finally got my fat ass off the couch

[pura vida]

and holly shit is it killing me

so i finally found the motivation to start working out again and trying to get in better shape. my buddy and i are headed to whistler over labor day to spend 3 or 4 days of mountain biking. the downhill variety. decided i need to get some miles on my legs so i can enjoy the trip a little more. so i started getting up earlier this week and started the P90X system. also started riding my bike to work everyday. seven miles each way, about 30+ minutes. started to eat better too. so far so... decent

i did the ab work out monday night and then started working out in the morning on tuesday. i did monday's workout on tues, skipped tues workout, and then got on the schedule wed morning. rode the bike tues, wed, and thursday. i was suppose to do the ab workout again wed but i was in entirely too much pain. starting to feel slightly better today but will do the abs again on monday. hopefully my abs will feel better and i'll be able to do it on wed too.

wow am i out of shape. in lots of pain, the good kind though. i didn't ride the bike today b/c i did legs this morning and i decided yesterday the legs needed a break. although i think i might try to do a shuttle run or two this evening. as always the eating part is the hardest. i love mountain dew but am cutting that out completely. trying to anyway. below is my eating routine:

breakfast: 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 1 scoop of protein and 1 packet of equal

Lunch: med to large chicken breast with brown rice and green veggie, hard boiled egg, cheese stick

dinner: lean steak, fish, or other meat, red potato w/fat free cheese, fake butter, and S&P.

with meals and throughout the rest of the day i am drinking 3/4 to a gallon of water. i know i should probably need to add at least two small "meals". thinking i might try eat a snack of fruit and maybe a cheese stick and/or hard boiled egg a little before lunch and then eat my lunch (minus the cheese stick) a little later. maybe 1:30 to 2:30 so i'm not so munchy when i get home around 4. i don't normally have too bad of an issue with snacking after dinner.

anyway, just thought i would post it up. hopefully it will help keep me motivated if i have people checking up on me... ;) so feel free to call me out.

pv

[pura vida]

god damn it! i just wrote an entire post and then fucked it up and lost it! damnit that pisses me off!

so lets try agian.

first off i'm an idiot (although for those who know me this does not come as a surprise. point in fact, see above.) this thread was suppose to be post in the general training area or at least under the west coast. (insert best office space voice here), yeah, so, um if i could get misfit to move this for me, that would be greaaaat.

i did manage to work out his morning. thanks to my daughter needing to go to the bathroom at 6am. after putting her back to bed i figured i was up so i might as well suffer and get it over with. didn't think i would have the motivation since i got home a little late after being at the bar with friends. which leads to the eating that went well yesterday...until i got to the bar. started out at my buddies house with just a bud light lime (you know the worst part of drinking bll..., telling everyone i'm gay!) that was all i was going to have but ended up having a couple crown and cokes. didn't want the second one plus i had an hour drive home, but another buddy showed and bought everyone a round. and since i have no self control and it was sitting in front of me, of course i drank it. one day at a time right? started out well today but it is my anniversary so i know dinner will be bad. over all i'll be ok until the trip since i have some motivation and a specific date but after that it will get a little harder to stay motivation. we'll see. i know i sure feel better when i am doing something though. well, i'll feel better when my muscles get use to moving again and i am not in so much pain (damn that leg work out!) didn't get to go riding yesterday b/c of the damn rain. today makes 28 days in a row. new record. yeah. heard we haven't had a cloudless day since may some time. anyway,

so anyone have any suggestions for eating to avoid my afternoon munchies i was talking about earlier? enjoy.

pv

[pura vida]

so frustration is the word of the day. after the first week of working out and eating much better i lost a grand total of 0.0 lbs. i know i was far from perfect with my eating but way better than before. guess i'll just have to do better this week... hard to stay motivated if you don't see any results. i wasn't expecting much, but come on, throw me a bone here!

[MMA Guru]

Dude, did you drink yourself gay or are you already gay and loosy boosy haha? ;) Seriously though, don't wast your time with working out if you're going to drink still. I mean, eating better is awesome, but drinking alcohol too is gunna piss you off with the plateau or no weight loss.

