{"id":5113,"date":"2015-07-07T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:47:59","slug":"week-2-project-suns-out-guns-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/week-2-project-suns-out-guns-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Project Suns Out Guns Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes your subconscious knows what’s better for you than your actual plans.\u00a0 Week 2 was supposed to be a return to routine, but life got in the way of about half of it.\u00a0 It’s ok.\u00a0 I probably wasn’t fully ready to do it anyway.\u00a0 Here’s how life is going.<\/p>\n

\"July7-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pushup Challenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is part 1 of #projectsunsoutgunsout – I may be able to PR the crap out of swim bike run, but I’m at probably personal worsts in terms of strength training progress (since I got fit again – let’s not discuss the no mans land before 2008).\u00a0 While I feel like a complete wuss because I was only able to string together 9 pushups for my test, I figure you have to start somewhere.<\/p>\n

I got a slow start to this, but ended up doing the test on Tuesday, Day 1 Week 1 on Thursday, and Day 2 on Saturday.\u00a0 I’ll try to see if I can catch up eventually, but even if I’m off and start the weeks on Thursday, it’s better than not doing them, right?<\/p>\n

Day 1 was 6, 6, 4, 4, and then max (more than 5 – I did 8).\u00a0 Looking at that, it seems like so few, but adding it up, it’s 28 pushups.\u00a0 Day 2 added up to 34.\u00a0 Considering I was only eeking out 5-10 while I was doing strength before giving up, it’s progress.<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve got my officemate and some other folks around the company doing it.\u00a0 If it’s something I can do on a 5-10 minute break at work, I’m more likely to stick with it.<\/p>\n

The Dozen:<\/a><\/p>\n

This is part 2 of #projectsunsoutgunsout – more overall strength in my core\/arms to reinforce the pushups.\u00a0 I also got a late start on this, but I did manage to do it twice – Thursday and Sunday.\u00a0 I was going to skip the push up parts, but since I’m trying to train myself to do pushups with my hands parallel to my toes (I currently do them at with my hands angled), I did half the amount of them on my knees.<\/p>\n

This is definitely something I can do when I’m at home after work watching TV, as long as I get off my ass and just do it.\u00a0 Doing that + pushups on the same day made my abs so so so sore, hopefully once I get used to it I can group them on the same day without an issue.<\/p>\n

Classes\/Other Activity:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I dragged Zliten to a hot yoga class and it made him angry.\u00a0 I didn’t hate it, but it definitely made my knee weirdly sore.\u00a0 I may have us work up to it by doing shorter sessions at home or taking a not-hot easier class.<\/p>\n

We skipped cycle class due to mental health day reasons and made pretty red white and blue drinks and sat on the patio instead because #offseason.<\/p>\n

We slept in and then went to a movie with friends on Wednesday, and the waterpark on Thursday, so… yeah… it was one more week of chillaxin.\u00a0 I’m ok with that.\u00a0 Week 2 was about testing the waters on activity, no pressure.<\/p>\n

I was able to get 40 mins of cycling and a 3 mile run in my new hokas (I don’t love them yet, but I’ll give them a few more chances), an hour walk, and some stand up paddleboarding, so there is that.<\/p>\n

Probably a liiiiittle more this week, but still #offseason.<\/p>\n

\"July7-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Food Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I met with a nutritionist Sunday and it was quite interesting.\u00a0 His first instinct when I was talking him through everything was “why do you need me here” because I’m pretty knowledgeable about this stuff, but I think he helped me establish some direction and a plan for both offseason and season.<\/p>\n

I am going to write up a whole post on this stuff – but the very quick version is:<\/p>\n