Fitness

Hard Hat Challenge Status

Sept 5:

  • Ate my fish oil and amino tabs
  • Chapter 2 of Web Fundamentals: Codecademy done!
  • No soda today–rawr!
  • Went to gym AND got my 100 pushups + some additional strength training!
  • Got into work EARLY!

 Sept 6:

  • Apologized to a co-worker for overstepping my bounds, put in a good word for another co-worker 
  • Ate my fish oil and amino tabs
  • No soda today–doin great!
  • Gym and 100 pushups
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Fitness

I’m Taking on the Hard Hat Challenge

Over at NerdFitness.com, Steve threw out a challenge that I thought was very doable: 

Take on one healthy activity every day for the next 30 days.

Anything is fair game: whether it be a victory over junk food or undertaking a new fitness challenge, or embarking on a course of self-improvement. Every day, just one thing. 

Of course, one thing isn’t asking too much in my book. So I hope to do at least 3, no matter how minor and insignificant it might seem! 

Yesterday, Sept 3:

  1. I went to strength training class even though my neck and shoulder felt like hell.
  2. I finished chapter 1 of Web Fundamentals at Codecademy.com.
  3. I did 5 sets of 10 push-ups (again, my neck and shoulder pain tried to keep me bed-ridden). 
  4. I filled out 3 reference surveys back-to-back for a friend looking for work.
  5. Got in my fish oil capsules!

Today, Sept 4:

  1. I got up a little early and made it into work at 10:30a (better than the last couple of weeks of getting in at 11:30 or noon).
  2. I went to cardio class and finished Kickboxing (my neck and shoulder weren’t as painful today).
  3. I did 10 sets of 10 pushups and 10 sets of 15 squats (bodyweight, but I was feeling the pinch).
  4. Talked to my new business partner, did some sketches on a new web project, laid out some ideas. 
  5. Got in my fish oil capsules!
  6. I stayed under 100g of carbs — woot!

 Hope to keep up with logging every day! 

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Dining, Fitness, Recipes

Recipe: Lemon Garlic Vinaigrette

Is there such a thing as too much garlic? Nooooo!

I love this as a salad dressing or a marinade to fish/salmon.

  • Garlic – Raw, 85 g
  • Pompeii – Lemon Juice (From Concentrate), 2 fl oz 
  • Truvia – Artificial Sweetener, 3 tsp
  • Food Club – 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 10 Tbsp
  • Kroger – Garlic Powder, 3 tsp
  • Kroger – Coarse Kosher Salt, 1/4 tsp

Chop/mince garlic, then throw all the ingredients into a blender until thoroughly incorporated. I store it in a shaker dressing bottle so that the sediment can be stirred up when used. 

MFP Recipe Calculator estimate per 1 oz (2 tbsp) serving:
112 Calories
4g Carbs
12g Fat
0g Protein 
0g Sugar

Fitness

August Re-Challenge: Off to a bad start

S’ok, I admit that I was perhaps a little to ambitious getting my fitness groove on.

Here’s where I am starting week of 8/25:

1) Eat paleo/primal for a 4-week stretch: Sorry, but the muffins and the corn have been throwing me off. The sodas are DEFINITELY not helping. I sense my hormones are going a little berserk right now which are contributing to the sweetness cravings. Ice cream has also lately caught my attention.

2) Eat at goal 1300 cals (net): Started off strong…then crashed. I’m thinking hormones here too.

3) Push-ups: 100 pushups a day for 4 weeks. Okay, I thought I did pretty well with this…getting to the point where I was enjoying the pain of making it through 100 pushups in one sitting. But then, I pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve somewhere, ‘coz now it’s agony trying to work through even 10.

4) Strength training: have not touched the weights at all. With the exception of PBT classes.

This morning I weighed in at 140.4. No significant weight gain or loss…just maintaining. 

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