The clock winding down, quickly.

I was sitting in the sauna at my gym today, when a man, about 55-60 years old, with a huge gut entered the room completely out of breath. He sat down next to a woman I can only assume was his wife, and panted for about another 5 minutes. She asked him what he had been doing. He replied that he was doing laps in the pool, doing every lap on one breath. She said “Are you trying to kill yourself?”. To which he replied, “If I can’t do one lap on a single breath, then I’ll just take a stim.“.

“Stim” meaning stimulant.

Great idea! Take a stimulant, which is only going to increase your heart rate, and thus increase your oxygen consumption, making it even HARDER to make that lap. You’ll pass out, or have a coronary, before you even get halfway across the pool. Not only that, but you need to lose about 90 pounds before you even attempt anything harder than a treadmill.

And people wonder why heart attacks are the number one killer of middle-aged male Americans.