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March 21 Fitness

It’s a Sunday, our, our, our new week starting tomorrow. Uh, we’re going to add a little bit of legs just cause right now I still have a smidget of energy in me. Right. So while I have the energy in me, I might as well add legs at something like okay. Out in the forest, that would be cool. However, adding an entire, another workout start working on our bottom half of our body is even better. So that’s what we’re going to do. The weight, as you see, I’m breathing a little heavier than normal today. Um, I think a lot of that has to do, uh, I cheated today and I ate some taco bell would usually, you know, I don’t really eat junk food for first off and then eating before my workouts is why I’m over here, huffing and puffing and bourbon taco bell, and feel like I got prep right now.

Uh, it doesn’t come out the best. Uh, and it made me a little nauseous when I was running. I’m not gonna lie. Um, my stomach was already full then, like, Whoa, it was full starting then trying to add a little water to it. I just feel heavy and lethargic and little, uh, you know, when you feel like you’re going to throw up, I don’t know what they call it. Um, yeah, but other than that, I, uh, still ran three miles. I was a little faster today or I ran a little bit longer today than yesterday as a day. And yesterday I still ran at 5.6. So I ran three miles a little bit over 30 minutes, but today I ran a little bit longer. Cause the show I was watching there was like an extra minute where did enough to really talk about, write home about, but I did run a little bit extra pushups in the morning time. They’re easy. It’s just the plastic that our musings digging into my hands. So I gotta find something else or uh, just, you know, suck it up. But I have, I have other ways of like smaller weights that are, I’ll probably just bring them in into this room because this room is where I do my morning workout and I’ll just use those.

There we go. Wow. I needed that Burke. That’s it tastes terrible. Just letting you know, he’s like taco bell, but, um, I needed it regardless. So yeah, I’ll probably just bring it waits in. And then I also want to do, do kind of like some burnouts on my, on my arms. Um, just like the shoulders, but we’re not there yet. Uh, I almost need to add another like small section. She’s just like a jump rope, jump rope, like five, 10 minutes a day. Uh, well I start every day with 10 minutes. Right? You can change your life for just 10 minutes. So I gotta just find the 10 minutes cause they’re they’re right there. I have plenty of extra 10 minutes in a day. So I just got to figure out what extra 10 minutes of the day I want to devout to jump roping.

So how long is it going to take me to find this 10 minutes? I’m not quite sure. I’m probably going to have to scan through every minute of my day and be like, you know what, this minutes not, I can’t do it this minute. And then till I find some minutes where I’m like, you know what I am I, there is no way I can not just do these 10 minutes. Kind of like how it was. They’re starting to get onto the, onto the treadmill. How the first 10 minutes, when we first started, this was miserable. It was as hard as could be. I had to convince myself every day to just get on it for 10 minutes now, riding running for 30 minutes. And instead of convincing myself to get on it, I’m trying to convince myself that I got to run faster. Right?

So in everything that we do, we just small steps are always better than no steps. So I know it’s going to take me a minute to convince myself that I, I have nothing better to do with my time besides jump rope. Uh, but I know once I started doing it and I do it on a consistent basis basis that I won’t be able to find time not to do it. Right. I got a couple other projects that I got to work on right now, if you remember about a month and a half ago, well maybe not that long, maybe about a couple weeks ago. I was like, I gotta find 10 things a day to talk about for 10 minutes. So it’d be like a hundred, like a hundred minutes of talking. Um, I’ve yet to do that. Yeah. Kind of Y you know, with the, the vegetables and everything, I’m doing it with the vegetables and kind of doing with this, but I wanted to find 10 extra things, kind of expand my brain. So while I’m brainstorming on that, I got to figure out what else to do. But other than that, it’s about five minutes. I’m going to cut this short and keep going. If you’re still with me, amazing, can’t believe it really, truly don’t believe that anyone has the motivation to do this every single day. But if you have, and you are at this point, Pat yourself on the back, cause I know that you are one of you. All right, bye.

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March 19 Fitness

Today was good one. Uh, thank God. There’s sun on there. Like it’s bright outside. Look, it looks nice outside. Finally. We’re not, it’s not raining and horrible weather and freezing cold. So that’s always motivating. Uh, today I started off at five miles per hour, right. But within two minutes I was up to 5.6. So with the, the discipline of every day, making myself stronger, more resilient, uh, higher motivation level. Because the funny thing about motivation, if you don’t accomplish small goals, it’s difficult to stay motivated, right? The only way to stay motivated is to accomplish small goals. I’m not saying you accomplish a goal, then it take off for the year. And then you got to start back over. I’m saying, once you accomplish a goal, maybe take an hour off day off, depending on the size of the goal five minutes. You know what I think does it really, truly depends on the size of the goal, but make sure that you’re accomplishing something, right?

