New life deserves new catagory

Jake4/22/2004

Thats right I am adding a new catagory to the blog, Health and Excercise. For those of you who don’t know I have made some changes in the way I live. No longer am I sitting on the couch and not doing anything except getting fat. I am actively working out and watching what I eat.

I went back to the gym after a 5 year absence. It will be 5 years this July that I got out of the Army. I worked out some when I got out, but after 4 and a half years of working out I was tired of it. The main reason I think I was tired of it is because I had to do it. As I get older I am not keen on things I have to do. But now it’s different, this is something that I want to do.

This has been the first week back and as expected I am sore and now realize how out of shape I am. I have worked out Tues, Wed, and Thur. with two workouts on Wed. The gym I joined has 24 hour access so I checked it out last night at 11pm and there was only one other person there. I am going to add some stats to the sidebar so I and everyone who reads or cares can keep up with me. I will post the first stats here:

1. Last Day to workout? - Late Wednesday night
2. Cardio done? - Yes, I worked out twice Wednesday 15 min on the stair master each time
3. Weight training done? - Yes. Upper body:arms, triceps, deltoids,lats.
4. Weight? - 296 ::shudders::

My weight really shocked me. I was actually expecting a lot more. I am setting a goal for myself of 250 pounds.That’s 46lbs I need to lose. That is not the final weight I want to be at but its a starting point. I am tentatively setting that to be my weight in a year. that would mean I would need to lose 3.8lbs a month. I think that is a reasonable goal to set. So my official first day of working out was April 20, 2004.

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Working out

Jake4/20/2004

Today was my first day to hit the gym again. I have finally decided that I am not happy with myself and sitting on the couch feeling sorry for myself isn’t going to change that. I got up and 5am, that’s right boys and girls 5am to go to make myself hurt! I did 10 minutes on the stair master and thought I was going to throw up. But I did it without stopping and felt pretty good afterwards. Then I worked out my lower body with a guy that works here at UBS. We hit about 3 or 4 machines and decided we had done enough. Both of us are just starting back so we took it a little easy.

I have noticed pains that I didn’t have before, although not crippling pain just minor annoyances. I have got to keep my self motivated and work thru the first couple of weeks. The gym I joined also has 24 hour access available which for me is perfect. Sometimes I can’t sleep and really feel like getting out but because it’s 1 or 2 in the morning I don’t want to go walk or run. It will be nice to have a place to go when I feel like doing something. It was a 100 bucks up front and 25 dollars extra a year which I don’t feel like is a bad thing. I pay 30 bucks a month so I think I will get a lot of use out of it because I am really motivated to change.

As far as the social/love life goes….I think I blew it….I have a tendancy to be to open…I don’t see this as a flaw but some women don’t like that…I like to say exactly what’s on my mind and how I feel at the time…This scares a lot of people. I think it has to do with society people are made to feel like their feelings are taboo and shouldn’t be expressed. I was like that for a long time but now that I tell people how I feel when I feel it I seem to feel better because I don’t hold back. I guess I am going to have to find a way to excercise some control over what I say. I have been in the habit of doing this for a couple of months now and it’s hard to think about it before I say it…Don’t get me wrong I don’t just spout off everything I think about, but stuff that I feeling towards people and even then I still think about what I say. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or anything like that…

well…back to work…until later..

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