tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59524932012-01-25T17:44:38.962-05:00Not being fat, The Army, and Other Random NonsenseRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876893360761429094noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5952493.post-84480936746918010752011-10-26T10:36:00.001-04:002011-10-26T10:46:40.662-04:00

WOD5 - Pull-Ups10 - Push-Ups15 - Sit Ups20 – Minutes total. As many rounds as possible.I finished this workout with Q right before dinner and it was a little disappointing. My pull up strength has plummeted and by the end I was having a very hard time even getting 3 good reps in before assisting myself by jumping. The gym was very busy and so transitions between the exercises were very difficult

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WOD5K 35:32.Legs were still kind of tight today so I took a leisurely 3 mile run with R.K. We've both been neglecting our running and the time obviously reflects that. My legs actually feel quite a bit looser after the run and after work I might do a little strength training. The biggest issue with running here is that all the trucks don't have to meet U.S. Emission standard. While I might be

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WODLower Body - 1 Mile run fast pace. Begin run with 20 air squats and stop for 20 air squats every quarter mile. Pyramids – 150 lbs consisting of 5 and 10 pound plates. Executed maximum reps until weight was racked. Partner dropped one plate from each side. Maximum reps. Repeat until you are only lifting the bar. Once your down to the bar, add one plate at a time until you reach your one rep

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So I'm deployed again. Once more I've taken "a little time off" and allowed myself to get pretty out of shape. About this time last year I was in peak condition and completed a marathon while still retaining a pretty decent amount of strength. Here on deployment I simply don't have the time or space to get back into distance running. Not to mention when I do go running it either has to be on a

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Some stuff came up last week and I didn't work out blah blah blah. I suck. I know. I completed the P90X Chest and Workout today and it kinda kicked my butt. I remember I was getting bored with P90X before I started training for the marathon (Followed by 6 weeks of doing jack shit) but now I've definitely lost strength. I completed 288 Push Ups and 164 Pull ups. That's down from around the 375

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So I'm back. Now if anyone actually read these posts I know what the assumption would be since my blog basically was set adrift across cyberspace with no one manning it anymore. The assumption would be that I gave up on P90X and got fat and lazy. Such is not the case....For the most part. Basically what happened is that work began to have mandatory workouts in the morning that were basically

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I've been in the Army since 1997 and for some reason I still get nervous before a PT test or a unit run. We could be doing one mile at a 10 minute pace and I'd still get a little antsy before the run. On Tuesday my Squadron conducted a four mile run in 34 minutes. Pretty darn easy run, but the reason we did it is because the entire brigade did the same run about five weeks ago and somewhere in

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Week 9 has started and I felt pretty damn good. I felt like beast flavored awesome with awesome sprinkles on top. OK maybe that's a bit much but it felt pretty damned good to get back into working out today after my infant induced hiatus. Chest and back was the same it always is but I made some pretty decent gains over last time that I did this workout. I'm up in reps and/or weight on every

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Let's start with a little fun with math: new baby + sick toddler + wife with stitches = workouts being a very low priority. The newest member of my clan has settled right into the his place of sleeping and playing with my wife's boobs but my oldest boy has had some issues over the last few days. He's been pretty sick and he is not happy about it. I'm still off work for maternity or paternity or

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Week 8 has started and this is supposed to be a recovery week, but since I missed most of last week due to my new son's birth I'm gonna get some work in. I did Chest & Back since I hadn't done that workout in a while and it delivered. I really enjoy the simplicity of this workout and it continues to be my favorite. There are hardly any weights, no crazy moves, just push and pull your body weight

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Somehow the comments section of the post I wrote about the KFC Double Down a few weeks ago has become a place to advertise for "no strings attached sex" and methods to quit smoking. I've deleted 5 comments so far which is impressive since I think that about 2 people actually read this blog. So let me just put this out there real quick: eating KFC has never helped anyone quit smoking or have sex.

