So, I had a workout semi-planned for today, but I was informed that it was time to put in a window AC unit upstairs today, so I did that, which led to a little cleaning up outside (first rain-free AND dry day in what seems like a couple weeks), which led to playing with the dogs (worked some animal walks/crawls in with them), which led to supper and finishing Fallout 3 for the first time (must get the add-on content now and replay).
Tomorrow's workout TBD, but I haven't wanted to jinx anything by reporting on the foot lately. It's still not 100%, but it's improved to where I tend to forget about it unless I've been walking around all day. All this time in my Vibrams in the yard and barefoot on carpet (rather than the previous hardwoods) has helped a lot. I just hope I don't try to jump back in too soon (pending that ruptured Achilles ).
Nick's challenge has had me looking at my diet since I'm not really worried about my activity level. I don't really want to go back to the days of OCD measuing and tracking, but if this first month doesn't show some progress by just really cleaning things up, I may have to dust off the food scale and FitDay account.
Finally, after all the banter here lately, if you haven't checked out www.textsfromlastnight.com yet, you really should (semi-NSFW).
EDIT: It seems that posting from my BlackBerry doesn't like double line breaks, so apologies for readability issues with this one.
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Day two of my challenge isn't going so well. I accidentally a whole bag of potstickers, and apparently day three and/or four will involve a hamburger as big as my head However, all in all, my diet isn't THAT bad. I still eat cleanly almost all the time, which includes almost no bread (a MAJOR accomplishment for me over the past couple months), but one habit I'm going to have a bitch of a time breaking is the day-ending beer. With warmer weather here and a not-so-cool house (pending getting ANY air conditioning working in the next week or so), there's nothing quite like a really cold beer with or after supper while sitting on the couch under the ceiling fan messing with the dogs or playing Xbox. My other option is ice cream for something really cold at the end of the day--cottage cheese and fruit sits kinda funny, especially if I've already had supper. This will be a big hurdle in the coming weeks.
On the training side, I know I earlier said that I was okay with my activity level. Perhaps I should've said I'm okay with my ABILITY level, as in no major tweaks in the body, and the foot is making a comeback, so there's a very real possibility of some higher-intensity work on that front in the near-future. However, though I've been messing around with the IYCA protocols, I'm past all that (pardon the snobbishness). Not so much the mobility and prehab stuff--I'll be doing that forever--but more the movement-only work that's done (remember, no gym here). Basically, I need to get back to doing more focused, intensive, structured work, and I have resources for that--in fact, I finally ordered--ROLAND!--Never Gymless today, so it should be here the middle of next week. I have a LOT of options as far as different modalities of training, so my biggest issue there is paring down everything into a workable program. I'll give NG a thorough read, but until then, I'm leaning toward a four-day "week" (hopefully to actually get done within a week) of: 1) strength/power, 2) movement/recovery, 3) conditioning, 4) movement/recovery. There will be a lot of overlap in these days (prehab and active-static strength work every day), but that's the skeleton right now. I just have to fill in all the connective tissue, vessels, nerves, organs, and so on. Part of me kinda wishes I still had a gym membership, but part of me wants to get all this done at home (yes, I know, home gym would be the answer, but that ain't happening right now). The bottom line is that I'm at home, so I have to use what I have here, which would be part of the fun if I were programming for someone else--that's easy, but programming for myself has always been a bear because I just want to do everything right now.
Did I mention that I finished Fallout 3? Yeah, it was nice. Now I get to download the add-on content and replay some of it (I am NOT going back to the very beginning). Should be fun.
Anyway, that's my day. I hope yours went well. We'll talk again soon. Thanks for listening.
Ben
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So the massive burger happened yesterday. O... M... F... G... totally worth it. Seriously, it's a good thing that place is so expensive; otherwise, it'd become a REALLY bad habit, especially since (a) I ordered me "as rare as they're allowed to cook it," and it came out pink with char on the outside *nom*, (b) there are so many different combinations I want to try (the girl did a Hawaiian with ham, pineapple, Swiss, and a sweet sauce; I'll be making up a Greek style next time, and (c) they have Fat Tire on tap. S-O-L-D. A real-time phototweet entertained my Twitter followers.
Today, let's see... I brought home a guitar (borrowed from a friend), a trash-pile tractor tire (see Twitter for a picture) that I flipped maybe a dozen times today, and the very last of my crap that was at my last place, so once again, there's a pile of boxes, but at least it's the last one. The climbing rope and Never Gymless are slated to arrive tomorrow. Between that and finally getting a tire home, I am primed to get back to training, plan or no plan. Hell, I climbed a tree today because I was so jazzed for some reason.
Bring. It.
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My home gym now: 1-1/2" manila rope, ten-foot slosh pipe, tractor tire, and push sled (can add "pull" to the title once I finally get around to drilling out some holes and attaching rope). Not pictured: four kettlebells, Concept2C rower, SMR tools, 6lb medicine ball. The rope came in today, so I spent a good 30-45 minutes getting it in place (99% of that time was trying to get a leader rope looped over a twenty-foot high branch--it was comical in retrospect). Spent most of the day unpacking stuff and hauling a couple AC units in and out of houses (LONG story that I'm just now getting over, so I won't rehash it here right now), so just a few attempts at rope climbing to test its integrity and moving the rest of the stuff to/from the photo shoot. Awesome, I got everything in place just in time to work eleven days straight--WOO!
Never Gymless also came in today, and a quick flip-through looks very similar to Infinite Intensity, but I'll give it a close reading tomorrow, so hopefully it'll be different enough to warrant the money spent. So, who wants to come play in my back yard?
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Forgot to mention that a guitar came home this week, too. My goal is a half-hour of practice a day, which at this point is just getting the callouses built up on my fingertips (yeah, yeah, I know, as opposed to other parts of my hands ). I hoping that by roughly the end of the challenge that I'll be able to hack through a couple songs just on chords.
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However, all in all, my diet isn't THAT bad. I still eat cleanly almost all the time, which includes almost no bread (a MAJOR accomplishment for me over the past couple months), but one habit I'm going to have a bitch of a time breaking is the day-ending beer. With warmer weather here and a not-so-cool house (pending getting ANY air conditioning working in the next week or so), there's nothing quite like a really cold beer with or after supper while sitting on the couch under the ceiling fan messing with the dogs or playing Xbox. My other option is ice cream for something really cold at the end of the day--cottage cheese and fruit sits kinda funny, especially if I've already had supper. This will be a big hurdle in the coming weeks.
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