Some of the most important things on building resilience in your life is winning small battles, right? And sometimes like in the book, you make money. One of the, one of the quotes is little will kill you. Right? It’s the constant losing the small battles that add up to losing the war. Right. And I’m talking about the smallest battle. It could be when it comes to working out. Okay. For the last, usually I give myself a candy bar or a, some type of candy once a week. Uh, I’ve been doing that way before I was running, just because I’ve noticed people that eat a lot of sugar and candy, their teeth are like rotten. So I try to stay away from candy and sugar because I liked my teeth. Right. Um, but besides that, I like my teeth. I give myself sugar, you know, like once a week, but this last couple of days I’ve had really a whole, a lot of sugar cravings.

All right. And I’ve never, I’ve never had sugar cravings. Right. I mean maybe a little bit, you know, sometimes, you know, a spark, uh, you know, look at the corner of your eye when you’re in a grocery store and see some candy and like, Oh yeah. You know, I want to receive species cup. Right. But over the last week, I’ve really had the urge to like overeat sweet things, which is really weird. And I don’t know what’s going on. Cause that’s really against everything. Uh, in my genetic makeup for myself, since I was a younger like, God, man, when I was young, young, maybe about eight, I used to eat. Like if my sister made brownies, I ate all the brownies and no weight has been on my mind since I was younger. But especially with sugar. Um, when I was younger, I used to get like, I used to sometimes have to get some sugar.

I’d almost be like done, passed out, then shoot some sugar. I mean, I be back to life. Um, so I don’t know maybe diabetes, I don’t know. I’ve never really got that checked, but uh, never had the desire like I’ve had for candy, which is weird since I’m working out and I’m doing my energy drink or not like my vegetables and everything and trying to really cut down on my sugar and then I’m craving sugar more. So I got to keep an eye on that. I’m a watch that just to kind of maintain my sugar, my sugar cravings. Cause I don’t want to start eating all our sugar, which is the little things. Right. And that’s, that’s being able to pay attention to something as small as having sugar cravings that I’ve never had before. That’s defending myself and building resilient resilience. Cause I see something that can help me or that’s gonna put me down in the wrong direction, but I’m trying to nip it in the butt as soon as possible.

Right. So that’s what I mean by little will kill you. So if I were to just not just like, ah, whatever, it’s a candy bar. Yeah. I’m craving sugar for a couple of days. No big deal before I’ve noticed it. I’m eating two piece, two candy bars or three candy bars in the week. And then when I noticed it again and I’m like, what happened? I was barely eating one candy bar. Now I’m eating three. It’s the little things that you have to pay attention to. So if you starting to see yourself, go down a negative path, then you have to stop it immediately because it’s easy to stop in the middle. And like in the beginning it is not easy to stop after you’ve done it over and over and over again. All right. So sometimes you just got to think how many days did it take you to build the habit? So if it’s a pendulum, right, or the bell curve, the amount of days it took you to, to achieve this habit, it’s going to take you the same amount of time to not have that habit. Does that make sense? So just pay attention to that. Really pay attention to the little things. The little things are going to turn into big things. If you do not solve them early. And again, every day, if you’re with me right now and you’ve been paying attention, congratulations and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

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March 20 Fitness

Today. They was nice. Um, I’m not sweating cause I was watching the program after the workout. So it caught my attention. Um, so I’m not sweating anymore. Okay. Because of that. But besides that, uh, today was good. Um, I started off at 5.6 in the beginning, probably again for maybe the first 10 minutes. I was, my mind was just trying to convince myself to stop. Then it was warming up. And then about 20 minutes in, I was enjoying it. And then for D not for very long don’t don’t, don’t confuse it. I was not enjoying it like yay for very long, because right around about 20, 29 minutes, I was kind of watching, like watching the mileage and like, man, I’m how much further it goes till three miles. So am I getting better? Yes. The speed was faster. I’m running three miles faster. Am I at the target of three miles in 30 minutes?

No, but as long as I can maintain 5.6 for another week or something, then we’ll try to push that up to starting off at five, 5.8 or even six. And we’ll go from there. Um, what I’ve noticed is my flexibility is increasing, but my legs are like, the soreness is increasing as well. And I think part of that has to do like my upper body above my, my waist level. Um, I’m focusing a lot more on that than I am my legs. So, um, I think my legs are basically telling me like, don’t forget about us, right? So Monday, Wednesday, they’re pending. Cause if we have another week of cold weather and raining, then this is not going to happen. I’m just telling you right now, it’s not going to happen. Um, it’s hard enough cause it’s cold in other rooms. So I, I try to get out of there as fast as possible when it’s a bad, when it’s a nasty weather like today it’s sunny, but it’s kinda cold.

Um, so if we have a whole week of nice weather this upcoming week, then we’re going to add, uh, a leg exercise, all right. Just one set of leg exercises. So just basically 10, I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do, but I want it to be almost as easy as possible. Something that I’m not even paying attention that I’m doing. Right. And there’s like, again, there’s a strategy behind that. The more that if I try to add too much, it’s not going to work, it’s going to be counterproductive. So I got to find that happy medium to where after I’m done. And I have that little burst of energy. I can extract that energy on a quick workout that my mind isn’t even thinking about. Right. I’m already pumped my, my inertia’s going, you know what I’m saying? In once it’s something, what is it?