[Discipline]

Dude, did you drink yourself gay or are you already gay and loosy boosy haha? ;) Seriously though, don't wast your time with working out if you're going to drink still. I mean, eating better is awesome, but drinking alcohol too is gunna piss you off with the plateau or no weight loss.

agreed. althoguh i enjopy myself on the weekends, mainly saturday night. its tough to do, but it CAN be done. its all in moderation.

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PROTEIN, PROTEIN, PROTEIN! with a little NO supplement befor your workout and you should be on the right track. you dsont always have to take so many supplments. a little cardio throw in there with the weights and your gonna be all good.

[Misfit]

I moved it for you buddy and yeah Cory, the older you get, the longer it takes to start seeing results. The girl drives me crazy cause at 40, she can still work out for a week or 2 and get results quick while I only get sore. Props to you for getting started again.

[pura vida]

(thanks brian) yeah i know, beer is bad. but damnit it taste good. ok maybe not the bll (although to continue the gayness, it is drinkable and much better than bud light, miller, coors, etc.) i really don't drink much at all. maybe one or two all week, if that. ate well yesterday but then had a beer with a buddy after having him look at where i want to build my house. i need to start a food log and actually keep tract of calories. got up at 5:30am and worked out. was suppose to do plyos but the dvd wouldn't play so i did the cardio instead. btw, there is no "easy" work out with P90X if you do it right. (although it is a distinct possibility that i'm just a pussy... ie., the bll, but that is a topic for another time...) was all geared up to ride the bike to work again, stepped out side and it was raining, again. started sometime between when i ate and got ready to go. i've had enough wet rides the last couple of days so i said F it, and just drove in. didn't feel like being wet and dirty all day. alhtough now i fell like i'm slacking. we'll try again tomorrow. oh yeah, 31 straight days with rain. new record. joy. it has been a wet cool summer.

[Discipline]

if you dont mind me asking, what are your stats? weight/height/etc?

[pura vida]

oh yeah that would probably help

i'm 5'10 - 5'11, 203lbs, soon to be 33 years old. i'm fairly active, not training or a fight active, but well above the average person. mountain biking, dirt biking, mowing for summer time, and snowboarding, snowmobiling, shoveling during the winter. i'm not looking to put on huge amounts of muscle, just get back into shape a little bit and get back to a reasonable weight, right around 180. in college i had a personal trainer, ate really well and got down to aroun 175-8lbs and was <9% body fat. i really don't think it is very realisitic for me to get back to that point (i know myself too well). i think 180-5 is where i need to end up. i just know how much better i would feel and how much easier riding my bike and hiking up mountains would be with 20 less lbs. anyway probably more info than you wanted but pretty much sums it up.

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so i looked up the calories for my meals stated above

breakfast - 280-300

lunch - 600 -800 depending chicken size and if i have fruit or not

dinner - 600 - 800 depending on steak size and condiments

so that is anywhere from 1500 to 1900 calories a day. i'm sure i'm usually on the high end even before i do any snacking. getting better at cutting out the bad snacks and eating hard boiled eggs or grapes instead. i sure have a hard time avoiding peanut butter. so for yesterday i did really well except for 1/2 cram cracker with PB (damn that is good, but i did leave off the chocolate chips. my favorite snack btw) and a beer so...

yesterday's meals about - 2000
cram cracker w/ PB - 100 (i looked it up)
18oz alaskan beer - 300 (approx 1.5 beers)

so that adds up to around 2500 calories for the day (i'm trying to round up to over estimate rather than under). man that adds up fast. and that is eating "clean" don't even want to know what it is the days i go out to eat for both lunch and dinner! probably twice that. puts things in perspective so i guess i need to figure out how many calories i need to eat just to maintain my weight then go from there. i looked at one site and "they" said i could eat up to 3000 a day with my activity level and loose 2lbs a week. that seems a little high to me (by about 1000 calories). what i need to do is actually weight everything and get a more accurate calorie count for a day.

