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It’s the start of a new week. Completely failed with the whole water idea, I’m not going to lie. It’s like 4:00 pm in the afternoon and I think maybe I’ve had a sip of water. So that’s nowhere near the goal of drinking at least a half a gallon to a gallon a day. So I’m going to have to really work on that. My pee smelled. You know what I’m saying? When you don’t drink water, your pee’s darker? My pee was pretty dark, so I’m pretty dehydrated. Got to speak a little bit on this. I drank a little bit last night and I regretted every second of it. Maybe it’s just because I’m getting older, but my body does not recover at all. Well, I mean, I had way more than I needed, I had like 12 – 15 beers. Again, it also raises the question and the point, if I can drink 15 beers, then there should be no problem why I can’t drink 15 waters. Does that make sense? I mean, I wasted so much time drinking yesterday. I don’t get it. But then the after effects. Today, I’m miserable and slow. It took me forever to get out of bed. I just didn’t want to do anything. And then I failed on what I’m supposed to be doing for myself, which is drinking the water every day. That’s what we agreed on. That’s what the point for this week was to start drinking water. So again, with what I talk about is you’ve got to keep your priorities straight if you want to accomplish your goals. Because obviously if I continue to do what I did last night, I’m never going to accomplish anything I’m just too lazy and not doing what I’m supposed to do. But I did run today. And again, I tried to convince myself not to do it for a quick second, but then I remembered that it’s only 10 minutes. So I need you all to remember this. Hopefully, we’re what, we’re on week number three. Hopefully we all remember this as well and you got to the point where you don’t have to convince yourself anymore. You just have to tell yourself it’s only 10 minutes and you’re all right, I got 10 minutes and then you go ahead and work out. So again, did the pushups, did the running, did the curls. The pushups weren’t quite as hard. I’m starting to feel in my back, which is great. I like feeling that I’m doing something. So again, this week we’re working on water only. Now next week we’ll probably add another little set of pushups. You know what I mean? Something different, but right now we’re still staying with this basic 10 minutes. Well, 10-15 minutes a day. Run 10 minutes. Run a little bit backwards. One set of pushups. One set of curls, and then cut it. And make sure you drink water and stretch. All right. Talk to you tomorrow.

So, today I decided to do my little exercise first thing in the morning. No, I didn’t plan it. I’m waiting for some videos to upload to Vimeo and that takes forever. So I was like, “I can smoke or I can go run.” So I was like, “You know what, my chest is already hurting from smoking.” I can feel I keep coughing this stuff up and things, especially after I run. So I was like, “You know, I’m going to do something different today. I’m going to go run.” So get my workout early. So it’s just now seven o’clock in the morning. I’ve already ran, ran forward, ran backwards, did my 10 little pushups, did some curls. I was a little motivated, it’s early in the morning so I’ve a whole bunch of energy. I ran on the treadmill a little extra long today. Did a couple exercises for my back but nothing I’m going to do consistently, So I’m not going to go into it. I bought myself some big waters, that’s what I forgot to grab. I don’t feel like walking through the house, it gets cold in the house. Bought some liter water bottles. So remember this week is all about consuming more water. So with that in mind, I bought bigger water bottles. Now, I’ve a feeling I have to buy a new treadmill. I said this couple of days ago, but it’s getting worse and worse. It’s kind of fun, kind of like a game because there’s holes and everything. So it’s kind of fun and exciting to try to not fall. I was wondering, why are my calves on fire? Well, today I realized why. It is because I’m not running like this, I’m running on divots and bouncing back and forth. I’m using my calf muscles way more than I normally would, running. Because I’m trying to keep my balance and things, if that makes sense. So I was like, “Well, now I’m not just being cheap. I’m adding to my exercise, I’m making it harder. So I’m going to really run on this treadmill until I hurt myself or it breaks all the way.” So, hopefully I don’t hurt myself, because that’s my fear that when it breaks, then I’m going to get shot backwards. So hopefully that doesn’t happen but other than that, it’s good. Now, part of the thing with working out really early, now, I’ve talked about this a couple times, that in the afternoon it’s a completely different day. Now, not promising anything or not adding it to anything so don’t try to add it because remember this week is mostly just water. But if I feel so inclined, I might put together my little bike that I got and when I’m watching something informational. I watch my entertainment on Sundays. I try to ram it all in one day. So if I missed the series, I’ll try to watch it for 12 hours on Sundays so then I’m done and then no more entertainment till the next week, so then I focus. I don’t like this one week at a time crap. It just doesn’t work for me because if I’m watching something, I want to watch it and watch the whole season and get it over with. Don’t want to wait every week. That’s just stupid for me, wastes time. However, we’re not trying to add more exercise, not yet, at least not this week, but since it’s only seven in the morning and I might get bored later on today, I might add in a little bit of exercise and at that point, then I will talk to you guys again, make a new little video, check in with you. But I’m not promising anything so it might not happen, I might get lazy.

