Jonathan (ジョナサン)

Old Friend and Day 5&6 of 10

    Talked to a Highschool buddy on AIM a week ago. He's back from Oregon, well, been back from Oregon for a year. He's been going to good old University of Tulsa for a year doing his law degree. I ate lunch with him today, chit-chatted. He's got a fiancee. That's another one that's being taken in by marriage before too long!! Crazy people I tell you, crazy people.

    So, Day 5, I kinda took it easy. I did 60 push-ups in the morning, and then I went and worked-out with Mr. Bryan, and did some push-ups there as well. I didn't time myself on any. Afterwards, I talked with him some about things, good upper body work-outs and good "diets" for helping with muscles, as well as getting some (I know I don't have much, but I do have a little "roll" around my belly) fat to go away. He said to do 3 reps each of push-ups, dips and both kinds of pull-ups. He also said he, of course this is for him personally, doesn't do weights much because it causes his hunger to go up so much, he'll eat too much. For food, he said high protein, high fiber, low carbs, low sugar. Less sugar and carbs (low insulin) means the body will eat away at the body instead of eating away at whatever is coming into the body.

    So, that was yesterday, and now it is today, Day 6. I did the, yet again, new work-out, and I did better than I've been doing. Though it's because I did it differently. Now I'm just doing 3 sets of push-ups, so I do the push-ups, stand up, kinda walk around, let my arms relax a bit, then do another set, walk around, then the last set. Now, dips, for those of you that don't know, are, at least in my case, as I don't have a gym, is where you raise your body to a roughly 45 degree angle by putting your arms behind your back straight down on a chair, then you lower your body and push-up. Works the triceps really well, boy, I did a set of 10, and was thinking, that wasn't hard, then I went to stretch my tricep, and man, did I feel it. Then was the pull-ups... unfortunatly I didn't get to do these. I thought I could do them on the arbor, but the wood was a little too thick, made it hard to get a good grib do do them, so I did another 3 reps of dips instead.

Wednesday 8/17 DAY
30 push-ups -> 31 sec
30 push-ups -> 38 sec
30 push-ups -> 42 sec
3 sets of 10 dips
3 sets of 10 dips
100 crunches -> 1 min 16 sec

    Now I need to finish up throwing away junk from my room (3 full garbage bags worth so far), and then organize it. I have all that I'm bringing to OSU downstairs, at least I hope I do, so that's taken care of. I think I'll do the work-out again tonight as well. [5:11PM]

    Not much has happened since earlier today, ended up doing my workout tonight, really starting to feel my triceps from those dips! Tomorrow I'll be heading off to Stillwater to take the last of my stuff up there. I'll be staying up there all of Thursday, and then coming back mid-late Friday, then back up there for school late Saturday. I'm coming back because I'll be helping out with another belt test, as well as a weapons seminar, which should be very interesting.

Wednesday 8/17 EVENING
30 push-ups -> 30 sec
30 push-ups -> 32 sec
30 push-ups -> 35 sec
3 sets of 15 dips
100 crunches -> 1 min 4 sec

    Well, now I think I'll head to "teh apartment" and hang with people. I do have Chiropractor at 11:30am, but not like I have to be "awake" for that.

    TUMEO.