[pura vida]

ok, so i sat down and actually calculated my calorie intake for tuesday and wednesday. i got pretty anal and even included actual condiment amounts.

tuesday - 1900 calories, including condiments and cheats.

wednesday - 2150 calories including some PB and 1/4 cup of ice cream.

i wanted to see how much ice cream was in a 1/4 cup so i got out the measuring cups and i couldn't just put it back in the box... right? so i'm pretty happy with that. if i can maintain that amount of intake then i will definitely loose some weight. i need to start a daily food journal. if i did that i'm bet i could keep my intake to under 2500 cals/day. i'd at least be that much more aware of what i'm eating. especially portion size. i think that is what gets me more often than not.

did the p90x yoga for the second time this morning. did the complete 1:30 for the first time. although the meditating the last few min isn't for me. love/hate the stretching but probably what i need more than anything to maintain some level of athleticism. pretty brutal work out considering. and good god the people in the video are amazing what they can do and the length of time they can hold it. especially the black dude. he is just simply a specimen! his abs and core are insane. i didn't work out yesterday b/c i didn't get to bed til 2am due to one of my crews flying in late. wasn't so excited about getting up at 5:30. i did do the ab routine in the evening but working out in the morning is much more consistent than in the evening. i always have something else to do or go. in the mornings i just have to get out of bed and start moving then i'm fine. plus i'm good for the day and it doesn't eat into my wife/daughter time. the real test will be after i get back from whistler to see if i can keep motivated. like most, that is my biggest problem. right now i have a specific goal, two weeks from today. but after that it is just indefinite... we'll see.

pv

[Misfit]

Props Cory, keep it up and yes, you are a pussy but you can still be a better in shape pussy ;) Hey look, I'm actually connected in our "office", fucking amazing. Getting autocad file now. Did another hydro today, got 4 hydro's to get into autocad once I get this file. fucking sweet :D But I think I got laid last night in a dream, I just don't remember it but I'm in way too good of a mood to have NOT gotten laid last night. I just hope I didn't imaginary cheat on the girl and if I did, I hope I used an imaginary condom cause the thought of an imaginary child from last night scares the shit out of me. :D

[pura vida]

funny shit dude.

yeah the "office" is still less than ideal. one week. one more week.

i did the leg routine again this morning. my legs hurt. didn't ride the bike to work though. i decided not riding to work on leg day is just fine. this week has been really good on the diet. almost zero cheats and my daily calorie intake has been really good. although the wife mentioned something about pizza tonight. my biggest problem is i have no will power if it is in front of me. so that makes two real solid weeks of working out and riding my bike plus one week of really good eating. too bad i need 20 times that amount... need to do as well as possible now b/c mid to the end of next week i have to go baby sit brian on site and make sure he doesn't choke anyone out! although with the people he is working with there are a few i would enjoy watching being choked out... then i will be off to whistler a couple days after that. so i need to be good as much as possible while the environment and schedule is conducive.

[Discipline]

keep posting man. i enjoy reading what others do for workouts and such.

[pura vida]

well this morning starts week three of working out and was another weigh in day. first week with eating clean and paying attention to calories. i would say i was 90% clean this week. can't say 100% b/c of the pizza i had friday night and a few other cheats. the results were much better than the week before. if you remember i lost a grand total of 0.0 LBS after the first week. so depending on what number you use from last week to this week i lost between 2.5 - 5.5 LBS. i was 203.5 last week in the am. this was when i was frustrated b/c i hadn't lost anything. then i worked out, ate b-fast, road to work, ate lunch, drank 1/2 gallon of water, road home around 2pm and weight myself again and it said 202.0 even. so this morning i got up first thing and the scale said 198.0. then i worked out and drank 32 oz of water during, weight myself again and it said 199.5. so, as you can see depending on what numbers you use this is where the 2.5 - 5.5 comes from. but even if it is "only" 2.5 i'm happy with that. i am going to weight again tonight and tomorrow morning just for comparison reasons. i figured i might have been a little dehydrated this morning since i never seem to get my gallon a day of water in over the weekend. probably lucky to get half that. anyway, as long as i don't completely blow it this week i should be able to stay under 200. that should not be an issue for me but unfortunately it has been a while.

i did drag my ass out of bed again this morning and worked out. plus road my bike into work again. i am getting fast too. 27 min this morning. to weeks ago i was around 31 min. but i don't think i'll get any faster. well, unless i get a road bike and i just can't go that gay. i'm confident in my masculinity but i do have limits... also found out i don't have to go to unalakleet now. google that and see how excited you would be to go there. hell just ask brian... well that is the plan as of today. we'll see what these guys come up with tomorrow. so that should give me 3 1/2 full weeks to eat clean and workout before my trip. i won't be in great shape but i will be a hell of a lot better of than what i was. shit i can start to tell i already am. it is starting to feel good but it sure takes a lot of effort to get there. and i still have a long way to go. i'm just hoping i don't fall off after the trip. shit now that i have actually started the P90X i'd like to see the results after 13 weeks. see how well it really works. anyway, i'm starting to babble.

