A Heavy Movie

rvrjoe775 and I are going to go see Iron Man at Southdale AMC tonight at 8pm. You should go to!

(I'm not organizing a group outing. Get your own tickets.)

Measurement updates

I had my training session over lunch today. It being the first of the month again, it was time to weigh in and measure up.

For the most part the numbers are great. My body fat percentage has decreased from 18.35% to 16.46%, I've gone from 30.6 pounds of body fat down to 27.3 pounds, while gaining 2.1 pounds of muscle.

The only weird number was by arm circumference measurement which went down from 13.25 inches to 13. I guess I need to work on my arms more, though my shoulders increased by 1.25 inches.

( Click here to see al of my numbers. )

I never know when I'm going to be buried in a collapsed building!

As I mentioned yesterday, my new goal for May to be able to bench press my own body weight. I'm comfortable up to 135#, and I can do a few reps at 145#. We decided to try one rep at 155#.

My first attempt didn't go well. I brought the barbell down to slowly, so I didn't have the energy to push the bar back up. I rested for a couple minutes and we tried again, this time successfully. I can now do one rep at 155#.

We went back down to 145# and I was able to force my way through 5 reps, and then we did another set of 8 reps at 135#.

Boxing

The other cool thing today was that I tried boxing for the first time. I've never boxed before, and I've barely hit another human in my life. I put on the gloves and my trainer put on the target mitts. I started tentatively with alternating left and right swings, I quickly got into it. He had me start a pattern of left, right, left upper cut, for a set of 10, followed by the reverse. We finished of with a left, right, duck, as he swung his mitt where my head would have been. That was a lot of fun. I told him we can do that again.

I sometimes forget how much I enjoy rough housing with another person. Lifting weights and working by myself is one thing, but to have another person to challenge can be exciting and fun.

Maybe I can get Joe to wrestle tonight! ;)

Short posts

Why did I just post three LJ entries about the gym?

Because when they were combined as one entry it was REALLY long, and I know many of my LJ friends have short attention spans. So I cut it up. This also allows you to comment on each topic in its own post.

This is LJ, keep it short (but longer than Twitter).

Iron Boffo

We just got home from seeing Iron Man which a bunch of our friends. It was boffo!

Oh, and stay through the credits. It's worth it!

We'll talk more about the movie after the weekend when more of you have seen it.