YOU KNOW YOU HAVE HAD A GOOD GAME OF SQUASH WHEN YOU KEEP EYEING OFF THE LUCOZADE MACHINE

Which one of you lovely readers of mine is in the mood to get fit enough to do benchpress and be able to do 200 pushups at the drop of hat? Chances probaly are you are like me and aren't quite in the league to do that, well i could try benchpress but knowing me i`d drop the bloody thing on my chest and wouldn't be able to lift it off. Actually without boasting, i'm currently on a diet and exercise regime and for the first time in 15 years i'm actually below the 90kg mark, my family has even being saying that i've even got back my hunky chiseled looks (laugh). A bit of a stretch but yes i have really been trying to regain some genuine fitness back, the secret for me has been going completely vegetarian, no booze, no wheat or gluten and two walks a day, morning and afternoon. The one activity which i have not tried but i know is the best thing going for fitness is the dying or dead sport of SQUASH. I mean to say where have all the squash courts in the suburbs of yesteryear gone. Way back when, which was the 80`s when i was going to school, i use to play squash as the one school extra curriculum activity which we were permitted to do every friday afternoon in Grade 8 and 9 down at Rochedale Sportsaction, the local squash complex in my area. It is a great sport to get fit and get quick but lasting results if you eat correctly & do other forms of exercise as well. There was never a time that i ever come off the squash court without sweating like a pig and feeling like i had just run the 100 metre sprint trying to keep up with Carl Lewis. I dont know exactly how many squash complexes are left in the suburbs of Australia, but at least around Brisbane, there are not too many left. The real estate that most of the squash courts sat on was worth a lot more as townhouses & for commercial development, that's quite simply all it come down to. The political sensibility that's saved many golf courses from being carved up for development unfortunately hasn't saved the vast majority of squash court complexes from closing their doors to make way for urban and commercial development that has effectively killed what has always rather unfairly been maligned as a gimmickey sport by administrators of other sports. I would definitely go and have a hit down at the squash courts i went to twenty something years ago if they were still there, even if i was on my own and forced to be Nigel with no playing partner. Nothing like a good game of squash to get the blood pumping and the sweat flowing until you are running for the Lucozade machine.