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So this week has been a bit of a blur and I went 4 days without working out. I also ate a crap ton of fast food and vending machine trash but I have a greeeat excuse. My wife just had my second son. Her water broke on Monday and the hospital in all their wisdom declared that um no her water didn't break and sent us home. I guess it's perfectly normal for a woman who is 9 months pregnant to just

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Well week 7 has started not with a bang but a pitiful whimper. Lifting yesterday really wiped me out for this workout. I was really struggling to match past weeks performance. In a few areas I saw losses, mostly in chest heavy moves. Some of the triceps and shoulder workouts I was able to move up to 30 pound dumbbells but not all. I think that with the combination of all the running, the P90X,

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I did the Legs and Back workout today, after realizing that I've skipped it for the last few weeks. The dumbbells really make a big difference on this workout. My legs aren't destroyed but during the workout I feel like I was working pretty hard. My only real gripe with the workout is that the three way lunges and the sneaky lunges are kinda worthless. During the time where Tony and his loyal

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Matt and I ran another 4 miles of trails at Raven Rock State Park this morning. We ran a pretty decent pace but nothing insane. My legs are a bit tight at the moment and I was planning on doing legs and back this evening but ole Papa John interfered. My wife is pregnant and had a craving for Papa Johns for lunch so I complied. Instead of ordering an entire pizza we went in and each bought a

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Ok so I'm about 10 days past due for the 30 day picture but whatever. I still have a lot of improvements to make but I'm satisfied to see there is some visible progress. I hope to cut another 6-9 pounds of fat and then I'll decide if I wanna add some mass or just stay lean. Please excuse the quality of the pictures as the day 30 ones were taken with my phone. I tried to do yoga again today, I

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Two of my friends went to Raven Rock with me yesterday and we ran 4 miles along some trails that whipped me pretty soundly. I swear those stairs are the devil. The problem is even once you get up the stairs there is still a hill to climb. I actually ran in shoes yesterday which felt kind of strange after doing so much training in my vibrams but it did feel much easier than running in the vibrams.

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My biceps are done right now but my back feels OK. I managed a few gains on this iteration of the workout but nothing crazy. Mostly just an extra 10 pounds on the sets or a few extra reps. I did 22 pull-ups the first set and was down to maxing out at 6 by the end so I'd say I'm pretty smoked. My arms are still pretty weak compared to my back but they did improve a bit. Looking forward to seeing

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I have the day off of work so I drove up to Raven Rock and ran random trails for 52 minutes. Based on the campground map it was a total of somewhere between 4.5-5 miles but I also hit the devil stairs and kinda just wandered around so who knows. I was the only one at the park so it was very peaceful and relaxing to just run through the forest. I was pretty tempted to wear a thong and paint myself

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So week 6 of P90X has officially started and I did my second workout of Chest, Back and Triceps. The workout went better than last week and although I've always regarded my shoulders as being pretty week they seem to be coming along nicely. I saw small improvements across the board on every exercises but nothing crazy. Sometime this week if I'm feeling antsy I'm curious to do Chest and Back from

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My buddy and I wen to Raven Rock State park this morning and ran some trails for 3.75 miles. The pace was relatively slow since both of us were feeling relatively beat up, but a strange thing happened during the run. I actually enjoyed running. I've been running for years, mostly forced to by work, but I don't think I've every actually enjoyed running. The whole run I didn't feel any pain in my

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My legs were feeling pretty beat up this morning so I knocked out core synergetics instead of legs and back. It wasn't as bad as the first time I did it but the workout still has me make the occasional bitch noise.We have company coming over tonight so I also declared today my diet cheat day. For lunch I had a double bison burger that came in at nearly 1000 calories. Four hours later it still

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I just finished my longest run to date in the vibrams. This morning I knocked out 5 miles in 45:50. My goal was 9 minute miles and I just missed that. Total average according to the Garmin was 9:11. Whatever I'll take it. I hadn't run 5 miles intentionally for a while so that in itself felt pretty good. Now time for the excuses. I think I was still a little tired from Monday's cardio fest because

