kettlebellguy

A good workout this morning. The new shoulder exercises are adding about 15 minutes to my workout.

Monday
Circuit – Repeat for 5 total sets with 2:30 minute rest between sets
Kettlebell Turkish Get-Up
8 kg – 5
Kettlebell Snatch
24 kg – 15 each

I continue to be amazed at how self-absorbed people can be. I have a little area of the floor I try to claim to do my Turkish Get Ups and Snatches. I have a towel laid out for my head, two kettlebells, an exercise mat and my clipboard, water and stop watch, all on the floor. When I take my rest I walk around so I leave the area for a few seconds. This morning a guy came, walked on my exercise mat and stood about a foot away from the mat and started some silly arm waving warm up exercise. It just seem kind of rude to walk on the mat but I guess I should be glad he did not walk on my towel. I went over to my mat and got down on the floor to start my next round of TGU’s, wondering if this guy would move on. It kind of reminded me of old male animals, like hippos or elephants, staking claim to their territory. Finally the guy moved on. It just seemed to me that if he took a moment to actually see his environment he would have realized that someone was actually working right where he went to stand, even though I was walking around for a few seconds.

I later figured out that this guy did all this warm up to run on the treadmill for 20 minutes and then left. I bet he felt like he got in a really good workout. Unless you are 100 percent out of shape and very overweight, 20 minutes on the treadmill is not a workout, it’s a warm up. I watch people come in, do a little bit and leave, and I am still on my circuit. And these people do not have sweat glans. There is one other guy that comes in and works like a crazy guy and you know what…..he sweats like a little pig. I love to be working out at the same time he is because I can feed on his energy and intensity. It helps me keep going.

Since I am on a roll on people at the gym let me remind anyone, man or woman, reading this that you NEVER wear fragrance at the gym. On a couple of occasions there has been a guy that is wearing what I think must be the nastiest cologne ever. This is the first thing in the morning. Of course, he is also wearing a matching top and bottom fleece sweat suit. There is just something wrong about that. The smell gives me an immediate headache. When you can smell someone all the way across the room they are just wearing too much.

My experience has been that regular old body stink kind of stays with the person, it does not disperse throughout the room. I would much rather smell someone that stinks. It does not give me headaches.

It’s been a rainy and cold day today. Really glad I got so much done yesterday with the leaves. Just need another dry day to do a final cleanup.

Coming back to work after a week of vacation was not too bad. This time of year is just so hard with so many people getting in vacations and trying to get projects completed before the end of the year. I have done it before so I am sure I will get through this again.

Going to be calling Mike and Rob in a bit for our bi weekly check in. Anxious to see what they have been up to.

I have a physical therapy session in the morning at 7:30A. Having Luke work on my shoulder always feels good. I really have the feeling that there is really nothing that can be done to eliminate this pain completely. I may just have to modify what I do to accomodiate my shoulder.

I have finally figured out my new MP3 player. It’s really flustrating when you are working out and trying to change a song on your player and it is not working. It seems that every MP3 is the same….but different. Like an ATM machine or a gas pump. Why do they all have to be different? You learn how to use one and they you have to learn to use another. I think a lot of time and trouble would be saved if they were all the same, even if they were not perfect.

The G2C group is really in a slump. Some people are coming back and others are drifting away. I am having a real problem in making comments. I want to comment but I just cannot seem to come up with the perfect comment so I do nothing. I know the comments are important to people but I am having a real problem coming up with any. I have to get better at that.

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