Exercise with your heart in mind

Today, when I was in the gym doing my routine workout, someone suddenly passed out during his exercise. Though he recovered later, but he could not continue his exercise, and needed to go home for rest.

To my knowledge, his condition could be one of the followings:
1. He might have a heart problem, where he does not know about it.
2. He might be a low blood pressure person.
3. He might lost too much of water from his body.
4. He might be short of oxygen in his body and caused the brain to shut off for awhile.

Anyway, one thing for sure, this person may not aware of his physical conditions; and do not really understand the exercise principles. He looks big in size and tall physically, but slightly on the plumb side.

Lots of people who go exercise very often do not take their heart condition into consideration. In fact, anyone who is over 40s, should get a specialist doctor to check his heart condition before carrying out any exercise, especially those involve in heavy physical movement activities.

The heart rate record below is my own on today's exercise. Look at the right hand corner you would see 4 peaks reaching 150 bits per minute. That was the time I did my deadlifts. Just imagine what if you have a weak heart and subject your heart to this rate of beating? By the way my maximum heart rate is 158, and my ideal exercise heart rate should not be more than 110, which is 70% of my maximum heart rate. As I know my own exercise condition, I usually working on 130 to 140 within an hour. Therefore, once a blue moon, I push it a bit harder. But one should also be aware that I do give recovery time for heart rate to be lower down before I go for next exercise.

Therefore, in my opinion, one should take your heart with you when you go for exercise. Building up muscle groups without take care of your heart, you may end up in a package! : )

The Purpose of doing Sport

Watching the progress of Olympic Games these days, one question always pops up in my mind, when I watched the athletes performing in their event there: Is this all about sport?

If I am not wrong, I remember the President of World Olympic Council did mentioned in his opening speech that he wished all the athletes would do their best with sporting spirit, under the concept of fairplay and most of all ENJOY the Games.

The key word is ENJOYMENT.

These days, people are targeting at achievement. As if achievement is everything in sport, so much as the original meaning of participating sport is distorted. No doubt, achievement does enhance the status of elite athletes. But please remember, the majority of people participating sports, they are NOT elite players.

Then, does a coach only focus on performance or achievement on his athletes? Where is the practical value of SPORTS FOR ALL?

What an achievement for Singapore table tennis (ladies) team! They already gotten the Silver Medal in their event at the Beijing Olympics 2008, if luck is to Singapore, they may even has the chance to get a Gold for Singapore.

Anyway, it has been a long long time for Singapore to get a medal from Olympics. We should be very proud of this group of ladies.

Viva Singapore!

The Peking Olympic 2008 Opening Ceremony

From the direct telecast, we witnessed a great country demonstrated her strength, wealth, most of all, the talents of her people.

I believed most of us who witnessed the events happening in front of the TVs, would be amazed by the efforts these people did for their nation.

The Opening Ceremony showed a mixture of art, music, culture, drama and the main essence of Olympic, that is Harmony (和). We saw how the art director transfered few thousands of Chinese achievements in less than a hour artistic performance. We witnessed the use of advance stage crafts in these performance. If the people there are 'Block minded', they would not have these performance. They showed creativity to the fullest in their capacity.

China has being waiting for this opportunity to organize the Games. She has made sure that this Opening Ceremony would have the world the greatest visual impact. She has done it! The world applauses her efforts.

The Light hearted side of Olympic Games

Peking Olympic Games is just round the corner; all sport enthusiastic would be watching the Games on the venue itself, or through TV channels all over the world. The Games are all for fair play and sporting spirits; at the same time to build friendships.

I found this mime act in the Web which is some degrees related to Olympic Games. This might be the light hearted side of the Games, if you take it as a joke.