Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
I ran. I smell like some sort of farm animal.
What I did over the weekend.
But it was for a good reason as I was helping Kurt and Tanya move into their new place. It’s really nice and the view from their deck is going to be amazing in the spring and autumn. Emily spent the afternoon playing with Annie and I helped move stuff from the old house to the new. I may end up going bow hunting with Kurt this autumn if the whole diet and exercise plan pays off. I’d considered working out when I got home but was pretty wiped out and still sore from Thursday.
Jyllian has been sick with the stomach flu or something so we stuck close to home on Sunday. I read a chapter out of my python book, got some other reading done, goofed off on EVE, puttered around the house and looked after my girls.
My diet pretty much sucked on Saturday. Sunday was a little better.
I start running again tomorrow. I’m really not looking forward to it.
Posted in Life on 02/28/2010 09:40 pm by James Martini
Food Log
6:30am – coffee, 1 cup + half & half
8:00am – 1 hardboiled egg, 1/2 cup oatmeal with raisins, glass of water
10:00am – handful of almonds, coffee with half & half
12:30 – 1/2 cup turkey chile, salad the size of my head, water
6:00 – BBQ pork sammich, 1/2 cup potato salad, 1/2 cup baked beans
9:00 – 1/2 fudge brownie
11:00 – 4 hershey’s kisses
So I started off strong but hit the chocolate after dinner.
Posted in Diet on 02/25/2010 11:55 pm by James Martini
Stronglifts Log – Day 2
Strength training goals for the next 88 days:
- Squat my body weight
- Bench press 3/4 my body weight
- Overhead press half my body weight
- Do one single god damned pullup
Squat: 50lbs
Overhead Press: 45lbs (bar)
Deadlift: 65lbs
Pullups: 3×5 negatives
Prone Bridges: 3×30s
I weigh 206 lbs and I can’t do a single pullup. Even the negatives are hard to stall at my weight. I want to get another tattoo but I’m not getting it until I can do five.
Posted in Fitness on 02/25/2010 01:18 pm by James Martini
The Game(rs) Plan for Fitness
I’ve been thinking for some time regarding motivation and how to get my doughy ass into shape. I work in the computer industry and am a gamer which generally are not conducive to physical fitness in and of themselves. I want to be fit and healthy and strong so I can continue to enjoy life with my wonderful wife and see my daughter graduate college and move on to her life. So how do I map this goal onto my mmo mentality?
The answer came from an xkcd comic in which a stick figure was doing pullups to level up STR before running to level up CON. I’ll just map activities onto the D&D stats with the intention of “leveling them up”:
STR – Stronglifts 5×5 strength training
INT – Nonfiction reading, mathematics
WIS – Meditation, reading philosophy
CON – Couch to 5K running plan
DEX – Start TKD again once I’ve gone six months or so on the STR and CON.
CHA – Lose weight as a side effect of STR and CON, maybe moisturize more often.
STR and CON training will need to alternate days so I’ll probably alternate INT and the reading aspect of WIS so the initial schedule will look like this:
Mon – CON + INT
Tues – STR + WIS
Wed – CON + INT
Thu – STR + WIS
Fri – CON + INT
Sat – STR + WIS
Sun – Slack
Next up, the World of Chorecraft…
Posted in Musings on 02/25/2010 11:35 am by James Martini
Stronglifts Log – Day 0
Weight: 206.5 (It’s a new record!)
Body Fat %: Who knows, probably something like 25% at this point
Squat: 45lbs (bar)
Bench Press: 45lbs (bar)
Inverted Row: 3×5
Pushups: 3×10
Reverse Crunches: 12,12,9
Posted in Fitness on 02/23/2010 09:55 pm by James Martini
Issue with wordpress 404 errors
So after migrating the blog to the new host none of the static or archive pages worked. They all resulted in a 404 error and not the expected page or even the customised 404 page.
It turns out that I’d neglected to restore the .htaccess file which sets the mod_rewrite option. I expect you’d also get the same behavior if the permissions were set too strictly.
cat .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /james/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /james/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Posted in Wordpress on 12/07/2009 09:58 pm by James Martini
New home
So I decided to let the ossuary.org domain lapse and move in with the wife at martinitime.org. I didn’t really use the domain for much apart from hosting a weblog I don’t write in much and for the spam trap that my email address had become. Really no point in paying the hosting fee anymore.
So I mostly have everything migrated. Just a few minor details to hammer out.
Posted in Family on 12/07/2009 08:23 pm by James Martini
Square 1
First day back at the gym after the pneumonia. Started back at square one with the program in accordance with the doc saying that I needed to take it easy at first. What could be easier than just the bar, right?
Day 1 – A
Squats: 45 5×5
Bench Press: 45 5×5
Inverted Row: 12,10,5
Pushups: 16,8,1 (held the last as a plank for 30s)
Reverse Crunchs: 12,12,10
Posted in Fitness on 09/22/2009 07:52 am by James Martini
The Jet Jaguar fight song
It’s sometimes disturbing the things that come to mind when I’m not actively thinking about something else. Thank you MST3K and Joel Hodgson.
He jock it made of steel
Eats sushi from a pail
Jet Jaguar? Jet Jaguar!
He mother never really love him
He crimefighting cover up a basic insecurity
He dickey covers up an adams apple the size of a Toyota
He basically good-hearted but he’d like to smash that kid against a rock
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Who’s there?
His head looks like Jack Nicholson
Don’t smile like that, it will stay that way
Yahmmmaahoaahoaaaugh!
Don’t touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man.
Posted in Musings on 07/30/2009 11:12 am by James Martini