sensiD’s BodyBlog

Last 4 weeks have been strange. Hours at gym shortened so I can not finish what I want to finish usualy. Motivation down due to that. Tired when I start due to work stress and haveing a hard time getting moveing usualy. This is not to sound like a "Wo is me!!" thing.

Yesterday I was not abble to motivate to do hardly anything other than walking the dog for a hour..and a few martial art combonations. Got into the gym today….

Had awosom workout!! Abble to squat more than I have been abble to in a while..same thing with sholder press and bent over row. Life is weard..just have to catch up on most of the weeks martial arts!!

This was on top of haveing a bad diet day..went to pizza hutt bufett..nuff said. I eat like I look like I do!

The world IS FUBARed to the nith degree. This probibly comes as no suprise to the majority of people who read the stuff I ocasionaly spew forth on this place..but todays example gets my hair in a bunch. This country and western society as a whole is suffering a epedemic of larded out children (Kids under the age of 10 getting type 2 diaobeties -but with thare tripla and quad chins why are people suprised) and adults, as well as the few who are trying to not be fat pigs (I am refering mostly to a sad portion of pre teen and highschool aged girls) attempting to do this by living on one bag of cheetoes a day or by stuffing a toth brush down thare throat so they can puke up the 8 slices of pizza and 2 milkshakes that they stufed in thare face becaus they tryed to live on one stick of cellery a day and thare wilpower was not up to it! These two extreems are a plague appon our country and pocketbooks (Think higher helth care costs) and our eyesight!!

 Now picture you work In a school, whare you have the chance to influence some kids to maby get of thare lard asses and work toward some fitness and atractiveness in a helthy manner insted of makeingt best frends with the toilot bowl. You just try to mind youre owne busness and read a fitness mag (Muscle mag) on your down time when your client, who you are only with because the powers that be are wimping out and not willing to give him the space he has earned, is not causing any problems so does not need your help. Some female students..who spend the day dressed in a maner that I would not allow my daughter (If I had one) to leave the house in, complane about the cover and You get told that you have brought inapropriat controband into the school. You are told this by the person that has told you not to writ kids up for saying "****" on the playground or for throwing things at each other, or for makeing anti semetic or anti mexican american comments. They pick fitness and a magizene promoting helth as a inapropriat problem. You could use the problomatic pics and situation as a lession about how advertising in used to influence americans (Sex sells) and children. You could talk to them about helthy ways to stay in shape. You could focus on the positive articles on nutrition and exercise, (Duck tape the kid to a chair and read all of the exercise articles to them untill thare eyes glaze over) as a way to provide education and help for them. But no..just call it inapropreat and prohibit it and let the other problems go..especaly the kids who tell teachers to "go to hell" and "**** off" That will help thare little minds and solve the problem.

You know haw anoying it is when you plan to go someware and the bus is late so you do not make it on time? You know what it is like to arange your day to do something and then others cancil it and you are left not being abble to do anything else worth while due to lack of time? How about the anger of seting out to fly somewhare but they overbook it and will not start the plain untill someone else is punished for thare messup by VOLINTERING to get of the plain and everyone else is stuck just sitting thare? And the two kings of them all for me….Getting to the gym and wating around for 1 1/2 hour to be told that your lifting partner is not comeing when he lives 5 minits away in town or less..getting to fighting practice and no one showes or calls so you just sit thare !!

 Know these last to can realy mess up your goals, especealy if you live in the middle of noware and have to drive pretty far out of your way to go to eather. Fighting practics (A full armored deal with real armor and sticks) is a awosome cardio workout so figures into the weeks cardio, so when it does not happen it is a definate setback..not to mention the skill level is real hard to maintain without adaquat opposition to struggle and test yourself against. Even worse when you are trying to attain a skill level in a basicle martial art whare you do not have tests to gage your advancement in rank and skill. The only yardsticks you have are how well you do on any given day in adaquat compotition or if you go up in rank by being voted in by those who already have the rank. Loss of regular practice can be a real setback.

Now lets think about weight workouts with out a partner. When you get to the point whare you are hoisting 350 to 450+ lbs of your chest it is a good idea to have a partner. It is important to have a partner who can actualy pull the weight of of you when you fail..going to failor being the way to move up in weight, so you will be failing, only a question of when..insted of bulling thare owne back out or just watching and calling the rescue squad. So when you schedule the 1 day a week to travel 2 1/2 houres out of your way with todays gass prices it is a bit anoying to be told after helping the persons parrents with rakeing thare lawn that the person is to tired to show up. Heck, even if you are that tired you could get in the car and come over long enough to just do the spotting.Or you could call sooner and say that you will not be makeing it so that the person is not wateing around for you!!

YA, this is a bit of a rant..but when you are trying to reach goals that require that you interact with others it is a real pain in the neck if they are not thare to interact with!! Then at other times you have to hear about not makeing thare growth/ strength goals or not improving in thare fighting skills as fast as I did or as fast as they want to. This is not WORLD OF WARCRACK, you can not just go up levels sitting on youre butt..you have to get out thare and work at it!! And if you complain to me about not reaching eather of those types of goals than my response will be "I was thare, whare were YOU!!!"

I"LL be home doing pell work(Hitting a tree or post with a stick to practice shots) and doing pushups..And wishing you (The complaning person) was tied to that post or tree!!!!

I am just happy these things are back up!!