[pura vida]

so checked my weight again last night and this morning. 198 and 197. and then 198 again after working out. so i am going to go with 198 as my weight since a week ago. so that puts me at a min of a 4 lbs loss from last week. ill take that any day. but i doubt that will continue. i'll still be happy with 1 to 2 a week. obviously i would prefer two...

[Discipline]

well obviously with muscle development its gonna be tougher to drop weight in general so fat loss then would be your goal, assuming anyways. which fat loss is usually a mina goal for many to begin with. keep posting.......good stuff.

[pura vida]

yeah, obviously fat loss is the main goal. i'm not real concerned about putting on a lot of muscle and slowing my weight loss even with me working out 6 times a week (three of which are almost all cardio). i just don't think i put muscle on very fast. i've worked out a lot at different times and it has been since high school that i have been able to see noticeable, fast gains. i just know that lifting is good for me and i don't think the p90x is going to put on any substantial mass without lots of supplements which i am not taking. i was only really sore after the first week and now i don't get sore at all. which is common for me and most i think. i did arms/shoulders this morning and they feel fine. if i tried to work them out again tonight they would be week but no soreness anymore. i'll just keep eating (try to anyway) they way i am and doing my routine and we'll see where i end up in another week.

[Discipline]

diet is key with fat loss. key, key ,key. stay away from saturated fats....they lead straight to the belly. then you have the spare tire aorund the waist. im having that issue somewhat now. oh, and beer is bad for forming the belly too lol.

[pura vida]

yeah thanks. i have had a number of discussions with people about how exercise is not what causes weight loss. diet is what causes weight loss. unless you are a pro athlete no average person will do or has the time to burn enough extra calories through exercise to produce substantial weight loss. i think that is one of the problems with the countries weight issue. too much in advertisement that says, "work out for X time X number of days a week and look like this". no one is ever going to be successful going this route. i am just thankful i had a personal trainer for a while that taught me how and what to eat properly. look at the p90x advertisements. i can't remember them saying anything about diet. although when you get the dvd's the getting stated one goes into it quite a bit. although it is just more product placement and advertisement. but at least they talk about it. granted it is a great work out but it is not going to cause you to loose weight. even if you are perfect with the workouts for their 13 week cycle it is only a hour or so a day. not enough calorie burn for significant weight loss. you will be physically stronger but you probably won't be able to tell much of a difference in the mirror. diet, diet, diet. it is ALL about the diet.

i know what causes the belly, my problem is having the motivation to stay away from it. i have done really this week and last as far as staying on the diet. always a few little things here and there which add up very quickly and kill a good day of eating but i'm much, much better than before. did the yoga this morning. not my favorite workout by any means. it is just so long and gets rather boring. (do not interpret that as easy!) did abs last night. there are 11 exercises and you are suppose to do 25 reps per each. i did 15 reps and rested until they were finished. still barely made it through. if i get back on the horse after wistler then i will try to up the reps each time by 1. at least till i get to 20. then we'll see from there. next week is suppose to be a recovery week but i will only work out three days since i leave wed night. unfortunately i have to do yoga again on monday. a "normal" week has yoga on thurs so i would have missed it. oh well. probably what i need the most anyway. i know there is nothing better for improving my athletic ability with everything i do than increasing my flexibility and balance.

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so someone explain to me why a persons muscles don't continue to be sore after the first week or so of working out? as i stated earlier, i was a hurting unit the first week but now i work out and feel fine the next day. what happens/changes physiologically that prevent that muscle soreness from repeating week after week? not that i am complaining. i have work out enough over the years to know this happens every time i start working out again but mentally it "feels" like you are doing more when you are sore even though i know that isn't the case. anyway, just a thought/question.

[pura vida]

leg days are tough. especially the one legged wall sits. and my abs are still big time pussy.

