Exercise 5: Heart rate monitors, walking and jogging

The Heart Rate Counter
If there is anything that gives one a great insight into the joggers mind then it is the piece of equipment they strap around their chest to measure their heart rate. (Some work on one wrist, but is not so obvious that others can see it.)

Doctors warn their patients that it is not a good idea to get your heart rate up too high, and also not your blood-pressure. This is when things like cardiac failure occurs and also strokes. Blood vessels in the brain can burst. Etc.

Yet this is what the jogger is actively striving to do!

If you feel you need to buy any equipment for the Lion and Springbok Exercise Program then a heart rate monitor would be a good thing, especially if it includes a blood pressure meter.

If you stick to the program as we will set it out you will never have your blood rate or pressure increase to uncomfortable heights as a result of anything in the program.

Now take a brisk walk, with the meter attached, and note how fast your heart rate and blood pressure goes up. Stop when you start to feel uncomfortable, and note how it goes back to what it was. Now imagine how uncomfortable you would feel if you had to push these measures to an extreme.

Yet, this is what the joggers do daily.

The obvious question is: Why would they? Well the answer is that they are druggies; they just don’t buy their drugs.

Nature has given us the ability to produce heroin in our brain when we are in extreme pain. This is what the joggers do. They just call it ‘hitting the wall’, heroin users that buy their own heroin calls this ‘hitting the needle’.

What the heartbeat monitor does is to tell the jogger how far he is from the heroin kicking in!

Then they take great pride in watching their heart rate coming back to normal, which is the heroin doing its work.

Now sit back with your own heart rate monitor, have a whiskey, and watch your heart rate and blood pressure decrease. You can get the same effect as the jogger, and any other druggie, by using your drug of choice (not amphetamines, or other stimulants – like coffee.)

The difference between a druggie and a jogger is that only the former is conceited about what they do.

The difference between Walking and Jogging

The Lion and Springbok exercise program is, as its name implies, not against exercise itself. It is anti un-natural exercising like jogging, cycling, swimming and other extreme activities.

It will be about to any observer that jogging is not just a form of walking faster, nor is walking a form of slow jogging. Even when a jogger jogs at a ridiculously slow pace, about the speed that many people walk, it is obvious that he is jogging not walking.

The first difference is in the body posture. When you walk your posture is upright – like what your mother suggested it should be. Your head is mostly upright. Your lungs are open. Your arms will swing giving your shoulders some exercise. You look at the environment and appreciate nature. You will mostly seek out beautiful places in nature to do this, not crime ridden streets.

Walkers look as if they are enjoying it. They smile and greet the people they pass. If there is more than one then they will be talking to each other, saying things like: …

You will feel like saying ‘hi’ to them because they look like pleasant people enjoying themselves.

They often will have their family with them, and all would appear to be enjoying the family experience.

Walkers will not be wearing equipment that measures their heart rate or blood pressure. Just wearing such equipment show an unnatural approach to what they are doing. In fact when a walker wears a pedometer we would immediately disqualify him as a walker in our definition. We also discount power-walkers for the same reason.

If they feel like something to drink they will stop and drink, not gulp things down on the run.

If they see something beautiful like an unusual bird on a branch they will stop and appreciate nature.

Mostly they will be lifting their feet and look natural.

They will not look dehydrated, lacking the juices of life, or in pain.

Some will be whistling. When last did you see a whistling jogger?

It will be obvious that they are not on their way to get some dope for another high.

Some walkers will smoke while they walk. The whole activity is about relaxation.

The medical profession insists that walking is very good exercise. Since we are not anti walking we are obviously not anti exercise.

If you have time then listen to Bob Dylan sing “I’m walking, and talking..”. The slow relaxed melody is what we are talking about. Joggers do not listen to Bob Dylan, this distinguishes them from other drug addicts. (Except Rastafarians, I think).