Well, it’s not as early as it was yesterday. It’s about 7:30, 8 o’clock in the morning. So I do want to say, I almost purposely sabotaged my drinking water, yesterday until probably six o’clock last night. But so far, I’ve drunken almost a whole liter of water. And if I can finish that, then I’ll probably drink a little bit more. I don’t know. I’m not trying to break any records here. It’s just a little bit of water. Keep it going. But, let’s see. Treadmill still about to break, but I’m still doing what I need to do. It’s not as bad. Well, it is as bad. It’s not getting any better. But I’m able to run, maybe the treadmill’s going slower or something, but it’s way easier. Like the little 10 minutes. I’m not really concerned about five minutes in anymore. I’m not really that tired. I don’t know if that makes any sense. Before, phew, I’m still breathing and huff, huffing right now, but whatever. I’m kind of at the point where you can have five minutes and I’m watching my little self-help, or a personal growth, or a TV show whatever, or watching airplanes, whatever’s on YouTube and breezing right through. I’m thinking about continuing to run backwards, which is a completely different part of your leg and it feels different, but it’s working. 10 pushups, 10 curls. Oh, the curls. By this point they should in theory, you’re only doing 10. So, the 10 should be almost a breeze. Pushups. You know, I’m still really out of shape. So, the push ups are not a breeze. I’m kind of heavy, but I’m getting through them without a struggle. They’re not a breeze, but they’re not like, “yeah, let me do one hand. Yeah, this is nothing.” No, it’s not there yet. by no means. I mean, I could probably get 20 in, but not 30.  What I did today. I’m just testing little things, kind of seeing if I still have the energy. Like I said, we’re not doing it for the week. So, once I say we’re implemented for the whole week, then I’ll tell you guys and then you can add to it your little schedule of adding another exercise. Today is body eval day.