The law of inertia once in motion stays in motion. So at that very point at that, at that optimal time, I got to add something very small. Right. And then we’ll build on that. Just like we’ve been doing it since the beginning of the year, start small build on that. Right. So again, start small build from there. Um, let’s see, we got one basically another 10 days. Give or take of March. Yeah, March. Um, April again, we’re not going to go book, but we will start working about like focusing more on our food because, um, by that time we’d been in about four weeks of juicing where it becoming habit where I still got to work on juicing twice a day. Um, people were saying before I was in a juice that I was going to be having crazy bowel movements, like using the bathroom a lot.

Um, no for me, it’s the complete opposite I have. I’m having problems going to the bathroom. So, um, besides that everything’s been, it’s been decent. I got to work on drinking the juice or the vegetable water basically in the afternoon. I, the morning time, I’m calm getting used to that, but the afternoon, um, I’m reluctant on doing that, but I did get the, the citrus. So excuse me, I’m about to fall. I did get the citrus juicer. So that will be fun. We will start that coming up, uh, probably next week. Right. So if you’re paying attention to that then, or to like basically the health part of this, then you can check those videos out and we’ll be working on that probably starting next week. Um, the box is over here, but I just gotta open it. So I mean, it’s not a big deal, but other than that, yeah. Uh, we’ll go from there. Have a great day. It’s great Saturday. Uh, if you’re still with this, congratulations. I know 99% of the people that started this are not still doing it. So if you’re that 1% you’re on your way.

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March 25 Fitness

Yeah, you can see I’m pretty sweaty right now. Uh, weather is terrible looking wise, but it’s starting to get warm, which is amazing. Thank God it’s been cold for too long. We are finally in spring as we were counting down the last days of March. Thank God today. Uh, on the treadmill, ah, the first five, 10 minutes are always miserable. I’m always trying to convince myself to get off, but, uh, I didn’t and today I started at 5.7, which is increasing when a point like, uh, one little point. So it’s not anything to write home about. However, I am increasing. So progress over perfection any day, the last 10 minutes or actually 11 minutes, uh, it turned out to be like 12 to 13 minutes. Cause I ran over today cause I was in the middle of a TV show or not a TV shows in the middle of a, of, uh, like one of those inspirational videos.

So I wanted to finish, um, I I’ve ran 30 miles or three miles in like 30 and a half minutes. So my time is getting faster because the last 10 minutes of the run, well starting at like 19 minutes, I T I bumped it up to 6.3 and finished the remainder at 6.3, which that was that’s good. That’s that means that I’m progressing. My, my lungs are getting, uh, or expanding better. My, my, um, my cardio is getting better. I’m spitting less when that’s crazy. So this is twice now that I’ve noticed this yesterday, I was like kinda Hocking, like coughing and phlegm would come up. But the day before I didn’t, they, before I had an energy drink, like my own homemade energy drink, and today I had my own homemade energy drink. And I think that that extra homemade energy drink is giving me, um, I don’t know, a boost, uh, more, more fluid in my system.

More hydration. I’m not sure. Uh, but it, it seems to be working, I guess. Um, today I, again, I woke up at the crack of Dawn at, well, not even crack of Dawn was hours already up for hours. I woke up, I was on the treadmill or on the bike by like two 15. So it wasn’t at two o’clock when it was close enough to 15 was on the treadmill, rode my hour, did everything perfect. But this morning, opposed to yesterday where I try to stay up and not take a nap this time, this morning, I was like, you know what, I’m going to get tired later. So I’m going to be proactive about taking a quick little power nap. So this morning I took like, I think it was an hour, hour and a half power nap. It was maybe about like seven 30 to nine, seven to eight 30 something around there.

Uh, when I woke up, I was rejuvenated, uh, and I’ve been up since, so did, did that work? Yes, it did because it allowed me to create two different days. So my first day I got some work done to the quick power nap. Second day, got the, or I’m still up getting the rest of the day done. So the second day is all as longer than the first part of the day, but that first little, uh, few hours, well like six hours, five, six hours is pivotal to accomplishing things at a faster rate. Plus it’s allowing me to ride the bike for 20 miles. All right. So there’s nothing wrong with that. Um, with the workout, I’m doing a little bit more. Yeah. Uh, when it comes to the curls, um, just because it’s easier. Uh, the rest of it’s still a bit challenging. The pushups are all right.

