Why waste it on you? You'd just throw away the whole wheat crust like JP does.
Oh, and Ben, nice call on Brad Pilon. He's good people, just the sort of anti-establishment dude I tend to respect. He's like Alan Aragon, only with bigger muscles and smaller words in his books. I really wish he would've been able to publish his "tell-all" book about the supplement industry a few years ago but supposedly it would have been a legal nightmare.
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Believe it or not, I have actually been working out. Three days in a row now.
Tue: Killer DB/Bodyweight complexes in the company gym, plus kettlebell work later that night at my inlaws' house
Wed: YMCA visit, where I did inverted rows, alternating DB press, planks and bench pistols. Also weighed in at 194, which is down four pounds from January. Is that good? Beats me. I didn't have a weight loss goal. Guess I reached it then.
Today: Squat rows and pushup holds with planks and glute/hip band work.
My shoulder and hip are still definitely in the healing. Often have quite a bit of pain in both areas. At least the type of exercise I'm doing now will make it better, as opposed to my learning experience of heavy iron in barbell form.
I'll take my final Men's Challenge photos this weekend. Prepare to be thoroughly nonplussed!
Hey, at least I'm smarter than I was six months ago, and I've had quite a bit of great sex since January too. I'd say they were six months well spent.
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DB Snatches
Renegade Rows
Single-leg DL
Chinups
DB Swings
Planks
And you'll be pleased to know I have a YMCA locker room story. I finished the workout and hit the showers. The water was super-cold at first so I sorta stood back and waited for it to warm up. While I was waiting, another guy came into the shower area. In full clothing. Shoes, shirt, pants, belt... everything. He was holding his gym bag.
He put his back next to a shower stall and started undressing very slowly and freakily, constantly looking around like he didn't want to be seen. So the guy's shy or a prude, no problem with me. It's certainly a refreshing change from the sausage flaunters I usually encounter in there.
I take my shower, get dressed and head to the sink area to fix my hair (hey, it was a date night). While I'm standing in front of the mirror, here comes the former Mr. Shy. And he's come out of his shell in the prior 10 minutes. He has on a short blue polo shirt and... nothing else. Just a collared shirt that comes down to about the belly button. He moseys up to the sink next to mine and evidently is ready to park himself for a while and get prettied up for his own Friday night activities.
My hair was good enough. I got the heck out of there.
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Yep. I almost forgot about last night's food porn.
We found out that The Little Gym (where the kids have gymnastics class) does a "Parents Survival Night" every other Friday during the summer. Babysitting from 6:30 to 10:30! It ain't cheap, but we decided to go for it. I had a $200 gift card for Morton's Steakhouse (a Christmas gift from our company CFO) so we set up a double date with RedWifey's parents.
Had an awesome time. Three of us had steak (I had the cajun ribeye) but my mother-in-law just couldn't stomach the prices and had fish instead. We only drank tea and water and ordered just two vegetables (creamed spinach and mushrooms) for the whole table, and the bill was still over $250 before tip! Thankfully I had my gift card. It was delicious but it's definite a once-a-year, only-with-gift-card experience.
Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for dessert. I had the banana cream cheesecake. RedWifey had some kind of dark chocolate/peanut butter/ cookie dough thing.
She also had her first ever lobster at Morton's, with a filet mignon / lobster combo special. She discovered she doesn't really like lobster. I've had it several times and liked it but I do think its prestige is possibly due to scarcity and novelty, not purely taste.
Thus endeth the food porn.
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I remember hearing a story, in Maine I think, back in the 18th century or so, they used to feed the prisoners lobster because it was cheap and plentiful - until they revolted to get better food.
Yep. I almost forgot about last night's food porn.
We found out that The Little Gym (where the kids have gymnastics class) does a "Parents Survival Night" every other Friday during the summer. Babysitting from 6:30 to 10:30! It ain't cheap, but we decided to go for it. I had a $200 gift card for Morton's Steakhouse (a Christmas gift from our company CFO) so we set up a double date with RedWifey's parents.
Had an awesome time. Three of us had steak (I had the cajun ribeye) but my mother-in-law just couldn't stomach the prices and had fish instead. We only drank tea and water and ordered just two vegetables (creamed spinach and mushrooms) for the whole table, and the bill was still over $250 before tip! Thankfully I had my gift card. It was delicious but it's definite a once-a-year, only-with-gift-card experience.
Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for dessert. I had the banana cream cheesecake. RedWifey had some kind of dark chocolate/peanut butter/ cookie dough thing.
She also had her first ever lobster at Morton's, with a filet mignon / lobster combo special. She discovered she doesn't really like lobster. I've had it several times and liked it but I do think its prestige is possibly due to scarcity and novelty, not purely taste.
Thus endeth the food porn.
When I lived in Washington I loved Morton's and a similar restaurant named Gary's! Heaven! Of course, Gary weighed 400 lbs and was about 5'8" which should have given me a clue!
Hey, all right! A workout PLUS a weirdo in the locker room story, and food pr0n to boot!
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Glute-hip rehab
Cable squat rows
Face pulls
Bench pistols
T-pushups
Rotating planks
DB swings
Gave blood today and I'm a little woozy. No workout today.
Also, I joined the 2nd Half '08 Goals Challenge. Since you people are kind enough to be reading my log right now, you get first peek at my goals. I'm still writing up the details:
1) Exercise -- 4 workouts a week. Simple, but probably difficult based on my history of inconsistency and pansiness.
2) New skill -- I want to learn to play piano. This would also entail learning to read sheet music, I suppose... I want to be able to play a few recognizable songs by Christmas.
3) Career -- Multiple phases of this one. Step one is be less lazy at my current job. Step two is to continue learning in the areas I'm truly passionate about (org behavior and effectiveness -- the mix of business and psychology). Step three would be to explore making a move to a job I care enough about to one day become awesome at it.
Goals two and three will be very difficult. #2 may seem random, but I've been thinking about it for a while, and anyway it will be a good exercise in neuroplasticity. Google the term if you haven't heard of it. Basically if I'm trying to break habits and do new stuff with my career, it might help to also be learning a new hobby. Sort of a synergism of suck that will fire more neurons and change old patterns.
Shiny.
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I can eke out a few basic kiddie things on the piano, heart and soul or chopsticks… Not terribly good at it. Sax was easier, but still without practice I mostly just sucked. Reading music isn't hard. It's reading it fast enough to play that's the toughie.
Good goals. Everyone should have a job they care enough to *want* to rock it.
2) New skill -- I want to learn to play piano. This would also entail learning to read sheet music, I suppose... I want to be able to play a few recognizable songs by Christmas.
Nice goals for the challenge. I especially like the one about playing the piano. About 5 years ago I took up classical guitar and it has become quite a passion for me. It has changed my life quite a bit. I hope you see similar such benefits from that one.
AND I LOVE the locker room story. Sausage flaunting is hillarious!
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Hmmmm i wonder if I could convince Bob to go to Star Pizza for my birthday :P
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