Sometimes showing off is fun

1/11/2013

Fugly barbell and Field-house. Just kept moving for 40 minutes. Focused more today on pressing and pulling movements since my hams and hips are still pretty sore. Did a slow and light version of "fun with weights" and a fair few laps of back rack walk, waiter walk and one arm farmers walk as well. No tire flipping today. Got the heart rate up the respiration up, and all is well. Time for a weekend.

1/10/2013

Yoga. Again. Actually I'm a bit sore so I don't mind the stretch and the recovery. The instructor emphasized hips today and that was very good -- I needed it. She gave us a break from the new age Hindu chanting elevator music instead we got mellow mariachi. That worked a lot better for me. It is good to be moving again but I don't want to jinx myself with a lot of blah, blah, blah. I think I'll just keep the goals near range for the short run.

1/9/2013

Went down to the Field House to do some work. On the way I grabbed an old school barbell -- 2, #10 cans cemented to a 5 ft piece of 1 inch pipe. I love them they average about 40lbs, fug-ugly, and who cares if you drop it. Tire flipped about 150 yards, had to avoid the boys with lax sticks and balls ... I've been hit in the face by one of those balls, didn't care for it. Back rack bar bell, walked 200 yards. One handed farmers walk 200 yards, switched sides and again. Overhead press and walk 100 yards, drop the bar and walk 200 yards back to it, press it again and finish the 100 yards, walk 200. Tire flipped for about 100 yards and had to quit and roll it back to the start. Finished with a back rack walk another 200 yards. That serves as a perfectly good bench mark. I can only improve.

1/8/2013

Yoga. Again. Some mild hamstring soreness after yesterday. But really not bad. Weirder was spine or rib adjustments only on one side and only when twisted -- weird because it kept happening. You would figure that once it got straightened out that would be the end. Still vague on what the plan is. My thought for now is to start with, flexibility, balance and so on, and then work on endurance. In the past I've started with strength added endurance and mostly left joint mobility and flexibility out. I'd imagine that different results will occur from different practice. See if I can limit the injuries through this approach.

1/7/2013

Just like everybody else, I've got my new year hard-on for self improvement. I did Yoga today for the noon hour. And it was a good thing. This summer we spontaneously decided to climb Mt Katahdin. I had my butt kicked. Was real eye opener as to how badly out of shape I've let myself get. But, oddly not enough motivation in and of itself. I read Chip's new years post over at BodyTribe, I like his insight into goal setting Watcha got in ya this year? Worth a read. I've invited my daughter to join me as an author on this site. Kind of a way to keep ourselves accountable. Last time I tried to pull together a team of writers it didn't work out too well, alas. Maybe she and I can get some magic going. My goals are similar to what they've always been -- I want to be able to do stuff. I'm not into the "sport of fitness" where fitness is the end, fitness is a means to a richer set of experience, for me. In terms of Chips motivations, I'm trying to get to Thriving and Participating as quickly as possible. "Not dying" and "Surviving" just are not enough, oddly.