Sunday Night

posted via cell phone

Just got back from using the great Gold’s Gym they have here next to my hotel in Bangor, Maine.  I had a great little workout, doing 10 min on the treadmill, then a full UBWO BFL style, followed by 8 min on the gauntlet (hardest machine I have ever used) and then lastly 10 more min on treadmill.  This was the first real workout I have had in several weeks, and the first time I have gone all out in a month, I will be feeling this tomorrow!

 

After going to the gym I stopped in at the hotel pool where my kids had been for the previous two hours with my wife and relieved my wife and let her go relax while I sat in the hot tub to soak for 20 min and then went in the pool.  When I was a kid I used to swim alot but in recent years not so much.  I can swim, in that if I were thrown in, or had to swim to save my life I could do so, haha, but I am "not a strong swimmer" to quote a great SNL skit from the 80′s (yeesh dating myself).  Anyway the kids love swimming, and my 8 year old doesn’t even remember the last time I went in with her to a  pool, so she enjoyed it.

 

Tomorrow I have 7 hours of driving coming up so I hope to get thru that relatively pain free.  Driving long distances is not good times for me at the moment, but it is what it is.  We’ll see how I feel when I get home tommorrow.  Pics and measurements to be up by 9am Tuesday morning at the latest!

Sunday Night

posted via cell phone

Just got back from using the great Gold’s Gym they have here next to my hotel in Bangor, Maine.  I had a great little workout, doing 10 min on the treadmill, then a full UBWO BFL style, followed by 8 min on the gauntlet (hardest machine I have ever used) and then lastly 10 more min on treadmill.  This was the first real workout I have had in several weeks, and the first time I have gone all out in a month, I will be feeling this tomorrow!

 

After going to the gym I stopped in at the hotel pool where my kids had been for the previous two hours with my wife and relieved my wife and let her go relax while I sat in the hot tub to soak for 20 min and then went in the pool.  When I was a kid I used to swim alot but in recent years not so much.  I can swim, in that if I were thrown in, or had to swim to save my life I could do so, haha, but I am "not a strong swimmer" to quote a great SNL skit from the 80′s (yeesh dating myself).  Anyway the kids love swimming, and my 8 year old doesn’t even remember the last time I went in with her to a  pool, so she enjoyed it.

 

Tomorrow I have 7 hours of driving coming up so I hope to get thru that relatively pain free.  Driving long distances is not good times for me at the moment, but it is what it is.  We’ll see how I feel when I get home tommorrow.  Pics and measurements to be up by 9am Tuesday morning at the latest!

UBWO

Had a great cardio and abs workout at the gym this morning. I split up cardio between a number of machines, and also mixed in some abs as well. Was a great workout, and had the gym mostly to myself til nearly 6:30. It was pouring rain and a mild thunderstorm when I got up at 5 am so I cabbed to the gym. I can’t afford to cab every day that it rains, so I will wait til after work on most rainy days, but I felt it was important to get in there early today, coming off being sick and immobile for better part of 4 days.

Last night I did a great ubwo, and I was expecting to be weak due to lower levels of food intake for a few days cause of the stomach flu but I was feeling good, strong and focused! I am really having great workout sessions this challenge, and I am enjoying each session. Other than my left shoulder, I am having next to zero pain while doing the exercises, and even that was only one session a week ago. I avoided overhead presses for a week but I was back to them yesterday so even that is feeling good now.

All in all I am pretty excited with how things are going!

Just a quick update…rocking along

I am exhausted so this will be a short update.

My youngest daughter has a pretty nasty stomach flu that i had a few months ago, and had the absolute, bare none, sickest 12 hours of my life. Poor little thing is 45 lbs soaking wet and has probably vomitted 25 times over the last 30 hours. If vomiting for distance were an event, this little 8 year old, would win. But i digress. We are trying to keep her fluids up, and have consulted two nurses so far. If she is not better by tommorrow, off to the hospital.

Today has been a very long day starting at 5 am this am, then the gym for UBWO and a cardio session cause I had time before work. Was a great session, and I find I am benefitting by sometimes spacing out my weight workouts a little more. As long as I get 3 in over 6 days I am happy. I have not missed one yet, but I did do two after two days off.

