Woke up at a reasonable time today, and actually got my exercises done early. Which, i must add, was very nice. There is generally less to do pre-work on work days, and this way i'm not jump-roping in the middle of the night and running the risk of having things thrown at me.
I ate well, and perhaps the highlight was some Pomegranate Juice. I really love that stuff.
I know it's all sugar, but i kept my dosage in order, so i think i'm alright.
I misread, or didn't read, to do 60 x 5 jump ropes on day 3, so i did 60 x 5 yesterday, and the 70 x 5 today, and realized i would really have preferred the adjustment time. The new additions to the other exercises didn't bother me to much. This pacing myself thing is really working out, since before it was more of "lets see how many push-ups i can do ...10" but 4 sets of 8, or the idea of sets, is much more economical.
And that leads into my whole discontent about the state of physical education in schools, at least in the ones i went to, but i imagine in fairly common. In P.E. i was never taught about muscles, about how to do push-ups properly, or even about what exercise did what to the body, and how to avoid injury in doing it, and certainly not stretching. Sure, we stretched, but it was more of a time-killer. Instead, the greatly underplayed area of physical education was ruled by a hidden class, which we may call "Survey of American Sports". And what gets me is the teachers are all educated individuals, often pretty fit, and have done their time working on their bodies and learning all the complexities, but.. they didn't teach it. All that knowledge was sacrificed to the gods of flag football.
So, i fiddled with my new jump rope a little bit today, and apparently it is adjustable, but... only once, as you have to cut off the excess cord. And i think i may have cut too much.. i followed the guide line for it, and where it should be on my body, but... i kind of wish i had tested it somehow before i made such a final decision. It seems like its just on the edge of too short. I can still jump it, but it will clip me 1 out of 4 times. So, i went back to my old cheap jump rope.
I found that i have a lot more energy throughout the day after i had done the exercises, so, im going to make an effort to do them in the morning everyday from now on. Though, school days is going to be tricky. My girlfriend Amineh was telling me she read something to the effect of "strength training doesn't burn a bunch of calories in and of itself, but for the next 24 hour period or so, your metabolic rate is higher" and that's about how it felt. Energizing.
Alright, it's 2:30 am, im going to bed now.
Valete Amicis
I ate well, and perhaps the highlight was some Pomegranate Juice. I really love that stuff.
I know it's all sugar, but i kept my dosage in order, so i think i'm alright.
I misread, or didn't read, to do 60 x 5 jump ropes on day 3, so i did 60 x 5 yesterday, and the 70 x 5 today, and realized i would really have preferred the adjustment time. The new additions to the other exercises didn't bother me to much. This pacing myself thing is really working out, since before it was more of "lets see how many push-ups i can do ...10" but 4 sets of 8, or the idea of sets, is much more economical.
And that leads into my whole discontent about the state of physical education in schools, at least in the ones i went to, but i imagine in fairly common. In P.E. i was never taught about muscles, about how to do push-ups properly, or even about what exercise did what to the body, and how to avoid injury in doing it, and certainly not stretching. Sure, we stretched, but it was more of a time-killer. Instead, the greatly underplayed area of physical education was ruled by a hidden class, which we may call "Survey of American Sports". And what gets me is the teachers are all educated individuals, often pretty fit, and have done their time working on their bodies and learning all the complexities, but.. they didn't teach it. All that knowledge was sacrificed to the gods of flag football.
So, i fiddled with my new jump rope a little bit today, and apparently it is adjustable, but... only once, as you have to cut off the excess cord. And i think i may have cut too much.. i followed the guide line for it, and where it should be on my body, but... i kind of wish i had tested it somehow before i made such a final decision. It seems like its just on the edge of too short. I can still jump it, but it will clip me 1 out of 4 times. So, i went back to my old cheap jump rope.
I found that i have a lot more energy throughout the day after i had done the exercises, so, im going to make an effort to do them in the morning everyday from now on. Though, school days is going to be tricky. My girlfriend Amineh was telling me she read something to the effect of "strength training doesn't burn a bunch of calories in and of itself, but for the next 24 hour period or so, your metabolic rate is higher" and that's about how it felt. Energizing.
Alright, it's 2:30 am, im going to bed now.
Valete Amicis
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