Big_James’s BodyBlog

So I am back home finally and I am getting back on track.  Here is what I am up to today and this week.

Monday Morning - Off

Monday Evening - Weight training (still full body going just two sets second to failure extra heavy cheat reps welcome.)

Tuesday Morning - Cardio (45-60 minutes depends on wakeup)
Tuesday Evening - Cardio (60 minutes)
Wednesday Morning - Cardio (45-60 minutes depends on wakeup)

Wednesday Evening - Cardio (60 minutes)

Thursday Morning - Cardio (45-60 minutes depends on wakeup)

Thursday Evening - Cardio (60 minutes)

Friday Morning - Weight training (still full body going just two sets second to failure extra heavy cheat reps welcome.)

Friday Evening - off traffic is too hard to get home in a reasonable time consistently.

Saturday - Cardio with kids.

Sunday - off

Right now still going with the low GI spiking foods trying to keep it down low.  I know some people would consider what I have going as too much cardio but have you seen the biggest looser they are doing cardio almost all damn day I am sure I can hit twice a day for the short periods I am doing it.

Going to set a new goal today for consistency I want to not miss any of these target or workouts for this week.

James

When the phone rang this morning at 5:51 in the pit of my stomach I knew it was the call.  The call were the person on the other end of the phone is family telling me my father has passed away.  I knew it when it rang and I knew it the day before it was like someone had knocked the wind out of me took my breath right out of me.  It is hard to discuss how influential my Dad was I am sure everyone thinks they have a great Dad but really mine takes the cake.  This is a father who had the greatest sense of humor and made sure he shared it with everyone.  This is a father who knew how to have fun not only when I was a kid but when I grew up.  He was there to comfort me when my wife was having difficulties after giving birth to our daughter.  He was there when I graduated, he was there….   a lot of kids today don’t have fathers who are there and I count my lucky stars that my Dad made time for me and was there.  If I am half the Dad my Dad is I will be alright if I am just 1% of the father my Dad was my kids will be ok.

So what killed my father he wasn’t a smoker he hadn’t touched a cigarette in 34 years.  He wasn’t over weight 6′1 - 190 lbs, he didn’t have cancer, in fact if you were to meet my Dad 6 months ago you would think this is a man who is going to live into his 90’s instead he died at 69 just weeks after his birthday.  He died of a disease that kills more people then breast cancer is indiscriminate killing men, women, race, or color.  Why have you not heard of this disease well it typically affects people over the age of 65.  So for lack of better reason it’s because people don’t care about people in that age.  The disease is called Pulmonary Fibrosis and the numbers of people it kills a year are off.  They say 40K people die in the U.S. alone but that number could be low so low in fact that they think another 10-20K people die being wrongly diagnosed.  This disease has little research being done and the two groups that are doing research one is drug back and the other is non-profit back.  I don’t want to see this disease go down the route that so many others have no cure only treatments.  Currently there is not even a real treatment for the disease the only cure is a lung transplant.

If you want to help out you can contact www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org you can donate.

James