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    Nibu babu thomas
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    What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

    "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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      What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

      "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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      A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack). While no one knows exactly what could have caused it (poor fellow was a teetotaller), some think it might have been due to extreme stress at work. He worked for USTRI, Trivandrum by the way.

      Regards, Nish


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      Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)

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        A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack). While no one knows exactly what could have caused it (poor fellow was a teetotaller), some think it might have been due to extreme stress at work. He worked for USTRI, Trivandrum by the way.

        Regards, Nish


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        Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)

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        Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

        A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack).

        Was he from Orissa. Remember reading this in Manorama. :~


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          Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

          A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack).

          Was he from Orissa. Remember reading this in Manorama. :~


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          Nibu babu thomas wrote:

          Was he from Orissa. Remember reading this in Manorama.

          Nope, a Mallu.

          Regards, Nish


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            Nibu babu thomas wrote:

            Was he from Orissa. Remember reading this in Manorama.

            Nope, a Mallu.

            Regards, Nish


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            Nibu babu thomas
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            Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

            Nope, a Mallu.

            A guy from orissa also died of heart attack. He had chest pains in the morning while in office instead of going to the hospital he went home thinking it will be okay. When his roommate came in the evening he was dead. Recently I heard USTRI do have session to relax their employees. For eg: Music sessions, some bring their guitar and other instruments. Again not sure just heard this from a friend of mine. Here in NeST it's very relaxed (Can't say about the future). No over work. Work starts at 8.30 am ends at 5.30 pm. Sometimes if there is a release you may have to stay longer. :) Problem with me is that I stay back. ;)


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              What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

              "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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              This[^] and this[^] on one of these[^] :D

              cheers, Chris Maunder

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                What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

                "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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                Nibu babu thomas wrote:

                What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy

                I drink lots of beer, and periodically flex all major joints 'till they make loud popping noises...

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                  :-D


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                    Nibu babu thomas wrote:

                    What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy

                    I drink lots of beer, and periodically flex all major joints 'till they make loud popping noises...

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                    Bloody fitness fanatics...

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                      What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

                      "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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                      I have turned our games room into a gym, there's a few exercise machines in there. I also bought some special straps so I can go swimming at the local pool. I use none of it. I really need to, but I have a lot on, and I just keep putting it off.

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                        I have turned our games room into a gym, there's a few exercise machines in there. I also bought some special straps so I can go swimming at the local pool. I use none of it. I really need to, but I have a lot on, and I just keep putting it off.

                        Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                        Christian Graus wrote:

                        I have a lot on, and I just keep putting it off.

                        Sounds like you'll be putting it on to me :)

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                          What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

                          "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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                          Hmm...walk around the room when i'm frustrated :laugh:. But i guess that's about it :-O. Actually, I used to hike for miles, but i don't have the time anymore. I don't run, because my heart and lungs aren't in the shape that would allow me to...i'm the one that's standing doubled up, out of breath when everyone else has no problem I've been an "indoor" person my whole life, so it doesn't really bother me. My solution is to have a good chair, the kind that doesn't let you sit hunched over and doesn't have pressure points that bug you when you sit for hours. For some people it helps to remove the armrests. Sitting right is only part of it though. If the position of your arms is wrong, you can get carpal tunnel syndrome, which is pretty painful. Also set the screen refresh rate to above 60Hz on CRT monitors to keep your eyes from burning. Although 60Hz is the native refresh rate on LCD screens, they are built differently, so you don't have that problem there. Position light sources relative to your monitor in a such way that you don't have glare. Try to eliminate blinking lights, such as fluorescent kind, as those can really take a toll on your eyes. Get up and stretch every two hours, even if you are feeling comfy at the moment, because you might be falling asleep and not know it. A little bit of activity will always wake you up. Try not to eat too much to keep yourself from gaining weight. Fried foods such as doughnuts usually don't get metabolized completely, so they are something i normally stay from. Roswell:rose:

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                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            I have a lot on, and I just keep putting it off.

                            Sounds like you'll be putting it on to me :)

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                            Yeah, I'm holding steady, but I really need to lose a bit. I *was* planning a trip to the Amazon in March, and when I cancelled that ( not enough time ), I kind of lost the impetus.

