Here we go again.......

Well Here we go again. It has been weeks, yes weeks since I have touched the gym... I feel FAT, LARGE. ROTUND! Seems like I lost weight shaving my head and gained it on my belly... Notice this picture is NOT of my belly... It is disappointing to get to a certain point and then fall from grace.

I feel kind of, I don't know, blah.... Not surprising since I have not done much since my last gym visit...So, this weekend is my wife's birthday.... After that I will attempt to again begin my trek. 

I guess the question is; Why do we fail? Why do we move to a certain level then falter? What happens? I wish I could track the way I feel each day and then actually SEE the part where I stop... 

OH WAIT! I CAN!

I can buy doing this each day... This simple tracking each day will help me see where I am and where I have been.... Maybe I could put in a tracker on the side so I can see some kind of progress...

Hum... We shall see...

ABQ

It has been a year now since I have first touched down in ABQ! I still love it here. Working out was OK yesterday.. Not great, OK. Jenifer said that we would go together tonight. I hope we do. I know we can, I need too...

I am finding that the endorphins from working out really help my day. If I work out, I feel good in general. If I don't, then I don't.

Today is short as the dogs are calling me!!

And so it goes...

So I am thinking of expanding this blog. So far it has been mostly about ME working out,,, But just about me when I hit the gym, not me thinking about hitting the gym, me working on new ways of eating or not eating, or eating too much.

My working out is not a main part of my life although it is a bigger part now than it was two months ago. I worked out last on Wednesday. It is now Sunday night. I plan on going tomorrow. I eat a lot. Still eating a lot.

My dogs and I went for a walk today and one of them, Holly, hurt her foot. She seems better now, but gave me a scare and I had to carry her from up top a hill to the 4runner. I think she just hurt it somehow and it better now.

I am sleepy, I am sleepy a lot, usually after eating. It is 10PM and I am ready for bed.. I want to eat more. I have cookies and soy milk.. (Not soy cookies though! Good Ole american chocolate cookies...)

Tomorrow is my last day of my 4 day weekend. (I had to work 8 days to make that work) So, I have a lot of around the house stuff I want to do and the gym. I want to make sure I go to the gym 5 days a week at least and maybe 6, but not stress on the weekends cause the gym has shorter hours. If I can do 5 a week, I will be happy.

I want to sit in bed and read and sleep and sleep and sleep...

Lots done today.. I am going to start posting more I think cause my whole life affects my workouts.. I think I will stop posting to Facebook though... Just not feeling like putting it out there.. If you want to read about my life, (Truly why would you?) then come to me, here...

What happened?????

Oh my God! It has been like 6 days since I spent more than 20 minutes in the gym working out.... WTF????

So, last Thursday was the day I made the decision to stay home from the gym... My wife was due back from Cali on Friday. I was tired, etc.. So, I decided to talk "The Day Off". No biggie, no problem right..

Well Fri, Sat and Sun are always iffy cause the gym closes early. Friday.. OK, had to pick up Jen.. Understandable... Saturday? No, no real excuse, Sunday,, Same... Monday I was really tired and had lots of house stuff to due and had the closing shift so I planned to go later in the morning... This led to that and BANG I missed the chance and of course I was too tired to go...

Tuesday.. I actually went to the gym and took the dogs with me in the truck. Got on a machine, spent like two minutes and started to feel guilty about the dogs not getting walked in the last few days... SO, I left the gym and walked the dogs... Slow walk, not a brisk, lets exercise walk, but a slow let them sniff around walk...
No workout... And of course, too tired after work..

Here we are on Wednesday morning at 7AM... I went to bed at a reasonable hour, got up early and here I am...Will I go today? Will I have a good work out? WTF??? I went from three solid days in a row to blah, blah, blahin about not going at all.. I have also noticed I have been staying up way too late and feeling mildly depressed for at least half of my day each of the last two or three days.... Man I need me some gym time..

Wish me luck.. I am hoping today is the day I get back on track, on the track, tracking...

Ups and downs of Gym and life..

So, I worked out yesterday... First time in four days.. Yesterday I did not so much work out as attend the gym.  I was on a treadmill but not going very fast and not working very hard.. Jenifer Leilani was the one who encouraged us to go.

She had been gone and I did work out while she was gone but my last FB entry saying I was not going that night turned out to be not just that night but the three consecutive nights after...

We did go last night and it is good. I went.. Did not do so much but I went..

I am home today. Day off and taking care of my dog Pax.. He was throwing up yesterday and this morning.. Went to the Vet who gave him a shot and gave me instructions on how to make him better and an $85 bill.... Since this morning he has been drinking a little water at a time (1/2 cup) and I gave him a little food and some pepto for doggies.. Oh yeah, and working on the rug to get the mess up....

As for me... Tonight feels like a raw, hard workout night. Stair master, stride master.. Jay master.. I need it. I need the endorphins  push too.



Well, gyming it helps. Tomorrow night, we are going to have a short session with a friend who will be training my wife and I on the lifting systems at the gym so we can start moving into that area...


Lastly, why the mask? Cause I have been so busy taking care of Pax, from getting up 2 times in the night and then getting up again at 6:30 AM and going to the vet, cleaning the rug, poop outside, etc.. that I look like do do myself and a mask seemed appropriate...

Every day every day I work the master....

Good work out tonight! Went to the gym about 10PM and did 25 minutes on the STAIR MASTER! You have no idea what thats like until you do it...

Heart rate was pretty right on! (I recalculated what it is supposed to be before going to the gym)

I feel good, proud of myself...  A step at a time.. No pun intended..

Then after the master I did another machine which I think is really fun.. It kind of lets you do a stride.. I will have to video it so you can see what I mean.. Helps me get that heart rate up again too...

Tomorrow I hope to do some weight stuff!  Soon OB1... Soon...

Early in the morrrrrrning

I love getting up early and going to the GYM... Today Jen Lei and I went pretty early and worked out.. NOW, I have the whole rest of the day, feel spantacular and have done, finished, completed my work out.. Already planning for tomorrow...

I took this pic cause I wanted you too see what I am seeing.. My face, my chin... Slimmer... Belly is taking its time but soon grass hopper, soon my belly will follow suite....

Oh yes and a side not....The Stair Climber is not correctly named.. It should be the ass kicker... 20 minutes on the stair climber is like four years... and I am not moving fast but the heart rate goes up to the sky! (Well, not over max but right there without trying...)

SO, within the next week or so, I will be starting to get some weight machine training... I want to do two days a week of that. On those two days I will do some cardio but a shorter amount just to get myself warmed up, then some lifting IRON baby! Well, some machines anyway...

All is well, I feel swell and I am looking better as you can tell!