Y'all ready?

Definitely do it Joel. But pick your fights. Cross fit is a funny thing. There are some moves they do (like those rotational pull-ups) that only benefit the people that still have green bones and the reflexes of a cat. My days of jumping on to things and jumping off of things are over. I move heavy things and thats all.

For the first time since I was a senior in college I pulled 600 the other day. I'm working on extreme core, deadlift, and olympic clean and jerk. If I can get the videos to attach I'll put them up here. The plan is to have enough strength to over power the unforgiving nature of ZO speed control so that when it jumps on me I can maintain a good enough body position to save the pass. The year (and the diary I'll start here) will prove one way or another whether it works or not.

We need to ski again my friend. Its been a rough couple seasons...

Where are you skiing that conditions took you out to the lake?? Its killing me around here with the on and off snow and temps in the teens.

 I rode my motorcycle around in the snow today just trying to get the sun to come out.....didn't work.

I was just in Chucktown last weekend. On the ground for 8 whole minutes :) It was a heckofalot warmer down there than it is here. I'll give ya holler next time we are cut through with a day off.

Unbelievable!

The harder I try to drop weight it seems the heavier I get. Its not supposed to work that way. I was really good all week, all weekend, hop on the scale this morning for some good news and I'm heavier.

So all you exercise folks out there come in and set me straight:

Muscle is supposed to be the furnace. Weight loss is supposed to be calories in vs calories out. I subscribe to a site called loseit.com to keep track of it all. Either they give me way too much credit for the exercise or something because I'm around a 1000 calorie a day deficit, starving all the time, and I'm slowly gaining.

Thoughts?

I'm 46 going on 24 and spend a lot of time strength training because that is what motivates me. Stacking 1000lbs on a sled at the end of my working sets or using 100+lb dumbells makes me want to go back in there again. I entered a small time powerlifting meet a couple weeks ago just to see what my 3 event total was going to be. Posted a 620 deadlift, 515 squat and a 335 bench for a 1470 total. I carry more muscle mass than the average meathead thats my age so in my mind I should be able to use that for fat burning purposes. Not really working for me.

An exercise guru at the gym told me to stay away from traditional cardio if I wanted to be strong because traditional cardio stimulates cortizol (sp) which is a test killer and a fat retainer. I have no idea what they hell she was talking about but I do need to find a way to lean out.

The season would have started today if I hadn't had to work. Where do you typically ski there in Northern KY? Rough River?

Well, ready or not the season has started and once again I proved the old axiom that "the only thing that will get you ready or skiing is skiing."

Spent a lot of time in the gym. A LOT of sweat equity. Turns out strength alone does not get the job done in the course. Conditions were not terrible. A little cold and rolly, but I was only "connected" about half the time and the rest of the time I took the boat's full load in the shoulders and back from letting the ski fall behind exiting the turn.

So my lower back is tired and I'm watching some really ad video that I will run through the shreader later today so that it won't end up on Youtube some day.

FORWARD!

I was sore last night, but not today. Now I just need some regular rope time and I'll get it together. Skiing full speed and "shorter" line probably wasn't the best idea. I pretty much chased the boat and let it abuse me all day.