Sunday May 8, Day 21

OK, the dreaded drive home day. Again, my body is getting messed up. Sleeping at the moment is interesting. I went to bed (actually couch) last night at 10pm. I saw the most amazing display of stars and was expecting to watch a bit more of the Canucks game, but ended up falling asleep before I could get either done.

I still don't know who won the Canucks game. Meh, I was really saddened by the fact that I saw the most incredible show in the night sky for about ten minutes, then promptly fell asleep.

I go to bed early, so I wake up early. Stupid early in this case. I saw some pre-sunrise stars too, but they weren't as nice as the night ones. It was still pretty cool. One of the advantages of getting to go to a cottage in a dark part of the country.

In any case, I got up early, took the kids for a drive and got some pictures done.




When I got home, I had two of the kids, as the middle child had to swim. So, I hung out with my children, watched movies on Youtube as we've given up cable. Eventually, we're going to go without a land line, putting that money towards debt. I hate debt.

I got the kids in bed and did this for three rounds before being interrupted by domestic needs: I needed to get groceries then off to bed.

30 BW squats
30 feet up push ups
6 chin ups
20 two handed KB swings
10 Kb snatches each side

This is going to be along week, man. I'm hoping that the little break I got on the weekend will be that thing that gets me 'till Friday.


...and this is the last post. On to the APA style report...

Saturday May 7, Day 20

Saturday I woke up at the usual time, 5:50am. So did my kids, so I rounded them up and took them out of the cottage so that others could sleep. I have a newborn, so we drove. When we got back I did a workout best described as "MovNat" ...

Did five rounds of this:

walk up 8m of hill in low crouch, leaping from rock to rock
free climb big rock
30 BW squats
30 push ups, various hand positions/ feet heights
continue up another 15m free climb of hill/vertical rock to top of hill.
Sprint down to start (about 50 metres)









Seriously, it was pretty cool and tiring. There is a path, which I must say that last year, made me cringe when I got to the top. This time, no such problems. Lots of trips up and down, lots of cut down saplings brought up... there was even one I canoed out from under a tree, hoisted it onto the dock and then up to the top of the hill within a few minutes. I'm in not bad shape, man.

My diet was simply awful, though.

Breakfast: fruit and coffee

Snack: doritos, water to drink (yeah, I know, I will mention this in the report)

Lunch: chicken caesar salad - light on the chicken, heavy on the salad

Dinner was a glorious steak, grilled red and green peppers with grilled zuchinni, too. Desert was a piece of pecan pie.

Friday March 6 Day 19

Friday was a training day - that is, I was given a day to catch up on work. ;)

I ate this:

Breakfast: steak and eggs, coffee to drink

Snack: water and walnuts

Lunch: tuna on salad, water to drink.

Dinner was salmon and veggies, huge salad, water to drink

I drove to a cottage for the weekend on Friday, so my workouts were 20 minute goes of lifting stuff to the van and packing. Or unpacking.

Day 18

Right. Tough day - allergies are just kicking my butt right now ... and I'm starting rugby.

I ate this:

Breakfast roast beef and poached eggs. Awesome. coffee on the way in

snack: walnuts, carrots. water to drink

lunch; tuna, carrots, no salad, walnuts, water to drink.

dinner: one small piece of roast beef, asparagus. water to drink

after rugby snack: beef on a bun

Rugby started at 7pm, went until 8:30. After that finished, did this for four rounds:

50 m sprints x 4
20 two handed kb swings
10 kb snatches each side
30 push ups
30 BW squats

I got it done. I got it done.

And someone else commented on my ability to get around the pitch, which I thought was pretty cool.

Wed May 4, Day 17

I'll have to check, but I have rarely felt this lousy. Seriously. The youngest is just not letting me sleep and I'm not sure about a lot of things, but my diet is not helping me at all. I'm guessing now.

Am I not eating properly because I'm tired, or am I tired because I'm not eating properly. I was tired three weeks ago, stressed with work and with the newborn ... is that was is not letting me sleep? Is my insomnia coming back, along with all of the wonderful mental health stuff that brings with it. Ugh. Perhaps its the complete lack of any sunshine that is making me this way. I'm arriving at work in the mornings and I'm just barely able to drag myself over the threshold to get in there. This isn't like me.

I skipped tonight's workout, too. Just had no stuff to get off of the couch and get it done. I really wasn't on the couch. I was cleaning the kitchen, doing laundry, making sure my kids were ok and the like. Getting stuff ready for work tomorrow and making my plans to get the heck out of dodge for the weekend.

Yeah, not hanging around here, waiting for people just to dump on my head, thanks.

I need some time to recover, or at least some time to start to recover, as I'm not quite done yet.

I ate this today:

Breakfast: small piece of salmon and poached eggs. Water to drink, coffee on the way in.

Snack Water and more water.

Lunch: water. Tuna sandwich with hummus, carrots, walnuts and more water.

Dinner: roll, home made pizza with my daughter. Lots of Scottish rugby video podcast on the Apple tv. Those were some fun games to watch.

But, I just didn't get into my gym today. Rather off-putting, to be frank. I mean, it's a circle of self defeat if I keep thinking about it.

So, I'm not going to. I'm off to bed. Hated today, loved my family.

Tuesday May 3, day 16

I can barely recall what day it is by now. I keep having to check on the top right hand of the Macbooks' screen to make sure.

I ate this today:

Breakfast: canatlope with coffee on the way in.

Snack: walnuts, hummus and carrots. Water to drink.

Lunch; the usual, tuna, salad, carrots, hummus... prunes. Water.

after work snack: bread and chimichurri sauce

Dinner: chicken breast, rice and a huge salad.

There was no workout today - just some stretching and recovery work. Back and shoulder are hurting today.

Monday May 2, Day 15

It was a long day today, man. Anyway, it was a decent day for my health.

Ate this:

Breakfast: sliced cantalope. (one buddy of mine was speaking to me on Saturday night about too much meat in my diet. I took his advice and altered my diet today.) Coffee to drink.

Snack: I was hungry at break, so I ate some walnuts, had an apple and some water to drink.

Lunch was the usual; tuna on salad. Carrots with hummus with some prunes.

Dinner was chicken cassarole. I made the chicken in the slow cooker, my wife put in some veggies. I added some hot sauce before eating it. Veggies on the side, too.

Snack after my workout was veggies, dip and a can of tuna. Meh, whatever.

I did this for five rounds before I got the election results:

30 two handed swings, 20 kg KB used
10 KB snatches each side
30 push ups
10 TRX rows
10 bicep curls, 50 lb used
10 triceps extensions, same barbel used
30 BW squats
10 ab roll outs

I had a some difficulty getting my butt off of the couch and get it into the garage to get this workout in. I did it, though.