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I did Back and Biceps for the first time today. I think I was getting a bit cocky about the P90X and then Tony showed me that I suffer from a medical condition known as Bitcharmitis. I knocked out 21 pull-ups in the first set but by the end I was struggling to get 5. This workout destroyed my biceps. I didn't realize how weak it was compared to my triceps but by the last half of the workout I was

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Knocked out 3.66 miles in 30:44 this morning. Felt pretty good and it no longer feels weird to run in my vibram fivefingers. I still get strange looks especially since I wore them in the Army PT uniform, but oh well. It works damn it. Everyone else in my unit is on vacation so it looks like I won't be working past noon for the whole month of June. When I got home I was still feeling froggy so I

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Lordy! I get the whole muscle confusion concept. I was getting pretty damn good at doing the chest and back workout and then I did this workout. It handed me my ass pretty efficiently. My shoulders and triceps are smoked and I'm actually missing keys as I type this blog. Y presses and slow motion push ups are the devil. Somehow even the push-ups kicked my butt. I'd done this workout before but I

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My parents came into town for the weekend and we had a great time. My mother however is the proverbial home chef and made spaghetti. Then she made sandwiches, and well no excuse here but, we had Snicker's Ice cream. My final tally was 2971 calories. 52% from carbs. My step dad and I spent all day (like 11 hours) building my spoiled kid a swing set. It's pretty massive and even after all that time

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I'm usually not a big fan of core workouts because it is usually just a combination of planks and sit ups but this one surprised me. It started easy enough with some weird push ups but then began the evil bananas. It only got worse from there. I need to condition my core more and this was a pretty sweet workout. I wish this replaced yoga or kenpo in the first few weeks. My shoulders and arms even

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My parents came into town and saw my new house for the first time last night. They stayed until fairly late and of course the rest of my free time prior to their arrival was spent cleaning the house to the wife's exacting specifications. As a result I didn't work out. I'm sorry Tony Horton I don't mean to neglect you I'm just not ready for that sort of commitment. It's not you, it's me. P90X is

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I've been doing pretty well with the low carb thing and it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I've had at least 40% of my calories from protein everyday and made sure that my carbs were as low as possible. Kinda got hosed today because I ordered a chicken burrito not realizing that it had rice in it. Oh well. That thing alone was 47 carbs. Despite this I came in at 930 calories for the

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I've never done the food diary thing but then again I've never had to get taped to determine my body fat because I was overweight on the Army height and weight chart. It was kind of an eye opener. I'm currently 177.8 and I want to get down to 169 by the end of June. I've been totally shrugging off the P90X nutrition portion of the program and I'm now reconsidering the wisdom of that decision now

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This is kinda crazy to me. When I first saw this commercial I thought it was a gimic, but I guess people actually eat them. Clearly I am wrong. "KFC said it has been one of its most successful sandwich launches ever. Later this month, KFC expects to sell its 10 millionth Double Down."It actually suprises me that it is as close to a Big Mac in calories as it is. I thought it would be way more.

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Didn't do crap yesterday because I had a fitness test today. It was just a diagnostic test and the results didn't matter, well unless you failed, but I was pretty curious how the P90X would translate into the Army PT test. The test consists of 3 events: 2 minutes of push-ups, 2 minutes of sit-ups, and a 2 mile run. The push ups? Crushed it! Thanks for making me do hundreds of push-ups every week

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We had thunderstorms last night so when I knocked out my 2 miles this morning it was pretty muggy and dreary. It felt like I was running through a Tim Burton movie. I felt pretty slow and started getting tired before I should but on a positive note my form seems to be improving. My feet didn't slap as bad as normal and my strides were shorter. My calves are pretty tired from the run but I think

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So on day 10 I had work until 2 A.M. and thus wasn't in the mood to do anything sweaty on day 11. Day 12 did an hour of cardio in the park. Day 13 just got busy with day to day stuff and didn't work out. Day 14 was a rest day. So altogether this week I missed 2 days, one cardio day and legs and back. I'm not terribly concerned about missing the leg workout but I really need to do more cardio.