All right. It’s Thursday. We’d been doing the water since Monday. Finally, I think I’ve gotten the hang of it. Right. I kind of noticed those big bottled water bottles, like this. It’s only really like two of the small ones. So you put it like that. It’s not really that bad because I can down a small one in one sitting. So it’s really just like, okay, down a small one and drink some throughout the rest of the day when you get thirsty. So actually after I find breaking it down has been a lot easier. So what I’ve also started… I mean, I’m surprised about a breath because I really didn’t think that I was out of breath as much as I am. Because I’m way more energized than normally. I mean, it’s early in the morning, but I mean, I’ve been up for a while. Well I was working and then I was also listening to this Tony Robinson, I was sitting in the bed, watching him and he kept saying, ” stand up, do this, do that. Jump up and down.” I figured, “If I’m going to do all this jumping up and down and moving my body, I might as well just go on a run.” So that’s what I did. By watching him, I was learning something different. And he was saying something about your pH level, your pH balance. I have got to watch it again, so I can give you a better description. I got from it is to drink some lemon water, you need to cleanse your body. The lemon does something, stabilize your ph levels i think. Which there’s nothing wrong with that, right? I’m trying to get myself in shape. I’m trying to cleanse my life, get myself all the way in shape, but also being kind of lazy. Because we’re not trying to be innovative. We’re trying to be Kizen. We’re trying to just slowly work our way into doing things, where it just becomes second nature, where we don’t even notice it. We’ll see in a few months or whatever, or even a couple of weeks, if I’m still doing it, but I bought some lemons yesterday. Right now I am cheating from what I’m telling you, so I’m doing a little bit of like shoulders. I’m really not supposed to do that till next week, Because were slowly adding things, but after I have had a jolt of energy. You know the first couple of weeks I didn’t have anything.  I was ready to just get off the treadmill at six minutes. Like, “Man, fuck this.” But now running the 10 minutes is easy. Running backward for a few minutes is easy and doing the pushups and the curls is easy. I still got energy. And so I was like, “Well, I’ll do it.”  I’ve consistently done it for four days. Then starting after week number four, I’m going to up the ante because right now I’m not tired anymore. That’s how I kind of gauge myself. I’m going to push myself until I get tired again. How I was when I first began, what three, four weeks ago. in month number two, our number one goal is to get to full sets. So month number one is to build habits. Month number two is to get the full set and also kind of change our nutrition. Change our eating habits, change what we’re putting into our body. That’s month number two. And that’s really important. But month number one is to start sweating every single day. Start getting your heart rate up and start building the habit of exercising. So that’s month number one. If you wonder why I’m going so slow on adding more and more and more, because most people are like, “Well, I’m going to work out and put it all in one day.” That’s just stupid. You’re never going to last. So I hope these little videos are informational or helpful.

I can’t make this video too long. Got somebody outside waiting for me. But yeah, at the end of the day, keep it going. Today, like I said, I didn’t have very much time. I had someone that was coming to meet me, but I still found time. I still found time to run on a treadmill, right? I’m not even going to take my shower because they’re already outside waiting on me. But I just want to keep that in mind. Let y’all know no matter what you do, you can always find 10 minutes to quickly change your life and get yourself a little bit better in shape. All right. Talk to you later.

It’s later in the night. It’s not the first thing in the morning. I wasn’t really feeling very good this morning. I was having a pity party for most of the morning. I didn’t feel like doing too much of anything. But I changed my attitude. I started finding something that sparked my interest and drug myself out of the little pity party. But then midway through, I had a great epiphany. I was like, “You know what? This is a great time.” Because like I said, I was kind of lazy all day. And if you’ve been paying attention, It seems like I’m getting more energy after I run and work out a little bit. I wanted to test working out at night. I mean, it’s not super late. if it was summertime, it’d still be light. But it’s winter, so it’s dark at six o’clock. But later nonetheless. I wanted to test and see how my body feels after working out at night. Because again, I want to start doing two a days, the day is really long. When I work out first thing in the morning, I’m not exercising for 10 hours. I’m working out for maybe 15, 20 minutes. So around four o’clock, I’m like, “Well, it doesn’t even feel like I worked out.” So I want to change that and implement two a days, to where I can sit in front of my TV and listen to something educational or inspirational while I ride the bike for maybe 20 or 30 minutes at the end of the day. As long as the program lasts each program is a little different.I’m going to finish the program,  I’m just going to keep on riding. Which is a little bit different than the morning where I’m more structured, for the running. Because it is more building the discipline to do it every day. Now in the afternoon, that’s just a straight cardio burn. I’m not trying to do anything besides move. Because I don’t like when I am sitting stationary for too long. the law of inertia, just think the law of inertia. That’s the only reason why I’d implement at night, is just to keep moving. Keep my blood flowing. Keep my blood flowing to different parts of my body, better, and faster. Because I’m taking deeper breaths. That’s really the only reason, just cardio burn and just keep moving. And just keep moving, really. I mean, there is no other reason besides just to do that. And I think that would be a good thing. I’m thinking about getting a walking desk too. Because I do a lot of computer work, I’m sitting down. The more I’m running, the less I want to be stagnant. If that makes sense. Now that I’m running every morning, I got more pep in my step. It’s like I kind of want to move, but then after I run, I sit down. I sit down all day. So that’s where I’m like, ” I need to try a little later on and implement two a day. So at least if I’m sitting, I’m exercising, I’m burning calories, I’m doing something. I feel like I’m active. And if I get a little walking desk, while I’m doing everything, I’m moving. Because sitting down is too much for me. I don’t know, it’s too much. And maybe you guys feel the same thing, maybe you don’t, I don’t know.