They’re not hard, but I’m also doing pushups in the morning, time, the legs, uh, um, I’m not doing any weight, so it’s not hard at all, but in the future, like soon I’ll be putting weight on there. Like either not this upcoming Monday, which today’s Thursday. So a week from this Monday, or start adding weight to the legs and start building our legs up instead of just our upper half. I mean, we’re working on our legs by cardio, but it’s time to start building our legs. We’ve established our upper body. They’ll work out. The days are getting longer. They’re getting warmer. So our days in our workouts where we’ll get longer with the day. So if you’ve been up to this point, congratulations, and let’s prepare for the next season, which is spring, spring training, baby. Then we get to summer and then we’re really a full in full swing by summertime. So we’ve got three months until we’re in full Swope. If that makes any sense. So are you gonna take a shower later? Bye.

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March 26 fitness

All right. Today, today was easy. Uh, it finally, I mean, you can see outside it’s, it’s not gray. It was a little bit this morning, but it cleared up.

Okay.

I don’t really have any complaints as you see. I don’t, I’m not wearing my sweater, so it’s not freezing cold anymore. Uh, that poses a different problem now because I’m really, I’m sweating profusely and my hands are slippery. So when I’m holding on to the weights, uh, there, it’s kind of slippery. So I’m gonna probably have to buy some gloves, uh, just for that problem. But that’s a good problem. I’m going to have, uh, as long as I continuously drink, a lot of fluids, keep my body, you know, hydrated. Cause now it’s warmer. I’m going to sweat a whole bunch more. Uh, but other than that’s fine, I’m going to have to do laundry a little bit more just cause I’m gonna have to wash your clothes every day or just buy some more, more shoe or more pants and some tank tops, which, you know, that’s either which way, uh, let’s see on the treadmill started off 5.6, then about 10 minutes in, I moved up to 5.8 or something. And then for the last about 10 minutes I went up to six and then I was like, Ooh, I can race. I might be able to, I like it. I could see Beading Or three miles in 30 minutes. So when I could see it, like, you know, yesterday day before when I run at 5.6 for the whole time for like 20 minutes, there’s no way I’m going to catch it. Right. That’s just, this is too much. But I saw that I could catch it. Right. So I ran at 5.6 for a little bit and you know, I was doing good, but then I was like, you know what I mean? I was almost catching it, but I was, it was going to be too close to count. So I wanted to like double down and make sure that I beat it. So I went ahead and moved it up to about seven miles per hour, about seven months, your boss said mom’s power and then ran, ran that or the remainder of the 30 minutes like that. And I ended up getting 30 miles in about 29 minutes and 10 seconds, 20 seconds, something like that.

So I beat the 30 minutes, which is, which is, you know, it’s key. That’s good. Uh, it, remember when I got the first, when I got the treadmill for the first time I was trying to outdo myself and I actually, uh, I did it. I was running over over three miles in 30 minutes. However I was wearing myself out. So then we dropped it all the way back down to five miles per hour and just run the 30 minutes and then slowly but surely we’ve gradually moved up higher and higher and higher. Now I’m not saying tomorrow or from here on out, we’re going to try to beat minutes, but now we know we can do it at a gradual pace to where I’m not really tired now. Now, you know, if that makes sense before I hadn’t really pushed myself hard to get there, to get there because my body just wasn’t there yet. It wasn’t developed, uh, into the point where it’d be easy. Now my, my body’s evolved to the point, my cardio raised to the point, uh, maybe the juicing, you know, the extra vitamins I’m putting into my system. Maybe those are helping. I did have

A, a mid day drink. Um, my little energy drink, which again, everyone,

The day that I have had one of those when I’m running, I don’t Hawk as many Luigi’s, which is good. I don’t know why, but the energy drinks, you know, my own energy drink. I don’t know if it’s an energy drink, but that’s what we’re going to call it. Right? Cause that’s the intention of it is to supplement an energy drink throughout the day. Uh, I can’t complain so far. It’s doing it’s it’s doing the purpose intended for, uh, I’m not going to lie, have cheated a little bit with energy drinks.

Just, I think more of, it’s just the addiction factor that, you know, if you have a placebo, uh, as long as it, you know, two people take the same pill and one’s a placebo and one’s not. And if, as long as they, they both believe they both can be fixed. So I think the placebo effect is happening to where I’m not a firm believer in my personal energy drink. So I’m still supplementing the energy drink, like buying an energy drink, however, uh, slowly but surely my stinginess world, where I come in and I’ll just won’t buy energy drinks anymore. I will is I think it’s more of a discipline. Once I consistently make my midday drink, then I’ll, then I’ll probably cut the energy drinks out, but it’s difficult. I’m not going to lie. It’s very difficult to drink three different times in a day.

That’s juicing three times is it takes a minute because I looked at the time it takes from starting to finish. It’s almost an hour. Right. So yeah, it doesn’t seem like, Oh, well just put together. Excuse me. Well, it’s easy, Eric, why don’t you just cut the vegetables and grind them up and then you’re done. Yeah, that’s true. But then making the videos then cleaning up then doing everything combined time is about an hour. And that’s that’s if I don’t talk very long, the longer, the more I talk the more or the longer it is, it is efficiently springtime. I seen bees out today. So hopefully wherever you are, it’s spring and it’s looking beautiful. I’m excited that I don’t have to wear a sweater

Anymore. Uh, I might have to get a haircut Because of that. Uh, other than that, stay up, congratulations and talk to y’all later on.

