Smarter than Tony Stark.........

Watching Iron man, one is always going to have suspend their belief in reality for the 90 minutes or so, that you’re  inside the movie theatre.  I love the idea of Tony Stark, Billionaire super intelligent playboy. The suit is pretty cool as well. Like batman, superman and every superhero movie before it, the audience is invited in to an extravaganza of explosions fight scenes and  cliff hangers.

In return for such an extravaganza, the audiences part, we are  asked to mostly leave the “that’s just impossible” comments at the door, and see where the movie takes us.

And the most part, when watching Iron man 3 that’s exactly what I did, then *watch out spoiler alert* came the bit when Tony called on a hidden army of suits to help fight the baddies at the end.

Now, I can live with flying parts, even the flying facemask that had no obvious mode of propulsion as it travelled 836 miles! What I can’t believe is the fact that Tony Stark, who has an IQ of 180 (according to Abduallah) went through everything he went through, including a Mc Giver, style shop in a DIY store, before actually calling in the Calvary, who  would have solved his problems 45 minutes earlier.

This brings me neatly onto training, I have always been able to train fairly well, I am by no means the fittest person I know, but I’m slightly better than average. I bring up this point because I’ve always been able to do this, whilst maintaining a unhealthy Shisha smoking habit. I’m not going to get drawn into a debate with myself about the pros/cons of smoking Shisha, but the fact is, as much as I fool myself, it must have some negative impact on my fitness, and going forward my health.

Therefore, I am going to do what Tony Stark didn’t do in Iron Man 3, I am going to call in the Calvary, at the beginning of this training programme rather than at the end.

As of today ( perhaps I will give myself a farewell one)  I am stopping Shisha, for those of you who know me well, this I have no doubt will come as a shock.

The great thing is, no one will ever be able to say I am as stupid as Tony Stark.....