Are You Fit Enough?

When talking about fitness, what is the first thing comes to your mind? A muscular figure working out in the gym for 3 hours? An athlete who is able to run continuously for 10km without gasping?

How do you define FITNESS?

Today I came across with an interesting definition of FITNESS from an article. According to Dr. Pamela Peeke from the University of Maryland, fitness is about the ability to cope with life’s emergencies, big and small. Whether it’s sprinting to the airport to catch the morning flight because you had just overslept, or escaping a burning building, when unfortunately you were trapped in the 10th floor; it’s all depend on whether you have the strength, endurance and agility to free yourself and your loved ones from the disasters.

As a female, I have built up a pretty tough physique due to my karate training and involvement in other sports. It’s my desire to be characterized as a fit person and I actually considered myself fit, in appearance. Now I would like to go for a higher level of fitness, the fitness to survive in the 21st Century life.

It has always been my concern if I am able to rescue myself from a difficult and dangerous situation, says an ambush by a stranger on the street. There are usually two choices for you in such case, fight or flight. My karate teacher has always been telling me to flight, at my best. I strongly agree with him. That’s a good rule of thumb for self defense, regardless if you have martial art background. But, what if… when the option of flight was unavailable? When I had no choice but to fight, for the sake of my own life?

I wouldn’t deny, I do have fantasy of fighting on the street once in a while. And of course, the plots are always amazing to make myself a cool heroin. But I am clear, a fantasy is a fantasy, it hardly matches to the reality, unless I am really good, or my opponent is really lousy (as fragile as toufu).

There is still a room for me to improve my fitness level, in the aspect of self defense. I do believe through proper martial art training, one tends to handle life’s everyday emergencies better.

So what about you? Do you think you are fit enough to save your own life?

滚滚红尘

我在一网站上读到一首诗，名为《滚滚红尘》，作者不详。诗句写得优美也很有意思，让我不禁联想到一个朋友。现在我把诗转载过来送给他，附加一首名为《滚滚红尘》的曲子。

《滚滚红尘》

荡漾青丝掩世仇，深眸寄路几春秋。
红尘滚滚沧桑锁，赤胆悠悠禁锢囚。
道路崎岖无应策，身心寂落不堪筹。
来人莫问归何处，此去天涯有浪收。

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On A Rough Track

I love running. So long as my legs are functioning, I will not quit from running. That’s a lifetime passion.

I’m a little bit unlucky, my running track is pretty rough and rocky. Sometimes I stumbled over some stones and fell down on the track out of balance. I bled and I was upset. I sat there staring at my wound, the more I stared the more I felt painful and lousy. Whenever I looked up, my partner would stand far ahead me, waving to me. A simple act but gives great support and encouragement. Each time I stood up from the place I fell and moved on, I learned to bear the pain better and be able to avoid more obstacles. Those are what you can hardly learn when you’re on a smooth track, it’s easy but lack challenges.

Now, I’ve learned not to care about the ranking anymore, it’s just a title to acknowledge my achievement, nothing else. Which race I’m in is no longer important to me, to reach the finish line I still have to make my own effort. I just want to run, keep running…

I enjoy the moment I’m running. I listen to every step I make. I can feel my performance is progressing, slow and steady. I become stronger each time, physically and mentally. And I’m glad I’ve found an excellent partner, who guides me on the track and motivates me to achieve higher from time to time.

Those are what simply satisfy me on the track.

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