Bishop Hill A favour
Jun 2, 2015 Academia Readers may have noticed that I am a bit quiet at weekends these days. This is because I decided to fight an expanding waistline by taking up hockey again after a gap of ten years or so and weekends are therefore often filled with games and coaching and things like that. (This is field hockey, for North American readers).
I now find myself involved in a campaign to raise funds for a new astroturf pitch for my club, the current one nearing the end of its life. If anyone fancied helping out, you can do so in a small and relatively painless way by voting for us at the Mars Milk Play Fund website. You just have to give them your age to show you are over 13 (I think most BH readers are), click the vote button and tick a couple of boxes (which don't seem to do anything much - I certainly haven't been indundated with spam).
This will keep your host fit, healthy, and hopefully blogging for longer than otherwise. And if enough of you vote for us I'll post a picture of me in action for Kinross Hockey Club. How about that for temptation?
Reader Comments (36)
Done for Kinross Council Ground...good council eh?
Don't get me started...
Responder email - got back to birth date screen again?
Mars Milk Play Fund 2015
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Done. Good luck!
Has Hockey Stick design improved over the last fe decades?
ok - re-entered birth date and got:
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Tricky?
Enjoy your hockey! You do realise, don't you, that global warming will soon make ice hockey a thing of the past. Therefore all hockey will be "field hockey" then. The Arctic ice cap will go about 5 years later.
Voted. I feel great!
Andrew
To better-encourage your readers:
"This will keep your host fit, healthy, and hopefully exhaling CO2 for longer than otherwise. "
But I thought Hockey sticks were an illusion?
Anyway, have voted
Done! Good luck!
Done from both my email addresses.
I wasn't going to champion your cause over any other but I changed my mind when I read this:
Depriving 100 children of a regular opportunity to exercise doesn't seem like a good investment of my taxes. We'll be paying for this short-sightedness through the NHS.
Have a vote from me.
Take it easy if you can. From personal experience extra weight and hockey leads to injured knees.
Well...I have done it....but canvassing votes in this manner reminds me of some of the aspects of climate science.
Done, but a word of advice. I gave up team sports because I found the commitment conflicted too much with family life. So I joined a running club and took up running (mainly fell running - ideal where you are). I could train as much or as little as I liked, on my own or with the club and could enter races that suited family life. A big advantage was that long training runs meant I could 'switch off' and it gave lots of good thinking time. I don't compete any more, but still run a bit on my personal running course (knee permitting) and am still the same weight as when I was a student. Running is the best way of keeping fit and keeping the waistline under control.
Any particular reason you chose Hockey..? :-)
Surely global warming will mean that the successor to ice hockey is water hockey?
They did something similar with polo, I think. Quite amazing how well the ponies can swim even with those rich guys sitting on them......
I dunnit, despite thinking you're mad. No 2 son plays hockey and is mega-fit from all that rushing up and down the pitch at full tilt. He's only 21. Be careful.
Sign of the times. Sepp Blatter has just fallen on his own hockey stick.
Done. Good luck.
Voted.
Bish,
Do you insist all males (inc children) wear a box? Wouldn't like to think this was a disguised Ehrlich project ;)
No surprise there, worms don't like astroturf.
Cheers
I hope the curling rink is fine for winter. Never did play at Kinross when I lived in Fife, but people tell me it is very good ice. You best make the most of it before it melts because of global warming.
Done
"This is field hockey, for North American readers"
In reality, for how long? If we're hit by global cooling you'll be back to Ice Hockey!
Done - Good luck.
Done.
I feel fitter already....
Done!
Good Luck!
Also voted. Took up indoor soccer (or football, whatever) played on a converted (ice) hockey rink a year ago - after 30 years of desk work, and it's done me a world of good.
I second No. 3's "take it easy" comment, though. We've lost players to torn hamstring, separated shoulder, broken leg, and torn ACL. So far. Old men are apparently not young men, and they don't (their wives don't let them) come back after serious injuries.
But the exercise has definitely been beneficial to those of us still playing.
Done. Good idea to reduce the waistline and good to be involved in a community project such as this. In my experience exercise is a good way to improve muscle tone but a lousy way to lose weight (fat). Sadly, reducing energy intake to below the level of energy expended is the only way and exercise uses far less energy than we like to think.
Done
Next to Squash, Hockey is the game of choice. Get fit to play the game rather than using the game to get fit! Unless you enjoy blood sports don't play against a girls' team. Tony Windsor
Unless you move to Alaska and mush dogs you'll never lose any weight by exercising, you simply can't burn enough calories, it's really simple math. If you want to lose weight you must eat less food, there is no other choice for the average suburbanite. Eliminating boredom eating and sugary drinks, I lost 20 pounds with no other changes. Good luck!
Oh, I should add that exercise will improve your Cholesterol levels, it will increase the HDL, decrease the LDL and decrease the total.
"If you want to lose weight you must eat less food, there is no other choice for the average suburbanite."
I can also witness to this. This means you have to go for extended periods without really eating anything at all. Once you are dedicated to the idea, you can make it happen. It aint easy, though.
Andrew
done Bish, although there are a lot of worthy groups in contention, good luck to all.
never had to worry about keeping fit/trim till about 10yrs ago when I bust my ankle, now I'm a Chubster :-(