Alright this is the second day i have been blogging and it is kind of liberating. Not really, but I did get up this morning and run for 20 minutes (with my weight vest on) so i would have something to write about. i had planned to do crunches, push-ups and leg-lifts afterwards, but of course i got up a little too late. so what i need is more followers to push me a little. and if anyone whats to call me at 6am that would help too!
Also, i saw todl today that i has smoe grammatical errors in my frist blog. sorry, i will try to proof better form now on, i just don't read so well.
so, you got what i did this morning and you can add shooting my bow 24 times, push mowing and weed eating for a while to yesterday too.
another thing i am doing now is some walk for health contest. basically i have a pedometer and i am trying to take more steps in the next month (i think) than all the other people competing. so far i think i am doing ok since i have been running daily. keep cheering for me on that one too.
not sure if i will be exercising any more tonight since i am on call and i am going to try and make it to cheeseburger charlies to listen to the church band, i will keep you posted.
ok, finally, the thought for the day. my mom always told me if i couldn't say something nice about someone i should not say it at all. i think that holds up most of the time, a couple of times i have had to tell a colleague some negative things when they called me about a reference (i always try to add the positives as well) and there might be some other instances that are exceptions. however, i will reiterate what my mom told me when i was a kid but tweak it a little and add a little country slang: If you aren't going to say something nice about someone (job references excluded)....shup. (parenthesized words are my addition and if you haven't figured it out shup is short for shut up(per K.T.)).
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Only Those....
I will try to put a meaningful or inspirational quote at the end of each blog and not all blogs will be about fitness or hunting so keep reading (or at least act like it).
So, here is what I have done to work get in shape for my elk hunting trip (or at least what I have written down.) I really didn't start keeping records of the aerobic exercise until recently so I have done more that it really appears. To simplify, when I do upper body that is a mixture between bench press, flys, pull-downs, curls, crunches, etc (~1 hour). Lower body is a mix between lunges, squats, calf raises, dead lift, etc (also ~ 1 hour). I do all of this on a weight bench i bought from a guy for $100. He said he needed some money so he would sell it to me cheap. You can probably get the same set-up at walmart for $60, I haven't looked, don't really want to know. Anyway, here it is:
3/13/09: Lower Body
3/18/09: Lower Body
3/19/09: Upper Body
4/22/09: Lower Body
5/13/09: Upper Body
5/16/09: Lower Body
5/21/09: Lower Body
5/24/09: Upper Body
5/28/09: Lower Body
6/12/09:Upper Body
During this time I was also been running, walking with my pack and, biking, shooting my bow, etc I just wasn't keeping track.
6/22/09: this is where I started trying to keep up of everything i was doing: ran for 37 minutes,
did 3 sets of push-ups, regular and side crunches (75 of each), and leg raises(75)
6/24/09: walked up the stairs (14 steps) with my pack (53 lbs) my vest (10lbs) and 2.5 lb ankle weights on both ankles. I did the steps 30 times then jumped rope 300 times then did the stairs 30 more times. All this took about 35 minutes.
6/25/09: Upper Body
6/26/09: Jumped rope 700 times, did regular and side crunches (50 each) and leg lifts(50)
6/27/09: I did my portable stair stepper for 30 mins
6/28/09: I jogged with my vest for 30 mins in A.M., in P.M. i walked with my pack, vest and ankle weights for 40 mins, shot my bow ~72 times
6/29/09(today): This morning I ran for 46 minutes.
So that is the list (or what I ave of it) of what I have done so far this year. I leave Sept. 16 for my elk hunting trip to Montana so hopefully I will be in good shape by then. If anyone has comments, insults, or wants to join me in exercising or want to help in any way please feel free to post a comment. but no matter what you do please visit my blog occasionally even if you don't read it so i will think someone cares :).
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." T.S. Elliot
So, here is what I have done to work get in shape for my elk hunting trip (or at least what I have written down.) I really didn't start keeping records of the aerobic exercise until recently so I have done more that it really appears. To simplify, when I do upper body that is a mixture between bench press, flys, pull-downs, curls, crunches, etc (~1 hour). Lower body is a mix between lunges, squats, calf raises, dead lift, etc (also ~ 1 hour). I do all of this on a weight bench i bought from a guy for $100. He said he needed some money so he would sell it to me cheap. You can probably get the same set-up at walmart for $60, I haven't looked, don't really want to know. Anyway, here it is:
3/13/09: Lower Body
3/18/09: Lower Body
3/19/09: Upper Body
4/22/09: Lower Body
5/13/09: Upper Body
5/16/09: Lower Body
5/21/09: Lower Body
5/24/09: Upper Body
5/28/09: Lower Body
6/12/09:Upper Body
During this time I was also been running, walking with my pack and, biking, shooting my bow, etc I just wasn't keeping track.
6/22/09: this is where I started trying to keep up of everything i was doing: ran for 37 minutes,
did 3 sets of push-ups, regular and side crunches (75 of each), and leg raises(75)
6/24/09: walked up the stairs (14 steps) with my pack (53 lbs) my vest (10lbs) and 2.5 lb ankle weights on both ankles. I did the steps 30 times then jumped rope 300 times then did the stairs 30 more times. All this took about 35 minutes.
6/25/09: Upper Body
6/26/09: Jumped rope 700 times, did regular and side crunches (50 each) and leg lifts(50)
6/27/09: I did my portable stair stepper for 30 mins
6/28/09: I jogged with my vest for 30 mins in A.M., in P.M. i walked with my pack, vest and ankle weights for 40 mins, shot my bow ~72 times
6/29/09(today): This morning I ran for 46 minutes.
So that is the list (or what I ave of it) of what I have done so far this year. I leave Sept. 16 for my elk hunting trip to Montana so hopefully I will be in good shape by then. If anyone has comments, insults, or wants to join me in exercising or want to help in any way please feel free to post a comment. but no matter what you do please visit my blog occasionally even if you don't read it so i will think someone cares :).
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." T.S. Elliot
Why I would ever have a blog
I am starting this blog today to get cheap accountability for myself. You see I have an elk hunting trip in September, a do-it-yourself no guide, etc trip. for this I need to be in pretty good shape. To get into pretty good shape I need to exercise, a lot. The easiest way for me to do that is by having someone to exercise with. After being on Cameron Hanes' website this morning and then going out for a morning jog i thought to myself.... self, if i had a blog where i posted my workouts and if i even thought someone was following the blog, that would make me more apt to exercise more (one too many mores i think). So here is my first ever blog. And while I never want to run in a 100 mile ultra marathon like Cameron Hanes (you should really check out his website) maybe this will at least help me to get into better shape. Or i might just spend time on here when I should be exercising. we'll see.
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