Becoming an Athlete

The 4 of us went ice skating for an hour and a half. My hip flexors and glutes were sore for a day. The instability created more muscular challange than I expected.

We did 7-8 miles at Inks Lake

On Sunday, my fiance and I went to Lake Georgetown, in Georgetown, TX. We hiked about 7 miles, maybe a bit more. We did about 30-45 minutes of yoga before bed. I feel great today.

Work is getting very busy, but life has the trump card right now. I'm getting married on December 5 th , and trying to get moved by then. Moving isn't such a big deal, but I have my kids 50% of the time, so I schedule moving their stuff around their schedule. The last thing you want to do as a parent with split custody is surprise your kids by changing their home life while they aren't around. They are very happy with everything; but I'm definitely taking the harder route by keeping them informed and make sure they are here when I move stuff or make changes. That being said, training is the last thing on my mind right now. It isn't hard to keep my fiance and kids happy. But it does take time. If I were focused on my training right now, I'd be doing a disservice to my family. I have a plan drafted up and ready to. I start on Monday, December 16th. I can't wait to share the details, which stem from my experience of training for athleticism, long term...

Today was "Run Day" at my kids' school. Normally 45 minutes of running isn't so tough. Maybe a little tough if you are going at an adult pace and haven't been running regularly, but I was running with kids. I did it twice, though! 8:35 for 4 th graders (my daughter's class) and 1:05 for 1st graders (my son's class). Keep in mind the Squat + Presses I did yesterday using the Tabata protocol. My legs were sore before I got out of bed this morning. As far as results, I did 7 laps with my daughter and 9 laps with my son. The track isn't exactly a quarter mile, so I have no idea how far I went in total. Maybe 2 miles. What happens between 1st and 4 th grade??? The 4 th grade kids would run for a bit, then just walk and mosey along. The more I coaxed, the slower they walked. The 1st graders, however, were running full force until their bodies couldn't do it anymore. Then they'd jog till they had enough breath to run full force again. Granted, ...

I went from 4 weeks off to 4 minutes of torture. Tabatas are the most incredibly painful training protocol I know. Its basically 4 minutes of all out effort broken into 8 mini-sets. The details: 20 seconds all-out high-speed effort, followed by 10 seconds rest repeat 7 more time for a total of 4 minutes add up total reps for that 4 minute effort I did: Dumbbell squat + press (AKA Thrusters): 25lbs each arm- 56 reps Alternating bent dumbbell row: 25lbs each arm - 102 reps each arm (204 total) After about 10 minutes of feeling light headed, the lightheadedness was replaced with about 30 minutes of nausea. Give it a shot!!! My fiance is a stud!!!! She did 55 reps with 15s in the thruster, and 199 reps with 15s in the alt db rows!!! My heart rate was probably double what hers was. She is so dang fit!!!!

The kids were in "rare form" on Sunday, after a night of running from house to house getting as much candy as they could. We left my brother's house around 10:30 that night and got home around 11:00. By mid day Sunday, I decided I needed to exorcise exercise my little heathens angels. We loaded up the bikes and did a 4-5 mile loop. My son amazes me. How can that much energy be compressed into such a small space?!?!?! In any case, they were both spent by the time we headed home. And my fiance and I got a decent workout and quite a few laughs in the bargain.