I also got 14934 steps on the pedometer today, following up 12000 yesterday. I played an hour of tennis tonight with my buddy and got my butt kicked! Lost 6-1 6-1! However it was a lot of fun and just getting back to where I feel like doing a sport, let alone on a day like I had today, gym, work, walk 4km home, etc is a great sign. I want to get back to a more active life, and for me that includes golf, tennis, occassionally basketball, and hopefully someday, pickup hockey again.

Anyway I am absolutely pooped and the gym will be calling in 7 hours. Until tommorrow….I’m out!

UBWO done!

Went to the gym tonight for a great UBWO. I got it done on time (within 46 min)and I got a great workout in. My strength still leaves alot to be desired but it will come.

Hammer incl 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*65/12*40-12*100 pek dek
pulldowns 12*70/10*85/8*105/6*120/12*90-12*50 b row
sh hammer 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*65/12*40-12*15 side lats
b curl 12*40/10*50/8*60/6*70/12*50-12*50 preacher
over ext 12*25/10*35/8*43/6*50/12*40-12*40 pushdowns

pedometer 10415
bike 6.2 km
Wii 23 min

Another good BFL day in the books. Starting off Week 2 well.

Yesterday’s workout

Yesterday was a long, very busy day. I had a great workout at the gym and my UB muscles are quite sore from that, especially thru my arms and chest. Besides my workout, I had to shovel twice, which my back hates, as well I helped my carpenter carry in 8 sheets of sheetrock, because I didn’t want his wife who is his helper to have to carry it. So yada yada yada I am very sore today, haha.

This morning I went for a walk on my first break at work to the local Coffee shop to get a Green Tea. There was one chocolate chip muffin left, and it took every thing i had not to order it. I have had a couple good days of eating, and I want to keep up the momentum. All of these little victories add up. I need to put together a bunch of days of little victories in order to build momentum and get to where I want to go.

workout from yesteday:

incl d press 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*70/12*45-12*100 pekdek
fixed pulldown 12*85/10*105/8*120/6*145/12*105-12*60 bent row
hammer shoulder press 12*30/10*40/8*55/6*70/12*50-12*55 rvs fly pekdek
barb curl 12*40/10*50/8*60/6*80/12*50-12*25 d curl
french press 12*30/10*40/8*50/6*55/12*40-12*37.5 over cable ext

treadmill 10 min walk/run

meal 1 1 apple, prot shake
meal 2 rice, chicken breast
meal 3 rice, lean hamb, veg
meal 4 rice lean hamb, veg
meal 5 prot shake
meal 6, missed as i was in bed at 730

Now yesteday I weighed myself and was embarassingly back to the starting point of 237. I certainly deserve to be back at the beginning after some sketchy eating and the lack of proper exercise due mostly to being down with the flu last week. For accountability I will be weighing every wed for the rest of this challenge and posting the results on my blog, on Torch and maybe also on tracker for accountability. Also, I like to weigh myself on the first of every month as well as take all my measurements, so I will be doing that tommorrow morning immediately after waking.

Yesterday’s workout

Yesterday was a long, very busy day. I had a great workout at the gym and my UB muscles are quite sore from that, especially thru my arms and chest. Besides my workout, I had to shovel twice, which my back hates, as well I helped my carpenter carry in 8 sheets of sheetrock, because I didn’t want his wife who is his helper to have to carry it. So yada yada yada I am very sore today, haha.

This morning I went for a walk on my first break at work to the local Coffee shop to get a Green Tea. There was one chocolate chip muffin left, and it took every thing i had not to order it. I have had a couple good days of eating, and I want to keep up the momentum. All of these little victories add up. I need to put together a bunch of days of little victories in order to build momentum and get to where I want to go.

workout from yesteday:

incl d press 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*70/12*45-12*100 pekdek
fixed pulldown 12*85/10*105/8*120/6*145/12*105-12*60 bent row
hammer shoulder press 12*30/10*40/8*55/6*70/12*50-12*55 rvs fly pekdek
barb curl 12*40/10*50/8*60/6*80/12*50-12*25 d curl
french press 12*30/10*40/8*50/6*55/12*40-12*37.5 over cable ext

treadmill 10 min walk/run

meal 1 1 apple, prot shake
meal 2 rice, chicken breast
meal 3 rice, lean hamb, veg
meal 4 rice lean hamb, veg
meal 5 prot shake
meal 6, missed as i was in bed at 730

Now yesteday I weighed myself and was embarassingly back to the starting point of 237. I certainly deserve to be back at the beginning after some sketchy eating and the lack of proper exercise due mostly to being down with the flu last week. For accountability I will be weighing every wed for the rest of this challenge and posting the results on my blog, on Torch and maybe also on tracker for accountability. Also, I like to weigh myself on the first of every month as well as take all my measurements, so I will be doing that tommorrow morning immediately after waking.

