Tuesday, May 01, 2012

This potato is back on the wagon

Yup.

I've begun the whole shebang again after about a month hiatus.  Except I'm tweaking it a bit.  I'll be doing Crossfit along with more running.  As far as the Crossfit aspect of it, I'll be doing it at home. Seeing as how ALL the workouts are online and that they are scalable, I should have no excuses.  I have most of the equipment I need for most of the workovers.

Just a quick rundown of what I've done . . . but before that, a bit of an anecdote:

Several years ago, I informed my cousin (Meno) of a job opening at the lab I work at.  It'd be labor intensive, but he was fine with that.  He worked at a Lowes about 45 minutes from home and he was looking for something closer.  He got the job and about 5 years later, he's now the rising star in the company.

He was a big boy when he was in high school and he busted his ass to really trim down.  So when he started at the lab, he had the whole athletic package pretty boy good looks.  I introduced him to one of my oldest friends and his family.  He hooked up with the oldest daughter.

He was 22 at the time, she was 36 . . . and had a daughter . . . and divorced from a gay ex (who's a mayor in his town) . . . I could keep going with the fodder for this relationship.

Needless to say, there was soooo much shit-talking from BOTH families of the relationship.  I supported them, but I didn't think it would last long (they're still together . . . kinda).

But that's neither here nor there.  Let's just say it worked for them.

She love baking. He has a sweet tooth the size of a Lincoln. A match made in heaven. 

Also his undoing as he now weighs as much as I do (236 lbs) and about my height (5' 7").

He recently went to a conference in Texas and some pictures were shown of the place he works at from when he first started.  He happened to be in some of those pictures.  The before-and-after were startling to some.  Some comments were made.

One of the VP's (pretty good friend, too) even made the comment of Meno now being the "grocers best friend".

I forwarded that comment to Meno.  He didn't know what that meant and I told him to go ask said VP.  The VP was in his office down the hall and away went my cousin.  The next thing I hear is the loud laughter of the VP, followed by my cousin saying "Fuck you, man! Fuck you!", as he walked away with a shit eating grin on his face.

Apparently what the VP had done was pat his belly while he was busting out laughing.

I had told Meno earlier that morning that I was going for a run after work and he declined to join me.  After that incident, he called me later in the afternoon to let me know he'd be joining me after all.

Now I don't usually like working out with him because he NEEDS motivation.  He can't push himself.  He's always been a jock and he likes having someone yell at him to push harder.  Also, it didn't help that my uncle (his dad) was a drill sergeant in the Army and ran his home the same way.  I love my uncle, but he's a scary mofo.

We went for a shortish run that evening (Thursday) at my favorite trail.  He did ok, better than I did actually.  Friday, we were supposed to do weights.  It was going to be a modified Crossfit workout of Fran.

Modified Fran
21 / 15 / 9: Alternating between Thrusters (65 lbs) and Horizontal Pull-ups for time.

I forgot to set the timer.  Not that I cared because I was dying after and I probably would've forgotten to stop the timer anyway.

He got out of work earlier and was waiting at my house talking to my brother and another friend of ours when I arrived.  I changed into my workout gear and let him know that I was going to start.

I set up the bar and the pull-up station and began warming up.

Dynamic Warmup
10 Overhead Pass-throughs
10 Side Pass-throughs (left and right)
3 Rounds of the following (first round slow, easy and relaxed)
6 Overhead PVC squat
6 Push-ups
6 Sit-ups
6 Horizontal Pull-Ups
6 Good Mornings
10 Second hold of the Samson Stretch (left and right leg)

When I was done, he still hadn't come out.  I'm not babysitting anyone.  I started getting worked over by Fran.  He finally came out when I completed the 15-set of Fran and just watch me die as I began completed getting worked over by the 9-set.  The last three thrusters were a hell of  fight to get over head. And I still had to do the pull-ups.

My forearms were engorged and I was beginning to feel my legs again when Meno asked what he needed to do.  I wanted to smack him.  When I finally got my breath back, I explained and wrote down the warmup and told him how to do it.

As I was explaining the pass-throughs, my brother and our friend came out.  They decided to participate as well.  Then it degenerated to horseplay and then the talk of food.

Meno did nothing and we went to Round Table for pizza and beer.

The WHOLE weekend was yardwork catch-up.  Boy did it need catching up.  But all the hard work paid off as now I can be proud of my yard (front and back).

Yesterday we took the same trail.  I kicked his ass this time.  But not anywhere near the time I used to have on this trail.  It took me about 33 minutes for this run.  My BEST time was around 26 minutes.  I've got some work to do.

Tonight it's going to be weights:

4 Rounds for time
400 meter run
15 Back Squats (65 lbs)

Can't wait!

GD

p.s.
too long to check. run smiley :)

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