Cruising Home

This past week I was lucky enough to take part in a relaxing trip to Cozumel via the Carnival Triumph cruise ship. And if there's a few things I can away take from my experience, it's one, there's actually a really nice gym on cruise ships, and two, you'll never use it. With the amount of partying and and pure laziness that occurs on a ship, to actually get up enough energy to workout, to me, is quite impressive.

So, after averaging around 4 hours of sleep each night, I actually impressed myself by finishing at least one workout while I was on the boat. If we were counting dancing as a workout though, then I shuffled my way into another new pants size...

Of course, this isn't the Party Rock Experiment (although that's an incredible idea for my next venture), but between the one workout I got in, and the 6 hours of wobblin' I did every night, I feel like I managed to do a good job of staying in shape while I was gone for 4 1/2 days.

With that, I ended up only missing one day last week while I was on the ship. My results are listed below:

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time	Beak Time  Per Set	Total  Burpees
8/20/2012	Climbers	6	8 min 27 sec	30 sec	60
8/21/2012	Ladder	15	13 min 19 sec	30 sec	120
8/22/2012	Pull-up	6	7 min 14 sec	30 sec	60
8/23/2012	REST
8/24/2012	REST
8/25/2012	Mix	7	9 min 46 sec	40 sec	70
8/26/2012	REST

Since I spent much of the last week either on the open seas or on a beach enjoying some adult beverages, I'll leave you with a quote from the greatest beach bum of all time, Jimmy Buffett:

"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."

L&R,

Drew

Losing Focus

This week started out like any other. I got up each morning, had breakfast, went to work, yadda yadda yadda. However, by Wednesday night, I knew something wasn't right with my body. You see, my wife and my kids and I had just got back from a two and a half week marathon of family vacations. I know, I know. Shed a tear for me.

Vacation?! How unfortunate.

Over the course of those two and a half weeks, we spent some time in two of the most germ infested places anyone can think of: an airplane and a baby pool. Obviously, anyone who's been on a plane before, knows unless you wear a hazmat suit, you aren't leaving that plane without, at the very least, a little cough.

And don't even get me started on the baby pool at the "world famous" Schlitterbahn... After sitting in that pool with my daughters for a few hours, I felt like I needed to take a bath in anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. If anyone has seen the South Park episode titled "Pee", you'll know exactly what I'm talking about...

So, long story short, my week was derailed by the black lung and my face feeling like it was going to explode due to whatever sickness I picked up along the way. Luckily it didn't, but I'm still recovering. Anyway, my results from this past week are listed below:

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time (Morning)	Total Time (Night)	Beak Time Per Set	Total Burpees
8/13/2012	REST
8/14/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 31 sec	19 min 45 sec	60 sec	240
8/15/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 37 sec	REST	60 sec	120
8/16/2012	REST
8/17/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 36 sec	19 min 39 sec	60 sec	240
8/18/2012	SICK
8/19/2012	REST

I'll leave you with a quote today that I hope motivates me in these last few months to push through any wimpy sickness or pain I may be feeling and finish strong. This quote is from an old Latin proverb:

"In times of sickness, the soul collects itself anew."

L&R,

Drew

Grin and Bear It

After coming back from a vacation in which I did little more than move my beach chair whenever the tide came in, I decided to go ahead and jump right back into working out with more two-adays. And if there was ever a time I wish I hadn't stopped working out for an entire week, this was it.

Not only was it tough getting back into the swing of things after being gone, but also, in that relatively short amount of time, my body must have decided to take a sabbatical. Because when I got back into it, my muscles let me know very quickly that they had 'gone fishin'.

My muscles have surprisingly good handwriting...

Out of all the workouts I've gone through this year, I'd say this weeks' were the hardest. Between the break, the bad eating/drinking habits, and jumping right back into two-adays, my muscles felt like hell and so did I. And although the timed results weren't quite up to par with how I've been doing, I'm proud of myself for at least sticking with it and finishing the week.

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time (Morning)	Total Time (Night)	Beak Time Per Set	Total Burpees
8/6/2012	Vacation
8/7/2012	REST
8/8/2012	Ladder	15	21 min 35 sec	21 min 40 sec	70 sec	240
8/9/2012	Ladder	15	21 min 47 sec	Break	70 sec	120
8/10/2012	Ladder	15	22 min 04 sec	22 min 05 sec	70 sec	240
8/11/2012	Ladder	15	21 min 59 sec	Vacation	70 sec	120
8/12/2012	REST

Today I leave you with a quote from an unknown source that I felt added a motivating spin on the phrase "grin and bear it":

"Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it."

L&R,

Drew

The Great Gorge

This past week I was bad. Real bad. I'm talking bacon and ice cream for breakfast every day, bad.

"Breakfast of Champions"

Okay, maybe I'm embellishing a bit...However, I've been on several vacations already this year, and they've all paled in comparison to this gluttonous 9 day coma inducing food-a-thon. I promise, I came into this past week with great intentions. However those intentions were quickly squandered when I came face to face with a giant slice of New York style pepperoni pizza from Manco & Manco's on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk. From there it all went downhill...

Pure Greasy Goodness

So, with all that being said, I was disappointingly unable to fulfill my Burpee workouts for the week. Because of this, I've decided to push back my two-aday sets to this coming week and suffer my way through them while I burn everything off I've eaten.

And I thought I'd leave you with a quote this week I feel best represents how I feel after nearly eating my way through Ocean City. It was the great author of one of my favorite children's books, A.A. Milne, who once said:

"A bear, however hard it tries, grows tubby without exercise."

L&R,

Drew