Thursday, April 28, 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 19

Today:
1 Hour Yoga
10 Pull ups
2 mile run

Friday:
Friday:
10 pushups
15 pullups
1 attempt at THIS (pretty funny - TOUGH too!)


It was my birthday on Saturday, and Easter on Sunday - made for a very busy weekend with no real workouts. I gained 4 or 5 pounds too! Yikes! Luckily that weight isn't a big deal and it'll go away or I'll turn it into muscle! Oh yeah!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 18

Today:
  • Yoga was pretty brutal. Did wall handstands... amazing how I used to be able to do multiple sets of wall-ups (handstand pushups with feet/back against a wall) but they are VERY difficult now. Once I got my feet up, my brain said "Oh yeah this isn't that hard" - so I was able to do the handstand against the wall.
  • 1 long trip around Costco pushing a heavy cart
  • 20 pushups
  • 3 rounds of Just Dance 2 with my beautiful wife

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 17

Today:
10 pullups
35 ab rollouts
20 standing to plank ab rollouts
50 pushups
1.78 mile run
Did these yoga poses to take pictures to see how I'm doing:
Not a horrible Crane/Crow (Bakasana) Pose

Tripod Crow to Headstand - Better Alignment
Tripod Headstand (Sirsasana II) - Side - Needs work! Straighten up!
Tripod Headstand -  Front - PASTY
Silly Trying to work on Planche stuff... not well

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 16

Yeah I messed up on the Daily Digests this weekend. However I DID do some muscle ups on monkey bars that made it slightly more like doing muscle ups on rings, which is apparently easier. Still need to do it on a bar.
And yesterday.
Yesterday:
1 Mile Run - I need this pace in longer runs.

Today:
1 Hour Yoga - Was able to do full Tripod/Crow Headstand for 6-10 seconds 2 times - Tougher than I thought!
3 Muscle-up attempts - the bar at my work's gym is definitely not optimal for my stage in Muscle-up progression. I will get there though.

This is not me - but I will try to get me doing this soon!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 14 & 15

Yesterday:
Did a few pullups - but mostly it was a random rest day

Today:
10 Pull ups (f)
10 ab rollouts x2 (f)
1 minute plank x2 (f)
50 pushups (f) (with added 1 year old interference)
1.7 mile run (f)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 13

Today:
3.8 mile run (f)
20 dips (f)
Haven't decided what else I want to do today!
I need a plan or something!



Less than 2 months and I'll be Ragnar-ing it up again!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 12

Today:
15 Standing to Plank Ab Rollouts
10 Ab Rollouts
10 Chinups
20 Pullups
3.5 mile run, 8:30 pace - I need to (I can) push it more.
Controlled Ab crunches while driving :p

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 10 & 11

Yesterday:
Rodney Yee: Yoga Burn
Lots of Sleep

Today:
20 Ab Roll outs
2 10 second (yeah wimpy) L-sits with hands on floor
5 inverted sit ups (fully inverted on my Inversion Table)
20 inverted crunches

Interesting weekend. Definitely didn't turn out the way I wanted it to!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 9

Today:
  • No Yoga yet - instructor is gone, backup dvd didn't show up. I will either Run or do Yoga at home.
  • 15 Pull ups (f)
  • 10 Curls with a 70lb bar (f)
  • 7-ups 60lb bar (aka 21s) (7 from top to halfway down, 7 from bottom halfway up, 7 full curls) (f)
  • 20 second hanging L-sit (hanging on pull-up bar) - I need to improve these (f)

Inspiration. Work. Desire. Good video. (Kind of sad too though)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 7

Today:
1 Hour of Yoga (f)
10 pull ups (f)
30 second hanging L-sit (f)
Multiple Stomach Vacuums (f) (try to hold it for over 20 seconds sometime it's HARD!)

In Yoga we attempted the Bird Of Paradise pose.

Bird of Paradise

Mine was NOT that pretty! I can lock/bind my arms but my leg has a hard time straightening once I stand up. It's pretty funny.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 5

Today:
I was hoping to get a run in but it didn't happen. Kids!
I did go shopping with a 3 year old and a 1 year old THAT was exercise!
While trying to put the 1 year old to sleep I did 40 Squats while holding her (about 22 lbs)
Played soccer for about 15 minutes while holding the same daughter.
Chased, tickled, wrassled, pushed on swings, and enjoyed my kids.
Overall it was a relaxing but occasionally quite active day.
Didn't get quite the workout I wanted, but that's okay!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Daily Exercise Digest 4 - Sugar

Today:
20 dips
2.5 mile run with my gorgeous wife - some mean hills!
50 pushups
10 ab rollouts (Had to do SOME of those today!)

SUGAR - My biggest weakness:
As I eat this Rice Krispie Treat...
Here is a brutal post on the dangers of Sugar from Feruggia.
Yikes! Scary stuff. Especially with the prevalence now of even more unnatural sugars like High Fructose Corn syrup - it affects my corn allergy. The more I continue to eat it the worse it seems to be getting as well.
Anybody have tips on getting rid of sugar? I'm a sweet-FIEND - what to do!