Keeping Fit [Excuses!]

[hairyreasoner]

Great story, so well told.



[CURIOUSSERA]

Yes, please give us a tour of your garden sometime :)

[rottenrobbie7]

Love to see your garden!

[tenneral]

@rottenrobbie7  Edited highlights (avoiding the weeds!) might feature later in the year!

[RobNorthampton]

Hi Michael. I've been working so hard recently that I haven't had time to watch videos, which is a shame, especially when I miss what's happening with my favourite YouTubers. Well done for climbing the tower. I am off this week, and time permitting, I'd like to try to climb the Boston Stump again, back in my hometown. If you don't know of it, do a quick google, and you'll see it's no small undertaking. It has 365 steps to the top! :-)

[Stromatolite577]

Quite amusing story and point well made! After over 20 years of exercise in the military, I am infrequently seized by the urge to exercise or go running, but I just lay down and the feeling soon passes.

[Femigaytheist]

liked and subbed. Wonderful story!

[ProfMTH]

LOL!

[tenneral]

@barbnoon1  I hope mine is a good antidote!

[RevJerryFalwell]

Whack that book on Ebay, I'd buy it!

[pi3p142]

"....gymnasiums and exercise machines, have you ever seen those things?" What makes this video more amusing, after you said that, is the list of suggested videos on the right of my screen entitled "How to use Gym Exercise Machines". I'm pretty sure speech recognition software is used to pick out key words for the suggested videos.

[roentgen571]

I wonder if that's the same tower mentioned in Jeffrey Archer's book "Paths of Glory"? In it, it's claimed George Mallory climbed up the outside of it to impress the woman he'd later marry. He ended up having to flee Italy because the police were looking for him due to the stunt... :-)

[tenneral]

@roentgen571 Could be!

[atthetopofmyvoice]

You landed the ending man.  Good job.

[Widgetas]

I have to say I'm rather amused by the 'similar' videos on the right hand side. That's tags for you.

Well done on the climb.

Personally I'm having a rest at the moment - cycled from Bristol to Exmouth on Saturday night. I still hurt/burn in various places.

I'd really quite like to know what's in that book.

[lightmobile]

@Widgetas haha, same, I was laughing at the related videos, and same again...I also am very curious as to the contents of the book, as I sit here sweat soaked after my latest workout..

[tenneral]

@Widgetas One day, I'll get round to reading it & let you know.

[LynxChan]

You must have been in the south, I heard you guys got to 30ºC, which for the British is nearly deadly lol. Up north it was a lovely sunny 26ºC yesterday, which was a small consolation to the poor depressed brits.

[Hockeygod98]

" self-administered frontal lobotomies " lol. That's a great line.

[Dukemoothie]

When you said gymanasiums I instantly found myself thinking "It's gymnasia dammit!". I immeadiately checked to find that both are, in fact, correct. No point to this comment other than to give you an insight into the pedantry of at least one of your subscribers.

Enjoyed the video.

Toodle pip!

[tenneral]

@Dukemoothie You're right of course but I have to restrain myself from being too prissy about such things!

[ajr5086]

That's ironic about the fitness book.

Is that ironic? I don't use the term loosely, I even try to avoid using it.

It's ironic, yeah.

[Proletariat12]

I respect your opinion, but we don't really have the time for random walks up towers. We exercise to keep fit to maintain our busy lifestyles.

[Tube799]

All exams passed and now outdoor pool has never been so busy. Glad you had a good time in Italy. I loved the title followed by 'I have this book' - pretty much my level of exercise these days. Keep well.

[tenneral]

@Tube799 I trust Expeditions went well. I'll be at SF on Wednesday - briefly!!!

[Elaina43]

hehee - surprising closing! Yep, I have a couple books like that on my shelves - I bet most people do.

[dewinthemorning]

Couldn't one keep fit just by taking energetic walks, a little bit of jogging, climbing towers :) and mountains, well, nearby hills when on vacation, and making exercise at home every morning? I've been to fitness centres but it was depressing to me. Everything is so artificial!

[holyhell5050]

I'm so useless at getting myself to do any exercise that I kill two birds with one stone by getting around on foot or on my push bike. I've done it for the past five years, since I first started my degree in Manchester. I never really thought it was very much exercise, just enough to keep me ticking over, and give the free time to do other things. But I had an accident recently (I'm fine) and they checked my resting heart rate in hospital, which was 51 bpm! So it seems to have paid off!

