Here are some reasons to have more sex, courtesy of Men’s Health:

• Sex as exercise. Making love three times a week burns off 7,500 calories over the course of a year, which is equal to jogging 75 miles.
• The heavy breathing that goes along with sex raises the amount of oxygen in your cells, which helps keep organs functioning at their best.
• When men have sex, or do any type of physical workout, they release testosterone into their system. This testosterone works to help keep men’s bones and muscles strong.
• Having regular sex can lower your cholesterol level.
• Did you know having sex can actually HELP your headache. The excitement that comes with sex lower levels of certain types of pain.
• Sex is known to lower stress levels.
• Regular lovemaking can increase a woman’s estrogen, which can protect her heart and keep her vaginal tissues more supple.

I’m pretty excited to be getting in shape. Before I moved to Calgary at the beginning of the year, my main exercise was hockey twice a week, lots of walking, and occasionally using the gym in my building. Since arriving in Calgary, I’ve been pretty inactive. Just started playing hockey again, and am starting a new program.

I’ve hooked up with True Fitness Wellness and Spa, where I have a plan tailored to me. I’ll be meeting with an in-house nutritionist to help get my bad eating habits on track. Physically I’ve started a personal training regime with Ken Andrukow. Ken was an exec in the corporate world, but decided to pursue his passion for fitness. He’s created a pretty amazing facility. One side is dedicated to training with all the latest equipment, and rooms for yoga and pilates classes. The other side features a beautiful spa with pedicure/manicure area, a couple of rooms for skin care, and my favourite - massage rooms. My muscles will definitely need some work by weeks’ end.

One of the things I like about True, is that you can’t just walk in any old time and randomly move from machine to machine. If you’re in there, you’re with your personal trainer. This is good because it forces you to get the most out of your time cause there’s someone giving you a little push, but I think it makes it a more professional environment to work out in. Ken isn’t like a drill sargeant, which is nice…he works you hard, but in a calm way. You can’t beat the sore muscles you have after a good workout, cause you know your body is changing for the better.   

here’s a few more to add to your vernacular:

• Annoyertating: A mixture of annoying and irritating, that you say sometimes in total frustration..
• Beer peddler: When you have so many DUI’s that they only way you can make a beer run is to ride your bike, you’ve become a beer peddler.
• Bluetool: A person who wears a bluetooth wireless earpiece everywhere they go to seem trendy and important. Places to spot bluetools include movie theaters, malls, restaurants, gyms, grocery stores and cars.
• Butterfaith: A girl who is fun, intelligent, beautiful, perfect in every way… except she’s devoutly religious. (taken from “butterface”)
• Driver’s arm: Refers to the left arm being tanner (or redder) than the right arm because it’s been hanging out the window.
• Pac-manning: To drive right on the dotted white lane divider, which gives the same effect as Pac-Man eating dots.

The first time I heard Apply Some Pressure from Maximo Park, I was sold. I’d never heard of the band, and was offered some free tickets for a club show through a promoter. The band performed in front of a half-full Toronto club. Tore it up. This song was definitely a standout, and I’ve liked the band since. The album it’s on is called A Certain Trigger. A second album from the Brit band came out in April.

I’ve liked what MSTRKRFT (masterkraft) does for awhile. Jesse Keeler from Death from Above 1979 started the electronic project, which also does some solid remixes (Metric, Wolfmother). In a strange bit of fate Sebastien Grainger (also ex of DFA1979) is in town doing a solo gig opening for Metric at Whisky on May 17th. On the 18th MSTRKRFT is at the Warehouse. Both shows should be solid. The song we played is The Looks, title track from the first album.

Today, we featured Lucious Jackson and the song Naked Eye, from the album Fever In Fever Out. Canadian superproducer Daniel Lanois produced the album. Lucious Jackson were the first band signed to the Beastie Boys‘ Grand Royal label. The band broke up in 2000, and will release a greatest hits disc this year admidst rumours of a reunion.

Today on the Big Box, I went back to my favourite album of 2005 - Illinoise. It’s the second in Sufjan Stevens‘ goal to do an album for every state, which started with Michigan. He’s an outstanding songwriter. I had the chance to see him in St. Louis this past Fall, and it was a fantastic show, complete with 14-piece band. Horns, strings, piano, banjo. One of those concerts that gives you shivers a few times. The song we played today is called Casimir Pulaski Day.

A couple of months before I arrived in Calgary, I was doing a college radio stint in Toronto on CIUT, with an almost completely open format. While there, I did an interview with Soundproof Magazine. I’m really pleasantly surprised with the music on X92.9, and I can honestly say that it’s the most musically progressive commercial radio station in Canada. Of course, like the listener, Idon’t love every song. The fact there’s no Nickleback (or Default, or Simple Plan, or Good Charlotte, or Theory of a Badband, etc.) makes things a whole lot better. I also get to play something from my personal collection in the Big Box O CDs.

I’m not buying these figures. Women may say and believe these things, but the proof is in their actions and I think, sadly, looks trump humour and sweetness every time. Hence so many hot chicks with douchebags. In my experience, I’ve not come across very many funny guys who are hot. Cute maybe, yet it’s the physically attractive guys, not the funny ones that inevitably win the race. In any case here’s the results of a recent survey:

What’s the most important quality in a potential man?

2% said looks

3% said financial and career success

42% said sense of “humor”

38% said “sweetness”

Josh’s Big Box O CDs today featured music from Arizona-based The Refreshments. True nerds will appreciate the Star Trek references in the song Banditos. Smart people will enjoy the notion that the “world is full of stupid people.” And everyone can appreciate the catchiness of this song. They made only two albums( in two years) and this song is from the album Fizzy, Fuzzy Big and Buzzy. Even though this was there most popular song on radio, you’ve probably heard them on TV. They do the theme song for King of the Hill.