The Next Phase

Another Musical Interlude

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Power Play

Day 2 of my second challenge and I am sore. I have pulled a muscle and it was not a fun time with a couple of the exercises. I will not go into what muscle I have pulled because it is strange and no one cares to know. I could do most of the exercises though. I think it really was only two that gave me problems and I could still do partial exercises. All in all it was a much better work out than yesterday. It was tougher and burned more calories. Sadly I am really missing my custom workout. It had what I liked, burned a ton of calories, and I felt really good after doing it. The challenge is what I have and that is what I will stick to. Maybe on the weekends I can add in my custom work out.

Have a happy and healthy one.

Dark Page

Today marked the beginning of my second 30 day challenge. It has been a while since the last one and was a bit strange to start a new one. The main thing that is strange is that I got to pick and choose my custom work outs and the challenge gives me a strange mixed bag of exercises. Of course the challenge got me to do things I tend to skip. The main one being inline skating. It really sucks and that is why I don’t do it. I pretty much dislike any of the exercises that involve jumping. All in all it was a pretty good workout and I am glad to get back into the swing of things after the long break.

I have an update on my progress as well. I don’t feel like sharing it though. I will say that if the number is correct the long week did not set me back one bit. That is a great thing. I may share where I am at sometime later.

Have a happy and healthy one.

Middle of the week check in

I thought I would drop a post in the middle of the week to bust the rumors of my assimilation. There hasn't been too many healthy mealas and only one day of workouts. I am going to attempt to increase my working out time. of course it may mean waking up a bit earlier. We will see what happens.

So that is my check in. The only other thing is I have walked miles and miles the last couple days and my feet are tired.

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Thine Own Self

So I am taking a break from blogging for a week. I will be back with a clear head or something close to that.

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A Matter of Time

Today's Musical Interlude

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Too Short A Season

This is going to be a short post for I am extremely tired. I mean that both physically and mentally. I am running on empty and just trying to bide my time until I can refill. So to sum things up my day sucked and my workout was good. I did 30 minutes of Fit Plus and 30 minutes of Active. I am finding it nice to warm up using Fit Plus and will continue to do so from now on.

The other thing I am finding nice is the gloves I bought. Not only do they make me feel like a street fighter (Edward Norton in Fight Club not Van Damn in the movie Street Fighter), but they also protect my hands from the resistance straps. I would recommend getting some to anyone that is having issues with the straps digging into their hands or anyone who wants to feel like a street fighter. Just remember feeling like one and being one are two different things.

Have a happy and healthy one.

The Dauphin

Such a long day this was. I was so glad when it ended. I guess the only thing to report is that I received my flu shot today. It is actually the first time that I have ever received the shot. There were some incentives in getting the shot this year that I will not go into. I was actually a bit surprised at the fact that I didn’t feel the needle at all. Usually there is a little prick, but there wasn’t anything. So that was a good thing. I am sure most people would encourage everyone to go out and get the shot. Personally if you don’t want to, I would say don’t. I take no responsibility if you get sick and or die from the flu though. It is really a personal decision.

So, on a work out topic I spent the night playing around with Fit Plus. My first take on it is that it is much better than the original. Seeing as though it has all of the original activities it isn’t that hard to imagine that is better than the original. My favorite is what they call Training Plus. It has a lot of game exercises sort of like the balance games, but it seems to be more focused on working out than building balance. They give a decent leg workout. The other feature I like is that they have added a calorie count. It is nice to see how much you are actually burning and gives you some motivation to work out a little longer. They also give you the option to see what kind of food you would burn with your calorie count or you can pick a food to have as you goal. Tonight I had fried chicken at 278 calories as my goal and I reached that goal. If I find the time I will try to write up a more in depth analysis of the game. Would I recommend buying it? If you already had EA Sports Active I would say yes. I find it a nice break from the same old routine.

I also did my basic 30 minute routine tonight. So with the Fit Plus I spent a total of 1:30 working out tonight. Not too shabby if you ask me. The one thing I like is that I used the Fit Plus as sort of a warm up work out since it is less of a strenuous. This actually worked out pretty well and I will try to continue to do so from now on. Other than that not much is going on here. I do have a few thoughts that may not come to fruition, but we will see.

Have a happy and healthy one.

When the Bough Breaks

Since I wasn’t able to work hard today with my workouts (I did a little bit and it was not good) I thought I would share my new buys. My first buy was new workout gloves. The straps on the resistance bands have been digging into my hands since I jury rigged the new set. I am pretty sure it is because it is much tighter than the original bands. Hopefully these new gloves work to stop this. If anything they sure do look really cool. I feel like a street fighter or something with them. I will update on how they work.

The other thing that I purchased was the new Wii Fit Plus. It is an add-on for the Wii Fit. While I am a bigger fan of Active than I am with Fit I decided to give this a try. I only played it a little bit tonight. I will have a more in-depth analysis of the game another night. Some of the things I looked at include a number of additional activities such as Kung Fu, Juggling, Golf, and some strange counting game. There is now a calorie counter in the program. You can now make a custom workout similar to what Active has. The other new thing that I find hilarious addition is being able to add your pet/child as a participant. You actually weigh your pet and it will track their weight day to day. It also gives them tips on health. I added Oscar to it and weighed him. I would reveal his weight, but I don’t think he would like that. It also gave him some grooming advice. It was really just to have me brush him. There are a lot of other features that I will have to write about in a later post.

There you have two of my buys. Again I will have a more detail report on how the Fit Plus is working out. I may give it a couple days to really get into it. Stay tuned for that and much more.

Have a happy and healthy one.

The Week Of Hell

So I will explain this post and not just leave it as it was. I wanted to post to explain this week a bit. My original idea was to kick it in high gear for this week. Work as hard as I can and try to get ahead in prepare for next week’s debauchery. The only thing is I had a minor setback for today. I gave a pint of blood today at work. The first thing said is try not to lift anything heavy and no hard exercising. That threw out my plans for tonight. I still have 4 more days so no big deal.

Another part of hell week is all that I have to do beyond my workout plans. Those would be blood donation, flu shot, payroll, deferred revenue, inventory, clean entire house, and I am sure a list of things I am not thinking of at this point. So it is going to be a long week.

Have a happy and healthy one.