[tenneral]

@holyhell5050 That sounds quite enough to keep anyone fit. Happy summer vac!

[holyhell5050]

@tenneral Thank you, I won't get one though! :) I'm starting work towards a PhD at the end of this month. I look forward to your next video, and I hope you have a good summer yourself.

[piprod01]

Keeping fit without exercise doesn't make a heap ton of sense. I imagine you can be thin, but you wouldn't manage to grow or maintain much mussel.

[GirlyVoice]

self administered frontal lobotomies, brilliant!

[johncrwarner]

Congratulations on getting up the tower (in Bologna?)

So you have read it by osmosis - carrying it around for thirty years without opening it. LOL

[tenneral]

@johncrwarner (a) Citta di Castello. (b) Osmosis it must be: early Icelanders were said to eat books to absorb their knowledge, but that may be a myth. Perhaps I'll try a few pages for breakfast!

[johncrwarner]

@tenneral best of luck - they used to say there was more nutrients in the box than in the corn flakes so it probably won't do you any harm and might increase your roughage LOL

[Lpoolboy]

Hi Tenneral. I've been working recently for an events company, for corporate parties, birthday parties, stuff like that. We have to lug these huge inflatables and mechanical bulls and stuff around, in the scorching heat, set them up, stand around for 5-6 hours, then take them down, pack them back in the van and set out back to Preston. Very hard work, I can tell you. I don't get much sun usually, I'm so lazy I tend to sleep in, so I've burnt my neck. Still, I'm of a dark complexion. :)

[tenneral]

@Lpoolboy Well, as you guess, I just go bright purple with too much sun. So in Italy it's panama hat and lashings of Boots sunscreen for me.

[Griexxt]

It's been pretty warm here in the south of Sweden too. Nice story, unexpected ending... I was hoping for some tips to get my lazy butt in shape. =))

[TheTruePooka]

I have the perfect excuse for not stating jogging today as planned (to fight off the threat of middle aged waistline) - Mucho Caliente! :P

Congrat's on making it up the tower!

[AtheismandSkepticism]

If you ever need some help with your garden (heavy lifting and so forth), just send me a PM!

My first job was gardening, right after my A-levels, made some good money; but VERY hard work!

Please keep up the videos!

[tenneral]

@AtheismandSkepticism  Many thanks. Your offer is v. kind and I'll bear it in mind for the autumn digging!

[QuarkyGideon]

Oh I know what you mean!! I've been out at robin hood bay looking at some crabs and snails and seaweed. Roasting conditions and they had ran out of icecreams!!

Bloody good fun though what ho.

[KSGixxer76]

How funny. A Google search of Peter Steincrohn found another possible gem, "Don't die before your time". Watch your head sir.

[BustedBreaks]

You are a delight to listen to.

[KillermaTV]

You're 65?

You don't look 65..

More around 57-59,

You also have wonderful stories, I would love to sit and have a conversation with you.

[amoxtlacatl]

@KillermaTV

Ditto that.

I envy your neighbors, Tenneral.

[neil73]

Remember what they say about 'mad dogs and Englishmen', Micheal! Just joking!

It is humid and sticky now, after the rain in Yorkshire

[skinnyjohnsen]

Brilliant video. I would have loved going to Italy. Sadly my income doesn't allow for it.

As a kid I climbed stairs like that in Trondheim, Norway; The Nidaros-domen.

Looking out caused a life long vertigo.

[theracemixer]

I don't recommend you over do it at today's temperature it 29 in London (where i am)

[AtheistBrit]

I do exercise but I tend to do things like swimming and cycling and walking to work rather than hours at the gym. I hate those "ghastly machines" too!

[geyser]

Judging by your tales and demeanor, you'd be an excellent dinner guest...

[tenneral]

@geyser V. kind: I do seem to get plenty of invitations these days. I think they just want some old geezer who can fill in the conversational gaps with tales of the old days - i.e. anything before about 1965!

[ProfMTH]

@geyser I agree, Geyser. If Tenneral were on this side of the pond, I'd invite him to every dinner party my partner and I have.

[Elipson3]

Proper motivation can do wonders for ones endurance :)