It never seems to fail that I wake up before my alarm. I had set my alarm again for 6:00 am but instead of 5 minutes before my alarm, I woke up an hour before this time around. I wanted to sleep in so I stayed in bed as long as I could until I became restless and got out of bed at 5:30 am.
Like every morning, I strolled over to the kitchen and set up my Cosori and Chemex to make coffee out of Caveman Coffee grinds.
During this quarantine phase, my goal is to do my workouts outside, which allows me to get at most an hour of air and sun, until we are on complete lockdown.
The Workout Of the Day was...
Warm Up:
2 Rounds of:
12 Lateral Raises (Canned Soup As Weights, Why Not) <<< Not edited
12 Glutei Bridge Raises
12 Cossack Squats
Handstand Series:
Complete 6 rounds for quality of:
:45 Foot Elevated Plank Hold
-Rest :90-
AMRAP 20
Walking Lunges
Usually before every workout, I never stretch. Hardly ever. Only if it was mandated if I took a class. But this time, my right knee felt tight and every time I would put it down to the ground, I felt like it was going to tear. So I took about 30 minutes to stretch it out.
During the AMRAP (As Many Rep As Possible), I did 452 lunges, but I was being extremely careful with my knee, though it didn't hurt during the workout, I felt like I wasn't 100%. Better to be safe than sorry. After I returned to Casa Del Dova-Endo, I iced my knees.
...Also, yes, I used canned soup as weighs. Keep it interesting during these crazy times.
I have been portioning my meals for a while now. As many friends know, I can eat a lot. A small example would be eating three 3x3 In-N-Out Burgers in about 15 minutes. I was starving then.
But the beginning of last November, I was going through a pretty tough time. I was drinking everyday to ease the pain for about week. Then, one day in the middle of the month, I decided to do a fast. I was looking for articles on how I can improve my diet and fitness, especially with traveling for work every weekend and working crazy hours during the fall and winter, then I came across 2 articles on a basketball player named Dwight Howard on his journey for the upcoming 2019-2020 season.
Instead of easing into it, I went in cold turkey. You can ask David that. My workouts went from two to four days a week when I was home and I only ate one big meal after I worked out, which consisted of either chicken or ground turkey and green beans or broccoli.
I did it for 30 days and never felt better physically and mentally in my life.
But for lunch on Day 3, I had my last two leftover slices of pizza from David's birthday on Day 1.
After lunch, I went and continued to do more work from home, prepping for the upcoming USGA golf season and the NFL season.
I received a call from a number I hadn't recognized, but I remember calling the financial services I usually go get my taxes done at. They told me if I wanted to get it done, go over there now.
On a normal given week, Jefferson Financial Services is packed. I've waited 2 hours before getting my name called. So I would usually go 2 hours before they open like a maniac, be the first one there, be the first one on the waiting list. out of there in 45 minutes after they open.
On Day 3, I was out of there in about 20 minutes.
After I came back home, Taylor, one of my dearest friends I mentioned in Day 2, asked me if I wanted to go to Scopa Italian Roots, one of the restaurants a member at Deuce Gym owns and became friends with.
Since all restaurants are closed for dining in Los Angeles now, Chef Antonia Lofaso started up the Scopa Market, where the restaurant is selling items available for purchase and prepare at home.
Taylor went and order some pasta and sauce from there, as I was tempted to buy some ricotta and ciabatta but I held out because I had too much bread last few days.
Selfish. I know.
We came back to home and I went over to Taylor's place (Taylor lives in the same complex as David and I). They just got a new golden doodle, Riley Rey, that I helped Taylor on his adventure to Las Vegas to get the dog 2 weeks prior.
Being around dogs are just awesome. Especially when they are puppies...except when they pee and poo everywhere.
After an hour or so at Taylor's, I came back and backed up files from my MacBook to a external hard drive because who knows when my computer my crash and burn. I got the MacBook Pro I am using in April 2013 as a college graduation gift from my mom and two sisters. It almost died on me before but I got it revived in 2018.
For dinner, I had 4 chicken tacos with chopped lettuce, onion, salsa and lime. As my friend and colleague (friend first), Bryan would say, "Taco on a Wednesday? You're crazy."
I sat on the couch as David was watching Mad Men but I decided to call it an earlier night and headed to bed around 7:55 pm and read one chapter from the book, "In-N-Out Burger" by Stacy Perman.
I'm a big lover of In-N-Out and my co-worker bought me the book about how the empire was built.
I started a second chapter but my eyes felt heavy so I attempted to go to sleep.
Let's see what Day 4 brings us.
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