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Weekly Summary 2/17/2019

High Lights:

  • Valentines Day Dinner
  • 5 Days with no Alcohol

Low Lights:

  • Not Enough Lifting
  • Eat like a pig

This Chicago Winter is really starting to drag on.  Maybe I need to take a serious dose of Vitamin D to bring up my spirits and get a little pep back in my step.

I attempted to get my golf fix after watching what seemed to be 30 straight hours straight of golf this Saturday and Sunday with all the weather delays at the Gennnisss Open in California pushing rounds 2,3,4 into two days.   This task proved to be harder than I thought it would for living in downtown Chicago. There is only 1 place in the loop to my knowledge and when I called at  2:20 pm they were booked full for the rest of the day. 🙁  This might be a special case since it is a 3-day weekend for President Day.

I will try and go to this location during this next week to see if this is something I would get into,  it is kind of expensive at $50 an hour, but hey they do valet your car for 4 hours for only 10 dollars.  I will break that experience down in a dedicated blog later this week.

On the fitness side of this week, I went out way to hard in a workout on Tuesday that had a wild amount of pull-ups that basically blew my lats out.  This was a scary feeling as I can’t remember a time when my lats were ever sore.  That put me out of commission for a few days, but I did go to a Yoga class to help stretch things out.  Having not been sure if I had really hurt myself or just needed a few days to let them recuperate and took advantage of my buildings Gym and did some light lifting and some short cardio.

I should be finishing up my Current audiobook titled Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss and Thal Raz.  This has been a fun listen so far, I wish I could dedicate more time to actively listen to this book.  It really is worth a read/listen.

Any recommendations on what I should read next??

 

Cheers

 

 

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Weekly Summary 2/4/2019

Highlights:

  • Superbowl party

Lowlights:

  • Polar Blast

The bitter cold really put a damper on this week activities as I was basically couped up in the condo for most of the week.  Negative 50 degrees was really cold, I tried to stand out on the porch for a couple minutes and it was brutal.  That type of cold was very piercing.  It seemed to almost delete the body heat I had.  The experience was a little scary, to be honest.  I hope I’m never stuck out in those temps in my life.

The actual Superbowl game was little lackluster but the food and beer made it great.  There had to be at least 8 different cheese foods out on the table.  The top dish was the Mac&Cheese, I took some leftover for lunch on Monday.

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Weekly Summary 1/28/2019

Highlights:

  • Signed up for Audible
  • Homemade Prime Steak
  • Steak and Cigar night Round 4

Lowlights:

  • Still no yoga
  • Not sleeping so well

A fun one in the books for this past week,  Thursday night was the 4th round of the Steak and Cigar night.  Even though it was very cold walking to the steak house and the cigar lounge it was a lot of fun to be walking around downtown with the dudes.  

Sundays dinner also turned into a steak night again with Costco butcher shop had some of the prettiest ribeyes I’d ever seen at Costco.  The steaks were located in the Prime meat selection, this has been in an area I always take a peek at while Persuing the free sample in the weekends.  In the past I had not pulled the trigger and bought them was that they come in a pack of 4, and I never was willing to freeze this type of quality meat.  To be fair I also thought about just eating three steaks in one night to justify purchasing this top quality cut of meat, but that seemed excessive lol.

I also bought the bullet and signed up for an Audible account.  I was hesitant to subscribe to this service due to the $14.95 a month.  You do get a 1 book credit month and something like 30% of other books outside of the 1 credit a month.    So far so good.  Hoping to hit more than 15 books this year. The first book I’m Listening to is “The Outsiders” by William N. Thorndike

 

Cheers.

 

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Weekly Summary 1/20/2019

Highlights:

Lowlights:

  • Only 3 Workouts

For two weeks in a row, Sunday has been the best.  I took advantage of the extremely cold weather and was able to get a table and the breakfast spot called Batter and Berries.  I had tried to get a table at his place 3 times before and was always met with a 90 minute wait times and would always have to find another place to have brunch.

Since the weather was cold I was able to get a table as soon as I walked in.  This was a relief since I was really amped to try this place for quite some time and it did not disappoint!  I eat the same breakfast on the weekdays so I like to get French Toast on the weekends for brunch and breakfast.  I ordered the Super Flight of French Toast which had 5 flavors to sample.  Those flavors included Strawberry, Blueberry, Lemon, Carmel, and my favorite Peach Cobbler.  I will break down my whole experience in a restaurant review later this week.

Going to shoot for 4 workouts next week and stack it with more days of health-conscious meals.

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Weekly Summary 1/13/2019

Highlights:

  • Sopranos Tracksuit Bar Crawl
  • 5 Days in a row sober
  • Boat show

Lowlights:

  • Lost my parlay bet on the Colts Game-took the Under at 54 points and +175 for the Colts to win
  • Should have worked out more

This week was pretty low key, lots of couch time with some serious Netflix shows.  Birdbox was actually not a bad flick, did not like the ending to be fair.  The “monster” was a little annoying I wish they explained the origin story to give a bit more context to the story.

With all that Netflix time I missed 2 work out days.  I wasn’t sore, hurt or injured so the only excuse was that I was too lazy. I will address this issue next week with at least 4 workouts and yoga on Wednesday to give me 5 total for the week.

As the weekdays were low key the weekend was off the charts.  A bunch of my college friends met up for a Soprano’s tracksuit bar crawl that turned into a wild good time.  5 Bars in one-afternoon definitely put me under the table lol.  The nice part was it was time to go home at 10 pm which gave me a full nights rest for Sunday at the Boat Show.

