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1. Manage stress
2. get enough sleep on school nights

1. Chin 220 pounds
2. add another 3 inches to diameter to arms

1. Get bench press "workout weight" above 145  COMPLETED    Applaud
2. Increase size in arms by 2 inches diameter  COMPLETED    Applaud
3. Do cardio 2-4 times a week  COMPLETED    Applaud
4. gain 10 pounds (of muscle hopefully) in the next "less than a month"  COMPLETED    Applaud
5. add more "form" to pecs  COMPLETED    Applaud
6. Press the 80lbs dumbbells [main] by end of January   COMPLETED 1-24-08   Applaud
7. Press the 85lb dumbbells by End of February by [main]  COMPLETED 2-01-08   Applaud

2009-04-13 20:12:29

I have been over stressed with school work and actual work-work that I am getting disorganized in my workouts! I am having to work out at home because the YMCA is not 24/7. Being disorganized just feels bad and I'm not making much progress right now. Just another reason why you can't live without a workout plan! Goal: New workout plan

2008-09-23 19:51:34

I've been sick with a cold since last Thursday (started getting a sore throat late Thursday night). Today I did my first workout since (not a real long time out, but I'm still not feeling particularly well). Anyway, I was really feeling out-of-swing with my workout and I wanted to get it going. I felt motivated enough, even with the cold, so I decided to get in a (mostly) full body workout. Here was the routine...
- Explosive squats (35 pound dumbbells each hand)
- Explosive pushups (with the dumbbells out to the sides, every other rep, explode onto the dumbbell heads, and the others, explode into a close-"grip" pushup)
- Pullups (didn't quite feel like doing these explosively today)
- Standing calf raises
- Cable rows

I everything varied a lot in terms of the reps, and I did not necassarily maintain the same order I wrote them in above, but I kept everything between 10-30 reps. I'm not sure how many sets, I just kept going until the Y closed. By the end I could hardly breathe out of my already stuffed up nostrels (spelling?). But I feel pretty accomplished now that I'm sitting at my computer again. I think I'm close to getting over this cold, so that's good.

2008-08-17 19:21:28

So, with school starting first thing tomarrow morning, I felt maybe it was appropriate to map out some of my health-related goals for school (actually, most of my goals for school have far more to do with preventing the impact of school than anything actually pro-school).

I just added getting enough sleep to my long term list (it's really more of an ongoing.... HEY, we should add that as a category). I've always felt like this is more the school's fault because, as discussed in Matt's article http://www.kustomfitness.com/content/20080524/school_is_bad_for_you.php they do start awfully early for an age group that has shown in studies to have a general tendency for sleeping long periods especially into the mornings. But alas, there really isn't anything I can do about that right now, so I am going to try to go to bed earlier (hard to do when you have school, homework, and then have to run a business on the side (you think your highschool job was tough?)).

I will probably make the most progress on this goal by setting a limit to the amount of time to be spent doing homework.

Also, I need to think up creative ways of planning a good diet. I'm going to eat more calories this year than I did in the past, and a couple granola bars may not be enough for before and after lunch time.

2008-08-07 12:38:45

The YMCA cloases for a week every July, so for the last week of the month all I could do was stuff at home. Then as soon as they opened back up again, I did legs. I've always hated the standing calf raise because it puts your back in a pretty vulnerable position, but for some reason I felt like using it anyway, and I did indeed screw up my upper back year:2008 month:7 day:28. On Friday I thought I could do chest and triceps, but the tricep part hurt too much, so I had to basically do just pushups and bicep curls for a whole hour (not proud of that workout year:2008 month:8 day:1). But then by Monday I was finally all better again!