Haven’t done a completely pointless and self-serving fitness update in awhile and I don’t want everyone thinking that I’ve forgotten about it.
Three important notes discovered over the weekend have re-energized me a bit to keep on keppin on:
- I am definitley three to four pounds lighter than when I began. I can only assume the scale wouldn’t be so cruel as to lie to me. Onward with the diet! While the weekends have been my downfall for serious progress on the calorie intake end (damn you giant turkey leg!) I am still being fairly responsible about what I’m putting in my body and the results are starting to show.
- While I fell off the push up schedule awhile back I have still been doing 80-100 push ups several times a week. This weekend I decided to see what kind of progress I’d made. Turns out I can now crank out 40 consecutive reps. This is up from the 15 I could do when I started. And the really good news is that my body doesn’t scream bloody murder at me afterward like it did a month ago. I actually rallied back to do two more sets of 30 after a break.
- I played my second indoor soccer game last night. This was my first time in the field (last week I was the keeper) and for the first time in my adult life I wasn’t a wreck afterward. In fact, I actually felt like going for a run when I got home. The run was replaced by a pleasant walk with the Wife, but the fact that I didn’t immediately collapse into bed for a 12 hour recovery was really exciting.
So this week I will push on. More reasonable meals, more pushups, more cardio and hopefully less of me to love. Now if it would only stop raining so I could run outside again.
