Let’s go… Slaho!

NO, NO PICTURES!!!! They’ll get up, I promise. Just give me some time. Today was my son’s last playoff game, so I was out most of the day. It was also my last full day of work. I officially start summer tomorrow after reporting to work for about 2 hours. SWEEEEEET! Of course summer school starts but 11 days later. DRAT! But that’ll finish 18 days after that!! AWESOME. And then I’ll have approximately 6 weeks before I go back to begin a new year. Lord knows I need the rest. From teaching of course… I am not going to rest this body from working out until 90 days are up, and today was a good day 3. I worked out my shoulders and arms, and then I did the killer ab workout. Oh my God, I am going to hurt for 3 weeks!! Still, I made it. I am now another day closer to reaching my goal of being totally physically fit. Now, it’s after midnight again, so I will be off to bed without writing a story or a poem again, but now that school is out and that baseball season is over, I will have more time to get these things done. I am off to the showers. I’ll say my prayers in there. And then I will read some more of Prince Caspian. Funny in the movie he showed up right away, but in the book I’m 1/8 in and there is no mention of this chap whatsoever. Curious…

Well, another update will come out tomorrow… stay tuned. Let’s see what I can make of me!

Two words… plyo metrics. OK so it’s only one word but I only had the energy to say a piece at a time by the time I was done. WOW. I was pooped. No sense in having to incorporate my spiritual life into some part of today. I was praying 1. for the routine to be over, and 2. that I survive the hour… and this was just 7 minutes in. Lucky for me my honey was but 5 feet away from me while I was doing my exercises and her being there motivated me greatly. No, it wasn’t the moral support… I just wanted to prove I was man enough to finish this routine!!!
Anyways, I got through it and I am proud. As for the pictures I went to upload them to the page and the site refused them because they were too large. (2.7 Megs). Is that a hint from my site that I need to lose weight? Is it not aware that this is the whole purpose of this?? Sheesh. If you don’t get it from one side you get it from another! And who needs enemies when you have cyberspace attacking you!!! Can’t a man have his dignity somewhere? Well, the answer will be no once I post these pics. There’s not much to brag about really. But don’t worry in 88 days, it will all be different!
Again I will read myself to sleep today. Tomorrow I’m not planning to work out at midnight, so hopefully I’ll blog earlier and have time to add something other than my update.

STAY TUNED!!

OK, so I said that I was going to log my progress, so here it is!! My first workout is done, and I am spent. I am doing an intense workout program called P90X. I’ve never paid attention to infomercials, but this one caught my eye for some reason, and let me tell you, after workout number 1 I am sure this will get me in great shape. I just need to stick to the program. 1 day down 89 to go!!!

Today I did chest and arms. A lot of pushups of all varieties, and a lot of pull ups of just as many varieties. Did I mention I stink at pull ups. And no I’m not much better at pushups. But check back with me in 90 days. I’m going to be lean and mean baby!!!

The only thing I’m upset about is that I couldn’t do the ab workout afterwards. I needed a mat to work on, and I didn’t have one. All I had was my hard tile floor, and my hips and butt just wouldn’t cooperate. I’ll be ready for the abs on Thursday then.

Lord, thank you for getting me through day ONE. I couldn’t have done it without you. And the rest of you, pray for me that I can stick to my four part program. I did the physical, and earlier the creative (I do plan to add a story tomorrow while I’m here). I also got a prayer in, so my spiritual is covered. Now, I’ll read until I fall asleep. Dania bought Prince Caspian, so I think I’m going to read the book now that I’ve seen the movie, which I found very entertaining by the way, though it should have been PG-13. It is a bit violent for the little ones (and the not so little ones).

I took the before pics. I’ll put them up tomorrow. I have to find a USB cable to import the pics from my camera, and I’m not about to do it now at almost 1 am. I’ll update tomorrow again!! Peace everyone!

OK, about four months ago, I bragged about how I was going to get going and blogging again. That lasted about ohhhhhhh I don’t know, ZERO days. So, here I go again. A new leaf has turned, (proverbial of course because there are no pages on the computer, but let’s pretend I am turning the page and starting a new chapter in this book, that really doesn’t exist, but maybe one day will…  I’m rambling again!!)

So, anyway, today I am starting a new workout program.  Over a year ago, I wrote how one needs to keep oneself fit, not just physically, but spiritually, intellectually, and creatively.  I’ve been 0 for 4 lately.  I’ve gained almost 20 pounds in a year.  I’m reading close to nothing.  I’m creating close to nothing.  And my spiritual life has seen better days.  Now, maybe I should focus on just doing one thing at a time and as I improve on each begin a second. Well, that’s a grand idea, but I digress.  I will attempt to begin all four at once.  But instead of doing them individually, I will attempt to work them together.  I have decided that I am going to be logging my progress for my new workout program on this blog.  That will get me in front of my computer, and hopefully inspire me to write other stuff while I’m already there.  I will then try to add my own reflections on how I’m doing and add a little spiritual aspect to this whole thing.  As far as the intellectual part, I guess I’, just going to have to leave books to read in the restroom, and do my reading there.  Heck, if I gotta sit there for a few minutes anyway, might as well make them productive right?  I promise I’ll wash my hands.

So here I go.  Tonight I plan to take before pictures and post them.  Every four weeks I plan to add update pics.  Hopefully there will be differences in my physique as well as in my aura.  Who knows I may actually look more intelligent to boot.  Regardless, I think it’s time to get off my kiester and get myself going.  I hope you come along for the ride!!  All one or two of you who read this, anyway!