Still Not King

[digitaldiscipline]

So, in keeping with the "shake things up, try to kick Leonidas' ass at the gym" thing... progress.

Pushups: 50 is still doable (no change)
Pullups: 10-12, 3 sets (not great, but better)
Clean & Jerk: 50 @ 25# in each hand (the last three reps were shaky, but it's just the deltoids that are bitching about it)
Floor Wipes: Faked it with a 50# dumbell, and my lower back said "fuck you" after ~15 reps.
Deadlift: 50 @ 125# - no problem, 30 @ 145# - work, but not awful. I don't think the bar on the machine I use gets low enough to give the full range of motion.
Box Jump: No decent surrogate tried yet, just did machine squats (10 @ 240#, 25 @ 180#)

Plus a bunch of crunches, machine bench press, and elliptical... then I played softball. :-/

My goal is to be able to do the full "300" thing in a reasonable time by my birthday. Also, need to find out (as I said to donwaughesq yesterday) whether or not the roller hockey rink in the park near my house is equipped with people who know what they're doing, and see if I can get back in the swing of things there. My blades feel neglected, and, hell... the NHL playffs start next week.

Leonidas, meet Lord Stanley.

==============

In shit that doesn't involve grunting and sweating, I'm feeling a little bit of malaise and ennui as far as World of Warcraft is concerned; mighty_man & Baal have picked up Command & Conquer 3, which is the latest installment in our favorite gaming franchise (and an excellent use of one of those Best Buy gift certs I got for XMS and haven't utilized yet).

Work has been all sorts of exciting this week, and not always in the good way. Plus, K has been putting in a metric fuckton of OT and that's been kicking our ass.

Also, our "date night" got hamstrung by a compelling but ultimately fruitless infestation by a vacuum cleaner salesman. The TriStar looks really, really cool, and it demonstrated really well, but something with four digits to the left of the decimal is excessive as an appliance, and just ain't in our budget, especially with the washing machine making ominous noises, and erratic behavior on the part of both household computers lately.

+++++++++++++++

If I make it to The Castle tonight, it's the one day of the year that my PunkAssGear.com shirt* is absolutely apropos, so deciding what to wear is easy. :-)

|||||||||||||||

Not a whole lot else comes to mind to report, beyond TGIMfF.



* "Have you Nailed your Messiah today?"

Comments

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna ask. The full 300 thing?

You wanna be able to run around in eyeliner and leather underwear? o.O

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

think how much his woman will appreciate it. it's an act of love.

at least, that's what i tell my husband as he goes off to the gym in the morning.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

how is that different from any other saturday?

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have it on a good authority that he wears black bike shorts.

Blasphemy, inorite?

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

Heh, I can understand it...

I just wondered what it is with a whole bunch of my guy friends with suddenly wanting to be able to pull a "300"... Thought there might have been some supersecret guy code for something other than getting tarted up.

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

There's a differece between your D&D character wearing leather undies and running about with a sword and, yanno, you doing it.

Not that I'm gonna bitch, mind. I just warn you that I'm bringing a camera.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

i think that movie may have triggered every dormant alpha male in the country. so, tarting up and making a point ;-)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was the only one who didn't scare the strippers that one time, so I don't wanna hear it.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I somehow doubt that my shenai practice sword goes with my wakizashi goes with my wwii army helmet goes with my combat boots....

however, that is a fairly accurate of your average character's appearance in WoW if they haven't got set gear...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

you do realize i'm sitting -right.here-, don.... and that i'll be bringing a hockey stick on our bataan death skate....

Bowling scores are way up....

[etcet.livejournal.com]

really, we just want, like the Dude in the Big Lebowski, to bowl a perfect game. ;-)

[poisongirl.livejournal.com]

I love that shirt! *kisses*