Concentration

Today I'm going to bust out something quick - unedited.

We're in our second week and we're doing Neurology and I find it very interesting.
Massive workload though, in the first two weeks we're supposed to read 100 pages and we're not talking about an easy read hehe.

I was thinking about focus and concentration because it is something I always try to improve since it's so vital. I mean if you don't want to study 16hours a day you better focus and concentrate during the hours you do it. And have fun the other hours of the day. Interestingly enough 60% of the kids in the US have ADHD, a number that used to be much lower. That and a lot of other interesting stuff is what we're going to be introduced to.

Time to go to bed -> read -> sleep -> do everything again

Tomorrow I'll bring Linda to uni, that should be fun, will see if she can understand anything of our lecture tomorrow, "Neurology as a clinical tool". She used to be smarter then me haha just goes to show that you can pretty much do anything if you just cut the sh** out and focus.

3rd year

Ranting two days before I enter my 3rd year over here at Murdoch Uni.

Got asked how life is over here and I might as well write a bit about it, really need to keep up the blogging since it's so good to write regularly. Will make it a habit to post on here once a week this semester.

It's actually amazing that we're starting 3rd year. It went fast but everything in life goes fast when you do stuff you like. Life here is truly amazing. I'm thinking and saying it out loudly almost every day. Sure we all have days when we think it sucks and that whatever we do is pointless but for the most part, shit is good.

Last semester we studied these units.

Anatomy all muscles and nerve innervation, bones and brain.
Was a great course and it's hard to believe that I didn't know all that before because it's second nature to me now.

Biomechanics What muscles do in your body, forces acting on your bones and some basic palpation of all the joints in the body (adjusting them will come this year)

Physical Examination What you basically do is that you do a physical examination of the patient's lungs, heart, head, skin, intestinal or other system.
Was a great deal of work and me and another classmate have committed to practice our skills once a week for this semester since these skills are so important to know from the top of your head. Our teacher used to say that he was going to phone us at 3am and drill us and damn the one who could not answer, funny guy and I really liked his teaching style.
You definitely did your homework before each class because he would throw questions at you all the time and would not hold back on the humiliation factor if you didn't knew the answer.

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This semester we're finally being taught officially to adjust. I'm looking forward to this a lot. WE have a great teacher for this course as well. In fact, many of our teachers are great. I mean the kind of persons you rarely meet.

However I've been going to evening classes every week of this semester since the Chiropractic technique (Gonstead) taught there really impresses me. The University does not allow this technique and their clinic. They only go with a technique called Diversified. Which with my limited knowledge seems easier to learn, but don't take my word on this since my knowledge is virtually zero when it comes to this.

I can see what Murdoch is trying to do. They are trying to legitimatize the education we get as much as possible. Making it more medicine oriented but that puts more pressure on the student to get out there and learn and practice adjustments and hands on stuff, since there is not enough time spent on that at Murdoch according to me. But that's just fine and I just have the feeling that this is the way it goes. We do 5 years here and they do 8 years in the states so more responsibility to the student to get good on their own over here.

I don't have any references on this one but I think they learned 3 or 4 different techniques at Macquarie in Sydney where's at Murdoch we are only being taught one which is Diversified.
Politics politics...I still think that what you get out of your education is exactly what you put in. I've changed a lot since I first got here. These days we've been going in to Uni just catching up on stuff every fortnightly. I've now a deal with a good class mate of mine to arrive at uni 30min before we start to get some practice in everyday, that's how you learn - I know!

We had one guy in our class that after the first year transferred over to England and I spoke to him a month ago. Now this guy know what he wants and got his head right. He said that the academic standard over there was very low and their facilities were crap.
Result: he's coming back to study with us.

I've also been out there, observing Chiropractors. That has been of even greater benefit than I'd previously thought. They practice with different styles and techniques so you get to develop your own thought of what you want to do in the future. I think this is important questions to have in your head from the start.

I've now twice been observing the Chiropractor who is doing our Tuesday evening classes and this guy is amazing. Every time you walk out from his office you feel fresh and motivated.
It's been great to see that this stuff actually works. I was very skeptical and still is even though my Dad and Grandpa were Chiropractors. You should always be critical even if the person sounds very sure of his thing. Always do your own research.

