8/10th of a pound is still a gain. Whatever, I still have another week to reach my months goal of a 5-10 lb loss. i’m already close to the 5lb loss, but closer to the 10 lb is attainable. I’ll be happier than a mugg to get 2009 outta here! They’re killin’ me with the holiday parties at work, enough already!!!!   Happy Holidays to all……

I oughta rename myself “Yobigslacker” ’cause I didn’t hit none of my goals for this week. I did lose a pound, but I didn’t follow up on the important stuff such as;

Goal for this coming week              failed

3 sets of Suicides x 3 days this week

3 sets of leg carryovers and crossovers x 3 days this week

I wasn’t really motivated this past weekend, so I didn’t push myself like I should have. I guess you go through that sometimes, so Monday’s weigh-in was met with mix emotions. Yeah, I lost a pound, but I sold my self short on my very attainable weeks goal. I’m not down on myself or nothing, ’cause I’m still in the zone to reach that challenge goal by the end of the month. I’m already back on track and ready to kick some ass!

On another note…

I went to the gym today and happened to shoot around with this dude that was my size (actually bigger). I’ve never come to the gym and found a “big” guy on the basketball court, getting his sweat on by himself. My experience is most guys my size want to shoot around and not be pressured into a game situation with the smaller guys. No one wants to be the one that slows down the game. So, we struck up a conversation and found out that we had many things in common, from health issues to wanting to lose the weight naturally. I put him onto the blogging community and how we feed off of each other (not literally). I gave him my website address, so this is a shout out to Dre, if he stops by………

So far, the week has been going good, I’ve been hitting the gym and feeling good about my workouts. I’m still going through the “sore” phase after doing mostly cardio. Those old  high school “football” knee injuries come to surface every now and then, but I’m getting used to working through them.

Yesterday, 12/4/09

I basically just went to the gym to shoot around with the basketball. Nothing strenuous, but the goal was to chase the ball around and get used to those short burst sprints. I noticed I’m not that agile due to years of inactivity. I can walk for days or go up and down stairs, but  side to side, leg crossovers and jumping up and down motions I avoid like the plague. At first, I had the gym all to myself and I wanted to attempt a couple of “suicide drills“.  For those that aren’t familiar with basketball exercises, suicides are not fun, but are effective. I also wanted to reflect back to football and do some carryovers. This involves jogging while carrying one leg over the other, twisting the body and doing the same with the opposite leg. Needless to say, I procrastinated until someone entered the gym and wanted to shoot around with me. That’s cool, because we ended up playing a couple of one on one games. He was half my age and size, so he wore me out and I was glad. I wasn’t concerned with winning. I felt excited that I was able to finish, winded and all. To me that’s progress.

Today, 12/05/09

My plan is to go to the gym and  hit the treadmill and do at least 30 minutes at an incline of at least 6.5.  I want to do some knee bends and some stretches, you know, capitalize on yesterday’s progress. I’ll do some sets for the upper body and some leg lifts. I’m doing really well with the calorie intake (1800 or less). For me, this is major.

Goal for this coming week

3 sets of Suicides x 3 days this week

3 sets of leg carryovers and crossovers x 3 days this week

Monday, I’ll do my first week weigh-in, so we’ll see how it goes…….