Since I had a IEP meeting this day  …………(not shore who might reed this site and want no violations) I have a realy good reason to lift and workout today!!!! Burning off stress and anger is one of the biggest and best reasons to exercise. Anger feeds the soul and the arm!! That and a big helping of proten and createn!!

Are all blogs down or what?

Time to re evaluate the goals at the top of the bodyspace signe in. The dog and I were abble to run 2 and change miles this morning..Hell, at times I was pulling the dog to get him to hurry up insted of him pulling me. Hooray for me!! Horray for the dog!! Time to think of what challange to set next..althow I will wate on trying haveing it be the same distance for speed untill the snow and Ice are gone. Hills in northern VT + Psycho dog + Trying to sprint + Ice = NOT A GOOD IDEA!!

Hay..I can now run about a half mile with my dog with out my ankles acting up in a major way. Yippie for me and the dog! (Now if I can only get him to stop jumping up and punching me in the groin!) You gota love pupies!

Sunday the 9th of march had a sort of pathetic start. Basicly sat in bead late and forgot that it was the day to move the clock forward so got to church late and had to rush through brunch and walking the dog to get to swordfighting practice around on time after church. This got me off to an anoyed start. Then I got thare and weighted for about 1/3 hour and no one showed up. I left a message at the desk to tell people i was in the computer lab at the libary if anyone showed up. Checked my account at this site.

 Thankefully some of the guys showed up at about 2 (Practice is supposed to start around 12:30) so we got the armer and stuff on and got to practicing. With multiple bouts in a round robben format we went for about 1 1/2 hour before I broke fome of thare armer and tired out the other guy and smashed up his shield 6 ways from sunday. This left me with no ware as mutch workout as i had planed on and expected. Insted of going home and calling it a day in anoyance I went up to where the pull up machene was and did circuts of kenpo combinations and pullups. I got through about 80 combonations with sets of 5 and about 38 asisted pullups and chinups. Then I went home and took the dog for a short walk.

 The point being made here is that no mater what cropes up you can finish a workout or at least get one in no matter what changes in your day. The floor is always thare for pushups, mountanclimbers, lunges and squats. If you do a martial art than the forms and combinations are thare in your head. I have a frend who after the birth of his child and other issues with his family can not afford the time or muney to get to a gym so he does his martial arts practic with no partners and lifts multiple rocks in his back yard and is in exelent shape. Last time we spared he had not lost a step and was still an engaging and chalanging aponent. As long as you keep your goal in mind and  find some sort of motivation you can acomplish something toward your fitness goals every day..even if you have a late day at work..a long drive…and no time to stop at the gym. Do multiple sets of pushups and situpa without rest between sets untill you can not do any..stretch and call it a day. At least you did something and you can go to bead with no regrets or self recriminations.

Keep at it everyone.

When you are a kid and get a snow day it seems like a gift from the gods. Play all day and sleep in! Does not realy happen that way at 30+!

Snow shoveling, walking the dog (That one is fun), doing odd jobs around the house, arguing with wife about hou to do these odd jobs . The shoveling and dog walking use up some calories but not as manny as you did sledding and snowball fighting as a kid )I am from the generation before nintendo so i actualy did things on those days.

The enoying thing is on a day when you think you could get in extra exercise you end up getting to the gym later. Then you are more tired when you stare so you go slower to complete everything. Tharefore you get finished later, get home later, eat later and get to bed later so the next day is even harder than it would have been if you had just gone to work!! BUT….That is whate mental tuffness comes into play!! Both days just drive through and do it..maby more than you planed..just to prove to your limitations that they do not rule you.

"Creation is an act of pure will!" ya, it was from a dinasaur movie but it rocks! As does"Strength of will, Curage of will" which came from a gameing magizene. Both tie in well with a comment I herd on the site from waytotall "The weights won’t move themselves! And with that I am off!

NOTE: Wish i could find spell check on hers…..I am Dyslexic as ahh hell so give me a brake on the spelling!

 I will be at the university of potsdam in NY this weekend to take part in what I at times could argue is one of the most extreme sports that anyone could be crazy enough to engage in, SCA heavy list. SCA stands for society for creative anacronism. This is a groupe of like minded who find meaning in life engaging in activities that try to get a feal for the middle ages by actualy trying to do all the things they did (Althow no one trys to engage in suffering from the bubonic plage!) back then. This involves dressing up in funny clothes and doing all types of things from cooking, acting in period plays, brewing (yaa!!) and other things. My personal favorit is throwing on about 30lbs of armor and hitting my frends (And being hit by them) untill they say enough and fall over. Than we ger up and do it again.

 It might seem to be a little strange to here about this an a forum devoted to exercise but give it a second. These are not light hitting scripted events ware you know by the script who is going to win any individual fight, these are actual compotitions that you could compare to UFC meets "Gladiator" meets "13th woarior". Not to mention we also have battles with winners and losers and full contact. We hit hard also..I have put large dents in 13gage steel henmits more than once and receved bruses that took more than a weak and a half to START to fade. These are some of the hardest physical activitys that I have engaged in in my life. These compare in intensity and are almost as exousting as 7 hour blackbelt tests. If you are still not convinced that this is a sport and martial art than (you tube) SCA heavy list and see for yourself. I would argue that it is the closest that you can get to real feel wepon training without actualy causing lasting injury. But most of all….CARDIO…STRENGTH…ENDURENCE…what a RUSH!! Reach out and say" Who’s your DADDY?!!!"