 crunches to abs exercises.

I hope to do some swimming and weight lifting in the evening.

To summarize, “you don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to become great”

So start today from where ever level you are. If you do, you’ll become better, you’ll become stronger!

To your success!