Exercise Days 12 to 16: Been the Week

I cannot remember why I didn't post at the begining of the week. I was more than likely play skyrim. It is what it is. Here's the log for the week:


Day 12
Still Alive | Portal
The Canada Song | Mystery Science THeater 3000 | Clowns in the Sky
Under Pressure | Queen | Classic Queen
Wonderful | Lily Allen | Nordstrom Fashion Lounge - Fall 2007
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman / We Three Kings | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked for the Holidays
Motteke! Sailor-fuku | Aya Hirano, Emiri Kato, Kaori Fukuhara, Aya Endo | "Lucky Star" Opening Theme: Motteke! Sailor-fuku
美闘士カーニバル ～たおれる時は前向きに～ cheio:full | Various Artists | 美しき闘士たち・スペシャルCD Vol. 1 [Bonus Disc]
Lament | Bernadette Peters | Into the Woods

31:00
3700 steps

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I had a late shift so I free stepped on the Wii while watching Bates Motel. I have watched all the orginial psycho movies. So it was really odd with the female classmates clamering around him as his first peer interaction. I just thought one thing. "It's not going to end well for those gals."

Day 13
30:00
2400 steps

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Just another running day. I actually was cleaning at work for the entire shift. I was a little hesitant at first but I'm committed.


Day 14
Tequila Sunrise | Eagles
I'm Flying | E-Type | Last Man Standing
すーぱー☆あふぇくしょん (OP size) | 栗林みな実, 橋本みゆき, 飛蘭, 美郷あき, yozuca*, rino | OVA カーニバルファンタズム ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 大音楽祭 [Disc 1]
Robots | Flight of the Conchords | Flight of the Conchords
次回予告 | 鷺巣詩郎 | NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Will I See You Again | E-Type
Wheels | Cake | Pressure Chief
It's All About The Pentiums | Weird Al Yankovic | Running With Scissors
Act II Prologue | Tom Aldredge and Company | Into The Woods
美しき闘士たち ドラマCD vol. 6 | Various Artists | クイーンズブレイド 美しき闘士たち「奥義! 差添いの逢魔が旅」スペシャルCD


31:38
3820 steps


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Another late shift. I stepped while watching the latest episode to Psych.


Day 15

30:00
2244

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I increased my time to 40 minutes for today. I think I'll start having one day where I have one longer day. I wanted to build up my stamina first. I have been watching the first Mobile Suit Gundam movie while finishing up this entry. I have concluded Amuro is the reason why Shinji is such a little bitch. Well I can't completely blame Amuro at least he owns up quicker, movie-wise anyway.


Day 16


7 8 9 | Barenaked Ladies | Snacktime!
トライアングラー (fight on stage) | ランカ・リー=中島愛, シェリル・ノーム starring May'n | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 2]
Star of the County Down | Slainte
Mad World | Gary Jules | Donnie Darko
Do You Want To | Franz Ferdinand Do You Want To - Single
Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me | Weird Al Yankovic | Alpocalypse
「超時空飯店 娘々」CMソング (Ranka Version) | ランカ・リー=中島愛 | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 1]
Africa | Toto | The Essential Toto
Good Intent | Kimbra | Vows (Deluxe Version)
Another Tattoo | Weird Al Yankovic | Alpocalypse
Pinch Me | Barenaked Ladies | Maroon
Pretty Fly For A Rabbi | Weird Al Yankovic | Running With Scissors


41:52
5185 steps

It's been draining, but profitable.

Exercise Day 11: Ingjard Broke My Skyrim Game

As I sat here transcribing my playlist, I was playing Skyrim. Not the most productive method of writing I know. I am going to work in roughly 8 hours. I balance my time where I can. I have this follower, Ingjard. She's pretty awesome. Dawngaurd is still kinda buggy. Skyrim rarely froze before Dawngaurd, even after I installed Dragonborn and Hearthfire. This sadly freezes every other week. I can live with that. It just froze. This was due to Ingjard actions against a vampire's thrall. To be honest though I mainly mention this story for title fodder. I couldn't think of much. I was going to use a self-dephercating one or how I am marathoning the last season of LOST, disc by disc. Anyway, back to exercise. yay...

