2011 to do list

Every year for the past 7 years I’ve made a yearly to do list. This isn’t resolutions. Rather, if there is something I think I’d like to change, rather than resolving to change it, I think of something I can actually do to get to that end, and then that item gets added to my [...]

On lower back injuries

I’m only going to speak to MY current lower back injury here. I think I figured out what went wrong and how I injured myself. The first clue came from watching this video about protecting your spine. I stumbled across it as part of a response about ‘Best alternatives to sit ups/crunches?’. Prior to my [...]

Link Love

Despite getting two plates of sequencing out today, my hands are doing ok. Its my arms that still hurt from doing push ups Saturday! We’re a week in over at r/90daysgoal and my goal is to get moving more (sound familiar?). I’m hoping with daily check ins and motivation that I might actually be able [...]

Changing how I think about my feet

Five years ago, living in Capitol Hill, I developed a problem with my left foot. It hurt to walk. Sometimes. Depending on what shoes I wore and how much I walked in them. It took me about two years to finally get it checked out and I was told I had a neuroma and there [...]

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Can I call it starting over if I didn’t start to begin with? 12 sun salutations 15 count triangle pose 40 crunches 10 leg ups 15 girly pushups I’m also counting the crunches and pushups as a hopeful return to the 200 sit up and 100 push up challenges.

Exercise motivation

I managed to get myself motivated to exercise again tonight. I’m still sore from the other day! The thing I hate about exercise is sweating. Oddly enough, I love feeling sore. And nothing like some added motivation. Turned on the tv in my hotel room hoping to find music. I found the season finale of [...]

Do it NOW

I’m back in San Jose for a few nights. I spent the last 10 days at La Selva Biological Station. Un/Fortunately el comedor fed me very good comida sin gluten, so I doubt I left any lighter than when I arrived, despite spending a few VERY sweaty mornings on the trails both wandering around and [...]

Braveheart – follow up

How did I do on the weekend warrior challenge? Well, if we were to go by numbers on the scale this morning, crappy. That sliver of green this weekend is still my only sliver of green. At the rate I’m going, I should explode in a few months. 1. I made it to the Farmer’s [...]

Sliver of Green

I knew that my old scale was inaccurate, by at least 2 pounds. So far the new scale seems to be much more on the money and closer in line to what I see when I’m at the doctor’s office. Because of this, I threw out all my old weight data and started fresh on [...]

Weekend Warrior Challenge – Braveheart edition

This coming weekend is another weekend warrior challenge. As I’m getting ready to go into the field in less than two weeks, and next week is the last week of the semester, and I need to be thinking about aims for my prelim, I’ve got a lot on my proverbial plate right now. But there [...]

self control; and chicken

Where diet, exercise, self control, and saying no collide. Anyone who knows me in person knows that I have little apprehension about telling someone no. If I don’t want to do something, I’m not doing it. If I can’t go, I don’t hem and haw and tell you maybe. I say no. If you ask [...]

Priorities

This is quite scattered, but it’s all things I’ve been thinking about and it’s about time I get them out of my head. “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.” I have no clue where that quote actually originated, but it’s stuck with me since the first [...]

Weekend Warrior – how’d I do?

As stated Friday, these were my three fitness goals for the weekend: 1. As usual, if I spend any time in lab, I need to take the stairs up and down. And now that we’re on the sixth floor, this is even better for me exercise wise. 2. Go to a yoga class. Somewhere. Anywhere. [...]

Weekend Warrior Challenge – slow poke edition

Last weekend was April’s weekend warrior challenge, but for various reasons, I didn’t participate. But a few people are doing it again this weekend, so I’m joining in. With a new (likely more accurate) scale in hand, I can really see how crappy things are right now, and how much more work I really need [...]

Being honest with myself

Last week Tuesday I finally checked out PhysicsDiet. I’d seen the graphs generated on the site on a few fitness blogs but never really paid them much mind. Something finally clicked Tue and I checked out the site. Wow! Very useful and very eye opening for me. Up until my scale died about three weeks [...]