[Misfit]

I burned off about 10000 calories today being pissed off, I'm worn out now :D

[Discipline]

hey whatever works for ya lol

[pura vida]

frustration returns. monday is weight in day. lost a grand total 0.0 LBS. WTF?? i ate pretty damn well all week except for saturday. ended up having around 3000 calories saturday but one day should not kill an entire week. especially since it is only 1000 calories high. again i wasn't perfect all week but come one give me a break. i wasn't expecting to loose another 5 lbs but 2 would have been nice. would have been really happy with 3 so i would have been down to 195. and shit that is still way higher than i should be. i should never be happy about weighing 195!! plus this is the week i head to whistler wednesday night. so i know my diet will be shit for at least 5 days. what, should i expect to be back up to 203 by the time i get back?? hell that just might be a possibility... talk about hard to stay motivated. i'm still working out every morning and riding my bike as much as possible. shit i've actually started to enjoy my rides into work now. guess that just really makes my point that exercise does not cause weight loss.

ok, i'm done. sorry to get on and just bitch but i don't have any other place to do it. the wife tries to be supportive and is very much so, but when i'm pissed and just bitching her encouragement is more annoying than helpful. very unfair to her but that is just how it is. so instead, you guys get to listen to me wine and moan like a little bitch. i also decided my b-day is my next motivation day. i really don't give a rats about my birthday but it is at the end of september so that gives me three more weeks of working out. it will be starting to get too cold to ride to work by then anyway so that will be a good time to see where i'm at. just hope i can get back on the horse when i get back from whistler. after the b-day i'll just have to figure something else out to motivate...

[Discipline]

its tough bud, it really is. and ill be honest, ive noticed that in 1 day i can go all out and disregard my diet and i WILL notice it a couple days later, IF i havent done my workouts a notch up. the human body is amazing to me, how it works and all. i can eat a 8oz peice of chicken but wont gain 8 oz. i eat 8oz of pasta or pizza, its ALL gonna poack on!

[Misfit]

That blows buddy, must have been that pizza slice you ate with me last night. But I've never been a calorie counter. I've had really good results with a type of southbeach program which I'm sure I'll start up again when I'm home for good.

[Discipline]

honestly though, and im no nutritionist or even close, everybody is different, plain and simple. your diet may require something far different than mine or mifits.

[pura vida]

yeah i know that what i am doing will work b/c i've done it in the past with good results but it is just frustrating when i am good 90+% of the time and there is zero advancement. well, that isn't true either b/c i'm only looking at the number on the scale and that is far from the whole story. i know i'm already in better shape and maybe a little stronger. at least my muscles can sustain a little more effort now. plus i do genuinely feel better. so i weighted myself last night, 198, this morning, 197, worked out, 196. i might want to weight myself more often, obvously not as much as i did yesterday and today, but enough to see the general trends b/c i know it will go up and down due to may factors. we'll see where i'm at when i get back from whistler and start again from there. plus i'm going try to at least eat breakfast at the condo. oatmeal or eggs. and i'll try not to get too carried away with what i eat. i think for me one of the best things i could do when i'm not eating only what is on my diet is to work on my portion control and slow down. i know that if i eat half of the burger i will be plenty full rather than just stuffing the entire thing down and feeling miserable. it gets hard though, especially in social setting b/c you eat without thinking about it. i read somewhere that you tend to eat a substantially larger amount of food in a social setting rather than your own for a number of mental and social reason. don't remember where i saw the article but it was an interesting read.

thanks for letting me vent and bitch (above). anyway, one day at a time...

cory

[Discipline]

another thing is exactly what you said. the scale isnt always a friend. ive read a few articels that say dont always acknowledge the scale, look in the mirror. it for sure doent lie and will help you see what you like and ont like, what to work on and what not to work on.

[pura vida]

very true. and my wife says she can see a difference. i want to say that i can too but i'm always afraid that my personal image is skewed depending on how hard i'm working out. just to further prove that the scale is absolutely not your best gauge of measurement, this morning it said 195.5/195. i have been checking a few times a day the last couple of days just to see and it has been steadily going down (198 monday morning). but my eating, specifically my dinners have been pretty much complete crap since saturday. the over all calorie intake shouldn't be enough to see a significant weight gain but definitely too high to see a significant loss either. but of course, mentally, i fell better and am in a better mood b/c of the numbers. stupid i know but i can't help it. good god i feel like a chick when it comes to that stuff. anyway, my point, as you stated, it is much more important to monitor your overall fitness and the physical changes you see in the mirror than what the scale says. the scale needs to be used as a general guide, not the final report.

so i am off to whistler for the next five days, so no updates. we will see where i'm at next tuesday and start again...

