Do More Cardio

Two members of my close family recently have had coronary artery stent placement surgery.

For those of you who are not familiar with the procedure, here is a brief definition.

A coronary stent is a tube placed in the coronary arteries that supply the heart, to keep the arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is used in a procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Stents reduce chest pain and have been shown to improve survivability in the event of an acute myocardial infarction.

And, for an animation of how it looks, check this out:

The members of my family who have recently gotten this procedure done are in their mid fifties - my aunt and uncle, so my Mum's sister and her husband.

This of course, sends my Mum into a complete freakout, as her and her sister are only a few years apart in age.

She suddenly is all anxious about everything she eats, wondering whether it will lead her too to having the same procedure. It's different it is the wake up call that you require to open your eyes to your current unhealthy lifestyle and make modifications to it.

This is not what my mother is about though - she'll talk the talk and try to make everyone around her feel guilty without really making any changes herself. This is par for the course though, and while it used to bother me when I was younger, now I don't actually have the time to care.

That being said, I found one conversation with her on this matter incredibly amusing.

I came home from teaching one day and as soon as I was in through the door my Mum was talking to me about my Aunt's stent procedure and how We Were All Next If We Didn't Do Anything About It. She started commenting about how she was going to get rid of all of the unhealthy food in the house and eat clean (noble, but she's never going to do that as my brother eats a large quantity of junk food and she'll never let him go without anything).

I kinda roll my eyes and go "Oh that's great..." since it was the same old song that I'm used to hearing.

My mum then comes up with pearl of wisdom.

"You don't do enough exercise. You need to do some more cardio."

The last two weeks, I have been resting because I've been recovering from a cold. This is the level of training that I have done in that time.

Monday	Teaching RPM x 1, Teaching RPM x 2
Tuesday	Rest
Wednesday	RPM, Teaching RPM
Thursday	Teaching RPM, BODYJAM
Friday	Rest
Saturday	Teaching BODYJAM, BODYJAM
Sunday	Rest

So this was a *rest* week, and I'd done 8 hours of cardio.

This is my mother's training schedule, on a normal week.

Monday	Rest
Tuesday	Rest
Wednesday	Rest
Thursday	Rest
Friday	Rest
Saturday	30mins of Water Walking, maybe.
Sunday	Rest

And *I* am the one who needs to do more cardio??

It's one of those situations that are so ridiculous that I laugh at it because if I don't, I'd cry.