Day 10: Idiot

***Ya know when you create a blog post with the title Idiot, and then very stupidly post it on the wrong blog, supporting said title even though it originally didn't have anything to do with your idiotic screwup?  I love when that happens.***

Man, am I dumb.  I totally forgot to stretch before working out.  About 10 minutes into my run, I noticed and had a very slight freakout attack, so I stopped and stretched.  I made sure to do a really good stretch after the workout.  I really hope I'm not totally fucked tomorrow.

So, today was the first day of work; right now, I'm just going in on a "they need me" basis, but starting May I'll be working full time.  I've decided that I'm going to be biking to work everyday (weather permitting), so I figured I may as well start now; I wasn't expecting the complete assrape that that bike ride is.  It's not too long (around 25 minutes), but man is it tough.  It's not too bad - until you hit this fucking gigantic, steep hill.  I almost made it up the whole thing, but got off my bike right as I was about to get to the tip of it because I was dying.  The worst part is that going home is even worse, as the hill goes down and THEN up, so I have to go uphill both ways.  In fact, getting onto my street is uphill as well no matter which way you try to get to it, so it's actually MORE uphill on the way home.  This after a day of shlepping boxes in a hot back room (luckily, the job itself ain't bad at all and the people I'm working with and my bosses are rad).  So, as you could imagine, I was pretty pooped today.  Still, after going to teach a drum lesson, I did my work out.

I still did my cardio, but my legs were already pretty exhausted so I had to stop about 20 minutes in to take a one minute break.  Regardless, I got my half hour, and my 2.4 miles - in fact, I'm pretty sure the reason I had to stop is that I was just pushing it too hard, as I still had 20 seconds left when I hit 2.4.  Anyways, with biking to work (which is, as stated above, a pretty rough bike ride), I did roughly an hour and a half of cardio today, and once I start working full time in May, I'll be doing this basically everyday - if this doesn't make me start losing weight, I don't know what will.  Speaking of which, I should probably weigh myself one of these days eh?  I also need to take a shirtless picture of myself for "before" picture purposes.  Hurm....

I goofed up a bit today - I accidentally did Shoulders and Back instead of Chest and Abs.  No matter though; both sets of muscle groups were healed well, so it didn't really matter which I did.  I attempted making my weight higher and doing less reps today - it was good for Shrugs (actually may need to amp it up more than I already did - I put it to 45 from 40, but I think I'm gonna need 50).  Unfortunately, considering I'm not doing Presses anymore (check Day 7 for why), today was my day to add another set of TVOs and Ref Calls.  I'm only doing 10 reps of each anyways, so 7.5 has been working out really well thus far.  Back exercises still suck, but what can ya do?  I think I need someone to come over sometime and look at my form (I'm looking your way, Steve).

That's all for today's double post extravaganza.  Tune in tomorrow (probably around the same time) for another post!  And I urge you to go check out Stuff That I Like at www.s-t-i-l.blogspot.com for geekier writings that you probably won't care about.  But they're still awesome because they're written by me!  Don't you love ME?

-Daniel