Oct 25 to Oct 29

I'm trying to get quicker and quicker with these posts. At some point in time in the future, I may find it within myself to go back to daily posting.

It's just a sign that I'm now taking my health and fitness a bit more seriously than I have in the last two of so years. It's a shame that it's been more or less ignored, but there are a few reasons for this.

Thursday the 25th was an off day - It has become my defacto cheat day. I slept in and had a date night with my wife at the end of the day. As a result, no training takes place.

Friday was another date night, but at least I got up early and got a significant walk in before work. I'm really liking those workouts as it gives me a chance to train and get ready for the day. I know eventually I'll have to train/do cardio inside my garage gym this winter. But for now, this is nice.

Saturday was a walk in the morning and a get ZEE workout in the afternoon with several rounds of Kettlebell and Ellitical trainer. I finished off with five rounds of double kettlebell cleans and press. It was a great workout and a great time to be alive. I also got a float at a new floating place near my house, it's called GoFloat Studio. Honestly, I'll have to do one of those "Stop for a Shout Out" pieces for the place. It was really quite a great place to float, man.

Sunday was a double walk day. The second walk of the day was a 4 km walk. I know I can jog that far, it's a matter of getting my fat ass smaller before I go back to running on the sidewalk. I want usable knees when I am eighty.

Not a bad month

Oct 20 to Oct 24

Oct 20th was a Saturday. It started early with a walk and then a coffee on the beach. Honestly, I nearly cried when I got there, it was so beautiful.

I mean seriously ... this was incredible

I did a short training session later in the day at Cedar Springs. A half hour of eliptical and kettlebells. Just to get the blood pumping and the calories used. The finisher was that awful Jacob's Ladder machine. Man ... I know it's good, but man ...

Sunday Oct 21 was just a walk in the morning and then cleaning the house while I looked after a seven-year-old. I Still got to over 100% on my steps needed to stop being fat counter.

Monday and Wednesday were both walks in the morning and then training sessions later. Monday I had to get the training session done and then get to a rugby meeting. All about money. Meh, it needed to be done. Wednesday was weird, but I got things done.

Wednesday was a throw back workout from ZEE, an AMRAP in 30 minutes with a finisher:
10 dead lifts - I used a 88lb kettlebell for this
10 BW TRX rows
15 push ups
20 H2H Kb swings
20 Step ups

Not a bad session; the finisher was double 16kilo bell clean and press x 12 per round. I think I got to four rounds.

Tuesday was a crazy night. I got a walk in the morning and regretted having to go be a student in a class in the evening.

278

Oct 15 to Oct 19

These few days were up and down.

Nutrition was awful, but that's because I have nothing to protect me from actually trying to think about what to eat when I get home from work.

I don't want to think, I should not be thinking ... it should be a habit that I have to eat something awesome and good for me. Instead I'm getting a bag of nacho chips and stuffing them in my pie hole.

Sad, really.

Anyway, I got a chance for at least one walk or one workout every day these days, except for Thursday. On Tuesday the 15th, the HR monitor linked to my watch instead of my iPhone. It made for some weird readings, man.

Wednesday was the training at Cedar Springs while my child was at an activity. I had a date night on Thursday. so worked on my mental health and marriage instead of my physical fitness. I woke up late and so no early morning walk to get myself going.

Friday was a great day; a walk in the morning before work and a great walking/running session on  a treadmill in the evening. That was kind of cool. No hurting knees the next morning, either. I am looking forward to doing that again and again and again and again ..... ;)

As mentioned earlier, I tried to get the nutrition better this week, but had a few setbacks. Fewer things that were bad for me though and that is progress. Got one running session done on Friday, too. That is also progress.

Oct 10 to Oct 14

On Wednesday, was able to get an awesome workout done in my garage gym. I should have been at the regular gym, but forgot my heart rate monitor at home, so I went there.

I didn't get my session interrupted either. Except at the end, when my son came in looking for me to fix his iPad.

The rest of the week and weekend was spent walking and being disappointed with what's happening with myself. I checked my weight on Sunday and thus you know of my disappointment. The rest of mydisappointment comes with my inablility to find the time ... or the smack on the side of the head to get into the gym and train.

Having kids that need being driven to various places does not help.

Anyway, that is where we are at these days.

Oh, and diet/nutrition has been ok - but I also need to get that better, too.

Oct 1-9

It's the steady one step in front of the other / grind it out type workouts that I'm doing as of late.

I hit a new all time high of 262% as an activity level on Oct 1, as well. I looked, it's the workout I'm doing while one of my kids is at an activity. In the gym at Cedar Spring.

I tried to get the same workout done on Wednesday at home, but had to cut the session short due to being needed to calm a seven year old storm.

The workout I did was this one:

2 minutes on the ellitical
2 minutes using a 35 lb dumb bell as a kettlebell

for 35 minutes

then cleaned up that spot, put the stuff away and got on the Jacob's Ladder for 45 second climbs for five or so rounds.

48 minute workout, 750 calories used.

Eesh.

Anyway, the rest of the workouts were similar. I am also doing some of the stuff from ZEE and other online trainers. Mostly fun stuff that gets good results if done once or twice a week.

Also ... walking in the morning when weather permissable. I did two or three mornings on the treadmill when it was raining outside.

This is a pic form my garage gym. No, not really ... I don't use a treadmill, nor do I look like anyone in this pic. My garage is as basic as it comes. But it could look like this.

But not really.

Sept 26 to Sept 30

The weekend was another up and down event for me.

Up in that I was slected to play and stepped in and played most of the McCormick Cup bronze medal game thanks to an injury. I'm not sure I was tactically prepared for the game, but at least I made tackles and help my team avoid a 500 fine if they defaulted.

But at least I got to play and I didn't look like I was a whale on a beach, walking around the pitch. I wasn't the best on the pitch on the day - not by a long shot, to say it nicely - but I was on the pitch this year. Thanks to Timehop, I saw that a year ago I was watching my team play in the Intermediate Cup in Vaughn. I have to admit, I was happier on the pitch than beside it.

I'm planning on getting myself as healthy as I can in order to regularly play seconds XV next year. Now, whether this happens is largely in my hands, I believe. Fitness and health is the key to the whole she-bang