It's hard to keep motivated. I felt alot better today. I took a little more time, but I did did a little bit of jogging. hopefully I'll be able to keep it up. I jogged for the entire duration of The Imperial March.

Duration: 32:28
Distance: 3828 Steps


The Playlist:
Ode to a Superhero (Parody of "Piano Man" By Billy Joel) | Weird Al Yankovic | Poodle Hat
Any Moment; Moments In The Woods | Robert Westenberg, Joanna Gleason | Into the Woods
Hare Hare Yukai | Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Gobo | Hare Hare Yukai
Never There | Cake | Prolonging the Magic
The Imperial March (Darth Vader) | John Williams | Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
Bring Me to Life | Evanesance
What 'bout my star? @Formo | ランカ・リー=中島愛, シェリル・ノーム starring May'n | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 1]
The Waffle Song | Mystery Science Theater3000 | Clowns In the Sky
Jingle Bells | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked for the Holidays

Lets hope for motivation for tomorrow. Tuesday will be my harder day though. I have a midshift that day. Yuck.

Exercise Day 10: I Hate Being Sick

I hate being sick. I started to get sick the next day last week [2013/03/08]. So I didn't feel so hot to exercise. I feel better today. So I went out to REI bought a new set of running gloves. I misplaced my Under Armor ones. It's somewhere in my dwelling. I am positive. My maroon winter beenie I lost awhile back is gone forever. And I didn't really "run" let alone even jog. I feel better, but not so much that I could jog without getting sicker.

I did a fast paced walk for
31 minutes at a grand total of 3600 steps.



The Random Playlist:

Carbon monoxide | Cake | Pressure Chief
Falling for the First Time | Barenaked Ladies | All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
Lament | Bernadette Peters | Into the Woods
Carol of the Bells | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked for the Hoildays
Fountain of Dreams | Hirokazu Ando | Super Smash Bros. Melee
Satan is My Motor | Cake | Prolonging the Magic
SMS小隊の歌 ～ あの娘はエイリアン | SMSのみなさん | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 1]
Lady Madonna | The Beatles | One
Mahoromatic | Mahoro DE Mambo | MahoRomatic Automatic Maiden Music Ver. 1
Hotel California | Eagles

Tomorrow should go well.
On a different note I'm going to try to dedicate an hour or two for reading. I bought about 18 books or so from the local library from their last drive. I'd like to make real headway with it.

Exercising Day 9: Walking, Mallrat Style

The run with my friend had fallen through due to him locking himself out of his car. We got to Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters right at the opening company logos. The movie was what I expected, deliciously awful. It could not decide what kind of setting it was, i.e. era and location. There were some convenient plot points for the movie. It gave enough material for a good riffing. It is worth watching with a friend who will riff with you and you rented it from a red box.

After that escapade, I ran a couple errands and was about to go home for some elliptical machine. It was roughly 8pm and the monsters are out; if you go by Bill Cosby's rules, so running was out of the question. I decided to walk the mall.
It was weird. I kind of see why you would want to do it in the morning. There would be less people and less distractions. It would also be daylight outside and a higher visibility so you would not get hit by a car.

The stats:
4184 steps, 39:20 minutes

The Playlist:
Elf's Lament | Barenaked Ladies & Michael Bublé | Barenaked for the Holidays
Sheep Go to Heaven | Cake | Prolonging the Magic
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Deep Blue Something | Home
Let Me Go | Cake | Prolonging the Magic
Hem of Your Garment | Cake | Prolonging the Magic
Don't Take Your Guns to Town | Johnny Cash | 16 Biggest Hits
If that Isn't Love | Weird Al Yankovic | Alpocalpse
Robots | Flight of the Conchords | Flight of the Conchords
Background Music III | 鷺巣詩郎 | Neon Genesis Evangelion OST III
The Legend of Wooly Swamp | Charlie Daniels Band
宇宙兄弟船 | 徳川喜一郎 | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 1]

Honourable Mentions: [started before and finished after the walk]
Sea Green, See Blue | Jaymay
Drivin' through the Night | m.o.v.e. | Burning Dance (And Other Japanimation Songs)

It felt like a good walk. I am going to run tomorrow.

Exercise Day 8: Technology Makes Everything Better, Right?

I like my pedometer application. I do, really. I wished it would have worked better today.

