My first 12-week Body-for-Life challenge was a qualified success. I was been both pleased and disappointed in my performance. Since beginning, I dropped from 214 pounds to 180. I've been disappointed, though, that life seems to conspire against me to prevent me from progressing further. Though I have made considerable progress, I likely could have been much further along by now, had I been more disciplined.
In the time between then and now, the world's largest Reset button has been pushed on my life.
My family moved to San Antonio (actually Boerne, just outside San Antonio) at the beginning of the school year, leaving me in Arlington to sell the house, and find employment in San Antonio, myself. The long and short of it is that I have now moved down as well, and was hired by my dream employer (albeit third shift), Rackspace.com. We were staying with my in-laws in the Texas Hill Country, while we tried to find some land and build a house. Well, that's been a story in itself (one more suitable for my main blog); suffice it to say that we are in a rental home for the next year. We may or may not be in a newly built house after that, but God is in control.
I've said all this to say that it's been difficult to keep up an exercise regimen, especially with most of my equipment in storage. Thanks to the holidays, as well as a lack of discipline, I've surged back up to 195 pounds. My equipment was in storage, but there is a gym very close to where I work; about thirty feet from my desk, as a matter of fact. Rackspace has its very own on-site gym equipped with Cybex machines! (This is my way of saying that I am without excuse.)
Now that we've unpacked our own exercise equipment, and are finally settling into a new routine, it's time for me to get back to work.
The Workout
We have our treadmill with us, but everything else is in storage. With that in mind, this is the machine routine that I will be starting this week:
Upper-body Workout (exercise / station number):
Chest:
• Chest Press / 2
• Flyes / 1
Biceps:
• Arm Curl / 6
• Close-grip Arm Curl / 6
Triceps:
• Triceps Extensions / 7
• Triceps Press / 8
Back:
• Lat Pulldown / 9
• Back Extensions / 10
Shoulders:
• Lateral Raise / 12
• Shoulder Press / 13
Lower-body Workout:
Quads:
• Leg Extensions / 4
• Leg Press / 5
Hamstrings:
• Hip Flexion / 3
• Hip Extension / 3
Calves:
• Barbell Seated Calf Raise
• Calf Raise on a Dumbbell
Abs:
• Crunches / 11
• Exercise Ball Crunches
Resistance training will be at work Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday, alternating between upper- and lower-body training. Aerobics will be Monday-Wednesday-Friday, with Saturday being my day of rest. I'll use the equipment at the house, unless the world conspires against me, in which case I will do it at work. I will be following the modified pyramid plan from Body-for-Life.
P.S. I've just moved this blog over to Movable Type, so it's not real pretty yet. Over the next few weeks I will be importing old entries and polishing this site up to match the rest of JesusPhreaks.com. Please bear with me, and come back often!