[Misfit]

Stay safe Cory, remember, rubber side down.

[JCota]

Dude, did you drink yourself gay or are you already gay and loosy boosy haha? ;) Seriously though, don't wast your time with working out if you're going to drink still. I mean, eating better is awesome, but drinking alcohol too is gunna piss you off with the plateau or no weight loss.

that's no joke...I'm doing my 2nd round of P90X. It's a great structured system and it's worked for me fantastically.

[pura vida]

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! Whistler is far beyond what could have imagined! Fist halh day in the bag and now the whisk is flowing!

Funny you should post about drinking the day I get here. When I'm on my diet I severly limit my alchohol intake but I know better when I am on vaca. But I won't completely cut it out. If one beer prevents me from loosing weight then I don't need to loose any more. I want to be healthy and in shape but I'm not fighting or doing any comptitions. But I will try to make my beer choices a little less gay...

[MMA Guru]

Haha, not gay beer choices, just different taste in partner, but you cleared that up with the wife part. I can't really preach since I've never drank, and if you're the kind of dude that can be a one and done guy then it's a different story! I'm trying to do the same thing and it's killing me man, weight loss its harder the older you get too!

[pura vida]

Absolutely harder the older you get, I smell what you are stepin in! That's why I'm trying to do it now, before I get any older. And I'm only 33... Can't imagine when I an 40 or 50.

[pura vida]

Well my training will not be continuing when I get hack from whistler. Kinda over shot a jump. Seperated shoulder, slight concussion, bruised knee, chipped tooth, bit lip, and other bruises. Hit a large jump too fast, didn't preload which caused my ass to go high, way over shot the tranny, landed on the front tire, went over the bars and drove my shoulder/head into the ground. I would suggest avoiding that experience if you can.

[Misfit]

fucking cory, Brandi says, she wants a picture.

[Discipline]

Well my training will not be continuing when I get hack from whistler. Kinda over shot a jump. Seperated shoulder, slight concussion, bruised knee, chipped tooth, bit lip, and other bruises. Hit a large jump too fast, didn't preload which caused my ass to go high, way over shot the tranny, landed on the front tire, went over the bars and drove my shoulder/head into the ground. I would suggest avoiding that experience if you can.

dude, that blows. sorry to hear. only a bump in the road though. youll be back in no time.

[Misfit]

Dude, I hope you are doing ok buddy. I'm guessing I've seen you go through worse with your "loading the sled" accident ;). If you have pictures of that, you should share them to show how bad things could of me. Now, if this is worse than that, holyfuck dude, you are lucky to be alive. And just so you know, while getting back in shape is harder when you are older, so is healing up from the bumps and such. If there is a bright side, it happened on one of the last days and not one of the first. I guess the saying, if you ain't crashing, you ain't riding hard enough doesn't help much right now.

[Discipline]

Dude, I hope you are doing ok buddy. I'm guessing I've seen you go through worse with your "loading the sled" accident ;). If you have pictures of that, you should share them to show how bad things could of me. Now, if this is worse than that, holyfuck dude, you are lucky to be alive. And just so you know, while getting back in shape is harder when you are older, so is healing up from the bumps and such. If there is a bright side, it happened on one of the last days and not one of the first. I guess the saying, if you ain't crashing, you ain't riding hard enough doesn't help much right now.

and queue the AC/DC - Big Balls

[Misfit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLxg0dbvokQ

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And Cory, it could have been worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5lhnr0DM04&feature=related

And Cory, which one of these was you. From what you said, it sounds like maybe the 1:58 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDG646cplrg&feature=related

[pura vida]

thanks for the sympathy. no the head thing was more serious. this one will last long but definitely does not have the picture value. this one probably wasn't has dangerous either. difference between having a helmet and not when the loading incident happened. i'll try to get some up of both. no more like the crash at 1:00 only i didn't case the jump first. i completely over shot the tranny and the jump might have been a little bigger. but that is pretty much what happened. yeah i'll get back on it as soon as i can. there is a downhill demo at alyeska on the 19th i'd like to do but we'll see if the shoulder feels good enough by then.

