Appalling Conditioning
Around December 15th or so I stopped doing the weight training I had been doing pretty regularly for the previous two months. Basically, I pulled all my Christmas crap out of my second room which holds my weights and weight bench and made a complete mess of the area. Empty boxes and Christmas crap was strewn in all directions, which made it impossible to room to work out. So I stopped.
In the 30 or so days since I’ve been on five 30 minute walks and that’s it. The exercise really tapered off. Yesterday I went for a walk and today I got the room cleaned up and started using the weights again. It’s amazing how in 30 short days just how much progress you can loose. While I didn’t lower the weight on any of my exercises, I had to come down anywhere from 15 – 30 reps per exercise. When I stopped a month ago I was able to do 100 crunches, 3 sets of 35 or so. Today I was able to do 3 sets of 20, a total of 60. While I was working out frustration came over me big time, thinking about how if I had really kept at it for the past 30 days I’d be much further along.
The good news is that in the last 30 days I haven’t gained any of the weight back I lost. I’m currently at 218 pounds and would really like to be down below 200. I’m going to get back to a routine of 3 days a week weight training and 2 days a week of cross-training (mostly hard walking, light weights on those days). The only bit of bad news is that my arms kill tonight. Probably over did it a bit in upper body, but we’ll know better tomorrow, won’t we?
Every time I hear one of those news reports about how America is a nation of fat asses it upsets me that I’m in that group. I’ve come down 20 pounds since November of 2001 and I plan on being at least another 20 pounds lighter by November of 2003.
For all of you putting off the weight training, force yourself. Don’t force yourself to over do it, but force yourself to get off your ass and walk, job, lift, climb, whatever. Start out slow and keep to it.
The Daily Bit
Weight: 218 lbs.
Song: “Belfast” by Orbital
Book: “Ham on Rye” by Charles Bukowski
Oil: Mobil One Syntetic Oil
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