With 16.5 minutes of activity recorded, I took 1968 steps. Dividing that for 119 steps a minute. (This stat makes me want to check my step settings. It feels too much in a minute). I calculated about 3816 steps for 32 minutes. I have my music on random. I do not skip. I also start fresh everyday, so a song can repeat. It was a good amount of Barenaked Ladies today.


Do I Creep You Out | Weird Al Yankovic | Straight Outta Lynwood
Deck the Stills | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked for the Holidays
A Clown in the Sky | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Clowns in the Sky
It's All Been Done | Barenaked Ladies | All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
A Cruel Angel's Thesis [TV Size Version] | Yoko Takahashi | Neon Genesis Evangelion OST II
Red Fraction (TV Cut) | MELL [OP for Black Lagoon]
Asshole | Dennis Leary | Lock n' Load
Carol of the Bells | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked for the Holidays
Lonely Teardrops | Jackie Wilson
Lovers In a Dangerous Time | Barenaked Ladies | All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
End of the Movie | Cake | Pressure Chef
蒼のエーテル | ランカ・リー=中島愛 | マクロスF VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ [Disc 2]


Tomorrow I am planing on running with a friend tomorrow before we watch some Hansel and Gretel.

Exercise Day 6: Variety is the Spice of Life

So I didn't exercise yesterday. I worked early in the morning, had a five year-old niece's birthday in the afternoon. I got lazy and ate cake, it was delicious too.
Next sunday will be rough too, might need to exercise in the morning before I go to work at 6am. *sigh*

I decided to change it up and use the Wii Fit. I primarily used my time for yoga and the aerobics. I did one strengthening exercise that i cannot remember of. You I performed Sun, torso twist, tree [I got a sucky score on that one], cobra, twisted spine, bridge and a knee stretch. For Aerobic I did advanced rhythmic boxing and advance step.

As it has been 6 days, I  checked my weight after I finished.
I weighed in at 231. Not bad considering my level of activity.


Nothing else terribly exciting. I am going to watch some Golgo 13 with a friend this week. We have seen all of the series up to the fourth collection. I have yet to watch it. I didn't even crack open the plastic.

Exercising Day 4: Company is Always Welcomed

Last night A friend of mine posted on FB, "I need a gym buddy." I thought, "Sure a change of scenery." Unfortunately, her husband became ill later in the day. Like the good gal she is, she cancelled so she could keep him company. I understood, but I still wanted to send her a picture of my cinch under armor bag that had my pair of shoes. [I didn't.] So here I was and I thought, "What am I going to write; another entry of elliptical machine?"

Thankfully, my sister and her husband was going out for a walk. These walks can last for a decent amount of time, an hour or two. We went over to Fred Meyer. I wanted to buy a twenty dollar PSN card for P4 Arena along with some frozen juice. The frozen juice was for 7"x9"2" silicone ice cube tray of the Millennium Falcon. I'll post pictures for it in tomorrow's entry. It's currently freezing right now.

It was a relaxing hour walk around the store. I kept in constant moving when my company would stop from time to time. I learned there is a Kinect basketball game that actually came with and uses the official NBA basketball. On the back of the large packaging it showed a diagram of a person dribbling the basketball in front of Kinect.. That just sounds like a dangerous combination. "Here my pre-teen child, play with this basketball in front of our large flat screen tv." Tears and sadness my friends. Tears and Sadness.

I enjoyed having the company for the walk. It was a nice change of pace. For the record, I bought a Hawaiian's Own frozen juice, Guava/Passion Fruit/Orange combination. I am still debating about going downtown. For Saturday though, I actually already planned out another exercising excursion with different friend. I was told in advance I could be canceled on her 4 year old son may want to watch a movie so I might do a double. A 30 minute jog in the morning and an hour or so walk in the afternoon with her. It'll be good or it'll kill me. Regardless of the outcome, there is a good chance I will not want to walk tomorrow.

Exercise Day : Mining in Skyrim can be fun.

I decided to stay in today. It's slightly cold and I lack the motivation to go out in the brave new world. So I did some mild stretches to my legs and arms. I already had my PS3 on with Skyrim running. I just bought my property in Falkreath. I have been doing laundry earlier today and left my character to mine clay. Then I thought, well I need a good amount of stone. I set Atelah to quarry stone for the thirty minutes of exercise. I ending up exercising a little longer than that, but more on that in a moment. After thirty-seven minutes of elliptical training, I quarried 2112 pieces.

