Sunday, February 12, 2017

Update 02/12/17

Welp, between the super bowl, stupid hours at work (again), and staying up late (not getting enough sleep)...

Short version, fell back off the wagon.  Most of it my fault, some of it not.

But hey, next week is a new day.  My boy Mark Morrison has been killing it at his local gym.  Makes me proud and motivated to see someone else sticking with it through whatever issues he has to deal with.  Also stokes that competitive fire.  I want to beat him now.  LOL.

So, we're staring off fresh.... again.

Going to be using that little key Fob thing, going to be eating with the Body4Life plan.  Going to be great again.  haha!

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Weekly update 01/29/17

This week sucked from a fitness perspective.  Not even going to line out what I did, which wasn't much, at all...

Tuesday I got into the gym and got with one of the program coordinators, got this swanky key thing to use to track the machine part of the workouts, and got setup with that.  Then I got ill-ish, and didn't get back to the office till Friday.

Tracked food for about half the week, the stopped.

Might stop all together.  I do like the app though, it's a nice change from myfitnesspal, but it doesn't have near the library of scanned items (yet).  The reason I might stop, starting the following week (not next week), I'm going to go back to the Body4Life eating style.  Simple explanation, it's 6 meals, preferably 3 being protein shakes (MyoPlex specifically) and the other 3 being a serving of a protein, a carb, and get at least 2 veggies in over those 3 meals.  This worked wonders back in.... geez, 2001.  LOL.  Time to dust it off and get back in it for real.  I might end up ditching these workouts too, but not yet, I'll give them and the food some time to make a mark.

Sleep is still an issue.  Will be trying to get back under the cpap mask.  I can tell the quality isn't there, because, for the most part, the quantity is.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Weekly update 1/23/17

Busy week.  Got to the gym 3 times.  Bro'd out with a lot of bench.

MON-- was a wash, didn't get to the gym, didn't get to work.  Ate moderately well, downloaded app
TUE--started using APP, says I should be losing weight.  haha.
WED-- took it easy today, biked for 2 miles, rowed 1k.  Got form to sign up for a tracker thing that the gym has, thinking about spending extra time doing cardio.
Thur-nothing, tracked food.
Friday, signed up for the tracker stuff, benched, curled.  Weight is up, but I've got stomach issues, think I'm retaining water, need to drink more.


Looking back on my updates.  I didn't appear to gain weight this week, but I'm 90% sure it was all retention of water.  Had an upset stomach for a day and a half, and I hadn't be drinking near enough (think about 40oz a day), so my body was holding on.

This coming Tuesday, I go in for my 60 minute eval.  Get a key fob which works for every machine (cardio or weights) and tracks all the activity.  Real way to stay accountable.  I plan on doing more cardio.  Saw some good results on the soccer field tonight, so this is a positive step in the right direction.

Other thoughts, I want to learn how to box.  Might take that up in 100 lbs.  :)

Another thought.  Hit middle age officially.  35.  Put up a FB video.  Did a shoutout to some of my fitness family in DE.  Only one person I mentioned, out of 15 or 20, said happy birthday.  Kinda sad about that.  They still mean the world to me, but I'm out of sight, out of mind I guess.  :|

Sunday, January 15, 2017

YO! Been a minute, how you doin?

Holy crap it's been too long.  Waaaaaaaaaay too long.  Good news thought, I'm back in a gym!

Here's the bad news though, I've gained most of my pre CrossFit weight back.  Sitting un-pretty at 472 as on Monday last week.  

Here's the good news.  I'm back in the gym.  I hit it three days last week, in a traditional gym, not a box.  Worked a bit of everything.  My thought process is that I'm waking my body up and saying hey, change (pain) is coming.  I've already got my process down, shaker cups and protein at the office, and things are rolling.  Up before 7 (doesn't matter when), dressed, at the office in 25 minutes, get about 25-40 minutes of office work in, then off to the gym.  40-70 minutes (depending on workout), shower, back up to the desk and on with the day.

Gets the metabolism going early.  Gets the workout out of the way.  Starts every day off with success and accomplishment.  Should be a great thing.

Other notes/plans:

Workout 4 days a week, if not 5.

Weigh myself every day, not every week.  I want to watch it all the way down.  I'm no longer a believer in waiting a week at a time for myself.  Might work for you, might work for others, but I want to do it every day so I can see my actions working or not working and tweak it.

I'm going to get back into tracking food.  Switching apps from myfitnesspal to MyNetDiary.

Need to figure out how I'm going to eat overall.  Might go back to Paleo, might go Keto.  Not sure.  I plan on adding these things in slowly rather than implementing all at once.  Going to build these habits one at a time until they're all ingrained.

Lastly, I'm changing up the habits on the CrossFit Nomad blog.  I plan on posting only once a week, and making it the same day every week (or at least in the same time frame of "the weekend").  The thought is that I'm going to write down quick things about each day, and then post it in a one week summary.

There is more on my mind, but I'm pooped at the moment.  Write more soon.