Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

You wake up in the morning, get ready for work, wake up the kids, get them dressed and drop them off to school. While on your way to work, you get stuck in traffic while chowing down on your breakfast. When you walk into your office 15 minutes late, you have ten calls on hold for you, and six memos from the other side of the building. By the time lunch rolls around, you’ve already written three reports on stuff you don’t even really care about, but you know you have two more to write so you skip lunch and keep working until 2 pm. Then you finally walk out into the hallway, when your boss comes up to you with a crisis situation that you need to handle right away. You get back on the phone and make some calls, which seem to last three hours each. When you’ve finally clocked out, you sit once again in traffic and wonder what the hell you’re doing with your life. Read More.

We all go through phases in our lives that prevent us from training on a consistent basis. However, the main problem is that we sometimes try to make up for the lost time and create some training program that has us do the same or more amount of work from where we left off. Just like everything else in life, you can’t start where you left off. You have to go back and retrain your muscles to slowly get back into the groove of training. Read More.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dominic brought a friend of his to workout with us. Preston looked like what I did about a year ago: overweight, but not obese. The first question I asked him was if he’d ever worked out before. He said he used go to the gym. Right then and there I knew this kid was going to have trouble with the workout. But, to tell you to the truth I was surprised by his determination. Hopefully I’ll see this kid again. Would love to work with him.

Workout:

Burpees 10-20-30
KB Swings 5-10-15

Time: 10:51.07

Preston was unable to finish the workout. This time is a combined time for al three of us. Basically the order was Me, Dom, and Preston. When the first person finished burpees, the next person started burpees, etc. You’d always have one person resting, although the rest periods weren’t much.

We were able to get a few Pushups out of Preston before he collapsed on to the ground and made a comment about the ground feeling like a bed. Dom’s famous line: “Well don’t go to sleep!”

Because I felt I had a bit left in me, I challenged Dom to the following workout:

3 rounds for time:
10 Burpees
5 Swings

My time: 4:11.83
Doms Time: 7:37.98

One thing I noticed was that Dom was teaching Preston a lot of the movements that I was. He was acting like a coach, and very good one at that. Makes you feel good when your student becomes a teacher.

Diet:

Breakfast: 1 bowl oatmeal

Post Workout: Protien Shake & 2 homemade burritos (Black beans, whole wheat tortilla, lettuce, sauce, olive oil)
Later on: Banana
4:00 PM: 2 slices Sprouted Bread Toasted w/ Peanut Butter
8:00 PM: Tofu thingamagig that my mom made
8:30 PM: Some bean-type food that my mom made, with 3 roti (a type of indian bread)

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