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Birthday
• 1985-07-23
Gender
• Male
Location
• Chichester, England
Member Since
• 2003-08-04
Occupation
• Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
Real Name
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Personal

Achievements
• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
Anime Fan Since
• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
Goals
• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
Hobbies
• Writing, acting, anime, GameCube, Wii, swordfighting
Talents
• Stage combat, writing, acting, being vaguely humourous, and listening.

myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

Thursday, September 9, 2004

Whooblies

I bought these funny exercise things today. Ecxept the point is that you can use them anywhere.

They're called Microtoners, and they're basically little electronic thingummies which you stick to your skin and they send an electronic pulse through whichever muscle you're trying to tone up and it makes it contract up to 800 times in fifteen minutes, depending on the intensity of your workout. And you're supposed to be able to use them anywhere. Reading a book, while walking, even when talking to friends or cooking dinner.

The idea's nice, but the practicality's quite funny.

I tried them out earlier today on my upper arms, which flop about more than I'd care to mention. It started off alright- gentle buzzing of the skin- it felt almost as if I were leaning against a car engine. And I thought "Yeah, I could do this while I'm on the computer! No problem."

Snap-snap-snap-snap

"AAHWHATWASTHAT?"

If you want a vigourous working out of the muscles, you need more than the buzz of the skin. That snap is the noise it makes when the impulse increases, and if you're not expecting it it comes as quite a shock. And it's uncomfortable. Whoever thought you could read a book while doing that is obviously one of the same people who enjoys reading books in the back of a fighter plane. It wouldn't work. While the buzzing is relaxing, the snaps are incredibly agitating, so your book/conversation would be interrupted by moments of moderate discomfort and accompanied strained noises.

I'm still planning on using them, but I'll need to find a quiet moment (and place) to do it in, heh. I'm hoping they'll be able to decrease my stomach girth. As I've said- it's not bad, I just want it to be better. Even though when I look in the mirror it's alright, when I look or sit down I see splurge, and I don't like it. It's a personal thing.

But that doesn't mean that I approve of people going too far to look thin. It's a matter of self-esteem rather than actual health, because being too thin is incredibly bad for you. One trademark I've noticed of yaoi pictures is that the men tend to be almost disgustingly thin and with ample muscles, when I'd feel much more comfortable seeing them with normal, healthy-looking bodies. And the same goes for women- I've seen some who are so thin you could pretty much fax them from one place to another, and I hate it. They look like walking skeletons.

My advice: Do what you want, so long as you're happy with yourself and aren't damaging your body for the sake of everyone else's point of view. Ignore them. Do it for yourself.

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