"Personal Training"

So I last reported about my joining a club like on Tuesday. Today, however, I'm meeting for the first time with a "Personal Trainer." Really I don't know what that means or what it'll do for me, but I have good expectations for our meet.

These last two days I've been pro actively warming my body up to exercise by hitting various machines and working out here and there for 1-2 hours. I've been surprised that the little workout over the past two days has actually yielded some results.. Like 2-3 lbs maybe. It's not like I'm dropping stones, but I'm encouraged that maybe after this visit... my head will be solidly focused on some tangible goals to work towards...

Generally my initial feeling is that while I'm working out... I'm feeling good. It's a positive experience and very personable.

I'm enjoying myself tremendously there.

~J

**Edit***

I met with "Jeff" my "personal trainer" and we went over all the goals, current weight, fat %, diet stuff... you name it. It was more of an "1st time meet & check in" on what I want to have happen.

Some good gouge was passed too... about diet and nutrition and I'm on a plan to watch my weight & health and calorie intake. It's the right direction for me I think. A lot of this is really taking on my guilt and facing my biggest obstacle which is personal health and wellness.

For the past weeks I've been praying for a shot at the Navy officer program and have been disappointed, but cosmically it could be that God wants me to take this opportunity to transition into a healthy routine. I can't explain my rather odd actions of signing up to a health club any differently then that.

I wonder... when I reach the day that I'm considered "fit" will that also be the day I'm accepted? That would be trippy for sure. I suppose it's a wake up call to pray for stuff that really we should pray about (good health) and not what we shouldn't (priorities, but not top priorities). Plus depending solely on OCS to whip me into shape would deter me from my duty to study hard for officer training. The way I see it now... If I'm twice as less concerned about my fitness, then I'll have twice as much time to focus on academics and other stuff.

Good plan or wishful thinking? Regardless I'm on a food watch/work out cycle program now..

*Keep my cals under 1600 a day
*Work out for 1 hr
*1 day is 50%/50% Cardiovascular & Circuit training
*The next day is 100% Cardio.
*Do that till Tues (when I meet Jeff again).
*Oh and log all meals & snacks (this'll be tough!)

~J out

New Fitness Goals

I made a deep plunge into something I honestly have some clue, but not a whole lot about. It's in the area or perhaps "the arena" of fitness, health, and "working out" on a regular basis. Working out I suppose was something I kinda-sorta cared about all through out my youth, but I was heavily subsidized by the fact that my metabolism was high. This made for a slacked off approach to working out.

***Confession Time for the R3dragon


At age 23 I'm still young, but young in the adult stage now. That means I'm pretty old for the child/teen years and I'm noticing that simple routines and walking a little extra isn't doing it for me. It seems my metabolism has either slowed down or I'm not exerting myself like I used too. Regardless I've gained all the weight I lost in Japan and then some. Coming home from Japan I was thin... real thin.. like maybe 155 lbs thin. I remember in the cold months in Sapporo bundling up 2-3 layers deep for warmth and I was often cold. Today I'm at nearly 199 lbs and it scares me. In the back of my mind looms the troubles of my families past with overweightness and I know that tipping the 200lbs mark will bring nothing but unwanted trouble. So I need a drastic change... '08 is going to by my year of change as I leave the undergraduate world. So working out more often will by my Anti-Dub.


To do this I need a nag... Parents are no good here because they quite frankly care too much. No I need a professional nagger. So this evening I did something wild... I went to the local 24hr fitness and signed up for a plan that'll (hopefully) kick my ass and turn my fat unhealty self into a lean mean candidate for OCS (if I'm privileged to get in some day ). This is working towards establishing a precident of good health and moving the ball to something positive that I hope I can keep doing for the remainder of my life.

We'll see... Under these tags I'll add yet a new blog topic "Working out" and "Advancement towards fitness goals."

Time to reap the whirlwind!

~J out

stubbed toe ouch!

Yesterday was (in my opinion) not the way one starts a good weekend.

I went to work all normal like, but there was a bunch of energy in the office all due to this party we had scheduled for the afternoon. Well at like 12a I headed down to check on my car (because it was getting hot) and open up some windows. I headed back and heard the party was starting so instead of casually going up those stairs I rushed it 2 at a time.

I've done this before... no biggie, but with funky toe sandals I slipped and jammed my left big toe into the concrete stairs "OUCH!"

It was a stub... but my experience has been after the throb it gets better... 'cept it didn't. It just got all deep red and swollen. By the time the party and day was over it looked bad... real bad. My plan was to help out Dad with his work load, but by the time I got there it looked broke so instead I ran over to the Sunnyside hospital for an exam.

Their emergency services sucked... I mean I got checked in ok and even got some x-rays fine... but I had to wait with a bruised painful toe nearly 1 1/2 hours to get into a room.... dang.

Finally a nurse checked it out and sent the info to the doc... and it turns out all it was was a bad sprain. So like I checked in at 5:45ish and left at 8pm to find that I had a sprain..

Whatever... I got my notes and recommendations and headed home (my car's a manual btw). When I got home I sat down... put up my bad foot.. and turned on the olympics to find Gymnastics on with all sorts of wicked toe bending :( ...

What a night..

~J out