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Felt pretty good today, as if it had been broughten as the movie cheerleaders like to say. Saw improvements across the board on both reps and weight. I really like the free weights soooo much better than the bands. My arms and shoulders are feeling pretty toasty right now. As good as I was feeling following the workout the ab ripper x slapped be back into compliance. That joker doesn't seem to be

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So I’m about halfway through a book by Dave Grossman called “On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society”. It’s got me thinking quite a bit. The book itself is on the psychological process that goes on before and after someone kills another man, the methods used to overcome mental barriers, and training techniques used to prepare soldiers to kill. According to LTC(

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-Familiy guy seems like it's trying to be taken seriously. They've always had a political undertone but the last two weeks haven't really been funny just this weird pseudo soul searching crap. They really need to stick to fart jokes. I don't need a talking dog and baby to give me life lessons. American Dad continues to be superior in every way.-Simpsons hasn't been funny for about 4 years. It no

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Ran two miles at a pretty decent pace. I didn't end up getting home from work until almost six. After that there was dinner to cook, dishes to do, and a kid to bathe. My intention of knocking out the plyometrics in the evening didn't really work out. Oh well still got some cardio in. I don't have to go to work until the evening tomorrow so the next workout shouldn't be an issue. My calves still

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Matched last weeks reps and weights and bumped it up just a little bit. I didn't have any huge gains but I was feeling kinda sloppy so it was a good thing that I actually wrote down last weeks numbers or I may have not even done that much. Side note If you want to add resistance to push ups have a one year old climb on your back. He's gonna sneak up there if you like it or not and it makes it

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Well technically I was busy at work on Thursday so that was my rest day. But whateva.

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Whew that was much more painful than it should have been. I ran two miles and some change in about 18:00. My legs felt pretty tight the leg workout yesterday and the cardio I did earlier this week. I've been wearing my Vibram Fivefingers pretty much all the time when I'm not at work and my calves haven't got used to that yet either. I think that my calves and stabilizer muscles have really been

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This was a pretty decent workout but it's not nearly as intense as the first three days. It really feels like the need to make the total workout time uniform with the other workouts and to have a variety of moves detracts from the actual workout. I guess if you called it "Pull-ups n' Lunges" it would be hard to sell. Many of the moves were just stretched out over too long of a period of time.

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I just finished "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.The book itself

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Played "Ultimate" frisbee with some guys from work for about an hour. It basically ended up being intervals. Lots of sprints. The fog when I left the house was so dense that I couldn't see stop signs until I was about 25 feet away. This made it incredably muggy and everyone was pouring sweat. Really seems like a game with the word "Ultimate" in the title would involve land mines, or carniverous

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Got through the workout but really felt like I should be doing more weight. Oh well. The back to back sets really burn you down. At the gym I was probably sitting around about as much as actually working out. Well Tony don't play that. I dunno if I was tired from the Arms workout or just low on gass but the Ab ripper X really tore me up this morning. Should probably change what/when I eat. I

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Well day 2 is in the bag. Had a pretty good sweat on and hit every rep. I don't really get the point of the military march. I seems pretty easy and out of step with the other movements and feels all Hugo Chavezey. The leapfrogs are also kinda weak but I found a way around this. If you hold a one year old while doing the leapfrogs it cracks them up and makes it quite a bit more intense. I enjoy

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So I got to day 22 of P90X and I have decided to start over. Some stuff came up at work and as a result I missed three straight days of working out. Also I just received my set of adjustable dumbbells. Previously I was picking up plates from my free weight set. This resulted in either not having enough weight or the movements just being awkward. This iteration I’m also going to change the routine

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1. I can have a 30 minute conversation about lawns and/or fences with someone.2. It turns out I was right, there was no need to learn cursive writing.3. I haven't put a new song on my IPOD in like 2 years and I'm fine with it. I think when you hit 30 your playlist gets locked in for the rest of your life. This explains oldies radio.4. If given the choice between an all expenses paid weekend at

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