1st Nemesis track workout! We had 5 people at the track by my house.

1 mile warmup
2x800m, 2:00 rest
2x400m, 1:30 rest
4x100m with 3 tuck jumps just before running, ~1:00 rest
4x100m backwards, jog 100m forward
1st half of the leg matrix
pushup matrix
7 minute cross country abs

This kicked my ass pretty hard. 800s were effing difficult and I ended a good minute behind the rest of the group, but I was right up with everyone on the 400s, and I was in the front for the 100s. Backwards running I was really stretching it out and it BURNED my quads. Sweet. Abs are really difficult after all that sprinting. Pushups weren't as hard as I thought they'd be, but I probably had bad form.

Double half a leg matrix (so, 24 squats, 24 lunges, 24 lunges, 24 squats, no jumping). I started late so I didn't want to wake up the neighbors with all the jumping.

Abs -- 30x each of the following:
Legs-up crunches
Right elbow to left knee crunches
Left elbow to right knee crunches
Bicycles
Legs in butterfly stretch position crunches
Wonder Womans
Humping abs
Legs-up crunches

2.6 mile run around my neighborhood. I found 3 parks on the way. I love Chicago.

Then lots of abs. 25 x each of the following:
Feet-in-air crunches
Right elbow to left knee crunches
Left elbow to right knee crunches
Legs in butterfly stretch position crunches
Bicycles
Right oblique crunches
Left oblique crunches
Humping abs
Butt-ups
More feet-in-air crunches
Wonder Womans

Later in the evening:
4 sets of 10 pushups (regular, not cheating)
some more abs
25 squats against a ball against a wall followed by 30 second ball/wall sit

151 yesterday morning. Awwwwwwwwwesome!

Yesterday we had practice again. I booted twice. WTF. At least Val made fun of me for it, cause I effing deserve it. At least I know I'm trying my hardest. I just really am looking forward to changing the definition of "my hardest." I can do more, and I can do it better. Look out, V02 max -- you're gonna be getting a boost before too long!

10 pounds in 2 months is on.

I'm not exactly sure how much I weighed on May 2 when I originally stated my goal, but my guess is it was about 155 or 156. So my goal is, 145 by the end of June.

Today: 153. Baller.

And now I'm back to having a gym in my back yard! Hooray! I'm gonna make this happen.

I mostly ran ~2.6 miles today. I walked some of it. But I mostly ran it. Woot! I don't think I was going super fast but I wasn't dragging.

Then I did Leg Matrix.

Then I did the 20 to 1, 1 to 20 pushups/situps routine.

Tonight, first I did the Leg Matrix:



Then I did the pushup/situp thing I stole from Kitt:
20 pushups 1 situp
19 pushups 2 situps
...
1 pushup 20 situps


Both workouts are hard. I should do them more so they get easier.

Hooray!

5-min. moderate bike warmup

Single leg lunge squats and abs!:
15 x two 25-lb. dumbells x two legs
50 crunches
12 x 30-lb. dumbells
50 crunches
10 x 35-lb. dumbells
50 crunches
8 x 40-lb. dumbells
50 crunches
30 butt-ups
50 crunches w/ legs in butterfly stretch position
~50 seconds of one rep of Wonder Woman

I'll probably do some planks as the night progresses.

The past month has been really tough for workouts, but I have a new goal:

10 pounds in 2 months. Something like a pound a week. I'm looking pretty tubby lately, and it makes me slow. Booooooooo.

It's really tough to work out when I'm spending 11-12 hours/day in the field. It really showed last weekend at pickup. I hadn't been doing squats for about 3-4 weeks, and on the field, I had zero sprint endurance, and I definitely was getting beat at the end of the day. Booooooooooooooooooooo. At DUI, when I HAD been doing squats prior to the tournament, I felt really fast and even had a 6th gear. I think last weekend, I had maybe a 3rd gear, but definitely no 4th or 5th or 6th. If I think I'm gonna make a good impression during tryouts, I need to be able to kick it into 6th.

So yeah. Working out while in the field. Kind of tough -- I'm technically not supposed to help the drillers with any manual labor things. I shoveled a little yesterday and carried some 50-lb. bags of sand, but man, I spend a lot of time just watching.

A couple days ago I started doing wall sits against a full drum of soil. That seems to be pretty awesome so far, although it's not squats, but it's at least SOMETHING. I also realized that my steel toed boots are heavy enough to be some sort of resistance against my hamstrings if I stand on one foot and bend the non-standing knee, like a standing leg curl.

So yeah. I'll take what I can get. I bet I can find a good place for tricep dips too...

Step 2 is packing a set amount of food so I don't just eat crap from the minimart all day.