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  • Birthday 11/04/1966

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  1. A ZXXX is the best option. 😁
  2. I struggle with the same thing, Tim, and the timing/experience is very similar...glad you posted the thread. I've always been in my best shape when I had something to be in shape for. I've never been able to motivate myself to work out just for the sake of it...not for very long, that is. As I hit my middle age, I started to become hypertensive and my doc wanted me on meds...what choice do you have in a decision like that? I prefer not to have a heart attack or cause any long-term damage from high blood pressure but then it put me on a mission to get off of the meds, and I did. Well, fast forward though a couple of high-intensity career years and I have let the fitness part of my plan fall too far down the priority list. With mixed martial arts, I had a very good motivation to be fit. I also picked up significant injuries over those 24 months. I'm now contemplating going back to martial arts but this time with more art and less martial. Aikido will likely be my next adventure there. I have conquered my diet for the most part. Took a long time to adopt the mindset that food is not always entertainment, it is sustenance 90% of the time. 10% of the time (1 or 2 meals a week, typically) it is for the flavor. That gets me an 'A' on diet each week and is the reason I'm not gaining weight. A friend of mine put it this way, and I'm going to attempt to adopt this mindset too: Think of exercise like you do your diet or sleep. Would you plan to go a day without eating? Without sleep? So, I'm now reflooring my basement (which is a workout all by itself!) with the intent of having a space where it is workout only. Make it convenient, right in my face, and always available. (Not unlike your man cave!) I like the idea of putting the progress and workout tracking up front and center too. I think I'll move a whiteboard into the area too, great thought, tuffguy. My last piece of my personal philosophy on being healthy is this: I don't have to get an 'A' on every workout. I don't need to hit any specific goal except to get some exercise. I am perfectly fine with getting a 'C' on days where I am pressed for time or not feeling 100%, as long as I do all of the workouts 6 days a week for cardio and 3 days a week for resistance training. Showing up is most of the battle for me.
  3. Darn, that was on my 2015 list to pick up, I snoozed!
  4. No, it really isn't. What if I throw in some soft chamois towels that are perfect for wiping off the water on a freshly cleaned vehicle?
  5. When I lived in El Paso, I delivered pizza for Domino's and several of the employees were triathletes & runners who had moved there for training reasons. Two guys were Olympic-bound Kenyans and they didn't deliver pizzas by car. El Paso was their destination because of altitude and terrain. They said running there made everywhere else seem easy since there was so much more oxygen everywhere else, and a few of them raced all over the world. Going from 80 to 20 degrees was likely a 10+% increase in O2. There are air density calculators that take humidity, altitude, and air temp into the formula, it is worth thinking about as you increase your personal expectations. (Turbocharging taught me a few practical things too)
  6. A constant temp is ideal, even if 34 degrees. I don't like fluctuation above/below freezing.
  7. Yeah, in fact, I just had it on the dyno and spun a bearing. I'll send the motor your way!!
  8. The trike (aka TriXXie) is back in-progress. Mr. Wizard shipped a package my way that arrived this week -- the final pieces for the dry sump. More to come!
  9. Is there an AT&T-compatible pay as you go plan out there? If so, consider it sold!
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