Since my last post, I have been either running on the treadmill or going to the gym

Last week I did boxing one night and Muay thai 2 nights and the second night i did an hour of drills, then an hour of sparring which i wasnt ready for because I didnt have the gear i needed, like a mouth guard, cup, and shin pads. So i got pretty mangled.

I have all that gear now in my gym bag so im ready for next time.

And two days i didnt go to the gym during the week i ran on the treadmill. One day i did 5 minutes with the weighted vest and it really burned the hell out of my legs.

My goal is to lose a good 20 pounds at least, in 4 months so i can start to do some in house fights.

Its good to have goals, and once you accomplish ones you have, make some more.

I have been able to finish school, get a career, and do some travel. So now i want to work towards these new ones for now.

I still need to eat better. I am doing somewhat better, but not always. Sometimes ill still crave a slice or two of pizza , or some chips or pop.... those are hard to fight still.... Im trying to replace pop with flavoured carbonated water and trying to get tortilla chips instead of regular chips , and pizza i still fall for ...... I love pizza.



Music video for the day.... Bebe Rexha.... shes great.

Update

  I haven't posted in this for ages because I didn't work out much at all while I was finishing up school.

After graduating , I couldn't find a job right away so I took a landscaping job to hold me over while I kept looking. That job paid well but it was 12 to 15 hour days of labour so i'd work all day then get home and pass out and do it again. For about a month. After sending out tons of resumes and making phone calls, I saw an ad online for a technician at a dental equipment company. I know a friend who does this at another company and it seemed great, so I sent an online resume right away.

I got an interview and immediately quit my landscaping job. ( I don't recommend doing this as there were no guarantee id get it.) So anyway, I go to the interview.... They call me in and I sit down with Ken, who is the guy who was the current technician. He starts by saying , so why don't you start by telling me about your experience at so and so company and this and that. 

I was so confused because the company and things he talked about were not relevant to me at all. So I said... um, I think you have the wrong resume....

He said oh this is Andrew somethings resume... hold on ... and he leaves to get mine. So while sitting there I'm thinking.. Damn they thought I was Andrew and meant to call him and not me... crap..

So he comes back in with my resume and I'm still thinking that they had no intention to call me. 

He sits down and says oh ok well give me a minute to read this over as I had the other one read and not yours....

We had the interview, and it went well regardless. So at least I knew I'm in competition with this Andrew guy.

They said they would contact me next week sometime. They ended up contacting me the next day for a second interview with the man in charge.... Awesome

So I go to the second interview and sit in the Office of Jack. A young professional energetic man and we talked about all kinds of things, he asked if I mind travel, if I had kids , and other things. the interview went well. He said hed call within 2 weeks. 

I got an email the next day from them saying to come in the following Monday to start... I've been at this job about 4 months now and its great. on my 3rd month I got sent to Costa Rica and Colombia to train other technicians there... yes I train people now... damn. IN only 4 months ive come a long way in the company.... And I love it. Great people, the bosses are incredible and the sales people ive met were great and the office girls are great too. 

As for working out. I started to go more after getting this job because I had time in the evenings now and wasn't killing myself physically all day. Problem was I was tired still so id come up with excuses to skip the gym. So id go maybe once a week and you all know that going once a week is a complete waste of time and money.

One day at Walmart I started looking at some supplements and decided to pick 2 up. One was CLA to help metabolize fat and the other was a testosterone booster. I grabbed that because I haven't felt like myself for quite a while. Sluggish not enthusiastic.... So I grabbed it they were really cheap and figured they cant hurt.

Well right away after taking the T booster I had more energy and I was motivated to go to the gym , or to run on the treadmill at home. So ive been working out at least 4 days a week now compared to 1....

I have noticed I'm better at running now. I now to a 5 minute fast walk warmup, then a 5 minute run with a 20 pound weighted vest, then a 5 minute fast walk, then 10 minutes more of running. 

At the gym taking boxing or muay thai , I have more energy and am outlasting the young slimmer guys. I hope to keep up my motivation and energy because its great so far. 

I need to start doing more weights as well. I try to go to the gym right after work, get in at least 30 minutes of weights before boxing or muay thai start .

After running with the weighted vest. Pop this thing off and go for the next 15 minutes....

And like I used to do heres the workout hype up song of the day. I love this song .

Don't go to the gym today, but will try to go to Muay Thai and then Boxing if I have energy after...
I did do weights yesterday morning between classes at school though.

I did biceps with some dumbbell curls, and some hammer curls, then some triceps. I tried to do bench press but my left shoulder couldn't take it. So I went on the machine and did some chest, which was easier on the shoulder.

I also did some shoulder presses. This shoulder has been giving me trouble for months...

