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HMT: Days 5 & 6 “Rest is for the awesome!”

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HMT: Days 5 & 6

HMT: Days 5 & 6

 

I’m going to keep this post short because as you can see, its only 10:00pm (PST) which means I have 2 more hours of rest (aka watching the first season of The Walking Dead on Netflix, duhhhh).

 

Yesterday, Day 5, I had work from 6:35am-5:45pm so I didn’t have time to workout anyway. I got off work, bought some Mega Millions Lotto Tickets (what a waste of $30 btw), had some sushi with my lady and then KTFO!

 

Today, Day 6, my crazy muay thai friend woke me up from my 11 hour slumber and told me to wake up so we can go to a boxing class at his gym. So that’s what I did. His school is FTCC in Daly City. The boxing class was awesome! I am currently a member of Polk Street Boxing in San Francisco, so I’ve had some type of experience boxing, but this class was a little different. We had some light contact drills, something that I haven’t really experienced much of at Polk Street (which really isn’t a bad thing). At one point during the class, I was matched up with this one tall white guy who my friend referred to as “Coach.” This guy def. looked like he’s been doing MMA/boxing for a while now, so I was a little worried that he would hit me hard…. and he did. But the thing is, I’m pretty sure he was throwing pretty lightly. I’m not complaining, I’m actually glad he knocked me as hard (or light) as he did. His punches were def. a wake up call for me; and a wake up call is what I needed. I think I may have found a new gym in FTCC, I’m very close to signing up for a membership.

 

FTCC: me (Left), my crazy muay thai friend Jeff (Right)

FTCC: me (Left), my crazy muay thai friend Jeff (Right)

 

So that was my Half Marathon Training Days 5 & 6! I hope you all are having a good weekend! Cheers!

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

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My whole life I’ve made soooo many excuses. I’ve made so many excuses for everything: why I didn’t finish my homework, why I didn’t pass a class the first time around, why I’m so bad at saving money, why I’m not where I want to be physically, why I haven’t gotten into PT School yet, excuses for anything and everything. Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

And when I really, really, REALLY think about all these excuses (especially the ones that I’ve made recently), I can’t help but think how stupid those excuses were. Why do I continue to doubt myself? Why do I continue to hold myself back?

In the book Goals! How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible, Brian Tracy talks about the “80/20 Rule.” This rule says:

“in most cases, 80% of the reasons you are not attaining your goals are internal. they are within you rather than in the world around you. only 20% of the obstacles are contained in your external situation or in other people.” 

Well, I want that to end today. No more excuses.

What are some of the excuses that you come up with everyday? Why do we do that to ourselves?

“… and when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful…” – Eric Thomas

Getting Dunked!

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This was my first time getting my body fat percentage taken via Hydrostatic Weighing. I found Fitness WaveNorCal online and decided to use their services; it was a great choice. Aeron did a great job and he absolutely knew his stuff (I was constantly asking questions and he answered them without hesitation; I learned a lot from him).

 

The results: 12.63%. I have ~22 lbs. of fat and the goal is to have only ~15 lbs. of fat if you want to see good definition with your abs. So my goal is to lose about ~7 lbs. of fat and to get down to ~7% body fat by the end of June 2012

Body Fat Percentage via Hydrostatic Weighing

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Had my body fat percentage taken today with Fitness Wave NorCal. Currently I’m at 12.63%, my goal is 7%. They said healthy body fat % loss is a 1-2% decrease a month. I want to make this a healthy lifestyle change “thing” and not necessarily a vanity “thing.” At the very core, its a “I want to be a healthy dad when the time comes for me to have children” kind of “thing.” So my goal is to be at 7% by mid- to late-June, which is a 5.5% difference in about 4 months (and of course to maintain a BF% under 10% for the rest of my life). I will re-test in 12 weeks. Track my progress on ypowr.com and striveware.com and give me some input, advice, words of encouragement, etc. #ypowr #striveware #getsome #monthlygoals #weeklygoals #goals #health #fitness #PDA #accountabilty #fitnesswave #fitnesswavenorcal

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