What’s UBBT done for me

When I heard about the UBBT my first thought was not again more body abuse yahoo! Seeing I was lacking in my quest to try to stay in shape. So in July of 2008 I started doing a hundred pushups a day in small sets during the day twenty at a time. I remember trying to squeeze out twenty pushups. Getting frustrated with myself that I had let myself go to that point. When ten years ago a hundred pushups was no big deal. Well a good thing for muscle memory I guess you never really lose it. Within a month I was doing a hundred fifty pushups and sit ups a day. By the end of four months had whittled them down to two sets of seventy-five. I am comfortable there. I have had set backs bad shoulder stopped for a month. I am happy with the outcome of the pushups and sit-ups. This part has given me a routine to just do it. Body has changed too.
Walk/run /swim. The running part did not turn out to well I had high hopes of running more. But my back give me problems where it laid me up for a while, lower back would not take the pounding so resorted to logging my walking and swimming. Bicycling was in this category, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Meditation. Gives me time to reflect on the day ahead, and day past. And just be mindless. Ten minuets in the morning, gives me a start to the day. Keeps me calm.
Stretching. Not exactly where I want to be with this. I am better off than if I didn’t do anything. Ten minuets in the morning, it is enough but did not push myself hard enough.
I stepped out of my comfort zone when I decided to try scuba diving. I like the water but I liked to be on top of it, maybe in a boat and breathing air from the massive atmosphere that has been provided for us. Well this was an experience that I defiantly will keep pursuing. The feeling of weightlessness with only sound of your breath it is very peaceful. With good instruction and friends in this aquatic sport it has been one of the best experiences in my life, I have not been to the ocean yet. I will get there I can hardly wait! It will happen someday.
Over the last year I have been more conscious of our environment I’m reading The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki wow great book but that is for another discussion.
I have tried to do more conversing something I am not the best at. I don’t like gossip or idle chit chat so that kind of puts me in a position where conversation, in to days world, there does not seem to be much left! Wow that sounds kind of humbug.
So Has the UBBT changed me, definitely? Physically as I have described and mentally it has made me look inside myself and try to change things I didn’t like about myself as in conversation, helping more people and the environment. It is my duty to spread knowledge that I have learned otherwise not much use getting the knowledge and keeping it all locked up inside yourself, besides the best learning experiences I have had are from helping and teaching others. The best question you can ask yourself is what don’t I like about myself and change it.
Pushups 66,200 Crunches 66,200
Walk/Run/Swim 949 KM Bicycle 1,162 KM total of 2,111 KM
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com
Stony Plain Alberta Canada