Today a guy came in for his yearly check-up.  Usually these are pretty uninteresting affairs with a series of questions about the person's health being answered with things like, "I feel fine", "No complaints".  About half the time they answer my questions about exercise with, "yeah, I go running about 2-4 miles per day" and they look like it.  Or they answer, "Yeah, I go walking sometimes" or "I'm pretty active." 
Today I asked a guy if he exercises and he said, "I do some push-ups in the morning"  "Me, too" I said.  I thought this was code for I don't do much so I'll cover by saying that I do something menial.  But when I scrolled down his chart a little more the nurse who checked him in had asked him how many, and he does 800 push-ups every morning.  800.  Ridiculous?  It gets better.  When I asked him how long it takes him to do this punishing routine, as I think to my self I bet I'd be lucky to do 30 pushups, he told me that he pauses between each set of 100 for 30 seconds but could probably do the whole 800 in 8 minutes!!  "Um, yeah.  Me too." I replied.
Monday, July 13, 2009
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