Friday, September 18, 2009

Another long overdo Nick Update #3

Since Mai is in college, and I am still the responsibility-free shmuck I've always been for 90% of my life--it's up to me to keep this thing running!

Well I kinda got rocky in the upkeep of my exercises for a couple of weeks, due to MAJOR magical interference. Basically, I've been working with a lot of things that involve the proper and successful development of my wizardly being, and I've been doing(and am doing) FANTASTIC in that regard. Finally it got to the point where I needed to improve myself physically as well. So two days ago I had this INSANELY powerful urge to work myself out and once and for all, kick all this excess flab off my body.

So I have begun working out three times a day, and so far I feel freaking GREAT! I do 13 exercises in the morning when I wake up, and then five more in the afternoon, and then six more in the early evening. They're not anything that kills me all at once, they're spaced out in terms of reps, like I was talking about in my last post. So right now I'm starting off nice and easy. The exercises that I am doing(and their reps) are:

Hindu squats: 20 for a total of 60
Pushups: 5 for a total of 15
Table makers: 5 for a total of 15
Situps: 10 for a total of 30
Wrist rollers: 2 for a total of 8
Back bridge: 1 minute for 2 minutes total
Front bridge: about 30 seconds for 1 minute total

------ These exercises I do only once in the morning when I wake up, along with the ones above---

Stomach flattener: 1 minute total
Stomach vacuum: 5 seconds each rep, to a total of 50 seconds
Arch bends: 10 total
Side bends: 50 total
Waist turners: 100 reps
Trunk rotations: 5 in each direction, 10 total

And there it is! To strike down preemptive questions: Yeah I'm taking it REALLY slow with pushups, but that's fine. The goal was to start off at an easy pace so I could start by enjoying the movements without having to push myself to the edge from the very beginning. And as for the wrist rollers, if you have not actually done them, you know nothing. That's a good amount for rolling one's wrists.

I've also stopped timing my bridges, I found that when I worked with a timer it generally made the exercises unenjoyable and annoying. So I just do the exercises, and when I feel that I've held them long enough, I get up. So those times are just guesswork.

Anyway! Things are going great. I feel friggan fantastic, REALLY balanced. It's like I'm getting all the elements of my being onto the same level; mentally, emotionally, and physically--and being balanced is awesome.

I vowed not to weigh myself till the end of the month, so I could see an actual difference, so no weight-update yet.

Until...next week? Maybe? We'll see.

Nick---

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