Comments on: Problogging Tip: Avoid the Sedentary Lifestyle

By: Tips for Avoiding the Sedentary Lifestyle Even When You Work in IT | I'd Rather Be Writing

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:43:46 +0000

[...] In short, turning problogger has caused me to live a sedentary lifestyle, compared to the relatively mobile and healthy daily routine I had before. I watched my waistline grow a couple of inches from its usual. I also sometimes feel sluggish because my muscles have atrophied from non-use! (Okay, exaggerating here.) The only muscles I get to exercise these days are my typing fingers and my coffee mug-lifting arm. (Source) [...]

By: Lorie

Lorie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:23:59 +0000

yipes. that was online *life. gahd. i better get food. haha! the Internet is such an inertia-inducing thing. wupsie. :p

By: Lorie

Lorie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:22:48 +0000

hmm. what i do is that i walk to church or to my meetings/classes/whatever that are church-related. SM City and my church are a stone’s throw away from here, so it’s ok. stone’s throw means a 15-minute walk, so i walk to and from church. so it’s a semblance of a workout, hehe.

yeah, real life puts perspective on one’s online wife..

one month to go for you and Caren, congrats in advance!

By: Rico

Rico — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:48:23 +0000

I guess it also helps that you become a more interesting person if you get out more often, and that’ll reflect on your writing, attracting more readers.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:51:53 +0000

@Noemi, thanks. I don’t feel too young, though! Sigh.

@Artsky, yeah, I remember the good posture was one of the benefits of working out. Hey, thanks for commenting! Long time, eh? (we last met like three years ago, right?)

@Andre, hmm. Well, it does.

By: Andre Marcelo-Tanner

Andre Marcelo-Tanner — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:57:51 +0000

PC work makes your ass fat, ever noticed, all you do is sit on it

By: Artsky

Artsky — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:59:57 +0000

I have been going to the gym since Feb2006 and it is really addicting. I feel “fat” whenever I miss my schedule.

Now, my posture and built has improved a lot and my officemates are envious of it.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:54:53 +0000

I realized how I can get caught up in my work at the computer and it’s only been 2 years since I’ve worked out at the gym. I make sure that I workout at least 1 hour everyday. And I’ve been doing that daily. Good you are doing this while you’re still young.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:24:22 +0000

@Corsarius, yep basketball seems to be good workout. Am not too good at playing, though.

@Gail, perhaps with the puyat (sleepless nights) and stress I should get thinner. But I combine that with eating lots and drinking plenty of sugary beverages.

@Mia, well, life is strange. Sometimes I don’t know which is real—my dreams or my waking hours.

Working out at home is all right. But for me, I just have no space (at least before we transfer, and that’s by next week). Still, one usually gets more motivated to workout when at the gym. At home, there’s always the temptation to lie down and nap!

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:35:21 +0000

Re: what Gail said—I think it’s also connected to how real life is just so much stranger and more bizarre than anything we could dream up. It can be strange, after all. It’s real life. It doesn’t need to be believable. After one jeepney ride my head is so so full of things to write; it’s only when I shut myself up in my room that I run out of ideas.

Re: gym stuff—I went to the gym this evening. Didn’t like it very much; it’d be relaxing to wear my body out but there are too many people there and the music is… uh… not my cup of tea. I think I’ll try the working out at home thing instead and see if it helps me when I start working on the novel.