11/1/11 to 5/28/12 = 209 days

There’s no way in hell I’m going to go as extreme and ascetic as the 100 days but I’ve got to do something and I’ll outline it for myself in subsequent posts, for now it’s going to be just a matter of keeping track.

Thus, Day 1 – The beginning

30 minutes elliptical, 1.5 miles distance, approx 290 cal

Let’s see how we can make this go…

Let’s check in and see how freedom took hold.

Stay tuned…

1 minute of Jumping Jacks

1 minute of pushups. on a solid, raised/angled surface.
1 minute of skullcrushers – Lay on bench, raise thighs perp to floor, bend shins to parallel to floor, cross ankles. Raise arms with 10lb weights perpendicular to body, keep upper arms perp, bend hands toward head (keep from crushing head), extend arms back up to perp.
1 minute of pushups
1 minute of skullcrushers
1 minute of pushups
1 minute of skullcrushers

Biceps curls.
15 reps. stand, feet shoulder length apart. 10lb weights in hand, palms facing front. Curl to 3/4 and extend down. On #15 hold for 30 seconds with arms parallel to floor.
Triceps.
15 reps. sit on bench, legs extended. hands on edge of bench, knuckles pointed to front. dip off front of bench keeping legs extended, back perpendicular to floor.
Biceps curls, 15 reps.
Triceps, 15 reps.

One armed skullcrushers.
20 reps. Lay on bench,raise thighs perp to floor, bend shins to parallel to floor, cross ankles.  Start with one arm up and do skullcrushers with other hand supporting back of upper arm.  Hold #20 for 10 seconds. Switch arms.

Biceps curls with hold.
15 reps each arm. Stand feet shoulder width. 10lb weights. Hold right arm in curl at parallel to floor. Curl left arm for 15 reps. On #15 hold left arm at parallel, do 15 reps with right arm. On #15 hold BOTH arms at parallel for a count of 15 seconds.

Biceps 21′s
Standard biceps curls position.
7 reps from fully extended to parallel.
7 reps from parallel to 100% up.
7 reps from fully extended to 100% up.
Hold final rep at parallel for 30 seconds.

Abs with weights.
Jackhammers.
Lay on a bench. legs extended, both hands cradle the end of one weight toward back of head.
Push weight from over head toward legs as you bring legs toward head.
45 reps. Hold #45 for 30 seconds.

Pushes.
Lay on back. Legs bent at waist, perpendicular to floor. Push one weight with both hands from chest toward toes.
30 reps. On #30 hold for 30 seconds.

Triceps push backs. Stand. 10 lb weights. palms face back. 30 reps, push weights back slightly. No end hold.

Triceps push backs part 2.  Left knee and left hand on right end of bench. Back parallel to floor. Right arm in line with body. Keeping elbow still, extend arm/triceps back fully. Curl in, extend. 30 reps. No hold on end.

Overhead triceps. Stand. Take one dumbbell, one end in each hand. raise above head. Dip backwards, then extend overhead.  30 reps. Hold #30 for 20 seconds.

Cool down.  Stretch triceps – reach arm over shoulder to touch middle of back.  stretch arms across chest.  split legs, bend knees, forearm on thigh, reach over head.  roll shoulders. extend arms above head.

1. Rosetta Stone – Japanese
2. Stop Giving a Shit what Anyone thinks.
3. iMovie
4. Adobe Creative Suite.
5. Soy

If you’re checking this space, good morning, afternoon, evening.

In our American society and financial system as it is, I was for a short time not a part of the vast unemployment crutch our country is propped upon.

And so happy for that.  Bravo for me.

I’ve paid into unemployment since I started to be employed 24 years ago.  And at this point I might have actually reached even.

So here I go again. On the dole again…

I am skilled enough to do a multitude of jobs. So my college degree and score-plus-four of work experience tells me.

Do I take any job and bail on it when I get the job I am looking for in my profession?

How long would it actually take for a middle-aged white guy to get a job at a gas station or convenience store in Hollywood?

To find out might actually be a great deal of fun.

To take the job and work might actually be considered career suicide as I live near a studio and I’d want to take one of those gigs near home.  There might actually be people I recognize and actually know that come in.

How awkward. Not for me, necessarily.  I might be able to use it for something else. But i do have a wife.  What would people think. This is Los Angeles.

It’s a curious position.

3-28-09 t0 6-25-09 = 100 days of the old

6-26-09 to 10-3-09 = 100 days of …

When I concluded the 100 days, here’s what the stats were:

3/18 177.9lbs 27.92 BMI

When I weighed in this morning…

5/1 183.6lbs 28.82 BMI

In 6 weeks and 2 days of no exercise, eating fast food/pizza/less fruits and salads, drinking alcohol and caffeine I gained back 5.7 pounds. Not even a pound per week!

Frankly I’m shocked it wasn’t more. I’m not necessarily happy with that result or proud of it, but I can live with it — 144 days ago I weighed 20 pounds more than I do today. That’s an accomplishment.

The 100 days of conditioning I put my body through has allowed my metabolism to work quicker and process all those off-program things I put in my system and use the good for energy and expel the bad.

As I return to my bootcamp and yoga routines I don’t doubt that I’ll probably regain some of the muscle weight and lose the fat weight and continue to progress to the goal of 159.9lbs. And now I think I have a real date to achieve the goal by.

It’s incredibly tempting to bust your ass completely and keep out the bad and just do the good but once you reach the goal — 100 days…40+ pounds…whatever — it is easy to fall back into the ways that got you into to having to set the goal in the first place.

Thus, I will attain and have maintained my goal by December 7 – one full year from the time I started the 100 days. This will allow for the parties where I want to enjoy and the weeks where I want to buckle down — and incorporate them into a life style where I’m healthy but not a crazy person about exercise or abstaining.

So, December 7, 2009. Me at 159.9 or below. 25 pounds or more in 221 days. Piece of cake. MMMMmmmmmm. Cake….

By far the worst part of the 100 days was not being able to have iced black tea.  I didn’t miss the diet coke, don’t really drink coffee and the club soda etc rarely factor into anything if you’re not having mixed drinks, but no iced tea sucked.

In the last 44 days I’ve had perhaps a dozen diet cokes – an incredible cutback from when 12 was a weekend, a couple iced coffees and a couple hundred iced teas.  No kidding.

I’m pretty happy with my progress and fall-back from the end of the 100 days to the beginning of the new program.  I could probably cut back a bit on the iced tea but until I see some hard evidence that “Tea Kills” I won’t be doing that any time soon.