Totally exhausted, totally tired, but gave a lot of good effort this week and doing the Monday, Wednesday, Friday format I think will work pretty well. I'm signed on and committed for 24 sessions. That will take me to the end of 2020. Then from there I'll re-evaluate. Working with my trainer right now the emphasis for the next four weeks is doing strength and mobility and waking up my body. I've got a past being a former college football player, and in high school I played different sports. There's some of that wiring there. So it's getting my body reacclimated to moving that way. There's also a big component of doing some of these movements that I've never really done before. I enjoy that training a lot. Where you just have to show up and go. You have to focus. Like I said yesterday I have a puppy. I've been training him and going to classes. It's been so much fun. Seeing how a puppy learns and adapts. That's where I kind of look at myself right now. Yes, I'm a dog and have enough years to be older, but approaching this with a puppy mindset. Having a lot of fun just kind of playing and doing some of these new movements. I'll try to work this weekend on summarizing what I've done for the full week. Then that way can give a quicker snapshot week over week, and eventually month over month. For the next four weeks it's going to be Monday, Wednesday, Friday format doing a lot of strength based routines. I'm anticipating the movements and exercises will be similar to what I did this week, maybe adding a few variations. Pretty simple. Really going to focus this weekend staying in a good sleep routine. Looking forward to next week. Feels good.

Feeling pretty good. Still sore in the glutes. Definitely feel it in the calves. Anything from the waist down I guess you could say. With my upper body, I went swimming today for half an hour, similar to what I did on Tuesday. Shoulders are feeling stiff. Upper back, though, felt pretty open in the water after swimming. I've always enjoyed that, just getting in the water and moving. Tomorrow will be my Friday session. I'm doing the Monday, Wednesday, Friday format. So three days a week of pretty intensive training and just want to keep up on the recovery and the rest. Right now it's 9:30, so that's a plus. Still not as early as I'm used to going to bed. I've got a new puppy. Had him for a little over a month now and he's keeping the days interesting. I'm just enjoying where I'm at and adjusting to taking on a little bit more of a load with the training aspect of this. I'll check in tomorrow and see how it goes.

Third day in. Still going to bed a little late. 11:15 my time, but trying to get the podcast studio setup in a way where these audio recordings aren't too sketchy. I've never done this before, but enjoying the process. I've got my training log started. I don't know how to share that exactly, but thinking maybe in a weekly format where week over week can show all the exercises I'm doing and how I'm approaching it. 

Today was a pretty tough session. By tough I mean just kind of getting after it with a good mix of strength and cardio. I don't even know if cardio's the right word. I got fatigued a little bit. The trainer I'm working with, he's just trying to get feel for how much I can take before I started laboring a bit. It's fun. I haven't been in the gym for a while. Goes back to March-ish and I'm assuming like most everyone else, COVID-19 has changed the approach to what's allowed and what's preferred. Right now, with me, I know I enjoyed the heck out of my summer. I was able to get outside, and I'm still getting outside even in the cooler weather. Feeling pretty good. I'm tired in my glutes. I always think that's the "good sore". Looking forward to getting into the pool tomorrow morning and keeping at it. I think overall with the podcast I'll start small, give brief updates, but really do want to give more my backstory, my reason why, and be authentic.

The whole idea of Training for X is my thing right now is I'm training to dunk a basketball because that matters to me. That's a personal thing. And in the large scheme of things most people probably have no desire to dunk a basketball. But when you identify something that matters to you, and you want to get after it in a way that is sustainable and fun, training really really can go a long way. 

Right now I'm searching for that trifecta of getting a good balance of coaches. Just direct feedback from people that are more experienced than me in this and have a vested interest. Right now I have a personal trainer for Monday, Wednesday, Friday. It's never easy writing the check, especially when you feel like you're fit and can do things yourself. But rarely am I disappointed in putting good money and time into coaches. I've found the more that you put in, and willing to listen and be a coachable athlete and trainable person, you get a lot back. And it's a lot of fun. I won't delve too deep into other stuff right now, but hopefully this is interesting to somebody. And, if not, it keeps me honest. It's a good daily training log and maybe I'll just have to summarize things in a week over week format to make it a bit easier. I'll be churning out some more content maybe in a few different formats where it's not all me just mumbling and bumbling. Hopefully the audio is improving here. If it's not, I'll continue with my little studio here. I've got my grandma's quilt on the wall trying to muffle some of the sound, or absorb it. I've got this ATUSB2020 mic. I've never really used a mic, but it's a process, and looking forward to it.

Just checking in, I setup a new mic, so hopefully that sounds alright. The nights are getting long on me here, but tomorrow morning I'll be waking up to do my second session of personal training. This morning I just did some recovery. I swam 30 minutes in the pool. Dealing a little bit with DOMS (delayed muscle onset soreness). Always a good sign when you get back in the gym and start feeling things that you haven't felt in a few years. No, it wasn't that bad, but I definitely felt from doing the hex deadlifts in my hamstrings and inner groin. Overall feeling good. Need to basically carve out more time to kind of lay out week over week what the plan is. Right now the next four weeks will be a strength building phase. I'm anticipating a lot of work, a lot of eating, and a lot of rest. Looking forward to it and I'll check in tomorrow.

I've never done this before, but I've listened to a lot of podcasts and always enjoyed what other people are willing to share. This is going to be a daily training log. I don't know any clever names, or anything to call it, but it's really all about training. Right the goal for me, and what I'm training for is to dunk a basketball. It's been a long time coming. Goes back to basically high school, even junior high. Made one attempt to dunk a basketball in a high school basketball game and missed that dunk. Kind of bothered me ever since, but never really had a good opportunity to sit and focus in and say...what do I want to do to train to dunk it again? This podcast is all about that. 

I feel everyone kind of has that competitive drive to do something that's kind of a stretch, and maybe I'll call this Training for X, or something in line with improving performance. I'll try to keep these brief, and show the progress and process I'm going through. And give honest insight into what's working well, and what's not working, and try to keep it interesting. I know I'm not the most important thing right now, just want to give good insight into other areas of your life you might enjoy training for. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes, and also learn from some of the joys of getting other people that like to train.