It’s Monday morning, first thing in the morning. remember yesterday I was like, you know what? I might implement a quick little bike ride in the afternoon. So with that in mind, I don’t know if I’m going to do it now. Today was the implementation of adding a second set. Now we are on the treadmill, for 10 – 12 minutes, it’s easy, then doing five minutes backwards, without any problems. The first set of pushups, curls, and shoulder press. No problem. Second round. this phone is really heavy right now. It’s super heavy, which is exactly what I wanted. This is what we’re looking for. If this was easy, then we know we’re going to slow. But now this is exactly at the level that I wanted it to be at. This is the reason why we moved it up to two sets. So hopefully another couple of weeks, because we have one more week of January and then we’re into February. This is week number four, I think. Basically on schedule, By the end of February, we’re going to try to be at four sets and running a lot faster than we already are. I got to get a new treadmill for that obviously. And then implementing more legs, doing a whole lot more stuff so we have like a good month, we might not be able to get it, but that’s in theory, that’s where we want to be. We have to do things to the point they are so easy it’s second nature, where it is impossible not to do it.

All right. So today I didn’t feel like it. I was lazy, I ate too much food first thing in the morning. Usually, I don’t like eating a large breakfast because food makes me sleepy. But this morning, for some reason, Well, I know the reason, I smoked. But we won’t put that in here. I was super hungry, and then I was just lethargic for hours. It’s noon now, I have been comatose all day. What I’m about to tell you was pretty surprising. Now, going into the workout, I knew I had to just do it, just keep moving because of the law of inertia, I knew if I kept laying around, I’d just stay in bed longer. However, when I got on, I saw something. I forgot what the title was. It was like Conquer Your Morning or something like that. So I clicked it, and I mean, it was an 18-minute video and it was interesting. I mean, I’m out of breath right now, however, I ran basically 20 minutes, which is double the 10 minutes because it took me about a minute and a half, two minutes to look for something to watch. When I started watching it, I just started getting into it. The run wasn’t bothering me at all. If I could go faster, if i had better treadmill, I’m still kind of bouncing around all over the place, Then I would try to speed up a little faster and then try to burn myself out, just because I want to run faster and expand my lung capacity, deeper breaths more expansion of your lungs. But that’s a different topic. Today, the pushups, I’m starting to feel them, which is great. That’s what I want. Doing above my shoulders, now that was difficult today, on the last one, you know what I’m saying, on, I guess, 17 to 20 was difficult. Today’s body eval day, the fourth time. See you tomorrow.

All right. I just got done for the day. Quick little run. I don’t remember, yesterday I was saying I was in rare form and was really interested in something I was listening to, so I ended up running for 20 minutes. Well today, it’s amazing how once you know you can do something, how much easier it is the next time you do it. Right? Today, I was like, “You know what? I’m going to find me something to watch that’s in the 20 minute range and I’m going to just run until it’s over,” so that’s what I did. I ran two miles today, opposed to one mile. Now, I can only run 6 miles an hour, it’s as fast as it’s going. Or I probably would run faster, but I can’t go any faster. The treadmill won’t go any faster, so 10 minute miles is as fast as I’m able to go, which is cool, I ran two miles. Still ran backwards. I got one song that’s basically five minutes. I think it’s four minutes and 45 seconds, something like that. So I just played that song backwards. Once it’s done, then I know I’ve gotten my time. That’s really easy just to calculate that. Then, my first little routine, really easy. Second time around still having a little trouble with my shoulders just because you know I’m getting tired. It’s the last thing I do. In between sets, when I’m doing this, I’m drinking one of the smaller water bottles, as if you remember, part of the main thing I needed to work on was drinking more water throughout the day. So I am still drinking my big water bottle, but then I’m also trying to incorporate drinking a smaller one throughout the day. Let’s see, what else? Still have yet to put the afternoon together, but it’s still on the forefront of my mind. I’m also thinking about some sit-ups, because if you remember the body eval, this stomach got to go. But well, steady progress over perfection. I forgot what we’re going to be working on next week, but it’s Thursday, so I still have three days to figure out what I’m going to implement and what I’m going to add. Stay strong. I’m going to take a shower.

