Layered Thoughts

I don’t know what to make of a situation where I pour milk into my bowl of cereal and find that the milk is a white frozen slush. I’ve never had to wait for my milk to melt. This is a new one.

I’ve got an interesting idea for a post, just never got to it tonight. In keeping with my “post a day” routine, I wanted to make sure to get something up here tonight. I’ll have my planned post up in the morning. Shit it’s late. Peace

Alright so I did my 7th workout of the last 8 days. Other than feeling pretty sore in the legs, I’m overall stoked with myself. As long as I make sure to get to the gym at the right times (the Pacific Beach 24 Hour Fitness is a Bro Fest, dudes with their hair done wearing nice clothes and shit) it’s an awesome experience. Yesterday I even pulled off an hour and forty five minute workout!

Right now I’m just trying to get my whole body back into workout mode, trying to get over that initial soreness shock that comes with not working out consistently for a long time. Probably in another week or so, I’m hoping to either find a good workout plan to follow or just design my own (designing my own would simply take longer, so I’m still up in the air about it). Since I’ll probably design the workout plan in a spreadsheet, I’ll be sure to upload it here for anyone who might want to follow along.

Other than that, I’m just trying to get my life back on track in regards to productivity. I have a bunch of projects I want to do personally as well as professionally so I need to step my game up and make things happen. As I go through that, I’ll probably be writing some posts about how I’m overcoming certain addictive qualities I have with using the Internet.

Also, I’ve adopted a little system that Jerry Seinfeld apparently uses to stay consistent with a long running project. He simply has a big calendar on the wall in his workspace that he puts large red X’s on each day he does what he’s supposed to do. As the “chain” grows, he becomes more and more reluctant to break it. Simple, but it seems pretty cool. I’m going to test it out with this blog. I printed out a simple month of May calendar using Microsoft Word and I’m going to put an X over each day I write a blog post. I’m obviously getting a late start as it’s already the 10th, but hey, it’s something. 1 day down! Peace

Our bodies have a great way of reminding us of whether we’ve been working out frequently enough or not. Back a few years ago, I would work out 6 days a week and developed thick calluses on my hands where my fingers reached my palm as well as right below my thumb. The knurled grips of the weight bars beat up my hands enough to the point where weight lifting gloves were unnecessary. After finishing my 2nd workout this week yesterday, I sat in the car on the way home wondering why my hands ached so much. I looked down at my left palm and saw bright red marks under each finger. Running my right fingers over the marks, I could feel smooth skin below. Nothing rough at all. No thick skin to protect my hands from the weights. It’ll be a good day when those calluses are back.

Well, I’ve learned that the difference between saying you will do something and actually doing it can sometimes be pretty devastating. So rather than promise to write here more often and promise to do anything else anymore, I’m just going to actually do the things instead. Letting my actions speak for themselves I guess. I went to the gym yesterday, it was nice to go again. I’ll be going today when I get home from school, two days in a row! haha. Til then…