John got asked to go to Walter Reed to start up a new Department of Public Works warehouse. He's the logistics supervisor at the Fort Dix DPW. The VP over the projects at Ft Dix & Walter Reed personally asked John to take a job at Walter Reed but we didn't think the time was right.
Yesterday the VP sent his boss an email tasking John to WR for 90 days. HOLY SHIT! He's going to go down Sunday PM to Friday. He goes down for the first time on Tuesday.
Thank you, Wendy & Laura, on the advice. I'm going to stick it out with NROL-O. It's not that I'm bored or that I'm not seeing results. I just want them faster. It is slow--I'm sticking to the Wendy plan with my eating & have been perfect this week. No scale until Saturday. I think my stomach looks smaller. My legs are looking better & I get DOMS every time I switch up the reps/rest ratio or add weight. Those are all very good things.
I am just being impatient. I can't even say why I was feeling like this last night. I had a really good workout. I am feeling really strong--my back gets a little weak after doing dead lifts but stretching my hamstrings throughout the day keeps it from hurting.
So my goal while John is away over the next couple of weeks will be to continue doing my weight workouts as already scheduled. We're going to set up the squat rack so that I won't have to worry about a spotter for my increasingly heavier squats. I'm going to do 1 more day of cardio (is that okay???) & I'm going to get a day of yoga in.
I requested Rodney Yee from NetFlix based on Laura's blog. I'll play with him & Eion while John is away.
Today is a rest day. We're going in to Philly to meet Erin for her ride home from class.
3 comments:
I'm almost jealous of your "me" time you're about to have. (Shhhh...don't let J "hear" me say that, LOL)
I put the advanced Rodney Yee on my Christmas wish list, after reading Laura's post on it too. (Um..the list was requested by a friend-who-is-like-a-brother. I wouldn't normally make one, at 40 years old, ROFL.)
Oh, gosh ... now I'll feel so guilty if you guys don't like it!
Doing the commuter relationship thing is tough--Paul and I were in that mode for a while before we made the move down to SF. He started his job in June but didn't actually move until mid-August, so we had about two months of me in Seattle winding up my legal practice and getting the house ready to sell, and him down in the Bay Area doing whatever it is general counsels do. He did fly home every weekend, though, or I flew down there to see him and househunt.
The me time was nice, I gotta admit, although less of it would have been better. I hate to say it but I love it when Paul goes out of town on short business trips--about three days is perfect. What's up with that? LOL
PS Each phase of NROL kicks the intensity up a notch, with the final phase being downright hellish. So you should start seeing results faster as you move through the program. That's exactly the sort of progression I use with most of my clients: when we first start working together my focus is on building a foundation for the higher-intensity stuff to come. I can't kick it into high gear too soon or they'll just end up injuring themselves. It'd be like trying to run a marathon without training for it: your muscles, ligaments and tendons wouldn't be able to handle the stress and you'd almost surely end up injuring yourself.
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