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Food Poisoning and A Lost Day of Exercise

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I don’t know if it was something I ate last night for dinner at the work party, but I have felt like throwing up and in miserable pain all day. Last night I couldn’t sleep from how irritated my stomach was. It was the same gut wrenching boiling pain all over again. I am not about to make a spectacle of myself and embarrass myself at the gym. Today, I will concentrate efforts to just take in plenty of fluids and try to palette something down because I don’t know how much I can eat in solids, if I can even hold down solids.

I hope by tomorrow I am back in better spirits and ready to take on the day.

Personal, Technology

Wish List

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I am not much of a brand nutty person, but I do have wishes to have certain things. I know I am a bit limited on my budget, but it’s always nice to post up things I hope and aspire to own. These things aren’t necessarily the “latest and greatest” but they are fun to look forward to. Hopefully, I can step into owning them with time.

Technology

  • Memory Stick Pro Duos
  • Memory Stick Micros
  • A separate/dedicated MP3 player (for gym use)
  • LCD Monitor (to replace a CRT that should be retired)
  • DVD burner
  • Bigger external hard drive (or a huge media player)

Grooming/Self Care

  • Feather Artist Club RG straight razor
  • A better shaving brush
  • Better shaving cream
  • Shaving suppliments (preshave, aftershave, etc)
Personal

How sweet it is..!

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Today is one of the few days I have felt my best. To be around people who are non-biased to things that had no relevance to them was better than the last few weeks. I ended up throwing my confidence around and approached one mature woman at the party. It was fun to just have a great conversation with someone who’s grown up and not tied to needless drama. In addition, she had a spine of her own to speak her mind out her opinions rather than rely on the “commands” of her friends.

My friend was mingling around her work friends and had a great time, though she was laughing and jocking on me saying I found a date at the work party of hers rather than be her date. It was good to be a whole town away and just have fun with not being concerned with a single care in the world. Family is finally calling less, but it’s more when they have concerns on when I am going home. It is great to see my uplifted mood from working out is finally paying off. Things are looking up at the office as well and that has been boosting my mood higher.

To my “date” that I met at the party, thanks for the fun day! For my friend who dragged me out, my thanks for having me come out and get away from wanting to mope around my home office.

Tomorrow begins a new week… I wonder how bad the office will get, because it’ll be the final rush before Christmas. I forsee that it will be hell and chaos to boot. Clients trying to take care of affairs before our doors close for Christmas day. I know my newer partner will be helping me maintain my sanity, I can’t say so much about my other partner who’s been training for almost 3 months… The holidays are a time where mess-ups just cannot be afforded, especially when emotions are on a high with clients.

If I haven’t mentioned it to my readers… Happy holidays from me and may the new year bring about great things to all of you! I wish you all well and the best of things to come in your lives! I know many of you have had some of the most difficult of struggles, but maybe we can all get together and celebrate life one of these days.

Fitness

Break – Muscular Healing, Part II

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On talking to a few friends who have weight trained, they have asked that I take it easy on myself before I seriously hurt something. I had told them that I am pretty sore all over and zapped of energy. From their observations, they have felt that I have not given my body adequate time to rebuild the torn muscle fibers and for them to re-adjust for the healing process. Today will be another day spent relaxing and just plain taking it easy on my body to promote good healing and positive muscle growth.

My friends have also voiced their opinions that I should alternate training days as my body is still trying to cope with me getting back in shape. I may just do that for this week to further promote the healing process. Thanks to those who have been supportive of my progress, it really means a lot to me!

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Break – Muscular Healing

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Today, I am going to take it easy and enjoy the day… My legs are throughly worn out from all the cardio and my upper torso is sore from the building I have done there. Tomorrow, I plan to resume in full force and get back into things again. Plan to attack harder than yesterday, because I am starting to see the seeds of progress. Initially this week, I weighed in at 155 lbs. As of yesterday before workout, I was weighing in at 152 lbs! For 5 days of adding hard cardio, that is really astonishing! I can’t wait for the new week to begin.  I just hope that with working weekends… It won’t screw with my routine.

I am proud of my great progress and hope to get even further.  Until June… talk about killer suspense to see ultimate progress.

Fitness

Workout Log 12/14/2007

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Sitting stationary bike

  • Level 10
  • 20 minute duration
  • Max heart rate: 168 bpm
  • 194 Calories
  • 5.57 miles
  • Cooldown for 3 minutes at Level 5

Torso rotation machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 2 sets
  • 12 reps each

Back extension machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 2 sets
  • 12 reps each

Abdominal machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 2 sets
  • 12 reps each

Chest press machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 2 sets
  • 11 reps each

Rowing machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 2 sets
  • 12 reps each

Walking track

  • 3 laps
  • 11 laps is equal to a mile
Personal

An Antidote to the Most Vile Venom

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On my lunch break at the office, I had a musing about myself to reflect on the life I have lead. This one hit me like a bolt of lightning, so I just went typing away in a flurry. It’s not the path I ever predicted to follow, but I do not regret the experiences that have molded me. Life is both filled with good and bad experiences.