Enough for today, now I'm going to enjoy my last two days of summer break before I'm back to were every minute is scheduled again.

Also have to add that I've started with Olympic weightlifting and will hopefully compete in State Championship in June 2011

Summer

There is actually one exam left, physical examination, the theory part.
That's on Wednesday and then it's actually break for 11 weeks.
What am I going to do???

I've not been out for 2 months, no kiting, not surfing. I've turned nerdy.
That's okay thou, it heaps fun hanging out at uni, studying different things.

We'll have some really cool lecturers for next year, which I'm looking forward to. Units will be; neurology, evidence based practice and we are finally going to be taught adjusting. Even thou I've already been going to Gonstead evening classes. Which is a variation of the technique we are being taught by Murdoch.

How cool isn't it that my grandpa was traveling the States and the UK and learned chiropractic from different folks and then went on to develop his own technique. I mean that is pretty damn cool, especially since this was probably over 50 years ago.

Spring times

"Bush court" at Murdoch uni, where everybody hangs out during the lunch.
Also check out the quality of my new camera, Canon S90

Was a long time since I wrote something here. I've been pretty busy doing other things. It's almost exam times, the summer is coming up and there is stuff happening all the time.
Always have to chose between uni work or going out.

Observed two Chiropractors a few weeks ago and my plan is to see two others before this semester ends. I've also been reading up on Osteoarthritis, ACL tears in females and tendinitis and tendinopathy. I find them all very interesting.

We got a great house going, me, Eric, two Swedish girl and one Ozzie girl and I'm really happy with the situation. MUSIC, MUSIC is so good for creating a good vibe in the house.

I've also started working again so I work a few times a week and man it's almost more fun teaching it then actually kite. Would be fun to see my brother coming over for a session.
Will go and see him anyways on the eastcoast this summer. Do the trip from Sydney to ByronBay. That trip will be off the wall!
BUT first off I'll learn all these stuff at uni and get some grades that I can be proud off!

Proud man

Hey whatzup..
Bam we're having one week of break from studies after 4 weeks on.
But it's actually the time to catch up on everything, and there is plenty to choose from :)
Just been doing 6 hours of intense writing in the library.
Just so f^$& proud. Would never been able to pull that off a year ago.
I thou think you become a bit retarded when you study this much haha.
Well, at least it's interesting.

We had some fun this morning. Me and a couple of friends went for a surf and when we got to the spot it was; raining, dark and cold. On top of that my wetsuit was all wet. For days like this we have one song that gets us out of the car...

I love being a man in Australia, doing my job and having fun
Sweet greetings from over here :D

Full on nerd

Wooa'la I'm back in Perth

Uni has started and I'm getting nerdy for the next 4 months.
Got Biomechanics, Anatomy 2 and Physical Examination this semester.
In addition to that I'm on this volunteer program and will be teaching Maths and Biology to High School kids 2h a week.

I've been in the gym for 7 weeks and I squatted 5*5 at 92.5kg, breaking parallel two days ago.
I just recently started with power cleans to get more explosive, its a fun exercise.
Here is a pic from yesterday which I took with my new camera (finally).

There were over 50 guys in the small waves so I decided to get some fish instead

Starting training

I've been training on and off for the last 4 years. Now it's time to stop messing the fuck around.
I was studying to my nutrition exam a few days ago and happen to pop in to his site.
It all made so much sense, especially because it rings with the stuff we have been studying this semester.

The guy talks about how he was training 5 days a week for 5 years. Yeah he was strong but still he wanted to be ripped and one day he got pissed off at it. He said no more bullshit.
He read up on nutrition again, books, journals everything.
After 3-4months of his new eating habits his body had changed.

To sum this stuff up, it's basically to eat whatever they ate 10.000 years ago. Cut the carbs out. this guy does not any grains such as oats and pasta. He swapped that for fat, vegetables, eggs and chicken. He writes about the two hormones leptin and insulin which I just have been reading about and it makes sense.

About the training, it's still the same as when Arnold was working out. You gotta SHOCK that muscle, never just train and relax, FOCUS and you should be wasted coming home from a run or from the gym.

He says that eating like this is cheaper then it use to be and quicker. Great, more time for studies. Haha it's funny how you Bitten has been eating like this for a couple of years and I've told you you need some rice and pasta.
I feel mislead and I'm pissed ;)