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                              Hmm...walk around the room when i'm frustrated :laugh:. But i guess that's about it :-O. Actually, I used to hike for miles, but i don't have the time anymore. I don't run, because my heart and lungs aren't in the shape that would allow me to...i'm the one that's standing doubled up, out of breath when everyone else has no problem I've been an "indoor" person my whole life, so it doesn't really bother me. My solution is to have a good chair, the kind that doesn't let you sit hunched over and doesn't have pressure points that bug you when you sit for hours. For some people it helps to remove the armrests. Sitting right is only part of it though. If the position of your arms is wrong, you can get carpal tunnel syndrome, which is pretty painful. Also set the screen refresh rate to above 60Hz on CRT monitors to keep your eyes from burning. Although 60Hz is the native refresh rate on LCD screens, they are built differently, so you don't have that problem there. Position light sources relative to your monitor in a such way that you don't have glare. Try to eliminate blinking lights, such as fluorescent kind, as those can really take a toll on your eyes. Get up and stretch every two hours, even if you are feeling comfy at the moment, because you might be falling asleep and not know it. A little bit of activity will always wake you up. Try not to eat too much to keep yourself from gaining weight. Fried foods such as doughnuts usually don't get metabolized completely, so they are something i normally stay from. Roswell:rose:

                              "Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
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                              Nibu babu thomas
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                              RoswellNX wrote:

                              screen refresh rate to above 60Hz on CRT monitors

                              Thanks for that information. Mine won't take anything more than 60 hz.


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                                RoswellNX wrote:

                                screen refresh rate to above 60Hz on CRT monitors

                                Thanks for that information. Mine won't take anything more than 60 hz.


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                                I've been seriously contemplating buying Yourself! Fitness. Sounds good and the reviews seem to say that the product is good too.

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                                  What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

                                  "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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                                  I used to weigh 260 pounds and I'm just barely~maybe 6' tall in shoes but 5'11" by most accounts. I was terribly fat I thought given I used to race mountain bikes and play soccer at the national level and a few other rather remarkable things in my younger days. Then I remembered something I'd learned. "The only easy day was yesterday." I remembered what that means. You always look at yesterday and learn from it. Apply what you've learned from yesterday in the form of work and make sure today is better than yesterday was. Hence, "The only easy day was yesterday." I'm in the habit of going to the gym every other day whether I have time or not. I make sure I go, PERIOD. If I have clients waiting one thing I've learned is that 2 hours every other day and 6 hours a week really doesn't take much away. I had to admit the reason I wasn't working out had nothing to do with time it just had to do with priorities. Working out wasn't a priority or I'd be doing it. Just about everyone here who says they are too busy to work out really means to say, "Working out just isn't a priority." So my answer to you, make it a priority. I've lost 50 pounds and still have pounds to go but I'm enjoying the change and I doubt I'll ever make working out a low priority again. There's just too much good that comes from it. So shift your priorities and move fitness up. You'll be glad you did. You'll just feel better. You'll never have the time so just do it. Then you'll be surprised to learn how much time you really have when something is important. - Rex:rose:

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                                    :-D I like biking, but it's sorta dangerous, a car almost hit me twice! So I turned into boxing until I broke my wrist:laugh: now I'm jogging, the safest, cheapest and best exercise:cool:


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                                      I used to weigh 260 pounds and I'm just barely~maybe 6' tall in shoes but 5'11" by most accounts. I was terribly fat I thought given I used to race mountain bikes and play soccer at the national level and a few other rather remarkable things in my younger days. Then I remembered something I'd learned. "The only easy day was yesterday." I remembered what that means. You always look at yesterday and learn from it. Apply what you've learned from yesterday in the form of work and make sure today is better than yesterday was. Hence, "The only easy day was yesterday." I'm in the habit of going to the gym every other day whether I have time or not. I make sure I go, PERIOD. If I have clients waiting one thing I've learned is that 2 hours every other day and 6 hours a week really doesn't take much away. I had to admit the reason I wasn't working out had nothing to do with time it just had to do with priorities. Working out wasn't a priority or I'd be doing it. Just about everyone here who says they are too busy to work out really means to say, "Working out just isn't a priority." So my answer to you, make it a priority. I've lost 50 pounds and still have pounds to go but I'm enjoying the change and I doubt I'll ever make working out a low priority again. There's just too much good that comes from it. So shift your priorities and move fitness up. You'll be glad you did. You'll just feel better. You'll never have the time so just do it. Then you'll be surprised to learn how much time you really have when something is important. - Rex:rose:

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                                      code-frog wrote:

                                      I used to weigh 260 pounds

                                      Would like to see a pic. :D


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                                        A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack). While no one knows exactly what could have caused it (poor fellow was a teetotaller), some think it might have been due to extreme stress at work. He worked for USTRI, Trivandrum by the way.

                                        Regards, Nish


                                        Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                                        Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)

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                                        Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                        poor fellow was a teetotaller

                                        He should have been on the red wine diet.

                                        The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance idiots like CSS.

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                                          What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail

                                          "First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)


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                                          I stopped drinking for a month or two, in an attempt to heal the damage I did in December.

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