YES. I. CAAAN!!!
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[quote=“hattieinduni, post:160, topic:1523558”]stroking my Dublin cat[/quote]There’s no way that’s meant to be taken literally. 
On topic - There are actual groomed trails in the city where I’ve been spending my weekends… level, paved, smooth, with groomed landscaping, with little commercial malls nearby (one of which contains a Starbucks, Indian, Mexican, Italian, Japanese restaurants (and some other ones I haven’t checked out), and a bubble tea place with a surprisingly extensive menu of odd food). I think I’ve come across a route that will make a ~10 mile loop, which I’ll be confirming here momentarily. I definitely prerfer off-road rides deep in the woods, but this is pretty nice.
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Hit the scale at 266lbs this morning.
Training consistency has been great over the past month. The addition of leg work has been nice, but I must be careful. Physical appearance continues to improve along with strength. I have reintroduced some powerlifting techniques into my bench training and it’s going well. All in all a very productive month.
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At the hotel in San Diego: have been hammering the gym and running (up the MLK promenade and back down the waterfront) a bunch before and after the tradeshow. It snowed at my house this weekend, but it’s sunny and warm here!
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Just went for a run for the first time in quite a while. Ow!! Feel excellent now though…
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Had a guy ask me for a spot on squat today. I’ve made it boys.
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This came immediatly to my head befor i read that xD
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Inadvertently tightened the resistance on my exercise bike when I was fiddling with it, so the last two sessions have been harder than previously! All going well though, have done over 235k and am beginning to have thighs for the first time in a while…
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Rode the workout bike for the first time in a long time while watching John Wick.
I plan on getting a workout sledgehammer in the future with my workplace’s reimbursement. I was thinking about getting a tractor tire and buy a fiberglass handle sledgehammer but with the reimbursement I can take the safe route.
Bought some Optimum Protein off of the website I usually lurk on and I am rather impressed with how fast it dissolves and how good it tastes. Than again from what my co-worker told me it has been around for a while. Bought some benefiber as well.
Went back into a high weight, low rep workout as I was dissatisfied with my performance. At the rate I am going I will have to get a new deadlift bar and get a squat rack in the future eventually.
Update: Accidentally dropped one of my dumbbells and destroyed it while trying to push the limit in bench presses. Left arm gave out and it just went thump onto the ground. Since I need a new one I went ahead and ordered the sledgehammer.
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So I go for a run at my gf’s house this weekend, and there are some stickers on the ground for a 5k run for stroke awareness. “Okay, sure”, I say, so I start following the orange stickers. Part way in, I lose the trail and figure I’ll go back the way I came to where I started and follow them backwards (an actual 5k route would be handy, so I want to figure out what they had lined out). Then that trail goes cold and I make different loop home (just to mix it up a little). 8k later I’m back home with no idea what route they had in mind, but a good run under my belt regardless.
Finally got the 12 pound corefitness sledgehammer I ordered. Swung it in the garage for about half an hour and both the heat and the movement got me drenched that I had to take my glasses off. Might go up and do it again.
NO PAIN NO GAIN.
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Keep at it!
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I just did some vigorous cycling. Whereas a few weeks ago I could only manage 5 minutes at my highest tolerable gear (it does go one higher… soon!) I now managed 20. I often need to push myself a bit to get on the bike in the first place but once I do I feel better for it.
Oddly enough whenever a sledgehammer or coal shove is involved with outdoor work I am usually the first to jump on it and sweat buckets. The last time I used a sledgehammer was to knock down a 30 by 20 barn. I used the hammer to knock the siding off from the inside (one of those cheap barns with no insulation) before doing the same with the beams. I couldn’t move for a week afterwards without my muscles screaming bloody murder.
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Over three days, I’ve hauled five truckloads of wood (California Live Oak logs, so they’re these thick, ropy, dense things, some so heavy I can barely pick them up; some small enough to carry a few in my arms) across a field (maybe a couple hundred feet) and tossed them over a fence. They were then lifted and stacked into my truck, and later unloaded and re-stacked at my house.
…so many freakin’ BTUs; got a good upper-body workout, and this wood can heat my house for two, maybe three years, depending on the severity of the winter. There’s more workout where that came from when I get around to splitting all this. 
What’s a BTU?
British Thermal Unit (a measurement of heat); one of the ways we rate firewood is the BTU count in millions per cord (and this is the most BTU-dense stuff that I know of in the United States).
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Nice man. 
I thought BTUs were only for furnaces and water heaters xD
Been using the corefitness sledgehammer for little over a week now and love it. Been trying to do half an hour or more a day with various workouts with it and have had to remove my glasses due to badly I sweat.
So I go for a run today (got a route down here in the “city” that’s pretty nice, a hair over 5K), and I figure I’ll bring a pair of 5 pound (2.26kg) weights with me to swing around while I run. You know, because they’re light.
I did manage to run 3k, but it was pretty rough… I was impressed at how taxing slinging that weight around was on my ability to run. This’ll be my new short-term goal: get comfortable running a 5K with those weights. I may get a lighter set for home to practice (the home route involves hill/rock climbs for most of it).
I will be losing more weight this year, and am going to have a fun time doing it. 