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March 22 fitness

All right today was good. I, uh, I ran faster today than yesterday. I ran 5.6 for probably 25 minutes and then 5.8 for the remainder. I ended up running, um, three miles in 31 minutes, but I didn’t stop because I was watching something. So I wanted to finish. So I was only two more minutes. So I watched that. No problem feeling really good. Uh, it’s a little earlier in the day, it’s only three 30 right now. Um, the after ZZ extra motivated the weight, isn’t, isn’t a challenge anymore. I mean, I’m not going to say that it’s not a challenge because every day is a challenge just to get yourself to do it. So if you’re doing it, congratulations. So don’t downplay herself at all. It’s just, I think the doing the pushups in the morning time are strengthening my chest at a faster rate.

Um, doing above my shoulders is still a little, little heavy, but again, I’m feeling sore, but it’s not as sore as, and I’m tired. It’s a sore. Is this feels good. All right. Which is different than normal or than what it was came and say a month ago, basically two months ago. So, uh, in that regard, my body has transformed itself. Since now, it’s, it’s recognizing that we’re going to do an hour every morning and that we’re going to do third run 30 minutes. So it’s programmed in my, in my mind and my body and I’m going to do that. So it’s easy. I mean, it’s, I, it’s simple rather. I’d say it’s not easy. It’s simple, uh, in line with what I said last week, or today, or this week, we’re working on finding an energy drink out of fruit and vegetables. So we had our first little juice today. Uh, I mean, I can’t say it didn’t work, but I can’t say it did either. I did grab an energy drink just in case I opened it. I drank maybe three sips out of it. And then I close it and said, I don’t need it. So excuse me. So maybe the energy drink did give me some energy since today was mostly off of here’s the other thing I didn’t speak quite as much either when I was running. Hmm.

I it’s too early to tell, but if you, if you kind of just saw my reactions right there, I noticed a couple of differences. The day that I drank my natural energy drink, opposed to my, my monster energy drink, even though I drank some of my monster. Um, what else? Uh, we’re talking about doing our legs. I, I have some weights outside, but I was too lazy. Bring them in. So I did legs, uh, you know, the leg lift in front. Uh, I did those for, to work on my quads. Um, I did that, that worked, not going to lie. That that was nice. Uh, I did it with zero weight, so I’m not expecting to feel sore. However, my legs are like pitiful. So I wouldn’t be surprised if I do feel it just a little bit tomorrow, just because I’m using a muscle haven’t used in awhile, but, uh, it’s going to be a great debate whether I try to just amp myself up with the weight this week, or I just wait till next week. It’s really, again, who’s turtle in the hair who won the race, the turtle, not the hair. So yeah, I could probably do it, but I almost want to kind of train myself with nothing and then we’ll jump into like 25 pounds. Uh, but we’ll see, we’ll see how I feel tomorrow with that. I’m going to take a shower cause you can see the sweat dripping on my face and I will talk to you guys later.

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March 23 Fitness

Feeling good today? Uh, I mean, it’s, it’s, uh, it’s a gray nasty day outside, but for me I feel good. Uh, I did my legs, you know, I’m still not doing any weight. Uh, so, you know, I’ll add weight later. I’m not I’m turtle and the Hare who won the turtle. Right. So we’ll do it slow. As long as I do it slow, I’ll do it every day. If I don’t do it slow, I probably won’t do it every day. So I I’d rather do it every day. Right. So slow walk better than no walk.

All right. With the treadmill treadmill was, uh, in the beginning. Okay. Months ago, it was hard for me to get on the treadmill right now. First five to 10 minutes are miserable. It does not matter. It’s it’s so far, every, every day it sucks. Right. Then I guess once my blood starts moving on, cause this is starting to get like normal, then it gets easier and easier until about 26, 27 minutes. And then it gets hard again. Well, today I started at 5.6. I moved it up to 5.9 at about 15 minutes. And then I couldn’t really, I could find a couple things on YouTube, but I couldn’t hear anything. Right. So when I can’t hear anything, it doesn’t do me any justice to listen to it. I can listen to the background music, but I want to hear what they’re saying. So that caused me to look and search through YouTube for about five total minutes.

So now my timing’s all messed up because, you know, I usually try to find something, you know, 20 minutes, 17 minutes, 11 minutes, right in that area. Cause it’s, you know, a 17 minute plus plus, uh, a 10 Minter, uh, then you know, we can listen to a song or something and, and there’ll be time. Uh, well today, uh, at about 28 minutes I found something I wanted to watch. It was a, the Rocky motivational something, I don’t know. Um, so I was like, you know what, it’s seven minutes. I’m not going to make three miles in 30 minutes. So let me slow myself down and just enjoy the run. All right. So I slowed myself down to 5.5 and turn the video on and just kind of enjoyed it. Like I was watching a movie now, obviously it wasn’t a movie was just, you know, more or less the workout scenes.

