4 posts tagged “exercise”

Well, I've come to a decision.  Whether or not its the correct one won't be determined until early June.  I'm still planning on fighting the last weekend of May coming up here.  My back pains have been off and on for months now, so I'm going to change up my routine a little bit.  I think I'm going to lay off the lifting for the rest of the month and stick to just cardio and agility training.  Hopefully my back appreciates it, however it could backfire since that will be more impact than normal.  We'll see...

Exercise - nothing today.  I had to work late and my back is still a little sore.  Tomorrow I'm going to run longer than normal - aiming for 3 miles...but we'll see.

Back pain (0-10) - started out as a 5...gradually decreased to about a 2-3 right now.

I have to run and get some grocery type things before "The Riches" starts.  I love that show...and I love Eddie Izzard (in a masculine, he's-a-funny-guy way).

well...this past week has been absolute crap.  Back pains galore.  Enough to make me come home from work and go straight to bed.  Even now when I arch my back and press my shoulder blades together, I get a nice crunching sound and a smidgen of pain shooting down my spine.  I love it.

Exercise - well...not much this week.  I won't detail Monday because that's in my previous post.  Tuesday I woke up with pain and didn't do anything as it got progressively worse throughout the day.  Wednesday night I skipped lifting, but went and did some sparring/drills at taekwondo.  Well, after about a half-hour, my back tightened up pretty bad, so I was done there.  Thursday and yesterday....rest.  Today?  Well, probably nothing again.  I'm out again until Monday most likely.

There's a tournament coming up in South Carolina at the end of this month and I'm up in the air about competing.  I'm probably going to go regardless, but worst case scenario is I'll skip competing and just coach.  If I do compete, its my last chance to qualify for Nationals down in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Weight - still no official reading...this week has been a scratch.

In other news...I'm most likely not going up to South Dakota until Christmas.  I need to save my money and vacation time for Colorado and Washington DC.

Back pain (0-10) - 3 currently...was up to an 8 or so at times during the week.

I got back on the horse again today.  Went to work and had to give 2 Colonels, a Lt. Colonel, a Captain, two Chiefs, and our 1st Seargent a briefing/demonstration of some of what we do there.  I love pressure...

Exercise - I ran a mile (1.6 km for the metrically inclined) to get warmed up, then played some basketball for about a half hour.  After that, it was weight training for about an hour and a half (chest/shoulders/neck), then some light ab work.  Normally after this, I'll go to taekwondo and spar or do other assorted drills, but my back wasn't cooperating.  Its not terribly bad mind you, but enough to make me say 'fuck it' for the night.

Weight - yeah...I forgot to weigh myself.  I just ooze dedication.

backpain (0-10) - 2 before exercise....5 after

First time I tried to turn this bugger on in probably a couple months.  What a fine investment that turned out to be.  I had planned to use it extensively while enrolled in some additional college classes, but wouldn't ya know it...things come up, priorities change, and classes get tossed by the wayside.  So, I have a nice shiny like-new laptap with minimal software installed.  However it does have a nifty built-in webcam that I had planned to make use of.  Perhaps I'll try again later tonight.

My intentions were simple.  I was going to give a graphical representation of my progress while training for competition.  I did farely well last year.  I fought in 4 tournaments (including AAU nationals) and only lost one match total.  Now my back is hobbling me and I've put on a few pounds since my initial injury back in November.  So, if I went back to competing right now, I'd most likely get my ass handed to me, with a side of macaroni salad hopefully.

So yeah, I was going to take a picture of my soft, not-so-tan underbelly and watch as it slowly morphed into something resembling that of a greek god...or at least something that I can show at the beach without too much self-consciousness.

However, my laptop is not cooperating at the moment, so I will leave you with this...  The NFL draft (American Football for our displaced Aussie reader) is this weekend and is like Easter holliday for me.

Throughout the course of this little experiment in regularity, I will post a couple simple things similar to what Oddeo does on his.  Instead of Diet and Activities, I will do Exercise and Level of Backpain.

Exercise - 3 on 3 basketball tournament at work today (and I get paid for this!).  Double elimination and our team went down after three games.  I won the 2nd game single handedly though as I have a penchant for throwing semi-large balls into a hoop from a considerable distance away - so considerable that they award an extra point for it.  I scored all of our points....and hardly any the other two games, so I'm streaky to say the least.  After the third and final game, I was glad it was over...

Backpain - This will be done on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the debilitating I-just-want-to-lay-down pain).  I'd say after playing those three games, it had cranked itself up to a 7.  I'm have now resigned to healing this weekend.  More strenuous activities will resume on Monday.  Though I am going to golf on Sunday...we'll see how the twisting and turning effects the old back.

so anyway...I'm going to get back on my couch and wait for the ache to subside...