Today was great, I don’t know what it was, maybe just because I had been sitting down for so long I just had all this built up energy. Maybe it was the coffee. I don’t know what it was. I was dealing with a cramp for the majority of the time. So, at least this is what my uncle told me when I was younger, when you get cramps it’s just that the carbon dioxide isn’t leaving your body. You breathe in oxygen and you breathe out carbon dioxide. So when you can’t get it all out, you start getting a cramp. He used to tell me, if you start getting a cramp, do everything that you can to get the excess air out. When you’re running I know it’s a little bit difficult, but with the intention of getting every little bit of oxygen, or now it’s turned into CO2, carbon dioxide, out of your system and then take deeper breaths. Try to regulate your breathing, and then you try to get all the carbon dioxide out and replenish it with fresh oxygen. Or you can run with your arms up to help the cramp out. Today I’m feeling great and it could be a lot of different variables. I’m not going to be like, “I’ve made a turn, I’m doing better now. I reached that turn, I’m going to do it now.” No, no, no. Because tomorrow I’ll probably be like, “Oh, this sucks. I don’t even want to do it.” But today when I was in rare form, I’ve been telling you, I run a little backwards for a little bit because it works a different part of your legs. It works different parts of your body. Yesterday I ran like one or two minutes, but this morning. (I’m not really running, so it’s kind of like a trot, or even just kind of walking backwards fast) It’s speed walking backwards because I’m not quite good enough to run backwards. I don’t want to fall and get too tired. I’m not trying to be fancy, I’m going backwards fast enough where I can trot my legs. Running backwards, I don’t have a TV. So I just put a song on. I ended up running 18 or almost 19 minutes this morning. I ran backwards for eight minutes which is good. Because it went from two minutes to eight minutes and I still felt energized. Did my pushups this morning and it wasn’t very difficult. I got up and down without struggling, which is a good thing. Just keep going. Little by little. Here’s one thing that is nice. So usually if I’m sitting down for a long time, then I’ll smoke, giving me another couple of hours of sitting. Well, this morning I even rolled a blunt. I started smoking, I was like, “You know what, dude? F*** this, I got to get up and move around. I got to get my blood moving. I got to get that natural high.” I don’t know if you remember me talking about that a few days ago. Like what happens when you consistently do this is this feeling I got right now, my body is going to start yearning for it. Just like before my body was yearning to get high. Well, now my body’s yearning for something a little different. This feeling that I have right now, even though it’s not like the greatest feeling, I’m kind of huffing and puffing, and all that kind of good stuff. But my body’s over here telling me, you know what? I like that. I like the feeling of this. It’s starting to feel good. That sweat, wearing this sweater, feeling the sweat in it because I’m not wearing a shirt under it. So it’s kind of rough now. And then knowing I’m going to be taking a nice shower after this, and knowing after I take the shower, you’ll feel good. Feel refreshed, like BOOM, ready to go. So my body’s getting used to that and it’s starting to enjoy that. I mean, we could even go almost the first couple of days, I wouldn’t have chose to go run as opposed to smoke. I would have smoked. Since we started this, I haven’t smoked any cigarettes (Well, rolling my little spliffs) just because, whoa, I can feel it too much. It hurts, it burns too much when I run. For the future knock out beer, because the more that you run, the better you feel, the less you want to feel horrible. I mean, that’s in theory. I’m waking up to a banana every morning, too, because I don’t like to fill myself up too much before I run. That’s what I like to do, you don’t have to do it for this. You just need 10 to 20 minutes a day and little by little we’ll add more. But I’m talking too much, so I’ll talk to y’all tomorrow. See you later, have a great one.