Friday, July 17, 2015

Inducing discipline in exercising by thoughts

I tend to drive myself into exercising by thinking. Although I have a desire for exercises but still I tend to loose my motivation on some occasions. A 45 minute target is reduced to 30 minutes. Or a weight session is skipped. Or a foam rolling is missed. I simply do not have it in me to go for the finish. I start off with motivation, but then I loose the objective. I simply allow myself to be overcome by my actual body state or perceived body state. I am not sure whether it is an actual body state or perceived body state.
However I am planning to get over this by slow and steady improvement. Probably very slow.
How do I control my food eating craving? I think about Sun, moon, rains and other circular happenings. I say to myself that most of the things are circular and so should my eating habits also be. This thought is working well. You may borrow this idea if you like it.
How to improve weight exercising? I am finding it difficult here. Probably I need Fish oil supplements to make my bones and joints healthy. The dumbbells weights are already less at 22 pounds (10 kg). I think a massage from a masseur is what is needed. But I do self massaging with a balm. And foam rolling.
I am a hard worker and lead an active life. I naturally walk about 9-10 kilometers in a day. But what do I think is sports improvement? Apart from physical thing.
"Sports improvement is the consistent balance maintained between different individual parts and systems under varying circumstances". Also there is a saying that "The chain breaks at the weakest point." Most of the excuses will arise due to the weakest point while in a sports activity. Maybe breath loss, maybe pain, maybe just give up. At that instant one must do something which makes the weakness stronger. Maybe breathe faster and more with mouth and nose. Or maybe reduce speed. Or maybe give up unpleasant thoughts and think about sunset or rains or something.
These are the things that I think about exercising. I am happy that I am consistent for the last two years.



Saturday, July 4, 2015

Unproved bodybuilding theory

"Visible fat can only be get rid of by voluntary muscular action" - A challenge statement by Ganesan Kirtivasan, body builder.
This theory is not proved. But then some theories like Fermat's theorem takes years to be proved.  By the way, Fermat's theorem can be proved by mathematical induction. Then I wonder why this proof is not enough? Maybe some brainy blogger would like to enlighten me on this.
Another thing is, in sports it was found that a team which sat for two days analyzing and thinking about improvement performed much better than a team which practiced for two days.
This is important to coaches. Only if the athlete is able to point out his weaknesses properly should be allowed to practice further.
Nowadays it is 45 minutes of slow jogging in a comfortable breathing mode that is being done.
 

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Thank you Microsoft

Touchdevelop is an internet based programming for touch devices programs made available by Microsoft. I had earlier developed applications on Touchdevelop. These, I used in mySAIL App which is now withdrawn from the Windows Stores.
Recently, I developed two more applications in Touchdevelop.
About 10 years back, on the MSN site there was a link with an invitation to chat with computer. I thought the program was brilliant but did not have any clue how it worked. It seemed amazing !!
Recently, about a week back, I understood the logic of the program I chatted with 10 years back in MSN site.
I decided to make a similar App. Here is the link Interaction
There is another Touchdevelop application I developed for SAIL products. Which unit makes what product quiz.
Here is the link SAIL Products Quiz.
I had earlier made Steel Game and Email to me in Microsoft's Touchdevelop.
Hope, all the bloggers visiting this site find these programs interesting. And Thanks to Microsoft for making available programming possible from internet.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Ambition or Greed?