Yesterday’s workout

Yesterday was a long, very busy day. I had a great workout at the gym and my UB muscles are quite sore from that, especially thru my arms and chest. Besides my workout, I had to shovel twice, which my back hates, as well I helped my carpenter carry in 8 sheets of sheetrock, because I didn’t want his wife who is his helper to have to carry it. So yada yada yada I am very sore today, haha.

This morning I went for a walk on my first break at work to the local Coffee shop to get a Green Tea. There was one chocolate chip muffin left, and it took every thing i had not to order it. I have had a couple good days of eating, and I want to keep up the momentum. All of these little victories add up. I need to put together a bunch of days of little victories in order to build momentum and get to where I want to go.

workout from yesteday:

incl d press 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*70/12*45-12*100 pekdek
fixed pulldown 12*85/10*105/8*120/6*145/12*105-12*60 bent row
hammer shoulder press 12*30/10*40/8*55/6*70/12*50-12*55 rvs fly pekdek
barb curl 12*40/10*50/8*60/6*80/12*50-12*25 d curl
french press 12*30/10*40/8*50/6*55/12*40-12*37.5 over cable ext

treadmill 10 min walk/run

meal 1 1 apple, prot shake
meal 2 rice, chicken breast
meal 3 rice, lean hamb, veg
meal 4 rice lean hamb, veg
meal 5 prot shake
meal 6, missed as i was in bed at 730

Now yesteday I weighed myself and was embarassingly back to the starting point of 237. I certainly deserve to be back at the beginning after some sketchy eating and the lack of proper exercise due mostly to being down with the flu last week. For accountability I will be weighing every wed for the rest of this challenge and posting the results on my blog, on Torch and maybe also on tracker for accountability. Also, I like to weigh myself on the first of every month as well as take all my measurements, so I will be doing that tommorrow morning immediately after waking.

Yesterday’s workout

Yesterday was a long, very busy day. I had a great workout at the gym and my UB muscles are quite sore from that, especially thru my arms and chest. Besides my workout, I had to shovel twice, which my back hates, as well I helped my carpenter carry in 8 sheets of sheetrock, because I didn’t want his wife who is his helper to have to carry it. So yada yada yada I am very sore today, haha.

This morning I went for a walk on my first break at work to the local Coffee shop to get a Green Tea. There was one chocolate chip muffin left, and it took every thing i had not to order it. I have had a couple good days of eating, and I want to keep up the momentum. All of these little victories add up. I need to put together a bunch of days of little victories in order to build momentum and get to where I want to go.

workout from yesteday:

incl d press 12*35/10*45/8*55/6*70/12*45-12*100 pekdek
fixed pulldown 12*85/10*105/8*120/6*145/12*105-12*60 bent row
hammer shoulder press 12*30/10*40/8*55/6*70/12*50-12*55 rvs fly pekdek
barb curl 12*40/10*50/8*60/6*80/12*50-12*25 d curl
french press 12*30/10*40/8*50/6*55/12*40-12*37.5 over cable ext

treadmill 10 min walk/run

meal 1 1 apple, prot shake
meal 2 rice, chicken breast
meal 3 rice, lean hamb, veg
meal 4 rice lean hamb, veg
meal 5 prot shake
meal 6, missed as i was in bed at 730

Now yesteday I weighed myself and was embarassingly back to the starting point of 237. I certainly deserve to be back at the beginning after some sketchy eating and the lack of proper exercise due mostly to being down with the flu last week. For accountability I will be weighing every wed for the rest of this challenge and posting the results on my blog, on Torch and maybe also on tracker for accountability. Also, I like to weigh myself on the first of every month as well as take all my measurements, so I will be doing that tommorrow morning immediately after waking.

Quick Video blog

Managed to cut the end of this thing by mistake, but I don’t have time to do it over.