But during that, it was, it was enjoyable. I guess, for some reason I got another wind or something. Uh, cause what, at, uh, 34 minutes I was still cruising. Like it stops getting like I was feeling fine. Um, I ended up going for about 36 minutes, 37 minutes. Cause I turned around once. I, I, cause I, you know, I do my little backwards walk slash run and that song is only about three, three and a half minutes. But when I looked at the treadmill, when I got off, I was at 40 minutes, which is good. Cause that’s, that’s proven to myself and to my body that I can, I, my endurance is going higher and I can last longer on the treadmill. Excuse me. Um, I tried my manmade energy drink, I guess it, it worked, I don’t know. I mean, we have to consistently do it.

Um, this morning I got to switch everything. Right. So I’m waking up and I’m riding a bike late. Not, I mean, when you hear what time you’re going to be like, that’s, that’s late to you. I’m like, yeah, I’m writing it. Uh, I think this morning I got on the bike at five 30, right? Six o’clock, which it doesn’t seem like it’s late, but when I want to drink the juice or the vegetable water about eight o’clock in the morning, eight, eight 30 in the morning. Well, by one I’m not thirsty. And then it kind of pushes back the energy drink til about two. Then that pushes back the workout or like the afternoon run. And then by the time it’s, it’s like after now I just drink a leader of, of my energy drink. I have no intention on drinking, another leader of, of juice or like vegetable water to go to bed.

All right. That’s, that’s a massive amount of, of water. It’s three liters, not to mention I’m already drinking water. So I mean, it’s, it just gets excessive. So to solve that problem, I just have to create a longer day. Right? So what, what I’m thinking is a very first thing I do very first thing I do because right now I’m usually getting coffee. The very first thing I do, I wrote that alarm goes off at one 30 in the morning. I roll out of the bed, no matter how tired I am and I get on a treadmill or a non-art treadmill on the bike, right? The more tired, the better, whatever I got to think of it. That way, the more tired I am, the more of a challenge it is. Right? Cause if I think of any other way, then I’m going to convince myself not to do it.

So I have to look at it as a challenge, something that I have to challenge myself every day, some days I’m not going to win, but as long as statistically speaking, I’m I’m beating the challenge. Then Hey, it works. But by doing that, I’m going to jumpstart my blood flow, get me, get me kind of moving faster. And then with the intention to after the bike ride, cut the coffee out. Since I’ll already be awake, see what I’m saying? The bike ride will wake me up. That’s the whole reason immediately before I do anything, jump on that bike and start moving, get my day moving. Right. I can watch whatever. It’s not, it’s not the point. I just want to get moving. Right? First thing in the morning, just start moving. Then the next thing then would shoot ourselves with vegetable water and then start the day.

All right. So I don’t know. We’re we’ll figure this out. It’s going to take a minute. Like I said, we’re, we’re trying to like tweak things to where we’re optimizing ourselves to the completeness, uh, or to the optimal level, our opportune level, whatever. So for you, it might be a little different for me. I work better. First thing in the morning. That’s just me. That’s just me. Maybe you work better at night. I try to work out at nighttime. No, that’s never going to happen for me. I’m already kind of like, Ooh, like about seven o’clock, eight o’clock I’m tired. Right. But you remember I’ve been up since two o’clock this morning. All right. So it’s seven minutes. I’m out here. I gotta take a shower, but yeah. Uh, arms feeling better actually doing, uh, I might just amp it up to doing 12 reps, maybe even 15, right. Since I’m not adding another set, we can add a set within our workout. All right. Talk to you later.

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March 17 Fitness

Well, the run, the run wasn’t wasn’t very good. I will say that I did run three miles, but I ran it at at five. So it took me 36 minutes, but you know, I still ran three miles, so that’s really all that matters. Um, I think I have turned, turned a corner though. The, the workout part is much easier, then I would have expected, um,

It doesn’t ache anymore. Like not like a, has never really ached, but let me, uh, let me see if I can articulate what I’m trying to say before. It was more of a struggle, like kind of a struggle tiredness after now. It’s more of a building tiredness after if that makes sense. So are my muscles tired? Yeah, but they’re not tired. Like, uh, they have been in the past, right? They’re they’re tired. Yes. But they’re, it’s like they’re growing tired. Right. I feel, and they feel good, tired. So which, which is good. Cause, um, like I said, what it’s been about two weeks since we raised the weight and it’s feeling better, not worse. Like, um, like, especially cause my cardio’s not, not getting any better. It’s kind of staying stagnant, but my arms, you know, and my stomach and my chest is getting bigger, which is always nice.

