Traditionally, I usually do two days in which I workout with the weights and then I follow it up with a rest day. However, since my first competition is on the horizon, I have had to give up the joy of being gym-free for a day and let the sweat presume. I know this post title sounds like a good alternative to cursing your obligation to cardio, but that’s not exactly the reason.
Today I did a good ole treadmill cardio. I did a walk @ 4.0 mph with 13.0 incline. Burned about 450 calories, not too bad I’d say. it sort of makes me feel less guilty about indulging in some of my roommate’s brownies earlier. The one thing that I really love about doing cardio at our University gym is that they come complete with tvs :). That definitely makes the time pass and less grueling. However, what I watched was rather disturbing to say the least.
I was flipping through the channels and passed by Spike T.V. Since the only other show, or so it seemed, on was The Devil Wears Prada and America’s top model. I needed to watch something that would make me feel motivated, not like I have tons of estrogen. It was on commercial so it gave me plenty of time to put my headphones in, properly adjust my settings and examine my heart rate. Then commericals subsided, and motivation came — but in a different way.
They were playing this show When Good Pets Go Bad and at first it seemed pretty funny — is it bad to catch humor at an old guy posing as santa getting pinned down by a reindeer? However, the next scene disturbed me. They were showing horse fighting in some third world country. The horses were biting, kicking, ramming, and fighting in a forced match to the death. How could people allow this to happen? What concerned me even more was the vast crowd that was observing this. Literally hundreds probably more would observe these images with no regret — or sympathy for that matter.
I was really enraged, disappointed, concerned, and frightened all at the same time. I have always thought that if you want to prevent a kid from growing up to being a serial killer, then don’t be so much concerned about violent video games but more concerned if he is abusing animals. To me, harming a defenseless animal is pretty much the same as hurting a human. What does that say about the type of people who support such actions? Where are their morals, are humans really innately drawn to gore? When will this absurdity stop?
With these thoughts in mind, I didn’t even care that my legs were sore from a few days before. This gave me motivation to not only breeze through my cardio, but also to aspire to change the world. I really hope that I become successful and prominent one day because I want to make a positive change to this world. I have added horse fighting to another negative aspect of this great world to rectify.
