Robzilla1983

Nice! I have a retriever too And JUST started reading C&H. Like a week ago. Ive gone through the first two collections and am in love. I agree on the fave part. It cracks me up

Wow. Good job on the candy. I thought I would be strong but I had 6 or 7 snacks in the evening. My calorie count was a bit low for the day so not a bad time to Snack

OMG. I feel like a light bulp just went off above my head. Some how I never made the connection about the running. I'm guess it's more to do with the food than the strength, since that's the biggest change. I clued in that I have more energy throughout the day, but someone didn't make the connection when I had more energy running. I feel dumb. And also want to go run again to see if it's better

Weekly checkin LIFT: Didn't miss a workout. On Friday I was sick and I ended up just doing that one on Saturday instead (where normally Saturday and Sunday would be rest days). Felt like I established a good base line. The first time I did deadlifts I forgot about pushing to failure on the last set, but other wise I managed to do it every time. EAT: Couldn't have gone better. I feel like I've been slowly building up to this, so it's not a really drastic change. The chicken snacks at work help a lot, and the almonds have been doing the trick. I find I've been snacking so often, trying to get 3000 quality calories in, that I'm not as tempted to eat sweet things as I thought I would be. I'm seriously never hungry, I just eat all the time. It's great. I might actually stick it out this time. Cracked a little bit on the weekend, but only had dessert once, which is good because we were out to eat 3 or 4 times. I stayed away from deep fried wings and fries. The only beer I had was actually not as terrible as most, and I kept that to two. And, no potatoes. For a freaking week. I don't know if I've ever gone without potatoes in some form for a whole week. SPEAK: Eh, not so great. My wife and I spent about 15 minutes one night and that's what it. But hey, it's better than nothing. RUN: Went for one run this week and it was awesome. I had no plan in place, and ended up going further and faster than what my typical runs are. All in all, I couldn't be happier with how the week went. I actually took 'before' pictures this time. If things keep up the way they are I think I'll actually notice a difference in the 'after' ones *pats myself on the back*

I find the both of us often want to eat out on weekends. Sometimes it's every meal from Fridays supper till Sunday. Today's eating actually went quite well. We did go out to eat. Had nachos which weren't great, but at least there were veggies. I did however pass up dessert and there were two delicious looking ones on the table. Just have to keep reminding myself that restaurant dessert portions are huge and I usually feel like crap after I'm so excited, I found a magic beer. Rickards Dark. Somehow it has 11 grams of protein and 1 gram carbs. I checked about 6 different sites online and they all say the same thing so it must be true. Still trying not to drink much, and the only reason I had that was because there were two left in my fridge from last week. Still. When I crave one I know where to turn I've been using daily burn to track calories. Not great for looking up foods. I find its a bit slow by times. But I really like it. It's been handy for days like today when I saw my protein intake wasn't as high as during the week so I topped it off with another shake in evening. I was only planning to track the first week but I might keep it up

Hahaha. I just lol'd I remember when you were tweeting one night and I thought you told some guy you could deadlift him. Forget how it really went. I just remember the mental picture of you dead lifting someone cracked me up

So somehow you work your bis on dips? I dunno. I'm currently waiting for DOMS to hit my legs. Today was killer. I haven't kept up the olive oil. I might though. I found the spoonful was fine. I thought about the bottle cap but with a spoon I pretend it's medicine. I might get it into the routine next week. Once I get it in a routine I'm golden. So I'll make it part I breakfast

Do an olive oil shot yet?

Haha welcome to the weekend my friend. I tend to drink a lot of beer on the weekends. Trying to trim that down. (none yet and I think I'll be ok this weekend. Gotta go week by week though). Don't let it keep you down and you'll be ok

If you're getting chinos in you'll have that pull up in now time. Keep it up

Thanks. My willpower is not always so great. I will have weak moments. Just trying to hold off as long as I can I wish I could eat more nuts. I have bad allergies to cashews and pistachios. Some of the mixed bags, and trail mix looks good, but they're off limits. I'm pretty much limited to peanuts and almonds. Didn't like almonds at first but they're growing on me. The gum helps my sweet tooth I find

Didn't workout yesterday because I was sick, kept my eating on track though. I'm getting better as the week goes on for getting 3k+ good calories. The only not great thing I had yesterday was a buffalo chicken sandwich. For a Friday that's pretty good for me. No wings or fries. No beer. Ordered a salad on the side. Didn't eat half the bread. I will struggle on the weekends for eating since I don't really have a good routine like I do in the week. So right now I just want to minimize the damage and so far I'm doing well. Had a good workout this morning. Def need to buy more weights though. I'm tapped out at 50 pounds a dumbbell and that's just not enough for the dead lifts. Good lord I hate lunges. Tried at 40 pounds and almost fell over. Tried 30. Little better but still bad. Ended at 20. I really thought I could do more, given my dlifts and squats. Balance is a big issue now. Hopefully that'll improve in time andicanadd weights later.

