• +1 Days Vitamins Taken
• +6 Hours of Sleep
• +10 Minutes of Stretching

Catchup: Rest day?? What's THAT?

• +1 Days Vitamins Taken
• +1 Days of Rock Climbing
• +3 Healthy Meals
• +7 Hours of Sleep
• +2 Miles Run
• +5 Minutes of Core Exercises
• +170 Minutes of Physical Activity
• +10 Minutes of Stretching
• +36 Reverse Crunches
• +3 Workouts

Catchup:

For breakfast I had 2 miles of running, with a side of 2 softboiled eggs.

For lunch I had a gym workout consisting of indoor rowing and and a routine from Men's Health, with my bowl of caesar salad.

For dinner, I had a little bit of rock climbing to start, intermediate yoga for my main, and some steak for dessert (protein, totally healthy in my book).

I think that offsets the half cup of white wine during office happy hour right? Good times.

• +1 Aerial Silks Classes
• +7 Hours of Sleep
• +20 Minutes of Core Exercises
• +10 Minutes of Stretching
• +0 Servings of Carbs Past 5pm
• +1 Workouts

My Adventures in Guest Buffins: Wednesday

Still hobbling from my the previous day's workout with Beast Buffin, I almost didn't make it to my aerial silks class at The Sky Box. There was no air conditioning, the silks were too stretchy and too sticky, I was sore, and everything was hard. I couldn't climb at all, and looked even more remedial at silks than I am. The teacher tied the silks in a knot and assigned me to hanging upside down in the hammock and practicing knee hooks. That's kid's stuff! I spent 15 minutes hanging upside down, stewing, my hard-won pride rushing along with the blood to my head. Then the teacher started talking about challenges and personal progress. She talked about how, often, we stick to doing what we are already good at, how we rarely push ourselves out of our comfort zone, and how that makes us plateau and prevents us from making any progress. How it's good to push yourself to a point where you are uncomfortable, even if it's for just a few minutes a day. How we should challenge ourselves, and if we fail, we should try again and again, because if we try enough times, eventually we will succeed, eventually we will break through the plateau. It's going to take a lot of being uncomfortable, but challenging ourselves to be uncomfortable is the only way we really progress. After the teacher said that, I decided the Universe had meant for me take that class and suck at that class just so I could hear those words. Basically, I thought I was paying $30 to get some silks instruction, but really I was paying to get my mind set right.

• +16 Cardio Minutes
• +1 Days Vitamins Taken
• +8 Glasses of Water
• +1 Healthy Breakfasts
• +7 Hours of Sleep
• +10 Minutes of Stretching
• +1 Personal Trainer Workouts
• +0 Servings of Carbs Past 5pm
• +1 Sunscreen Applications
• +1 Workouts

My Adventures in Guest Buffins: Tuesday

Last week, since both my aerial silks teacher and my trainer (codename: Buffin) were out of town, I took the opportunity to train with other gurus. Enter SoWo 1.0's resident badass and Quidditch master, Killercadoogan, who graciously offered to train me for a session to tide me over until Buffin returns. For the purposes of this story, I will hereafter refer to Kdoog as "Beast Buffin." Holy smokes. I've always had a healthy respect for the ambitious nature of Beast Buffin. We're talking about a guy who skipped marathons and went straight to running ultra-marathons, but now I humble myself before his badassness. I thought I had been trained before, but now I have been TRAINED. We started with a kettlebell session, where Beast Buffin showed me fancy full body situps (Turkish get-ups) that looked like choreography from Flashdance. After about an hour, he says he has something else to show me before we're done. I think I'm in for some reverse crunches or something. No. Beast Buffin pulls out a tug-of-war rope, lays it across the floor, lies down on the ground, holding onto one end, and tells me to pull him to me from across the room. The entire big boyz grunting section watched me pull BB across the room like we were an episode of Gladiators. I survived, and then BB told me to do it again. Twice. I figure after that, we MUST be done. That would be incorrect. Next he stands on a mat, tells me to grab his ankles, and push him across the room. At the end of the room, I have to go into a handstand, and then push him back across the room. We looked like an ant pushing a transformer. This time, I figure we ABSOLUTELY must be done. Again, incorrect. BB puts me on a stationery bike, and puts me through his signature cardio interval workout where I lift dumbbells while pedaling. It's the kind of thing that can be a workout on its own, but we did it at the end of all that other working out. I came home after the session, fell asleep over my lunch, and was sore for three days afterwards. Beast Buffin, we hereby award you a von Hottie Medal of Valor. Never has the von Hottness labored to get a man to cross a room to her and let him live to tell about it.