Cold water… Right?

It’s been a full week of Boiling frogs at the gym. What have I found so far after only five days of doing this?  It’s easy. There has been zero DOMS, so nothing is sore. Probably, I am building nothing but a tiny bit of endurance so far. So as far as body change, I see no change of course. 

As far as life change, 5:30am wake ups are not the best at first, but it’s growing on me. I find myself extra sleepy, but it’s fading. (Also the time change had my body feeling like 4:30 wakeups)

Food has been to a minimum as I don’t seem to be hungry like I am when I go nuts at the gym like before. 

It’s science and geeky and that interests me. I have a heart rate monitor watch so I’m able to make sure I don’t go above my heartrate goal for the day, which has raised today to 111 bpm from yesterday’s 110 bpm. It’s hard to star at such a moderate heart rate! 

I’m excited to watch this grow into heavy strenuous exercise without really noticing it. 

The 1 push-up this week is pretty funny too!  I feel foolish at the gym getting out a mat to do a 14 second plank and one push-up and putting it away. 

I also feel silly lifting a 5 lb weight over my head. This big powerful man. Hahah. !!!

As far as resting heart rate, it could be a coincidence, but my resting rate (daily avg) has gone from 67 to 66 to 64  through this week  could that be coincidence?

If you asked my how I feel? I’d say “the same”

It Takes Two Hours to Boil a Frog

Second day of Boiled-Frog-Routine and it was a lot like the first day.  Super easy. I laugh at myself as there are wobbly grannies working out harder than I am.  But still after 30 minutes I am sweating and I do feel like I exercised.  I'm just excited for the science to kick in! 

I wonder if I will be able to notice the gains I am making in endurance?  Going from 110bpm cardio up to a sustained 130 in June or something like that.  The way I see it, I could have spent the year doing what I did last year which is almost nothing, or I could do this!

I realize why a lot of people don't do exercise every day.  Up at 5:30 it wasn't until 7:30 when I was done.  How can that be?  All I did was wake up, get dressed, drive to gym, exercise, come home make some eggs, make a coffee, eat.  Boom! 2 hours.  and no shower yet!

I used to wake up, shower, get dressed, and start work.  Took me 30 mins tops. I am going to have to get over the time to know I am healthier.

Started tracking Resting Heart Rate too to see if that improves.  They say that your Resting Heart Rate should be between 50 and 70 to be healthy.  Mine's at 66.  So top side of healthy.  Lets see if this routing will bring that down to a moderate 60.  I know at one point in my life it was 55. 

TODAY'S EXERCISE

• 30 mins Elliptical @ 110 BPM
• 2 second plank (hahaha!)
• 5 squats
• 2 perfect Pushups

WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY?

Coffee with cream

2 egg omlette cheese and veggie

a 'lil marshmallow square

Two peanut butter rice cakes

Home Made Beef Fried Rice

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Calves and knees are still sore, neck is still a bit stiff.  My writs feel better.  I was not horribly tired yesterday.  Overall OK.

Incremental Fitness

There is talk of an experiment that took a little frog and dropped him in hot water, and he jumps out right away (please don't try this).  But when the scientists put the frog in cold water and then slowly heated it up, the frog was happy until he was dead.  The reaction to jump didn't kick in, he was used to it.

This (rather macabre) thought got me thinking about how I approach fitness.  I go hard until I hurt something then I rest, and eventually quit.  Thinking about how much it will take to get back to that point I was at when I stopped.  This time will be different.

I started my planning like I start everything.  With a Google Spreadsheet.  Wrote down 365 days.  From today until next year.  Then I researched baseline fitness for fat, lazy, old people.  What is the most elderly workout one can do in cardio.  It turns out that from my age, 110 BPM heart rate for 30 mins a day is low/moderate.  That what I hit for today.

I then found out what a max BPM heart rate would be for someone who is one year older than I am. Turns out 160 BPM Hear rate is a rigorous heart rate for someone of my vintage next year.  That is what I placed as my 365 day target.

Then I simply subtracted 110 from 160 and reached a 50  BPM increase of a year.  Divided by 365 and got 0.13 BPM every day.  Plugged that into my computer as well.

I did this same thing with pushups, squats and weight.  

The most fun is going to be planks.  Amanda Minchau, my wife, saw an old man doing a 6 minute plank.  He said he has been adding one second on to his time every day.  That's pretty cool, so I am borrowing that.  Today I did a laughable (but perfect from) one second plank! 

Here is my workout for today:

• 30 mins Elliptical 110bpm
• 1 second plank
• 1 perfect pushup
• 5 perfect squats

Workout Results: I actually sweated during the 30 mins.  The plank was just funny. the pushup was actually hard and proved I need this. The squats weren't terrible but my knee is sore from skiing injury.

WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY?

Some Open House Snacks

Two peanut butter rice cakes

Overall, not a healthy eating day.

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

I am sore everywhere.  Parts of my feet are just sore, calves are sore, right knee is injured a bit, left knee is sore, left wrist has a ski injury (minor) right thumb is super stiff.  Neck is night.  Back gets stiff when sitting too long.  Getting tired a lot after 12 hours of work.  Really, I feel like base-line crap.

Ok Mudder.  Get going.

Get out and hurt yourself.  Make your body pay for the inactivity you have put on yourself.  Get you shorts on and get into the bush.  Climb mud, run in sand, dive in water, swallow mud.  It dosen't matter because you have toe get moving.  You must get running and be in at least better shape than you are.  You have just over 2 months.  5 days a week is fine.  You just need to get a schedule and work your way up to running the course.

As a trainer said: "are you going to die today?"
   "no."
   "then get a move on!"

Burn the calories and get motivated.  When you see a chubby fat person in a ca car smoking and looking all pasty, you think "wow, what a lazy bastard" well, what can you say of yourself?  Lazy Bastard!  Get going Lazy Bastard!

Think of just how smug you can be when you are dirving around all hardend from working out and then see those pasty fatties... You'll be swimming in smugness.

this is what it is going to take to get you going: START.

It is never convenient.  You never have enough sleep, you are always going to be a little sick or a little sore, you kids will never have ENOUGH time with you, you'll never have enough time for work, you will never be full enough, or hungry enough, you will never have enough energy, you will never not have the clothes (you're wearing clothes duh!).

You don't need gear, you dont need fancy places, you don't need water, you dont need food, you dont need an umbrella.

YOu just need to start.  Get going.  Plan after you run.  stop writing it down and start actually doing it...go go go

5 days a week should give us toughness.  get into the dirt and crawl, climb trees and fences, commando crawl, duck under logs, wade through water, dive in water with clothes on. get wet, get muddy, get cold, heat up, do it.  and get youself into a shape of your life.  hardened.

get up and go!

Almost Live

Ok People!  we are almost live.  It is time to give the big push to get the live-ness out and ready for the Month of March.  there are FHA orders that need to be filled and out.  There are collections to be done.  There are orders to ship and there is an eventum to be managed.  Once complete, we will be ready for the onslaught of orders into the que.

This will be easy.  It will take some fierce dedication on my part to make sure not a minute is wasted.  So what we need to do is get to it and start running again.  Make the machines whir and get the invoices out.  make all the time we have count.

This push will be like I have orders that are really pressing.  so get to work and fight! 

Some things that come to mind are:

• FHA orders entered and completed.
• Engravers express to pick up (and felice plate)
• magnets on Womens hospital
• MTM scans
• shipping to complete
• Collections to do
• eventum to update
• shop to clean

It might be hard, but I think it will be good for us.

I picture being live nad it looks like this:

An order comes in and I follow a checklist to forward the order.  I update the

Governor of Givener

Today, I will work like never before.  I will push myself into a run to get the work done faster and better.  I will avoid distractions every step of the way.  I will work smart and go for it like a madman.  I will push to become the worker I need to be to get the job done. 

If you want to loose weight, you have to push yourself into very uncomfortable situation.  Work is never comfortable and is always a struggle.  So when at work, I will push myself into uncomfortable situations and drive myself to become ultimate business guy, always going for the most resistance and doing what it takes to make killer money.  Push, push, push. 

I will loose the Fat of poverty and the the calories of lazyness.  I will lift the weights of bravery and the run the cardio of efficiency.  Every day will be better and my progress will be marked. 

This is my promise to myself.  Get to work and be so business-fit that people will notice a change.

Giver!  dont stop and drive home a big cheque every day!!!

Getting Live

Get live.  Get real live and stay live.  Rest When there is truly nothing to do.  Get excited when the order come at us like crazy.

so to get live, all we must do is get everything else out of our way.  stuff that clouds our mind and is in the way of us doing our job perfectly.   once we are live, we will have a great time here:

Job comes in, Art is done, art is approved, the job gets produced, the job leaves the building all in the same day or thereabouts.

getting live will mean I have to make some more serious commitments to my time.  to get everything going in a straigt line.

ALL JOBS COMPLETED
Area is cleaned
materials are ordered.

All jobs must be completed:  This one is simple.  Just do all the jobs to the best of your abilities.  Just start on a job, put it in a bag and move it to the next station.  Then get another job do it, put it in a bag and move it to the next station... Just keep going untill all the bags are ready to ship.  Then ship them... fricking easy!

Just get back there... put your headphones on and start working.  do it!  Get going.

start with the orders that are ready and work your way down. GO!