I think that I have come a long way as a man. I have been on both sides of life and death with living to tell the story. I have come to learn at age 23 some of the life lessons that my family tried to instill in me. Life is terribly short and people die soon. I wish that I would have forgiven the fallen instead of letting my grudges come to pass. Now, they are long passed and they cannot hear my sorrow. This has been something that has bothered me for a long time.

I finally have learned to forgive myself. Five years of sin and personal delusions. I have not forgotten, but I have learned to forgive. My “suffering” feels lighter. My “pain” hurts less. But that all was not possible until one person finally said “I forgive you.” To my friend, I say thank you. That is enough to get me on the road to recovery. I realize that with the road to recovery, there will be challenges that may ask me to really understand myself. After the end of my life of chaos, I understand what people mean when they say “You have to fall, before you can understand how to walk“. It’s more a saying that I have found to carry a powerful meaning: “Failure is a means to learning how to become successful.”

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Workout Log 12/13/2007

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Workout notes: I woke to sore muscles all over and with exams having me running with “insomnia mode”, my body was not healing properly. So I ended up waking at 9:00 rather than the 6:45 I was hoping for. I feel much better though. The workout is short, but I do not intend to skimp on any cardio, because I do need it. I know my “redline” for my heart rate… At the moment I top out at 182 beats per minute and I can keep this state of redline for almost 40 minutes straight. Hopefully, I can get some sleep tonight and seriously get a great work-out tomorrow.

Total Body Crossramp Machine

  • 371 Calories
  • Crossramp Level 6 (to train major leg muscles, arm muscles, and chest)
  • Resistance Level 4 (for 20 minutes) then Level 5 (for 20 minutes)
  • 3.39 miles
  • Duration: 40 minutes with 5 minute cooldown

Walking track

  • 8 laps (11 is equal to a mile)
Rant

Random Blurb and Ranting on a Cold, Rainy Day

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I have lived in a small suburb for damn near all my life, so I have seen some interesting things with my 23 years of living… One thing that amuses me about the majority of DFW area drivers is that rainy roads and rain instantly sets off the “panic mode” on many people’s minds and their driving gets offensive rather than defensive. Naturally, rain or adverse weather conditions makes drivers learn to bide their time and take a slower pace to avoid any additional delays from getting into an accident. I see the following annoyances with the drivers in my city panicking:

  • Failure to go below the speed limit
  • Reckless lane switching
  • Heedless stomping on the brakes at the absolute last second
  • Hydroplaning

Unfortunately for me being a roadster (tiny) manual transmission driver, this puts me and other fellow drivers at risk for some careless person to suddenly panic or behave poorly on the road. I know on my way to the gym at 8:00 that there were 2 multi-car pile-ups from some clown losing control of their vehicle. Here’s the irony of it all: it took place in a SCHOOL ZONE! A twenty mile-per-hour school zone. I can only imagine that the reactions of the asinine drivers must have been embarrassing to hold up school traffic from their short witted thoughts.

The last exam of the semester was today for me, boy… was it a doozy. The questions blitzed my mind and ransacked my memory banks to thoroughly exhaust me completely. I mean, the class was great but for some reason… that exam “kicked my ass”. I know that I actually enjoyed my classes this semester, but I wish I could have dumped more time on them… It sucks having to work and go to school, but that is the price to pay for freedom. With the holiday season here and the office spitting out more and more paperwork, I hope to increase my intake of hours to pay off things and maybe have a little money to spend on myself. I am not sure if I can afford to attend school next semester, but I may ask family if they are willing to make a plea bargain with me… I just don’t think it will bode well though, unfortunately… I pray that ’round tax time… I should be seeing a bigger return for working a whole year with a company that does not use shady methods to write off taxation.

For those wondering when the next “serious” reviews are coming… I will say that they will be hitting home soon. The next review will be over my feelings over the wildly popular Nintendo DS  game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I will give Nintendo credit for making a wonderfully refreshing game that makes even the most casual fan feel at home. Keep watching the blog, I will have the review up once I get through the game or even beat it.

Fitness

Workout Log 12/12/2007

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Crossramp machine

  • Crossramp Level 5
  • Resistance Level 4
  • 1.58 miles
  • 178 calories
  • 20 minute duration

Abdominal machine

  • 40 lbs resistance
  • 24 Reps (12 per set)

Squat press machine

  • Level 4
  • 48 Reps (12 per set)

Stairclimb machine

  • Level 2
  • 173 Calories
  • 10 minute duration with 5 minute cooldown

Walking track

  • 6 laps (11 is equal to a mile)