Football Epilogue

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Tuesday League headline: "Davies horrid on the approach, immaculate around the green: plays his handicap and eeks out the win. Not quitting day-job anytime soon."

After impressing my daughter by doing dips on some steel rails at a local sandwich shop, I hit the gym in what felt like the first time in a month. Well it was actually a week-and-a-half. Some of the slacking was from being on travel for work, getting in a few more rounds of golf and doing some yard-work/gardening with the kids, so it wasn't a total slump. What has slumped some is my diet, I'm having a hard time going a day without either the doughnut or beer fairy visiting. Also my portion control is a little out of ...control. My (ex)wife started doing Weight Watchers  and I know in the past loosely using their "point" system to at least quantify my food intake has helped. Perhaps some healthy eating motivation will rub off on me. It's key to keep looking forward and not dwell on that way too calorie-laden dessert I had the other day. That just results in a craving.

Those white specks...they're snowflakes on my first day of league play...

https://www.facebook.com/clevelandbrowns/videos/vb.87392379683/10153286649339684/?type=2&theater This is essentially a Physics lesson on keeping your center of mass "centered". I remember being one of the quickest guys at Hamline (all 325 lbs of me at the time) on "dot" drills (jumping to different dots on a patterned mat) simply from the fact that I realized my motion was a lot faster if my "lineman balast" stayed as stationary as possible. This is a cool video.

I had a friend post something today about showing up a guy in her Bodypump  fitness class doing lunges . It quickly brought back to my mind my few humbling experiences with Bodypump, and group fitness classes. Bodypump is a combination strength training and cardio fitness class focusing on supersets and combination lifts in a near continuous, highly repetitive nature. Upon moving to MN the wife and I joined the local YMCA. She was big into the fitness classes so I decided, moreso agreed, to try a Bodypump class with her. It proved to be an excellent workout, but in the first class my "football ego" got in the way a bit. I had adequate strength and endurance to make it through the cleans, rows and such. ...then came lunges. I remember loading up on the weight and doing my big guy show of brute leg strength thing. Part way through the workout the trainer singled me out and told me that I was "doing it all wrong" and to lower my weights. This put me at a weight l...

Not to wax sentimental, but I love golf. I'm in the process of acquiring enough "recent rounds" to get a handicap for my 9-hole league which starts on Tuesday. This morning I played 18 holes (two rounds) at the  Brookland Golf Park . The local municipal course I grew up playing. I was on the course even before the club house opened and had the course essentially to myself. I remember always being fascinated by this potentially brutal to the psyche and cost prohibitive game. I have early memories of wanting my dad to get down his clubs in the garage and hitting whiffle balls in the backyard with my next door neighbor. I think what sinched it though was playing the occasional 9 or at least walking along with my uncles in Montana. The golf was fun, the company was good and rolling dice in the bar afterward kept it interesting. Anyhow, I'm glad I have some good before Tiger (BT) experiences to make this more than just a passing fad.

2.5 Mile run, Super Set (SS) Assisted Pull-ups/Body weight squats Dips SS Bent-over Dumb-bell rows/side bends/lunges I think throwing in the lower body stuff in the SS's had me feeling a little funny.

I'm the proud, but obsessive compulsive, owner of a FitBit . I thought I lost it last week when I went for a run around a local lake. It magically appeared yesterday in my vehicle though. This had me very happy. One thing I enjoy is the racking up of my step count during the day at work. I'm usually happy if I can get >5,000 in before I head home. In support of that, my latest querky goal is to get my step count over 1,000 before I sit down at my desk. In some respects this is easy as I have to walk around and check on the status of my projects and the technicians. In others, I just want my coffee and to sit and read my email. I'm viewing this as an opportunity to prescribe a little more structure to my on goings and am hoping it will lead to getting other small tasks done promptly (e.g. turning in my timecard, yes even PhD's have timecards), freeing my brain all the further to do the more valuable things.

2 mile run Tummy time (four corners: crunches, leg raises, leg side-to-side, planks) SS - Lat Pulls/Lunges SS - biceps "21's"/DB side pull Done!