TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

I leave in about an hour to go do some repair work on my rental property.  I know I always say I hate it, and I do.  I hate the rental business.  But I like doing repair work, I would just prefer it be closer to home, like my neighbors house.  I don’t want to repair my house, because that would imply my house needs repairs, and I don’t want that to be needed.

It’ll be nice to get out of Birmingham, because of the Woodward Dream Cruise.  There will be some really cool classic cars jamming the hell out of traffic.  I am outa here.

 I just read an article on hamstring development.  It has to do with pointing your toes during leg curls.  If you point your toes out, it disengages your calves, and forces more work on your hammies, if you point in though, you can curl more weight.  Plus you can switch up sets.  Plus you can switch up the rep, point out for the curl, point in for the release.  Now I have to try this.

T

My appointments are scheduled for every night, so the next time I can get to the gym is Saturday.  Plus I have Sunday available.  Next week is looking very similar.   Hmmmm……

That means lot’s of morning calestnic excercises.  Pushups, situps, leg lifts, crunches, some light weight rows and lunges etc.  Nothing too heavy during the week, and then hit it real heavy on the weekends.

My tris are real sore.  I ‘ve been working them heavy, and the last time was Monday night.  Here it is Thursday, and the DOMS are still with me.  I must have really pushed.  The Bis were hurting until yesterday.  Did some new stuff on Mondy too and got my hip flexors and exterior adductors to see some good action too. 

I love the total body workout.  I get a better feeling of accomplishment afterward rather than one day one body part.

T

Haven’t done one of these in a while.

It appears that for no reason at all, the stock market is falling.  It seems that some people are afraid that a few people who pushed too hard to get into their first home and are now defaulting will cause gold mining companies to not be able to sell gold to international traders, or pharmaceutical companies will not be able to supply drugs to sick people.

 This is, of course, a ridiculous market reaction to a small corner of the world having a problem.  There is no correlation between gold and subprime home borrower default, or pharma and subprime.  But none the less, all stocks and bonds and commodities are falling.  Even oil went down at the same time.

 Good news.  Is this the 10% correction everyone has been waiting for?  Well, if the DOW hits 12,600 tomorrow, it is definitely it.  Then we cn go back to business as normal.  I checked the options.  They are rich.  Itisn’t worth it to bet the market is going up, because everyone in the know, knows it is, and the options prices have been bid way up.

I wish I had a bunch of money….

225 grams of protein and carbs per day, and 45 grams fat.  That’s about 2500 cals.

 As I sit her piggishly chewing on my ham and cheese on tortilla sandwich, I am considering level protein concept.  Should I be targetting 30 to 50 gram of protein per meal, or is it ok if a meal every once in a while is low and another is high?

OK, so now that I have remembered to cut cals to 2500 per day, what should the macros be?  I am thinking 200 protein, 50 fat, and the balance in carbs (200 or so). 

Today is the first day working on that, and it may not be a good example day.  I am out of most foods in the freezer, and need to go shopping.  Plus at work we had a lunch provided meeting.  It was actually healthy: salad, spaghetti, chicken and bread.  All good stuff from a good restaurant.  I logged it in as best I could on fitday, it should work out, but I won’t be able to replicate it tomorrow because it won’t be available.

As I was totalling up my cals for the day, it came to 2439. Then I remembered I was supposed to drop down to 2500 last Friday. oops.  Oh well, it worked out for the picnic on Sunday.  roast pig the Italian way, called Porchetta.   Mmmmm…. goood.

 The porchetta was served with pasta, salad, cookies, and more.  I ate good.

 well, it is corrected now.  Look for a 6 pack in the weeks to come right here on your station for TDetroit.

Update on the bunnies, 1 died.  But I think at least 2 will definitely live.  Apparently there will be a funeral this afternoon.

 Had a club pic nic yesterday.  As a last minute change, they put me in charge of the bocce tournament.  Great, there is nothing like a bunch of Italians yelling at you for 3 hours on a hot Sunday afternoon. 

 In the end, there was a winner and they received 4 bottles of wine.

They were in his garden.  He must have chased away the mother, and then discovered the babies later.  Then he made the colassal mistake of touching them.  Now the mother won’t take them back.  So he put them in a box to take care of them.

Problem is the special needs of baby animals.  Now he wants me or my sister to take them so the kids can keep them as pets.  They are probably doomed to death.  Thanks, dad.  I want my mom to take them, because she has been through this before.  My sister and I can’t do it, because we are too busy and we are both going on vacations in the next few weeks,  Plus mom is retired.

Damn, now we have to watch these bunnies blow up and die.  That’s crappy.  Maybe a vet will take them.

OK, so the Fed raised interest rates to slow down the economy and prevent a boiling over.  It all looked good until sub-prime borrowers (those with credit scores below 600) were faced with adjustable mortgages whose payments went up, and they couldn’t afford to make the payment, thus leading to mortgage default. 

Another situation leading to the defaults was that it was not worth it to fight for the ownership.  As interest rates went up, house values came down, so sub-prime borrowers who borrowed 100% to get into the home had no reason to keep the home where they owed more than it is worth.

 Here’s the answer, drop the interest rates.  Let’s see what happens.  It fixes the sub-prime worries by adjusting the mortgage payments back down, and increasing the home values.  Problem, it allows the overheating of the economy.

What if we add to it.  Let’s move the FHA requirement back up to 5% or 7%.  This will keep the housing markets slow, thus depressing the home values, thus removing the liquidity with which the American consumers would use to cause the economic overheating.

 So what have we done?  We have allowed home onwership by sub-prime borrowers who olny got in during the low interest rate period, but eliminated the current problem facing the financial markets, and not allowed and economic overheating.

(all things being the same, and in the relevant range)

T

The total body lifting program.  Not bad, it took 1.5 hours with only two conversations (one with a trainer, and one with my State Senator).  I think I under lifted though, I could have put more weight on the bars and machines. 

The order was great, the next body part was always away from the previous, so there was no nearby exhaustion to contend with.  Biceps to quads to back to calves etc.  Each body part was ready when it’s time came.  I will have to refine it a little, especially while waiting for the shoulder to heal.