Sunday, May 22, 2005
Catch up
A busy few days, which has left me a bit short of reflection time, so I will see how much I can prattle on before bedtime.
Finally hit the gym on Wednesday night, and did a hill workout on the bike, and some upper body weights. Some hefty smurf body builder types there - the ones that do wrist curls with the same weights I bench press, but feeling very comfortable just sticking to my program. Friday I went and did my fitness assessment, which was quite pleasing, given I haven't trained properly since mid February. For the statistical types, here are the results:
Blood pressure 110/76 - don't know what this means, but tester wasn't concerned, so nor shall I be.
Body fat 12% - a bit high for me, but hardly bothering the obesity statistics
Hamstring flexibility - ha ha ha - a score of minus four which is meaningless to me, but there was a lot of the ruler that I could barely read, let alone touch
VO2 Max - 62.9 - given the gym defines anything above 49 as 'Excellent' I was pretty pleased with this. Could have got a higher score if the tester hadn't talked to me the whole way through the test. I know that gym tests are not that accurate, particularly at the upper end, but this was a higher score than I was expecting, so I am glad to be carrying some residual fitness. My aim is to hold this figure for the next month or so before I resume training.
The various bicep, chest, waist, hip, thigh measurements were as small as expected, but once again, this will be good to use as a benchmark on the way to my Charles Atlas body. For the record, my measurements are 36/30/38 - not quite a supermodel! How a woman is supposed to realistically achieve 36/24/36, I have no idea. As Sir Mixalot says - "only if you're five two".
Had a good demo of RunDiary.net with Pat Carroll on Friday. This was my first demo to a 'non-sympathetic' audience (ie to someone who isn't going to be nice to me out of friendship), and my background on Pat is that he is a "spade's spade" man. So to keep him interested for 80 minutes (20 minutes longer than we'd scheduled) was very encouraging. Some good feedbacck on some of the more 'ambiguous' areas of the program, but there is some potentially to integrate the application into the work Pat does as a coach. To counter the warm-feelings I got, was the realisiation that there is a lot of work still to do.
Spent the next two hours wandering around the city, almost numb, as my whole week had been building to that demo, and for the first time in a month, I didn't have anything to do. Every time I'd see a competing concept or piece of software, I used to worry about whether we were on the right track. Now that things are nearly finalised, I have to stop worrying about the competition - we now have a brilliant piece of software. Trying to externalise the causes of success or failure is really just ducking my own responsibilites - it's up to me to make this thing a success.
Had a good night at the Striders awards night later that evening, although I arrived home pretty early and pretty sober. Devoted the weekend to spending time with the family, and resolving a few relationship issues that had been weighing on me for the past few weeks, meaning no work and no gym (and no SMH half spectating). Back to both those things tomorrow, with a much healthier perspective on life.
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I'm bedazzled by all those figures, measurements & numbers, Sparkie! You must be well on the way to that Charles Atlas body!
Sparkie, I haven't visited for awhile, but I had read somewhere or sometime on the boards of your 'new' goal, the Double D.
I was wondering, if you wouldn't mind, if you could send me a link to the post where you laid out WHY the change in goals.
Obviously not questioning, just interested in how the change occurred.
I'm sure you have some interesting times ahead!
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I was wondering, if you wouldn't mind, if you could send me a link to the post where you laid out WHY the change in goals.
Obviously not questioning, just interested in how the change occurred.
I'm sure you have some interesting times ahead!
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