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Phone: 03 9596 6911 Email: prpeople@prpeople.com.au Michael White Man. Dir. at Frontline Diagnostics Phone: 1800 888 852 * Announcement *A DRUG-SAFE CENTRAL-WEST THE ORANGE/BATHURST REGION TO BENEFIT FROM FRONTLINE DIAGNOSTICS’ NEW OFFICE Orange , New South Wales – Frontline Diagnostics , Australia ’s foremost provider of drug and alcohol testing education, services and products, has just announced the opening of its Orange office.
Our communities can become drug-safe, however this goal requires determination, lots of work and community leadership. With Frontline Diagnostic’s newly established office in our community, this task just became much easier.
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HOLIDAY FROM SWEAT with LEAN-FOR-LIFE A dispatch from Derryn Hinch, journalist, writer and broadcaster from the cruise ship ‘Superstar Leo’ |
Off Fiji, 30 October 2003 – It was at the gym in the middle of some of those ghastly, but effective,
lunge-walking exercises when (between grimaces and maintaining my
balance) I mentioned to my personal trainer that I would be missing
a few sessions.
Good excuse. I was off on a Pacific cruise to Fiji and New Caledonia
on board one of the biggest and most luxurious cruise ships in the
world, the Superstar Leo.
So lunge walking and boxing and weightlifting would have to be parked
for a couple of weeks.
I mean, on cruises you may swim a bit, frolic in the pool, sit in
a spa and go for moonlight walks around the giant decks – which is sort of exercise -- but the main object is to sit down,
cogitate, read books, squat on bar stools and eat about five times
a day.
My trainer, Henry Kiss at Queens Park Health Club, had other ideas.
At our last 30-minute Lean-for-Life session he told me things I
must do on holiday. Exercise-wise. So that the gains made to my
fitness and muscle tone and weight loss in recent weeks would not
be destroyed by 10 days of sybaritic behaviour on a floating palace
and in gin joints in Fiji.
I packed it all in my mental suitcase but didn’t take it with
me.
Surely, a brisk morning walk around Deck 13, in the boating shoes
in a bracing wind and salty air, would suffice.
And then a funny thing happened on the way to the holiday. Or, to
be more accurate, on Day One at sea.
After some fruit for breakfast I was about to adjourn – not
to a bar, so some things HAVE changed – but to a deckchair
with the new book, KING, about Graham Kennedy.
And the thought struck me: If I just spend thirty hard minutes in
the gym right now I’ll have the rest of the day to be as slothful
as I like and guilt-free. And I went and did it.
It actually surprised me that I did it. And the next day. And the
next day. And every day of the holiday.
Henry, you and Lean-for-Life, will be proud. If I had to face an
hour I may not have done it but thirty minutes – full power—was
full of sweat but a piece of cake.
I took the Lean-for-Life theory by the throat. The first twenty
minutes was on the treadmill. Full tilt. Literally. I did the twenty
minutes at full throttle. Treadmill walkers (who know these things)
may be impressed. The whole twenty was at an incline of 7.5 at a
walking pace of 7.0. By the end of the trip it was an incline of
12 and a walking pace of 7.5. Any faster and you are jogging.
Heart rate hit 155 the first day but dropped into the 120-130 zone
within two days. The sweat poured out and, to me, the weird thing
was the last five minutes on the same punishing incline were easy.
The surroundings made it easier too. When you are on a huge cruise
ship and you are on a treadmill and out the window you can see the
sea 12 decks below you and then to the horizon there is nothing
but water – it makes the workout close to idyllic.
At one late afternoon session as the sun was
going down I almost felt I was walking off into the sunset.
The first morning half hour of real exercise triggered a bonus.
I then vowed to myself to use the staircases and not the lifts on
a 13-storey floating hotel. Up and down like a whore’s drawers,
as a vaudeville comic once said.
I am not being fanatical here. I still find gym a necessary chore
at my age but imagine this:
Hinch, the bon vivant whose main exercise used to be pushing himself
away from the marathon lunch table (or taking out the empties),
received an invitation at sea from the Captain of the Superstar
Leo.
It said that “Captain Magnus Gottberg cordially invites the
pleasure of Mr. Derryn Nigel Hinch to the Captain’s Welcome
Cocktail Party on Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. in the Celebrity Disco located
on Deck 13 Fwd”.
Whoof! Be there in a flash. What was the party like? No idea. At
6.30 Tuesday I had just completed 20 minutes on the treadmill before
taking a turn in the Aquaswim pool at the Roman Spa and Fitness
Centre.
Then, by the time I’d had a session in the Swedish sauna,
the cocktail party was over.
Nightly, before bed, a few walked laps of Deck 13, just below the
funnel, and (high in the bow) I felt like Leonardo DeCaprio.
Why not? On this fitness campaign it won’t be long before
I too can shout “King of the World”.
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For further information please see:
http://www.leanforlife.com.au
Or contact Andrew Decker – Phone: 03 9596 6911
E-mail: support@leanforlife.com.au
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