Fitness Update, Summer 2016

A breakwater comprised of large rocks stands on the left side of the screen; to the right is the bay.

The summer did not go as I imagined. Back in the spring, when I was coaching baseball, I had these visions of three mile walks every morning, running every other day, and starting to add on to my fitness regime. It didn’t work out that way. Oh, I exercised and I’ve been pretty active, but … Read more

Fitness Update, Spring 2016

Sunset at an early spring IronPigs baseball game. The big AAA lights are lit up and the sky is just beginning to fade to black.

I’m five months into my exercise regime and it’s going great. Yep, this is an exercise update in which I don’t lament my inability to maintain my exercise program. Instead, I’ll celebrate the fact that the program begun in the depths of winter has continued into the spring.

Fitness Update, Spring 2016

Leave-less spring trees stand backlit against a subdued morning sunrise of light oranges and yellows.

I’m five months into my exercise regime and it’s going great. Yep, this is an exercise update in which I don’t lament my inability to maintain my exercise program. Instead, I’ll celebrate the fact that the program begun in the depths of winter has continued into the spring. There have been some pauses — a … Read more

Exercise, Resumed

The snowy aftermath of January 2016's blizzard. It sidelined my exercise regime for a few days.

2015 was a great exercise year for me. Through a combination of running, walking, the occasional game of disc golf, and coaching baseball for a bunch of 8 and 9 year old boys, I lost 15 pounds and hit my summer goal of 210 pounds. I had a great routine — get up in the … Read more

Two Hundred Eighteen

A dark, early December morning photo of downtown Easton.

I went into the fall with the informal goal of losing some weight. Over the last two years or so my weight’s been bouncing around 223 lbs. I’ve had a few stop-and-start exercise regimes but this summer I got into a solid routine of walking/running with my dog Indiana in the mornings, and I got … Read more

Learning to Run

"Walkers: Stay to the Inside" is the text that appears on this red indoor running track.

I’ve started running. Not well. Not quickly. Not for long. But I am running … and slowly making progress (where “progress” is defined as no longer feeling like I’m going to collapse after running for three blocks).

Running was never my thing. My sister’s thing, yes, but never mine. I was more about cycling — I was happy to go on on a meandering 20-mile ride and have fun trying to find my way back home.

Three Weeks Later: 220 lbs

I’ve been back on my exercise regime for about three weeks (never mind the timestamp on my blog post kicking things off; I actually started writing that two weeks ago…). I spent the first week jogging, and then spent the next week walking (in an attempt recover from the previous week of walking). This week … Read more

The Biomasss Expansion Limit

Seven years ago, around the time my son was born, I was badly out of shape. At 6’1″, I weighted 223 lbs. The extra pounds were spread out over my frame, so I didn’t look particularly fat, but it was clear that I could stand to lose 20 or so pounds.

Getting into a Summer ’12 Routine

Summer is here and that means it’s time to get serious about a new routine. Oh it’s not quite summer — the calendar says that begins on June 20, and my kids are still in school — but the college’s spring semester ended a week ago and The Avengers proved that the first big summer … Read more

Geek Fitness: The April Initiative

Back in March I decided to make a concerted effort to get back on the geek fitness band wagon after trying (and mostly failing) in February. My goal was to shift to a morning work out and to get my weight down to 210 lbs.

It went much better than in February. I got to the gym 4 out of 5 work days each week, and most of those were in the morning. In the second half of the month I found my new routine under assault by the college ritual known as “spring break”, which caused the gym to open two hours later each morning.

Rather than give up, I decided to take advantage of the college’s quieter schedule and go into work early, then work out, then go back to work. I also mixed things up with a few lunch time workouts. The lunch workouts are a big deal; in the past, when I missed my regular workout time I’d shrug and try again the next day. This month I juggled my schedule instead.

I fought off a short-but-nasty little cold at the end of the month, and I’m happy to say it didn’t derail my exercise regime — I think I only missed one day of it.