Back on track?

I got sick, then got a sunburn, but finally got back to working out in the morning.

Today I did
20 standard pushups,
20 diamond pushups,
20 knuckle pushups (hands by ribs instead of shoulder height)
20 wide arm pushups
20 standard pushups.

50 crunches with legs extended,
100 side crunches (50 each side)

shoulders, triceps and biceps with weights.

Tomorrow I'll do squats and jog (I haven't done that in a while, not since I broke both my goals and then had to ice my knees. Ouch. I plan to buy knee braces.)

Kenpo + iPod = Workout!

One of the other teachers at the studio suggested this method for practicing your techniques.

1. Record each technique name with a few seconds of empty space after it.
2. Store list on iPod, audio CD, whatever.
3. Play on random.

I've recorded 64 of 128 techniques.

The only problem with this is that I end up with 128 non-music tracks in my master library, both on my iPod and on my laptop. At first I tried making an "everything" list, which had everything but the techniques on it. This was a pain to sort through on the iPod, because it was just a list of song names. I couldn't browse by artist or album. Often I couldn't find the song I wanted.
On the laptop, it's easy to just remove them from the master library and import them back in. I can run the sync and remove or replace the techniques very quickly; I may have to wait 1.5 seconds longer for the sync, if that.

Not easy

I did not expect today's run to be easy, however I did not expect my knees to hurt so much after. I needed ice. In spite of this, I managed to get at least close to goal. I had some trouble with the stopwatch function on my iPod, but I did manage to record the last two laps.
When I compare them to Saturday's run:

Sunday mile 1: 6:54 mile 2: 7:29 mile 3: 7:46 total: 22:09

Today mile 1: unknown mile 2: 7:16 mile 3: 7:43 total: ??:??

It looks like I managed to hold near 22 minutes. Yay!
Afterwards I did my 100 pushups and tried bicycle crunches. I stopped at 60, then I finished the last 40. They were very good but seemed to target the middle 4 abs. I need to focus on the bottom two and the obliques.

Now for dinner and a bowl of ice cream as a reward for the hard work!

New Goal Reached

I can't even believe it. I ran today after work and reached my new goal.

mile 1: 6:48
mile 2: 7:08
mile 3: 7:05
Total: 21:02

Woohoo!!

New goal 20 minutes. I am not planning on reaching that goal on Wednesday, but I will run.

GOAL REACHED

I reached my goal today!
mile 1: 6:54
mile 2: 7:29
mile 3: 7:46
total: 22:09

I finally took that spare 30 seconds off. I think it may have cost me a sunburn on my shoulders (yes I used sunscreen), though I was aiming to tan my chest and abs.

My new goal is 21 minutes.

2 day break after 12 hour fast

On Wednesday I had blood work done, for my new doctor. That means I needed to fast for 12 hours before going. I did my workout Tuesday morning, had an unfortunate dinner (it didn't reheat well) around 4pm and then worked on techniques until class. By the time class was over, it was past the 12 hour cutoff point. Likely I ended up fasting for about 17 hours. e-gads!
Anyway I did not work out on Wednesday, nor Thursday morning, nor Thursday evening. I did not workout this morning either. However I did workout this afternoon! Yay!

Back on track!

Still on track

100 pushups, 100 crunches, 50 squats (plus 37lbs), 50 pushups, 200 side crunches, 50 diamond pushups. arm workout (increased weight to 15lbs a week ago, brought reps back up to 20 yesterday on everything but the bicep curls, which are up at 22lbs anyway).

200 pushups, 300 crunches. Not a bad day =)