Right. So as long as I keep progressing, right? Not every day, are you going to have be perfect, but as long as we study progress, as long as we study move forward, that’s all we can really ask for. Right. So that’s the main thing that I’m trying to do is just steady, steady, move forward, steady progress. And in this life and in what we’re doing, excuse me. Um, yeah. Uh, I don’t really have too much to say at the very moment. Um, just keep going. Uh, I take a shower and my nose feels like I’m about to sneeze. So that’s what I’m kind of slowly talking, trying to avoid the sneeze. All right. So just keep going, uh, progress kind of the same thing every day. Today’s like I said, today was a little bit better. Um, when it comes to working out, uh, again, we still have the end of this week and then then one more week.

And then in the beginning of April, we’re start kind of moving up. We’re just trying to get our, our body’s accustomed to where we are, try to conquer that minimum of 5.5. If we can, if not, you know, as long then a, we gotta run every day because we’re going to run three miles every single day. So if it takes us 30 minutes, then good. A that’s great. If it takes us 36 minutes, then Hey, that’s great. We’re still going to run three miles every single day. So just cause we’re running at a slower speed doesn’t mean that we’re running a smaller distance, right? So I need that to be, need that to go through each and every one of your guys’ head, just because we’re running at a slower distance, like at a slower speed that does not give you the right to look, to run a shorter distance. Right? So our distance is three miles right now. And if you have to walk the three miles and it takes you 20 minutes to walk a mile, so, well then you’re going to be on that treadmill for an hour. Right? Our goal is three miles. So don’t let anything stop you three miles every single day.

All right. Talk to you later.

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March 16 Fitness

Excuse me today. It was a weird day. It really was, uh, the entire time on the treadmill.

If I were to stop right at the end of the treadmill and made this video, I would have been saying today was a terrible day. It was extremely difficult. I was out of breath majority of the time. It’s just, my body was just blah. Right. It was, it was, I was just tired all day. Right. It was the truth. Nothing was feeling good about myself. Right. I was heavy. Had a lot of phlegm in my throat. I mean, I must have spit a hundred times. I’m just trying to like, even right now, my mouth is, it doesn’t even feel like it’s, it’s dry. It just feels like it’s one big, uh, phlegm ball. That’s just sticky. Right?

So

That was difficult. I’m not going to lie. I broke my rule. All right. We’re at so far, I’m not very good at it. Right. It’s supposed to keep 5.5. Well, I tried at 5.7 and my body wasn’t having it. I was just dying and everything. So I was like, you know what?

We just have to stay on a mill. So we stayed on the treadmill at five. Did I end up going three miles on that treadmill today? Yes, I did. So I made the three miles, but I did not, uh, uphold what I was supposed to and run at least 5.5. But as long as I make three miles. Okay. Cause we’ll consistently day by day. Get better, little by little, right? So it’s a journey or it’s a marathon, not a sprint. So with that being said, at that point in time, if you had talked to me, I would have been like, man, I’m dead, tired is terrible. But then something weird happened. I was working out or doing the second half a little workout and it was pretty easy.

Like what?

Like, wait a minute. I thought you said you were extremely tired. Yeah, I was. So that’s why I’m surprised just as, as much as, as anyone else I’m dead tired. Barely can make it 30 minutes and then do the workout. And it’s probably the easiest it’s been.

Yeah.

I mean it shocked the hell out of me as well. Right? Like how am I, how’s the way easier today on a day that I was tired and was basically convincing myself on a second by second basis to keep going. Not a minute by minute basis. Cause I was, I was clock watching today. Um, thank God I had something that was nine. I was watching a video that was nine step video or something like that, uh, by David Goggins, uh, linked to his, his book or whatever. Um, yeah, so I had no desire or, or I’m glad I was listening to him his little, because it was 21 minutes and it was, it was him going through nine different steps. So my reasoning behind picking that was, I won’t be curious on here number five, six, seven, eight, nine. So as long as I can make it through like four or five, then my curiosity will kill the cat.

Right. And I’ll kill the, the tiredness. So that’s, that’s what I ended up doing. That’s what got me through it. But yeah, after, I mean, I ended up doing more curls, more pushups, you know, not a whole bunch more, just like, well, two more. Right. I didn’t have my, why am I a superhuman now? Uh, my Superman, but whatever. Right. Still did it. And uh, I felt good. So I, my body’s tightening it up. I think we’ll still kind of on schedule. Uh, we need to add another set. I know blah-blah-blah we need to add another step before the end of this month. So April we can start adding, uh, another depart or kinda like the legs. We’ll just do like led curls. It’ll be easy, no squats yet. So it would literally take us maybe five or not even five minutes. We might have to listen to two songs opposed to just one after the treadmill. Right. Cause if you really think about it now, I want you to also think about this for all the people that have excuses. Right. I think I’ve talked about this before for all the people that have excuses that they can’t do something. Excuse me. I have something in my eye.

Aye.

