Jul 31, 2008

Outside the Cubicle

I have had the Olympics on almost constantly the last few days. Sometimes I am watching it intently, but most of the time it is just some background noise that piques my interest once in a while as I do other things. I am not normally into watching sports but the Olympics offers a great change of pace from the plain old basketball-football-baseball scene that dominates American culture. The summer Olympics in particular offers such as great variety of competitions I don't usually get to see. I especially like watching the gymnastic events because they put me in awe of the kind of strength and precision humans are capable of.

It makes me wonder what I would be capable of if I didn't spend most my days spending many hours in a cubicle staring at a monitor. I don't get to expend many calories pushing buttons on a keyboard and pushing a mouse back and forth. Contrast that to someone like Michael Phelps who needs to shove down some 12,000 calories per day to do what he does.














If I ate 12,000 calories a day to support my cubicle-based lifestyle I'd look like this....













Watching these Olympians helps keep me motivated, and I guess thats the main reason I have the TV tuned to it so much. Even though I'm 39 and will never be an Olympian, seeing these younger athletes giving their all reminds me that I can accomplish a lot with the time I spend outside the cubicle. Today I lifted some weights as I watched Olympic beach volleyball, and for a little while the last thing on my mind was that I was full-time cubicle sitter.

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