in other news, i did weight myself this morning. 197 so i am ok with that. at least i am not over 200 again after my trip. although it wasn't like it was a leasuraly beach trip. i was pretty much working my ass off right up until i crashed for the last time. no that wasn't my only crash. had another big one just 10 min earlier. guess i should have taken the hint but was just having too much fun. so i will get back on the diet now and see how it goes without much exercise. although i was starting to feel better and was looking forward to being in better shape for the beginning of sledding season.

[Discipline]

thanks for the sympathy. no the head thing was more serious. this one will last long but definitely does not have the picture value. this one probably wasn't has dangerous either. difference between having a helmet and not when the loading incident happened. i'll try to get some up of both. no more like the crash at 1:00 only i didn't case the jump first. i completely over shot the tranny and the jump might have been a little bigger. but that is pretty much what happened. yeah i'll get back on it as soon as i can. there is a downhill demo at alyeska on the 19th i'd like to do but we'll see if the shoulder feels good enough by then.

in other news, i did weight myself this morning. 197 so i am ok with that. at least i am not over 200 again after my trip. although it wasn't like it was a leasuraly beach trip. i was pretty much working my ass off right up until i crashed for the last time. no that wasn't my only crash. had another big one just 10 min earlier. guess i should have taken the hint but was just having too much fun. so i will get back on the diet now and see how it goes without much exercise. although i was starting to feel better and was looking forward to being in better shape for the beginning of sledding season.

sounds like fun while your up. id LOVE to try this out sometime. just like rafting the gran canyon, and so many damn other things.

my dad used to race dirt bikes and got my little bro into it. they were riding down at a track here locally and there was a triple right on the front side of a turn. so you either have to take the triple and stick the brakes to take the turn some or take the double and have a slightly slower speed over the third jump. well he cased the third jump. he was trying to clear the triple but he didnt and his ankle was instantly SHATTERED. literally, shattered. he had to drive all the way back fomr there to home and went the the ER that night. it was an hour and a half drive. my bro was too young to drive then. it was a brutal break. ruffffff

[pura vida]

luckily mine was no where near that bad. it is already starting to feel better. not a lot but some. here are the first couple vids from our trip. i crash at the end of the second one but that one didn't do any damaged. tweaked my thumb a little but nothing serious.

first vid. this is the trail i hurt my self on later. the jump at 0:49 right before the corner.


http://vimeo.com/14788245 (http://vimeo.com/14788245)

good crash at the end of this one. was spitting dirt out of my mouth.


http://vimeo.com/14789011 (http://vimeo.com/14789011)

[Misfit]

Those vids are great buddy.

[pura vida]

thanks. yeah we decided next year we are going to have two cameras and run them all the time. that way we don't miss anything good. also we need to follow a lot closer but that can get a little hairy... but you can still see how fast we were going and some of the air we were getting. keep in mind, the videos don't come close to doing it justice. just a kick in the ass.

[Discipline]

finally got to see the vids and dude that if freakin sweet! ive definately got to do that one day. well try to anyways......

[pura vida]

so motivation has been hard to come by the last week since i got hurt. last week my eating was pretty much crap but i managed not to gain any weight. i'm still under 200, 196.5 this morning, which is good but unless i start eating better that will go away. so trying to get back on the horse this week. i've made good progress and i want to keep it. i'm hoping i can at least start riding my bike to work again next week. i don't think i will be doing any actually working out though any time soon. which is a bummer. the sick thing is i was starting to get into getting up early every morning and doing my workouts. whenever i can start working out again, i'll probably start the p90x over again at week one. we'll see.

here is a link to some more pics from whistler. it is the last post in the thread. hopefully you can see the pics without being logged in...

http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223656

[Discipline]

damn looks like you might need to register to view the pics.

[Maggi]

I know I am way behind on this thread, but I wanted to share a site I love. It is livestrong.com and it has the best calorie counter I have found, and you can track your workouts too. It keeps me honest when I am trying to watch my intake... who wants to have to add half a bag of oreos and see that in black and white?