Continuing
my literary-orientated fat-burning quest, I read the screenplay to
Star Wars: A New Hope on the exercise bike this week. After 45
minutes of short cardio and weights, I pedalled for 92 minutes.
That's 137 minutes of exercise in total, minus the 90 minutes of
exercise before fat-burning occurs, which equals 47 minutes of actual
fat burning.
Graft.
A
New Hope is still a good read even when- like me- you know the film
pretty well. I'm by no means a wannabe Jedi but I was a big time film
fan in my younger days.
The
book starts with a vintage article from 1977- before Star Wars hit
the big screen- describing the monstrous task director George Lucas
undertook in developing the project to from an idea through to a
finished film. Impressive stuff. Lucas has always struck me as a bit
of a nerd, but he's a genius nerd to have pulled off a movie as
ambitious and as memorable as Star Wars.
I
was describing this reading project to a friend of mine, a scientist.
She suggsted that reading during exercise will actually help me to
take in the information better- I'd learn more due to the increase of
oxygen in the bloodstream, leading to blood pumping faster and the
neurones in my brain firing quicker. I'm no scientist myself, but it
sounds very possible to me. Whether that's the case when you've got a
memory difficulty and you're not going to remember as much as other
people might- who knows. The last two books have been screenplays to
films I've already seen, so I know the deal. Next up: an
interpretation of Nostradamus' prophecies. That'll be the real test.
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