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. Held and tortured and unable to even think of another reality.

Here's what I've learned: The body is a violin that responds exquisitely to ( Read more... )

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 water, I'll feel destroyed.

Illustrative detail:  A solid hour of vigorous swimming (i.e. underwater hockey), or an hour's worth of biking at 75-100% of ( Read more... )

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 awfully behind on such updates, you're in luck!  If you hate them, though, this is not your day.  ;)

P90 itself:  So far, so good.  I like:

• how it only ( Read more... )

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.  And I'm very aware, every day, what a lucky one of the 99% I am.  The luck is nice, but it's incredibly tough to be lucky when everyone you left at ( Read more... )

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:

1. Something in the last few days/workouts hurt my knee *significantly*.  It wasn't anything I did (i.e. I didn't feel it get hurt), but yesterday I was sore ( Read more... )

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 disappointing.  ;)

So.  When I lost weight using the 6x 200-calorie meals / day "Polyphasic Diet", it took about 5 weeks to really start showing.  It was ( Read more... )

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 shower, guzzle a recovery drink and run to work, every single day (except the weekends when you can be slower about the shower).

I'm actually ( Read more... )

(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 (always), but so far so good.

Points:

• A small glass of chocolate milk is a surprisingly satisfying breakfast.  It's my recovery/after workout drink ( Read more... )

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 workout to use kungfu-style punches and kicks, once I get better at it, yeah?  That would be 4w3s0m3.

(I'm not as hugely into l33t as I used to be - like ( Read more... )

1. 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'.  ;)
    
2. I've forgotten to mention the P90X "nutrition plan" - that's going very well, actually.  Not super-easy, and I don't have the kind of life that I ( Read more... )