Stepper Machine Musings

Edwyn here again with more to talk about in a world that needs someone to talk about things that no one else wants to talk about. This time its exercise and how you can make good use of the humble stepper machine to boost your daily exercise schedule and burn up some more of those unwanted calories.

Well, these are great machines to exercise on as they are cardiovascular workouts in their own right. By that I mean they make your heart work harder to pump the blood round your body to feed the muscles that need the fuel to do the work. This is useful from many aspects as on the one hand, its an easy exercise to do when you start off but after a while it starts to make your legs feel like they just ran a few miles and that way you know its doing you good. On the other, while you're stepping away at your own pace, you're burning calories and doing your figure a whole load of good too.

Doing any kind of exercise on a daily basis is good for your health and that's the truth. Especially when you get a little older like me, you need all you can get to keep yourself as fit as you can if you want to go on living in good health. Or go on living, period!

A healthier body is a longer lasting body, so all you couch potatoes who are slumped in front of the TV for 18 hours a day better haul your lazy ass off there and do something or you'll be looking at an early grave, mark my words. Don't think just because you're young you're gonna get away with it either. You need to have at least a reasonable level of health or you will die young and ne ill most of the time.

What in the hell kind of life is that?

Edwyn Prose

Handicap Bathrooms

Well here I am, Edwyn Prose back once again with something to write about and maybe rant about some, although I probably won't be going too crazy on this. I'm going to talk a little about handicap bathrooms, mainly because I have a nephew with disabilities and its on his behalf that I want to level some of my trademark ire at some of the public buildings we've visited lately.

Ok, don't squirm in your chair, I'm not about to go naming and shaming. There's no mileage in that in this case, but I just want to raise awareness of this.

Ok, its not always the lack of handicap facilities in public buildings that has prompted this, but on some the occasions we've visited places, its the fact that they were closed off when we visited! Now, I understand that bathrooms need to be cleaned and sometimes they need to be maintained and that would require closing the facility. But to have them closed while a public building is open to the public should not happen!

Fair enough if a mess gets made and it needs to be cleaned up, sure you can close the facility for the several minutes it takes to clean it up. But then you're supposed to open it again! We've been caught on a number of occasions where the facility was "closed for cleaning" and when we came back 20 minutes later it was still closed. We checked and there was no one working in there, so what the hell was it closed for?

The explanation I was given was that the cleaner must have forgotten to re-open it again after cleaning it. Well, that's really not good enough people.

A handicap facility, with its obvious need should never be left in that kind of state while a public building is open.

Ok, my point is put and that's all I'm going to say about it.

On this note, I will mentions something that is related in some way to this and that's my local hardware store that I had to visit the other day to get some handicap shower accessories for our own handicap bathroom. They excelled themselves in not only having the items I needed in stock, but for the grab rails that I purchased, they had a guy there come round and fit them for me that very same day and they didn't charge me a cent for doing it! I'm mighty impressed, so much so that I gave the guy a $50 tip and told him to buy the guys in the store a drink from me!

Hey, its nice to hear a happy ending from one of my posts!

Edwyn Prose