IMAD Blog

  A review of my history of fitness. I have always invested considerable time in my fitness. My health watch provides a wealth of data, as far as I can determine, for only 90 days but going back to my high school and uni days I have strived to be fit. As a teenager I was passionate about skin /  SCUBA diving and achieved an A Class Diving certificate which apart from the theory involved 10 free dives to 10 metres (an atmosphere) in 10 minutes. No problem. At the University of Western Australia, we regularly played underwater hockey which far exceeds water polo in effort. See google for details. Back in those days I was able to swim the length of an Olympic Pool, wearing fins, with deep breaths at the start. I was a pool attendant at the Beatty Park Aquatic Centre which hosted the Commonwealth Game. In those days I automatically bounded up stairs and walls of over a metre in height. I was also a daily gym junkie and played squash. I also gained a lifesaving certificate which ...