You know the song she dropped up bomb on me, baby. [inaudible] it’s by the gap band I’m I’m well, that’s what the YouTube videos, as you know, I was able to do both sets during that song and drink a water. So I was able to do a set walk over to my, my desk, drink a little bottle of water, come back, you know, shake my arms out a little bit and do my second set, put the weights down, get myself prepared to do pushups and then did pushups. And the song ended on pushup number five. So if you do not have time to work out, please look in the mirror and just say, I’m a liar. Say it just like that. I’m a liar because there is no possible way that you cannot find, I think it’s fours four minutes. So it’s not even the 10 minutes. It’s four minutes. And I’ve been able to do two sets and drink water. If you cannot find four minutes in your day, you need to look in the mirror and say, I’m a liar. And we’re going to leave at that.

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March 18 Fitness

So that was a good day. Um, the, the actual, like workout part of it’s getting easier and easier, um, yeah. That part’s getting super easy, which is good, which is, I mean, that’s amazing. I don’t have a like larger set. I only have 27th and then I have sixties and I’m nowhere near sixties right now. So I’m going to have to plan on buying, um, some weights to increase the weight, but I’ll probably just buy over the bar and some sideways so I can increase my weight, however I want. And then also use the plates for other parts of the workout. I will let you know once I do that. So just bear with me and I’ll let you know, um, the run run was, it was challenging in the beginning. It was, it was really challenging in the beginning. Um, but then once I started getting into it, I, uh, maybe about four or five minutes in, I, I was like, you know what, Eric, you got to get to 5.5, at least try.

So I did, I increased the speed from five to 5.5 and then ran the entire time at 5.5, which is an increase. It’s not a lot, but it’s still an increase and, uh, how I was able to do it. So I ran three miles in 32 minutes. I’m still walking backwards. So that’s, I need to work on that. I’m being lazy there. Um, but whatever, still maintaining about 20 miles within, you know, plus, or minus two minutes on the bike, it really depends. Sometimes. Like if I’m in something that’s good, then like I’m watching a show, a program that’s really good. Um, then it goes, then I’m faster. Right. But if I’m watching something that’s interesting, but not really interesting. I’ve noticed I slowed down like, uh, my speeds is slows down and it’s, it’s, it’s much more, uh, of a challenge to ride the bike.

Uh, but you know, that’s, that’s, that’s typical, right? When you’re having fun, you don’t realize time, but when you’re bored or you’re watching the clock time goes by, uh, it’s almost like time doesn’t even go by. It’s almost like it it’s, it feels like it stands still. So for me to say, watching a good program time goes by faster. Just makes perfect sense. And it’s the same thing when I’m running as well. So when you’re doing this, it’s, it’s very imperative. You find something good to watch on, on the, I tend to try and I don’t listen to music, right? I, well, that’s a lie the morning times don’t listen to music. It’s always an educational program. Something I’m learning the afternoon. It’s when I’m running. It really is case by case, depending on the motivation right now. Um, I’m really into, uh, listening to just the motivational. I mean, YouTube motivation on YouTube, and that’s kind of where I’m at,

Uh, like

Never quit or challenge yourself or whatever, you know, something, something cheesy, but it works got kind of music in the background, a whole bunch of people with different pictures. So it’s picture stimulating. And then when the people are talking, I kind of just focus down to the ground. If they’re saying, if it’s something that I like, but if it’s something that’s boring, then I usually, I just find something that I enjoy. And those are usually anywhere from a 10 to 20 minutes, which is good. Cause I’m only trying to run 30 minutes. So I might watch a trashy TV for a few minutes. What I mean by trashy TV is like what? Michael Jordan spent his billion dollars on, right. Or the top 10 biggest houses, trash TV. I’m not learning anything when I watch that, but it’s entertaining it. And you know, those are about anywhere from five to 10 minutes.

So I’ll pop one of those on, and then I’ll watch my motivation. Uh, I need to start, um, going back to school on the run, like really, truly just focus on educational programs. Um, uh, if you remember, probably about a month ago, I was watching the ClickFunnels like funnel Fridays, but then they got monotonous really fast. So watch two of them. It’s like, you’ve watched them all. It’s kind of the same concept over and over again. It’s actually, there’s 50 something, maybe even more like 80. And somehow I ended up watching the same one that I’d already watched before. And then I looked again and I tried for a different one and it was another one that I’ve watched before. So either the Google algorithm or the YouTube algorithms not working very well or the funnel Fridays is difficult to find. So I’m not going to continuously watch the same thing over and over and over and over again.

And they’re kind of monotonous. Like I said, they it’s more or less talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, build something kind of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and then they’re done. Right? So it doesn’t, it’s not the greatest of programs it’s, it’s entertaining kind of, uh, I would like to see more, more of the work behind not like set the program up, like, cause just having the front page, does it just building a lead page? So you’re not really building the funnel, you’re just building the lead page and it’s it’s different. But again, if there was more of a more, if I didn’t keep watching the same one, uh, or YouTube, didn’t keep throwing the same basic one in front of me. Maybe I’d be more interested, but however, I’m going on a tangent, uh, I’m not even sweating anymore. Right. So we’re gonna cut the camera on. Now I’m gonna take shower and stay motivated.