Staying Active

I've been doing really good lately at staying active. After work on Monday I went to the gym with Nate and did some light lifting just to get back into it with out being to sore the next day. I did some curls and was able to put some real weight on the bar (for me anyway) – which I feel really good about. On bench it was a different story, I did a little warm up using just the bar and was already feeling like I wasn't going to be able to add much weight. I ended up doing 3 sets of 10 with a 10 pound-er on each side of the bar, I was then only able to do a few with the 25's (read: not able to lift it very well at all).

Yesterday Cisco asked me if I wanted to go swimming. So of course I said yes, but only if we could play water basket ball after the laps. The hoop was over-run with youngsters and I ended up only swimming laps. I did about half a mile (15 laps) in half an hour, with only a few brakes to catch my breath. I thought Cisco was going to die, that kid is out of shape.

This morning I met Doug at 5:45 am at the YMCA in Los Alamos to play racquetball before work. If racquetball were an Olympic sport Doug would probably be on the US Olympic Racquetball Team. I've never thought it was possible to have worked so hard, sweat so much, and lost so badly at a sport where all you have to do is hit a little ball up against a wall. We played 4 games to 15 points, my highest score being a 4.

Today after work Cisco and I are planning on going to the Wellness Center to lift. I'm going to have to remind Cisco to go easy. Last time we lifted together he told me he hadn't lifted in over a year – then his legs stopped working and Rob and I had to carry his fat ass. Now he tells me he hasn't lifted since then… that was two years ago and he's not looking any lighter.