June - 2018

Workout Recap - Week of June 17, 2018

Back up to five workouts for this week, and with a decent set of performances. Since I was talking about relying too much on handstand push ups in last week's recap, I made a point of avoiding them, which worked well enough. This was a good week. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail One-armed Push Ups, feet together - 1 set of 8, each side (pass) Pistol Squats, both hands behind me - 1 set of 7, each side (pass) Underhand Horizontal Rows - 1 set of 17 (pass) Bonus: 4 sets of 3 two-way su

Workout Recap - Week of June 10, 2018

Circumstances conspired to leave me renting a car with a manual transmission this week, despite that I've never tried driving one before. However, it really wasn't that bad to learn. I watched a bunch of tutorials on YouTube and just gave it a go. My first time, between my inexperience and a bad (though understandable) case of nervousness due to just throwing myself onto open roads like that, it was pretty much even odds on whether I'd stall or spin the shit out of the tir

Workout Recap - Week of June 3, 2018

I'm drawing a blank on what to talk about in this intro. There wasn't really much of note that happened for me in the past week, at least when it comes to things that would make sense to talk about on here. I suppose it's worth noting that I got back to doing five workouts in the week. That doesn't feel like much of an accomplishment since my performances were subpar, but if nothing else, it's something to build on. Sunday Type: As Fast As Possible 5 sets of: 5 Handstand P

Workout Recap - Week of May 27, 2018

Only four workouts again this week. Part of it was having another stint of staying at three different hotels in three nights, with the added trouble of them having been in three different cities this time around. Part of it is that I walked for around 11 kilometers on Saturday. I should be pretty settled in to where I am for the next six weeks, so I expect things to pick up. Unfortunately, I am also once again in a hotel where the furniture doesn't lend itself well to doi

The Forty Rules of Love

Rating: C+ Length: 225 pages This was a stark change from the sort of books that I usually read, but it got to jump ahead of my queue on account of being suggested to me by a friend. I didn't know what to expect going into it, but the premise of a book about someone reading a manuscript sent blindly to a literary agent (with said manuscript also being presented in the book) was interesting enough to get me started, and the actual content was good enough to keep me going. Gr