As usual I used my trusty blip.com app on my iPad keep me occupied. I watched a crossover review of Obsurus Lupa/Diamanda Hagan Review for "God of Vampires." It was a horrible film and an alright review. Some of the jokes didn't exactly hit for me. It was a thirty-seven minute video and I thought I'll just stop when I hit thirty minutes. When that thirty minute mark came up, I felt kind of silly i couldn't do another seven minutes. So seven minutes later I was finished and quite tired.

I feel a little refreshed as I write this. With tomorrow as my day off, I might shake things up abit and do something different. We'll see; as I have been told a many times before.

Day 2: Bad Choices

On to day 2.

I have used the elliptical machine before. It has some nice simple settings and features: incline & resistance control, preset programs, a timer, a fan. All of these run off your own movement. After moving the device to the hallway, nothing works. I went ahead and used it anyway. I was committed and i just did a mild set of stretches. More on the latter in a moment.

I watched a video of the cinema snob on my lovely iPad for the duration of the "run". It was a video review of a die hard knock off called "Crackerjack". The 24 minute episode was quite enjoyable; but after 12 minutes of not knowing how far i was going and no fan, I didn't feel so fresh. That was my second poor choice; my first was using weights in the stretches.

Prior to the elliptical machine, I did some quadricep stretch for 20 sec or so for each leg. Another 20 sec. on a modified calf stretch where i have my back leg perpendicular. Then I decided to push it a little more with two 5 lb weights. I did 10 reps of arm lifts with a weight in each hand. This was followed by 10 reps of arm curls. I performed 10 reps of the same calf stretch where I had one arm stretched out and one at my hip. I held this for 30 sec for each calf. For the finale I did 10 squats with a weight in each hand. It doesn't seem to be very much and to be frank i sound like a silly. However, my legs still hurt a little bit and I haven't really done very many stretches for quite some time.

I did power through those last 12 minutes on the elliptical.  It wasn't pleasant. Overall, this activity took a little over 32 or so minutes.

Tomorrow I may wake up a little earlier and run outside. I also have to fight my urge to play Skyrim. I just downloaded Dawnbreaker and have created a new character in the spirit of this new release. That or choose between the elliptical or a mixed work out that involves more crunches and push-ups.

To be honest, I'd rather run.



[Also, if anyone has a better way to term any stretches feels free to tell me. I'm not a hundred precent sure on all the names. I just mimic what i have remembered]

A "Newer" Me

I have decided after a many stop and go's of me running; I will be writing about my endeavors everyday, wether it be good or bad. I'm mostly hoping for good. I don't expect these entires to be terribly long. Hopefully though This will help me keep in check for the task at hand. This is the third month I have tired to run/walk, more like a strong walk/jog, in a consistent fashion. The best i've done was just two weeks. In my defense I have been losing weight thanks to the DASH Diet. I've dropped from 260 to 238, my last weigh in prior to today. [I had yet to weight myself when I wrote this sentence.]

My goal is 30 minutes of exercise a day. This can entail jog/walking, elliptical machine with some simple hand free weights and wii fitness. Wii fitness would be a combination of boxing and yoga.
I'm planing on dropping down to under 200 lbs. (I'm 6' 0")

I'll do a weigh in every 6 days or so.
Current weight: 237 lbs
I am using the GPS+ pedometer ultimate.

Today's stats:
I have taken 3833 steps; an equivalent of 1.8 miles.
Duration: 31 minutes and 56 seconds.

I mostly walked the entire route. Kinda lame, I know. I walked/jogged on the nearby snow covered bicycle trail. It was a balmy 34° F. The sun was shining. We are getting more sunlight everyday, as one would hope. Saw a couple of runners out there with me along with a handful of dogs.

For "running" I have a goal I want to reach before I turn back at 15 minutes. At 2 miles there is a Costco's. After that there is a Target down the road from there. At the intersection of the Target, you turn to the left where it follows to the next major road. Half between there are train tracks. Then there is a bakery/cafe at left of where the intersection road and major road meets. I saw the Costco's in the distance today. I'm hoping to reach that by mid march. So a good start, I guess.