Lastly, I hit the stationary bike for 10 minutes. It wasn't much but I was tired from staying up late doing assignments.

That's about it. Slow progress, but it was something. I wasn't going to go yesterday but I managed to drag my ass to the gym.

I think going to boxing or muay thai tonight will be good.

So its been slow going fitness wise for 2017, but I hope to slowly get better. I did do some pushups and sit ups last night , but I was too tired to do any running. I was going to go to a Mauy Thai class but I didn't have a car last night. I hope to go to boxing tonight though.

Today though, after my morning programming classes, I did go to the school gym. I did 20 minutes on the stationary bike at level l6 with a consistent 16.9 intensity. It felt really good on my legs. I really need to regain my leg strength and endurance.

I also did some shoulders and was really careful because my left shoulder is still in pain and in some positions I have a hard time lifting with that arm. I did do the shoulder press though and it felt fine.

I also did some chest , but not the press I did that machine where you grip the handles and push them out infront of you. My left shoulder had a hard time starting that motion.

Lastly, I did some shrugs with 65 pound weights. I didn't go nuts , as I'm trying to ease in, and I still have 4 hours of class, then I want to go to boxing, so its going to be a long day and I don't want to exhaust myself.

When I started this blog  I talked about how I recently ended a 4 year relationship and how it was a tough decision. Well it was , and there were many times I questioned my choice. not to mention I missed the young kid who thought I was his dad. That's one thing to consider when getting into a relationship with a woman who has kids. You could get along really well with them and things can work out and that's great, but on the other hand things can go south and then you pretty much have to leave the kids behind even though you developed a father /son , father/daughter relationship with them.

Women with kids though deserve to find love as well as anyone else and I wont be a person to say to avoid them at all cost, just be very careful when entering into a relationship like that. In my case, it didn't work out, and while there were times she was great, most of the time she wasn't.

I went out of my way for her and her kids all the time. I spent lots of time and money on them. Though my birthday last year? She didn't even mention it. It came and went and she said nothing. Then I was upset and asked her why she didn't say anything , she just said she forgot. No apology , no making up for it, nothing. The year before that , she at least acknowledged it, she didn't do anything for me for it.

She didn't have much money and for the time I knew her, she was jobless 3 of the 4 years. I'm the one who pushed her to fix her resume and go job hunting and so on. But I remember for Christmas I spent a good 1000 dollars on her and a few hundred on her kids. She bought me some 10 dollar beer taster glasses from Walmart....

Its not about spending money . but I would have preferred something with effort. Make me a nice dinner or something. That would have been great.

Anyway, recently I tried to see if we could work things out. I don't know why. But she ended up showing her selfish bitchy side right off the bat , accusing me of being lazy (ive worked since we met , and once I started school, my days were filled with school, work and homework....but she calls me lazy. She spends a lot of time in bed sleeping. I went over one time to take her and her kids out it was about 1 PM on a Saturday and she was in bed and so was everyone else......

Anyway, it just cemented my view that she blames everyone else for her problems. She always had to be right and her opinion was the only one that mattered and if you didn't have the same one she did then you're an idiot.

I know I would be miserable in life if I stayed in that relationship, or if I try to go back to it. We are too different, and I'm too easy going and love not being serious and just having fun, to have to watch what I say or do every second of the day.

I like lots of things. I like video games, I like comics, I like going to martial arts classes, and going out with friends, and watching movies. If I spent more than 10 minutes on a video game shed flip out. If I wanted to visit a friend, she wanted to come, even if it was just me and another friend having some guy time. I don't want to keep going on and I definitely don't want to trash talk her. The point is , don't stay in a relationship that makes you feel trapped, unhappy or even depressed. Its not worth it. There are many people out there who you will click with and get along with on many levels , who will make you feel good about yourself. Stick to those people and don't settle for less.

I'm less than 4 months from finishing my college course, and I feel like I'm that close to starting a new life for myself. I'm very excited to see what the future holds especially now that I feel like I'm starting fresh.

2017

Well the holidays are over and its back to school for my final semester of Computer Programming and its back to the gym. Today was my first day of classes and I also used the gym at school. I just did some biceps, tris and shoulders today.

I took a pre workout to help with energy levels because over the holidays my sleep pattern got so messed up that I was staying up until 5 am then sleeping until 4 pm or so... Though I got it more or less under control in the last week I still feel a bit out of it. Plus I have been sick since Christmas. I still have a cough and my head still hurts a bit so I'm not 100 percent just yet.

The bad thing about using a pre-workout is that they tend to make you have to go to the bathroom. So I did my workout, then went and got a some food at the caf, then went to my car to leave my gym bag and get my laptop for upcoming classes, but it hit me and I had to get to a bathroom....

