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.