I love my guy as a running partner. There's times when I go more because he needs it than I want to. It's amazing how a hyper dog can be such a motivator

How's the puppy training going? I remember those days. We got our guy when he was 2 old. After about 4 months of training he would go days between accidents but still have the odd one. Can't remember at what point that stopped. Sure glad he is trained now. It's my first dog, so cleaning up after him all the time was a tough way to start the dog experience for me. I am officially a dog lover now though

Dips with weight? Damn. That's tough. Good luck moving your arms tomorrow

Bring snacks and gum There were free donuts today but I had my usual snack of chicken with me so I ate that instead. Then almonds. Then chewed gum for an hour. In the end, no donuts

Really great workout tonight. I don't know if I just had an awesome day or if eating like crazy is already paying off but I felt great today. I got 16 pull ups in 5 sets, vs 8 in 3 sets on Monday. I had a really tough time progressing in pull ups last challenge so it's nice to see a big gain already. (for comparison, today I had 12 in the first 3 sets) I did handstand pushups the right way. I've done them before, but I don't like being upside down, and really don't like flipping upside down, so I used to start with my chest facing the wall and sort of walk my feet up until I was vertical. Thanks to one of the group challenges last time I was able to flip upside down and not lose my mind. My first set didn't have great form, but for sets 2 and 3 I made sure my head hit the floor. It felt great. For anyone who has done inverted rows, does it bother your neck? I know it's a back exercise, but I find I really feel it in my neck as soon as I'm done. Nothing too major. Just wondering if it's normal. Also added 10 seconds onto each side plank. EDIT: and just topped the evening off with a really peaceful 3.5 walk with my dog

haha. I might be too white and nerdy to ever be considered a home boy I'm up for whatever. Trying to establish a base line this week, but could be up for a challenge or something once I know where I'm at. Base line will officially be established after Friday's workout

Man I want to go to bed just reading this. It's funny how thats a challenge eh? It's getting easier for me I find. When I first started working full time I couldn't get to bed before midnight. Every now and again if I was super tired I would try to get to sleep at 10, but just ended up tossing and turning. I don't know if it's because I'm older now, or work my ass off (where 5 years ago I didn't do a thing), but now once 10 o'clock hits I usually finish up whatever I'm doing then I'm out. I rarely see past 11. and usually once a week even seeing 10 o'clock is a challenge. My wife teases me for it, but I just can't stay up anymore. It boils down to about 7 hours of sleep for me, but I could use more. Lately I've been waking up in the night again and that's draining me.

Ab ripper and yoga? You're nuts. I hates those two. Not sure which one I hate more. Yoga was too long. Ab ripper was just annoying I made it to about week 3 of phase 2 then got bored. I still use their warmup and cool down though

Ever find yourself staring down a spoonful of olive oil wondering "how did it get to this?" I don't know why, but after trying a lot of new foods in the past year this one seemed the most strange. Can't speak much to the taste. I swallowed it down and immediately started chugging my protein shake. Which was immediately followed by devouring a banana because I don't much care for the taste, especially the after taste, of the shake

More like damn it feels good to be a Lannister. Amiright? EDIT: Nerd fail. Didn't post the right link. Should work now

Lol. Going to go with scotch instead of whiskey. Assuming I don't forget, which is possible (I am not a morning person) I am in. Will report back EDIT: There, officially in my reminder app. That should do the trick.

Oh man, Inheritance comes out soon. Get on that! Brisingr wasn't actually my favorite of the series. I loved Eldest. All the stuff with the elves was awesome. Brisingr I found was too much traveling between plot points and not much happening. I did enjoy it more the second time around though What's the yoga thing? Trying to find stuff to do on rest days. I've done P90X yoga and didn't like it. Way too advanced. Some beginner yoga on a non lift day might be what I need. Did a run today but don't always plan to do that.

Interesting. I am going to try the olive oil tomorrow with breakfast. Trying to get more good calories in