The Boat Show was a lot of walking but way worth it.  Always fun to see the Million plus yachts, those things are huge!  They were all bigger than my condo, maybe I should get rid of the condo and just live out on the Lake might be hard in the winter though.  One day I guess,  definitely some motivation fuel to get after in 2019 and make some real cash.

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2019 Resolutions and Goals

  1.  Read or listen to 12 or more books
  2.  Work out more than 160 times
  3.  Bike more than 300 miles
  4.  Play 30 rounds of Golf
  5.  Continue to practice my typing skills
  6.  Practice yoga twice a month (only hot yoga will count towards work out count)
  7.  Attempt to meal prep with also some baking mixed in
  8.  Start to learn how to code in the Python language
  9. 30 Days consecutively sober

Most of my resolutions are fitness based- So 2019 will be my year of fitness!  All of the above should be easily doable as long as I stay committed and don’t go off track for a month or two as I have done so in the past.  To help keep myself on track I will include my progress to the weekly summary blogs.  So there will be a ton of more blog content to post to this page generally on a weekly basis to review the week in totality.

I have never really put to much stock in New Year New me, but I am giving it the old college try and feeling very positive about the possible outcomes of my goals.

Cheers and Happy New Year!!

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Weekly Summary 12/9/2018

TL:DR 2 Work outs and blew my back out.

It was a wild week for me.  Only 2 workouts due to my back issue, which seems to be healing just fine.  I’m hoping to be back in action by Wednesday. 

Had good golf strategy session to talk about this off season protocols and how to get better with out swinging a club.

Huge Bears win to cap off the week.

12/4/2018

A. 5 min clean position instructional work

B. Segmented clean deadlift x2 + Segmented clean pull x2
4x(2+2); Rest 60-90s

C. @ 0:00—
30 power cleans (95/65)
30 row calories
@ 5:00—
20-10:
Power cleans (95/65)
Row calories
@ 10:00—
15-10-5:
Power cleans (95/65)
Row calories

12/3/2018


A. Supinated flexed arm hang
Accumulate 6 sets of consistent duration; Rest 60sTraining notes:
B. 20 min AMRAP:
20 air squats
15 push-ups, hand-release
10 pistols, alternating
5/arm single-arm DB snatch (70/50)

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Weekly Workout Summary 12/2/2018

TL:DR 4 Work outs

12/01/2018

Row 7,500 Meters

11/29/2018

For time:
75 double DB front squats (35/20)
600 Single-unders
3 miles assault bike/2000m row
50 double DB front squats
350 Single-unders
2 miles assault bike/1000m row

11/27/2018

A. 5 min AMRAP:
burpee chest-to-bar pull-ups or burpee pull-upsR

B. For time:
27 deadlifts (155/105)
21 handstand push-ups
21 deadlifts (155/105)
15 handstand push-ups
15 deadlifts (155/105)
9 handstand push-ups
9 deadlifts (155/105)

11/26/2018


A. 10 minute handstand skill work

B. “18.1”
20 min AMRAP:
8 toes-to-bar
10 single-arm DB clean & jerks (50/35)
14/12 row calories

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Weekly Workout Summary 11/25/2018

TL:DR 2 Work outs

Low count due to Thanksgiving travel

11/20/2018

A. 3 rounds:
20-40s/arm single-arm ring row flexed arm hang hold
-Rest 30s
60s single-arm KB swings, alternating (unbroken)
-Rest 30s
100’ double KB bottoms-up front rack carry
-Rest as needed

B. 10 min AMRAP:
10 DB snatches, alternating (moderate)
10 ring rows
10 push-ups

11/19/2018


A. 20 minute handstand skill work 

B. 3 min AMRAP @ 85%:
10 Russian KB swings (70/53)
10 burpees
+
(Rest 2 min)
+
5 min AMRAP @ 85%:
15 Russian KB swings (70/53)
15 burpees
15 row/bike cals
+
(Rest 2 min)
+
8 min AMRAP @ 85%:
15 Russian KB swings (70/53)
15 row/bike cals
15 burpees
15 row/bike cals

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Weekly Workout Summary 11/18/2018

TL:DR version

4 Total Workouts 

16/11/18


A. Deadlift
8,6,4; Building; Rest 2 min

B. 5 min:
60s banded pull-throughs
60s box jumps, step down (24/20)
30s hollow hold
+
(Rest 2 min)
+
10 min @ 85%:
10 DB box step overs (50/hand to 24” – 35/hand to 20”)
5 bar muscle-ups
+
(Rest 2 min)
+
5 min:
60s banded good mornings
60s box jumps, step down (24/20)
30s plank

15/11/18

 A. 3 rounds:
100’/arm KB waiter’s walk
-Rest 45s
Accumulate 30-60s hang from pull-up bar

B. For time:
21 power cleans (135/95)
9 wall climbs
15 power cleans (135/95)
7 wall climbs
9 power cleans (135/95)
5 wall climbs

14/11/18


A. Front squat
5,4,3; 32×1 tempo; Across; Rest 2 min

B. 3 rounds:
10-12 partner glute-ham raises
-Rest 30s
30-60s anti-rotational front plank
-Rest 1 min

C. E2min for 3 sets/6 rounds:
1st: 30s assault bike or row @ escalating effort – last 7s all out
2nd: 6 touch-and-go hang power cleans + 6 touch-and-go shoulder-to-overhead

12/11/18

A. 10 minute handstand skill work

B. 8 min AMRAP @ 85%:
10 DB snatches, alternating (50/35)
50 double-unders
10 assault bike/row calories
50 double-unders
+
(Rest 4 min)
+
8 min AMRAP @ 85%:
10 DB snatches, alternating (50/35)
50 double-unders