The other day I read the interview of Divya Narendra. I came to know about Winklevoss twins, Facebook, ConnectU.
I also read about the stress Divya Narendra made on the difference between ambition and greed.  I could not fathom the difference between ambition and greed he had in his mind.
But I found the puzzle challenging and decided to take it up with my method of explanation. To be frank it was not that easy to link the puzzle with the explanation. I mean, it did not click immediately. I had to think a lot, work with my models and then I came up with this explanation.
The figure which is almost self explanatory is here below :-

First of all it is not wrong to walk along arrows. It is also not wrong to collect mangoes fallen on the way. These are guilt free activities and are assumed.
When you are in position A, if you collect mangoes at A, B and at C, then it is ambition.
But if you are in position A, if you collect mangoes at A, E and at F, then it is greed.
This is based on my Pythagoras law. A step from say, A to D is addition to what you walked till A. But Pythagoras says A to B is also addition and so is A to C.
Addition is also guilt free. And therefore my statement is that one may freely use Pythagoras ambitiously and collect mangoes at B and C while at A.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Travel by Delhi Metro

I commute to office by metro. I board at Dwarka Sector 10 and get down at Nirman Vihar station. To reach office.

The morning journey is to read the news in mobile. What is the government upto? What are the major happenings? How is the economy faring? The news app reading is now a little less exciting. But in some mornings I do find reading news from app exciting. And in some not so much. But in most of the mornings reading economic news is now, more difficult. Also I find it difficult to contribute to my economy blog, www.economytoday-kirtivasan.blogspot.in.


In the evenings, most of the time I listen to music. Carnatic music is most soothing. I also listen to old music, new music and Tamil old music.

The metro journey is pleasant with good air-conditioning. Many times in the evenings I do not get a seat and have to travel back standing. But it does not matter with powerful air conditioners.

There are all types of people commuting in the metro. There are some who sit on the floor near the vestibule area. Many times one gets to see young lovers, cuddling and touching. Then there are government service ladies who look at even old men with demanding eyes expecting to vacate a seat for them. Then there are men with games apps or newspaper spending the journey time with the mobile or newspaper.

The best part of metro journey is the Dwarka area travel in the evenings.  There are flats in both the sides of metro of four five floors, all lit beautifully in the evening. Also the metro becomes almost empty before Dwarka area and the view becomes more soothing.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Freedom - A Short Story

Kirti woke up from his sleep at 6 am. He had a good 8 hours of sleep. He felt refreshed and looked forward to this day. It was a holiday and he decided to spend the whole day to his liking.
He went to gymnasium at 7 am and did weights workouts. He was happy with the shape his body was getting into. He did workout for one full hour with concentration, dedication and intelligence. He was out of the gym by 8 am.
He then decided to do a combination of running, jogging and walking for an hour. He did that and by 9 am he felt much worked out and his whole body was enthusiastic and was vibrating with life.
He went home and at 10 am he did prayers to God. For half an hour. Just he and God and the prayers. He thought this time was important to well being of not only himself but also the whole humanity and nature.
At 11 am he decided to teach himself music. He knew the theories and he played cassettes and looked to internet and started singing and learning Raagas. He learnt music for 2 hours.
At 2pm he felt a bit restless and decided to do cartoons. He spent a good 1 hour on this hobby.
At 3 pm he read newspapers and magazines and spent a full one and half hours on them. He was happy with the state of affairs in his country. And he was glad that the newspapers reiterated this fact.
At 5 pm he had a cup of coffee and thought "Why not expand his theories on life and life forces?". He spent 2 hours working on his theories. He used a laptop also to help build his theories and explanations.
At 7:30 pm, he felt hungry and asked his mother to give him dinner. His mother looked at him in anger and said, "You have done nothing fruitful the whole day. Just think it over. If you have to lead a life like this everyday, then, will it fetch you food?"

Thursday, April 16, 2015

mySAIL App

I have built an app mySAIL for Windows Store and Windows Phone Store.
This App shall have sales, production figures, some important corporate notifications and present steel scenario around the globe.
You may download it from Windows Store if you have a desktop or a laptop or a tablet running on Windows 8.1. If you have a Windows Phone having Windows 8.1, you may download it from the Windows Phone Store.
This blog post is for receiving comments from one and all, the users of this App. Colleagues of SAIL, not having Windows can also comment. But they must have an Internet ID as per Google's Blogspot comment maker requirements.
I am providing the link for comments in my App. Also there is a provision for viewing the comments made in the App.