AM:
5 sets of assisted pull-ups
45 min elliptical machine
17 min bike to work
PM:
14 min bike home (My fasted time yet!)
45 min walk through the neighborhoods with my wife
Today rocked. Work was good, the weather was great, I pedaled in, I had a best time for getting home, and I had a great walk with my wife. We had salmon for dinner and enjoyed TV together. Life is good!
Here is one of the many flowers and plants we saw while out on our walk:
Her is dinner, YUM!
We jogged today! WooHoo!
So this morning we headed out and did a 3 mile jog. I was feeling great and my wife a little slow. you know what that means… I was faster than her today! Well at least in the begining and the final sprint. If we were jogging an event she would have passed me what I slowed down and I would not have seen her again until the finish line, where she would be waiting for me.
So I worked hard all day and then hit the gym. I “took it easy” and did 30 minutes on the eliptical machine. I got home to start cooking dinner and my wife got home minutes latter and decided she wanted to cook me dinner. Who was I to refuse such an offer. She made ground turkey balls seasoned with middle eastern spices and also made us bulgar wheat. It was another great meal!
AM:
10 min jog
35 min elliptical machine
15 min stair stepper
PM:
skipped workout to take care of some errands.
Today was a pretty good day. I had a great morning workout and work went well. I was in the groove, in the zone, I was being the ball, I was unstoppable! I hope tomorrow will be the same!
AM:
3 mile jog with my wife
PM:
33 minutes weight lifting
Today was a really decent day. I jogged with my wife in the morning (but felt really tired and not into it), took a nap once I got home, woke up and went to work. Work flew by and I was lifting in the gym before I new it. Then it was home to some vegitarian lasagna ( spinach and eggplant, YUM!) and TV with my wife. Life is good!
Another week gone by. I feel pretty good about today. This weekend was the first weekend in a long time that was not all about walking really long distances. Today we went out for a 2 hour bike ride. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and lots of folks were out. We rode along the Potomac river on the mount Vernon trail. What a day!
AM:
15 min dumbbell aerobics
30 min elliptical machine
PM:
3 hour walk on a multi-use trail
While on the way home my wife and I saw something too funny. A Cab Driver was yanking out nose hairs at a red light!
Friday! and I am exhausted, I did not jog with my wife at all this week so I missed out on the bonus 45 min to 1 hour of sleep I would get by laying back down after the jog. I feel like I could have used it this time. It is 8pm and I can barely stay awake.
AM:
10 min jog
45 min elliptical machine
PM:
30 min elliptical machine
I tried something different this morning during my workout. I did not try to run. I did 60 minutes split between 2 different elliptical machines. The strides and elliptical motions were different so I used them both. I had a good day of work and was pretty active. I still felt good after work so it was off to the gym! I did some weight lifting.
Incline Bench press
135lbs-10
155-6
165-4
155-5
135-10
Hack squat machine
+90-10
+180-10,10
Leg presses
180-10
270-10
360-10
450-10
540-10
360-15
EZ-Bar Curls
50-12,12,10,10,6
I really felt like I worked my muscles. I wanted to do more exercises but the place was packed and I did not feel like I had the strength to push on other exercises.
I went home had a shower and then cooked a great dinner with my wife. Life is good!
Today I was feeling less sore but I still could not jog a mile. I walked 20 minutes at incline then jogged 5 minutes. After that I did 30 minutes on the elliptical machine. I worked my day then hit the gym for another 30 minutes on the elliptical machine. I hope to be back to my normal jogging in a couple more days. Fortunately the weather has been rainy in the mornings so I would not have been jogging outside anyway. Time is a ticking and in another week I will be registering myself and wife for the Army Ten Miler. I got to get back on track.
My back!
This morning I decided to get back on track. I got to the gym early and started on the treadmill. Oh no! My back muscles were hurting as I jogged. I even slowed it down a a SLOW jog and then I had to stop after 5 minutes. So off to the elliptical machine. All was good there so I did 50 minutes on it.
Work was OK and before I knew it I was at the gym lifting weights. I noticed my back muscles acting up again as I was getting up and down from the leg press machine. Not cool. I was able to do all my exercises as I wanted so I did not suffer much but it really sux when you are not being your best or feeling 100%.
I hope tomorr
