When was the last time you heard about doing that? When you
gamble, you usually sit at a table or a slot machine and sometimes you stand at
the Roulette wheels. Now this might be the most interesting and very unusual
way to stay in shape while money is being won or lost so let me give you my
take on it.
Billions of dollars are being put into thousands upon
thousands of slot machines and being thrown down on the tables just edging for
someone to get their ass kicked or get rich and possibly come out even. Now
think about this for a moment, there’s another set of dollar making business
that people waste their money on and that’s the typical chrome and fern
commercial gyms that they put a few bucks down and don’t bother showing up and
their bills get rung up. The difference is, you can win at Gambling but in the
gym you have to earn your body and that’s where most people give up and just
drop the gym all together.
If you live in places like Vegas, Lake Tahoe,
Coeur D’Alene or the eastern parts of
Washington, there are a few places to go to
put your betting money on. I can bet you can get in shape while at the casinos
and no one will ever know. This is no way of saying, you should workout at a
casino because come on, as funs as it would be for you, there are others who
don’t give a damn and will walk away from you. This is just a simple suggestion
to use to
remind your muscles that you can do something in between pulls on the
machine or doing something while playing the cards or the wheel. Let me give
you an example, you sit at a slot machine, doesn’t matter what it is (unless
it’s that kick ass Wheel Of Fortune), you can do
Isometrics or
Muscle Control
while you play. After your first pull, squeeze the lever as hard as you can for
10 seconds, that’s it, than you play and while those things are spinning you
can press your hand against the side of the machine. See you just did a little
of exercise.
One of my favorite types of training is from the Charles
Atlas course and doing self resistance exercise. After I do a turn on a machine
I would do curls by resisting one arm against another and after do another
turn, than I would do something like squeeze my feet down on the ground to
build some tendon and leg strength. Don’t waste your energy just sitting there
like you just threw your house away, if you want to play a little bit, why not
give your body a chance to do some work, in a small twisted way, you’re paying
money to exercise, plus if you win, it makes things that much sweeter.
To me Gambling really is a waste of time and there are
people who are addicted so bad with it that they end up losing everything. This
is for those that want to put a few dollars down and have a little fun with no
reason to overdue it. It’s like exercise, if you overdue it, you can get hurt,
when you gamble and you’re putting too much into it, you can hurt your mental
state and I better hope you never have to use a loan shark and get your legs
broken, that to me for yourself is adding insult to injury, literally. If you
want to have a little fun, why not give your muscles a run for their money and
use
small but effective exercise which you can learn where no one will ever
know you’re doing them. I know what it’s like to win big and lose just as bad
so hopefully you never have to go through losing a bunch of money. There’s time
for fun and there’s time to just walk away, like exercise, you can only do what
you’re body is capable of and there are times when you just need to catch your
breath and call it a day, gambling might be a bit harder but it’s the same
thing, if you’re losing and its not helping you, walk away and move on or just
get out and go home. Be safe and get your exercises in my friend.
