Day Fifty-Three

Breakfast: 10am
1 Peanut Butter Cup Visalus Shake

Mid-Morning: Nothing.

Lunch: 2pm
1 Butterfinger Visalus Shake

Mid-Afternoon: 5pm
1 Cheeseburger (w/Sliced Jalapeno & Salsa Verde, No Bun)
16oz. V8 (Spicy Hot)
32oz. Water

Evening: 7pm
1 Peanut Butter Cup Visalus Shake
16oz. V8 (Spicy Hot)

Walk-Count:

State of Being:
Feeling pretty good today!

I only did one walk, due to excessive knee pain, but otherwise I’m doing very well.

I’ve been thinking a lot today about the specific features and tenets of my diet. Now that I’ve crossed that line into the second-half of my 90 days, I’m looking at ways that I can apply what the first half taught me toward the task of fine-tuning what I’m doing.

I’ve got some definite ideas on this, but I haven’t really hammered everything out yet. I will have that done by week’s end and will probably cover everything in a video.

Heading out to Team East Coast Martial Arts tomorrow evening. A friend of mine teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu there. That’s a style I’ve been wanting to get into for a long time, but was never really able to in the past. Even when I was still capable of training, systems that are primarily oriented on ground-fighting tend not to mesh well with the possession of a gigantic gut. Based on my physicality, ever since adolescence, I'd resigned myself to the idea that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was something that was simply forbidden to me. Out of my reach. However, now that I know that there is, in fact light at the end of the tunnel and that I can actually get rid of my gut, (Thanks, Visalus!) I am very excited that this art is something that I will be able to finally delve into after all!

If you haven't picked up on it from previous posts, I don't believe in vague, nebulous goals. Those kind of goals tend to have finish-lines situated somewhere between Shangri-La and Oz. You never seem to actually reach them. I believe in setting goals with real, concrete time-frames.

In my view, "Some day," "Eventually," and "Soon," are every bit as real as the Easter Bunny.

So, I’m going to be paying special attention to the first part of the class, which in most martial arts training is when the conditioning exercises are done. Each exercise that I see during that segment will inform my exercise and fitness goals over the next several months. The goal will be to simply become capable of performing the exercises. From there I will set goals by number of repetitions. When I can do a hundred of each exercise, split-up into sets of no less than 25 each, I will join the class.

I will join the class by September of this year.

“The bigger the challenge, the greater the reward.”
-Blake Mallen

See you tomorrow!



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