Healthy Darts

Now some people call me a fat b’strd and at 16 ½ stone you might well agree. Indeed my body mass index is 29 which is considered very unhealthy medically, however Phil The Power Taylors BMI was 38 a few weeks ago, so how would he be described! He might not be any heavier than me, but I am just over 6 foot and he is, well, quite a bit less. Phil blamed his lack of fitness and stamina at the start of the year for losing in the World Championship competition which has a grueling 3 hour final, so 6 weeks ago he commenced a get fit campaign and has made remarkable progress by losing a stone in weight already. I won’t say that his improving stamina level is going to enable him to make a comeback, because he never went away. His losing the title was just a momentary blip in his incredible career as I am sure Barneveld will find when he plays him shortly.

Myself, I have always followed my doctors advice regarding my health and fitness. Mind you I do have a doctor that sometimes gives unexpected advice. I am approaching 50 and have the usual health concerns that a man my age might have and I won’t tell you what he told me to do in bed at night, (which would also build up my muscles in my right arm and help me to throw darts.) His predecessor also gave some good advice. On one visit he instructed me to do 3 things;-

1) No strenuous exercise. Do not do anything that brings me out in a sweat.

2) Eat 4 square meals a day. Not just sandwiches.

Then he spoilt it with the third,

3) No alcohol.

As Meatloaf said two out of three ain’t bad.

Perhaps I should point out that the doctors who gave me this sound advice are in fact Psychiatrists and we all know what they say about them!

The abstinence from beer means that at darts matches I nearly always drink diet Coke/diet Pepsi and when people comment on this I say that if I have that it means I can have more sandwiches after the match without getting too fat!