2 weeks done!  So even though other aspects of my life may not exactly be ideal, and I'm not exactly sure what I want out of them, to the sadness of some others, at least my workout plan is going well.  I wasn't really able to lift much more weight at the gym at the end of the second week than at the beginning of the first, but I don't really feel ( Read more... )

So today was another cardio day, this time I ran around the loop near my apartment rather than downtown in Arlington.  It was a bit chilly, sadly.  I hope it gets better for this weekend for Saturday's run.  I'm definitely feeling stronger already, a bit more stamina too.  I also noticed, in doing my stretches, that I'm getting more flexible.  ( Read more... )

So I think this is the last day I'll be posting every day, since I don't think there's really any reason to do so.  But big updates of any sort, changes, notable things, still worth mentioning ( Read more... )

So today I did pretty much nothing aside from going to church.  And even there, I didn't get there until the homily, because they decided to have it a half-hour earlier for some reason.  Oops.  I was there for the most important parts of the mass, at least ( Read more... )

So because I had plans for today (some errands in the morning, but social after that, and a house-viewing in the middle, a very nice place at that) I decided to do my run early this morning.  I don't know when the last time I went running in the morning was, but I think it was while I was in high school on the cross-country team.  So it's been ( Read more... )

So today felt more like a step backwards than a step forwards, unlike the other days.  I was mostly healed from Monday, but still slightly sore and weakened, and thus not able to lift as much weight as I did then.  Well, I might have been able to lift as much, but not as many reps I was "supposed" to be doing on it, and likely would have caused ( Read more... )

At this point, my body is likely thinking "Dammit, Brian, why are you trying to kill us?!?"  I just got back from running, my third time this week (Saturday, Tuesday ,and today) after previously I had gone running no more often than once a week.  I also am still somewhat sore from my upper body workout on Monday and yesterday evening's lower body ( Read more... )

So it occurs to me, in retrospect, that I should have checked what machines and freeweights and such there are at this very small gym at my office building on Monday, when I was last there.  As it turns out, while it's well-stocked for arm workouts, it doesn't really have much of what I need for my lower body stuff.  But with the dumbbells and what ( Read more... )

I'm not going to post for every day of my 12-week workout plan, but probably every day for the first week or so, and any other time there's something notable to be said.  This, along with basically telling everyone in my life about it, and keeping track of my lifting sets, is my way of keeping myself accountable for what I've done.  Without a ( Read more... )

So I've decided to start posting to LJ again, but not at all in the same way as I did in the past.  My personal life will not be discussed here, aside from this one note: by her own admission, I was right about something that a lot of people were giving me grief over when I was last using this journal.  Sometimes I hate being right.  If anything ( Read more... )