Thoughts on Mostly Week One
So, thoughts on P90X so far: My god is it goofy. However, Tony (the Guy) makes it easy to laugh at, rather than just be disgusted by, all the XTREEEEM! stuff, and it's silly enough humor that it works...
View ArticleTake two, they’re small and carbohydrate-free
So I got a cold. A stupid sneezy cold. It's the first cold I've had after almost two years of complete sick-free-ness! And when do I get it? Four days into being monophasic. I'm just sayin'. ;)...
View ArticleTake a bunch, they’re made of meat. Specifically hamburger.
Day 6 done! The Kenpo workout is actually pretty fun; I'm not much on karate for martial art purposes, but it does make fun exercise, I'll give it that. Plus it'll be easy enough to modify the...
View ArticleThe New Dots
(Day 10.) So besides the mad exercise, it's also week 2 of the Mad High-Protein Diet now. That's going pretty well…I'm sure I'm overshooting the carbs a little, and I should be eating more vegetables...
View ArticleChallenges Take Many Forms (even cat-vomit)
So, if I haven't said so already, it's a hard, hard thing to ask yourself to slide right out of bed, exercise to the point of panting sweat-dripping exhaustion for 1 – 1.5 hours, leap in and out of the...
View ArticleFascinated — one might say, “agog”. But I also find sneezing interesting.
Today's a day for titles pulled out of random things the TV is saying in the background. Underneath that information-rich skin, though, it's just the three-week P90X update — sorry if that's...
View Article“Bringing It” to Trial
And just like that, P90X is on the chopping block. Sure, I can be a revolvatory sort, but then again, sometimes the Universe speaks just as suddenly as people do. Anyway, here's where I'm at:...
View ArticleEscape from the Prison Planet!
I put my picture on wearethe99percent.tumblr.com … because I feel like a refugee from a pocket third-world country in the US, created by the 1% and the government's insane/corrupt need to please them....
View ArticleP90 Monday #2
So, start of Week 2 of P90 (after 4 weeks of P90X and a one week "break" while assessing other systems). This is a big ol' update on exercise, food, sleep &etc., so if you've been thinking I'm...
View ArticleRunnin’ (Type 3 Fun)
Running kills me. I can run for half the time, at a tenth of the intensity, that I might bike or swim; and instead of feeling like I've had a good workout like I would if I was on wheels or in the...
View ArticleAnd you thought I couldn’t squee out about shoes
I need to give some love to Mad Rock shoes. My first pair were ballerina shoes on juice: But then they got a hole in the leather, I swear for no reason I can fathom. D: I sent the company that...
View ArticleListen to the instrument, damn it
Most of my life, I was a slave to my mind, and if you'd asked me I would have said straight-faced that the whole useful world was inside it; a straight-up victim of stockholm syndrome of the brain....
View ArticleA daily workout that’s simple and works: HIIT The Deck
THE "HIIT THE DECK" WORKOUT There are doubtless other posts about similar workouts, but as I learned this through oral tradition (passed on to me by a footy team, no less) and I've definitely...
View ArticleThe Hanging Swing
The Hanging Swing I. Oh man, life-wise I am kinda hanging off the crumbling edge of a cliff after a seizmic explosion and it's cool, it's cool, I'm scrambling up over the ledge and it looks like...
View ArticleFurther notes on the “Bloody Nine” exercise thingy
Any three exercises, three sets to failure. My goal with the Bloody Nine (or B9 as my friend now has me calling it) was to inculcate a basic, progressive / training-level fitness routine that could...
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