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Daily Workout - Oct 25, 2008
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1973 2007
Hi, my name is Richard Waddell. Everything on this site is free.
I want to be famous for being 61 and in great shape and sharing how I did it.
(Updated Oct. 30, 2008)
I'm not going to have much time to keep this site current; I got an on-site job starting tomorrow that's going to take up a lot of my time. It's a really great job where I'll be not only working in exactly the areas I want such as ASP.NET, C#, and Ajax, but also DotNetNuke, Linq, and other technologies where I have little or no experience to date. I have to give the credit to Robert Half. They hung in there with me whereas other recruiters typically lose all interest if you don't fit the job they originally had you in mind for. Frankly, Robert Half is the last place I would have expected to maintain an interest beyond the current opening, but they really came through.
Most people promoting physical activity have fitness as their 'thing' and are motivated to do the exercise to achieve it; they don't understand people, like me, who just really don't like to exercise, or exertion in general. My 'thing', it turns out, is enjoying myself. I know that about myself now, and I accept it. Fortunately, I finally encountered computer programming which people actually pay me to do, and JumpRock which actually keeps me in shape and able to maintain a high level of energy most of the time.

I didn't have formative years; there was just the one, 1953. TV appeared out of the blue. Also the year I started school, which I resented right from the start; Seriously, I was upset when I thought there were only six years of school. When I found out there were twelve, I remember thinking, well that's just not doable - really, I remember that - I also remember when I realized that summer vacation had a finite, knowable length. I remember because it was traumatic.

So, I'm not a 'be all you can be' kind of a guy. But I discovered through a bizarre series of incidents starting with the army drafting me in 1969 - in basic training they actually made it official that I'm not a 'be all you can be' kind of guy, but I'd do - that fun is more fun if you have plenty of energy. The euphoria incident in basic was the first and only clue until years later, and I was effectively clueless when I got out of the army weighing 237 pounds twenty-two months later.

I finally, without really knowing it, put the knowledge to use eight years later at age 32 when I stumbled on a motivation technique I now call 'Energy Focused Exercise'. I was trying to get myself to go beyond good intentions and actually ride a stationary bike every day - just knowing about the energy reward wasn't enough. I was doubtful the simple approach I came up with would work, but it did, and I realized later, not for the reasons I thought it would. Over the next twenty-three years short-lived and infrequent diets and workout programs came and went, but the bike was there through it all. The bike wasn't about fitness or weight or health. The bike was about energy and mood within the next hour.

At age 55 I discovered an activity that I enjoy rather than just tolerate - JumpRock. It's so much fun that I don't have to force myself to do it every day - I have to force myself to cut back when I overdo it. You can't believe the euphoria of the music and jumping and endorphins combined. The better you get the more fun it is and the more creative - although it may not look it - I can't judge.

The most amazing thing is that I myself am amazed at the results in agility, stamina, and muscle tone - even now. So my message is that if I can do it starting at 55 and it was never really difficult beyond the initial frustration of trying to learn, then it's probably true for most people. Most who try jump rope and give up just don't get beyond the boring part to find out how much fun jumping to music is. That's the only way I can explain it. And you don't have to take my word that it's easy to learn.

Even if you're not all about fun, or if you can't or don't want to jump rope, you can use Energy Focused Exercise techniques to internalize the links from good mood to energy to physical activity. Best of all, they don't involve drudgery, because drudgery kills both internalization and visualization. Drudgery is why I came up with the idea in the first place; Energy Focused Exercise is visualization combined with activity which can be used in other ways, as I'm finding out more and more.

I'm not selling anything, because my goal is to become famous as the sedentary old guy who introduced the world to Energy Focused Exercise, JumpRock, and Heavy Hula Hands. My ultimate goal is to become famous for being famous so I can be on The Late, Late Show on CBS with TV's host Craig Ferguson and enjoy all the perks that go with that. It's a little known fact that Drew Carey and David Letterman would be nothing without Craig's help. He's so modest (and dreamy). Oh, there is one other little thing I could use help with.

Energy Focused Exercise - For my people, the sedentary, everything else is drudgery and angst until you quit or die.
Any advice given reflects the experiences of myself and acquaintances over the last 30 years to the best of my recollection and under no circumstances constitutes medical or professional advice. There is no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, or the approriateness of any information or advice on this site or any site linked to.