Week 2 of Quarantine.
I probably fell asleep around 11:00 pm on Day 7. I set my alarm for 6 am and slept through the night until my alarm went off. My body felt like it was hit by a train with working out 7 straight days and I also felt my body still eating up the calories from dinner last night. No food belly this time around.
And as most days, on Day 8, I dragged my way over towards the kitchen, set up my Cosori and Chemex to make coffee out of Caveman Coffee grinds. I better order another batch soon before they the the county, state and/or country stops all shipping at some point, if it happens.
I decided to start my day a little different this week. I usually start by either writing my blog or doing a little work then working out. But On Day 8, I decided to continue to read the "In-N-Out Burgers" Book I mentioned in Day 3.
I came across a chapter in the book where they mentioned Rich Snyder, the second son of Harry Snyder who was the founder of In-N-Out. In the book, per Rich's friends, he always had a smile on his face.
I remember back in middle school, I had a few friends over and they decided to play bodies, which was a basically a safer way of saying boxing. Two friends went at it and we split them up. Then, I, who hasn't gotten in a fight still to this day, said I'll go up against someone. My friend, Marcus, stepped up to go up against me.
As we stood about 8 feet apart in my backyard, circling around an invisible ring, we hadn't thrown a punch in about 90 seconds. We threw fake punches to see if the opponent was scared or not. Then, Marcus after about 3 minutes in and as friends we're cheering us on, "Dude, I can't hit you. You're too nice!" I did always have a smile on my face during grade school. I guess growing up and old catches up with you.
I read the book for about 2 hours and proceeded to do work for a few hours and planned out my "Work At Home" schedule for Day 9.
Shortly after I was done with work, I was dreading it but worked out, though my body was telling me not to.
The Workout Of the Day Was...
Added Warm Up:
2 Rounds:
5 Glute Bridge Raises
10 Lizard Lunges
10 Standing Straight Leg Toe Taps
Progressive Volume Work:
Complete 5 rounds for quality:
12 Hollow Rocks
15 Push Ups
20 Squats
Progressive Tempo Run:
Run 10 Minutes Out
Return with a Negative Split (<10 Minutes)
I nearly passed out again on the run. Since Day 1, this workout has been posted three times (Day 1, Day 5, Day 8), but they have been added another round on the volume work each time and add another minute on the tempo run each time as well.
Afterward, I made lunch, that consisted of ground turkey and broccoli. Boring, right?
While I was on my run, I got one email about work, which was the one of three work related emails I got since Day 1. So after I ate, I worked on that until it was done, or as far as I could go with it.
Trying to spread out the day is pretty tough. If you have something to do, you don't really want to get all of it done, especially if there is no rush to. So in-between work on Day 8, I was scrolling through my photos on my phone. I came across a video of my friend, Trevor, trying to attempt a self trust fall.
The self trust fall is where you are on your knees and at attention, putting your hands behind your back, have your chin up, squeeze your butt and try to fall as you want to rock back and forth without falling flat on your face.
Trevor failed miserably. I'm still laughing as I am writing this.
After I got done with work and getting a good laugh out of the video, I decided to do a second workout. 20 minutes of lunging.
The 20 minute lunging comes from my good friend, Ben. From what I remember, he was in the Army and hurt his back really bad and couldn't lift weighs and the only thing he could do is lunges. So for 90 days, he would lunge for 20 minutes. One day during the summer, I just decided to do it and I've been doing it ever since at least once or twice a week.
After my second workout, I ate dinner, which was ground turkey and chicken curry with garlic and spinach rice and an egg on top, and watched Mad Men again with David.
Day 8 ended with reading about another 2 hours of "In-N-Out Burgers", which made me really hungry while reading the description of the burgers. But while I was reading through the book, some part would take me back to past memories I personally had (non-In-N-Out related) and get distracted as would I to read a page. I must have tried to re-read the same paragraph 10 times at one point. I couldn't get the thought out of my mind.
One of them being a project I wanted to do during this Quarantine.
Let's see what Day 9 brings us.
Jun
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