Luckily I'm like George Castanza when it comes to washrooms at school and I know the cleanest ones with the best handicap stalls. So after a long break from any physical activity and sitting around, sleeping and eating like a tub of lard, the weights felt good. I'm still shakey a bit because my muscles aren't used to it.

As for school, this is my final semester, unless something goes horribly wrong and I mess something up, but I wont. I have 5 classes this semester. Mobile Development, where we learn how to make apps for mobile devices, Object Oriented Programming 3, where we learn C++ programming. Web Development where we learn to make websites and program in PHP, HTML, Java and so on...Database Management which is how it sounds and lastly Mainframe development. Where we learn COBAL and learn to manage mainframes............ So it should be a pretty good semester, but it seems like it will be a really busy one.

I just need to stay on top of things for 4 months and graduate. So far a good start to 2017 though its only been just over a week.

I hope in general 2017 is better than last year. I don't like the way things are going with how people get offended by everything. Tweets that celebrities make, pictures they post, marketing ads that people find stupid things to get upset over. I think people need to relax and realize that not everyone is out to get them.

I for one refuse to apologize for certain things. I lately have been getting into debates/arguments with religious people on YouTube over videos of "real ghosts and demons caught on tape!!"

I make fun of how they thing these obvious fake videos are real proof of demons. I also make fun of people who tell stories of how their cat once fought off a demon.... and so on. I'm thinking of copying those conversations and posting them here for entertainment.

I do make fun of god and religion and so on at times , and some people tell me I shouldn't. Though why not? IMO, god isn't real and religion is man made, so its fair game to poke fun at and show just how ridiculous it can be. If you take offense to stuff I say, then don't talk to me. I wont censor myself.

That said, I'm not out to pick on anyone and I'm not out to piss anyone or any group off. If it happens though.... shit happens.

So I think that's it for now. I think the gym song of the day will be from The Game because its what I was listening to last before I finished my workout.

Been a while....

I haven't written anything in a while because I haven't been doing much. As the end of the semester of school that just ended I had a ton of school work. Lots of assignments , final projects and group work to do and some tests as well so I wasn't going to the gym. I was sitting a lot and eating crap and staying up really late.

I did end up going for a run on the treadmill yesterday and I want to go again tomorrow. My gym is closing for the holidays on the 22nd I think. So I wont be going to do that for a little while. Probably not until the new year.

Until then ill try to not go crazy eating. Lots of stress is off because I did pretty good in school and go into my final semester soon. Stress now is coming because money is really tight. I've been trying to get EI for 3 or so months now but my last employer has been holding me up because she claims I stole her equipment. I didn't.

Anyway I hope that gets dealt with soon. That would take a bunch of stress off.

I did do a part time job in the beginning of the school year but they started making me work 6 days a week and when id ask for days off because I'm a student they never did. So I had to quit so that I was up until 5 am every day doing homework and having to get to class by 8 am.

Right now my big issue is my sleep pattern in way off. I'm up until about 5 am then I sleep till noon then do stuff and pass out around 6 pm until 8 or 9 then I'm up until 5 am again. Might need to get some pills to help me sleep and get back to normal.

Hope to do another treadmill run tomorrow....

Another Muay Thai Class.

So today (last night, I left this and finished it the next day.)after a couple days off I went to the evening Muay Thai class. it was really good. Worked mostly on form , but it was also a great workout. Working on form is important because when your muscle memory is well trained , then your moves will start to come out far more consistently. You want your kick to always come out the same , you want your hook to come out the same and so on.

So I get a little disappointed when I throw a kick and end up of balance because I know that I used to be a lot better at that kick. Or It doesn't have the power I expected in it. That's what happens when you stop doing things you enjoyed. You get bad at them and most times you just stop doing it and never come back to it.

Well I want to get back to where I was and go beyond that. I know that to do that I will have to start lifting weights again more regularly and also make sure I stretch as well because I was a lot more flexible a while back which helps with high kicks and it also help in jui jitsu because the more flexible you are the easier lots of the moves are to pull off as well as the easier it is to get out of holds and locks. If youre not flexible you are prone to tapping out early.

So today I did a treadmill run for 30 minutes. 10 minutes of that was a warmup and 20 was interval running and walking. My calves hurt before the run and so I wasn't sure how long I would last. I remember that at some point that pain goes away and your muscles are then used to the activity and that's really where you can work on improving more.

I will check my weight on Monday to see if there was any improvement yet, but if there is it wont be much because I still didn't eat all that well.

I've been doing nothing but school lately so tonight I'm going out to have a couple drinks with a friend.

Anyway, song of the day.
I just came across this today and it was catchy and damn just check out Nicole....