travis' brain dump

Everyone remember that picture from 1978 of Microsoft? Looks like a logging company or rejects from Saturday night fever? Well, before Bill Gates’ exit from the company they got everyone together minus one (who died in 2002) and plus one (who couldn’t make it to the mall for the first photo due to a snowstorm).

I’m reserving comments, I’ll leave those to Myke, Andy or my wife. LOL

This week was an excellent week. Having gotten all the routines down pretty good it’s moving along more smoothly. While the dramatic drop in waist size and weight that occured during the first week doesn’t return for the second week (to be expected) it is most definitely noticible in the picture progression. Some of the features spotted in photo’s from the beginning are virtually and in some cases completely absent. Right now I believe most of the actual weight itself is mostly being balanced back out by muscle return.

Toning of the muscles is definitely apparent and some new definition lines are starting to appear. It’s actually kind of interesting to see such change in definition considering all the weight used is below 30 lbs and the use of reistance bands is so heavily promoted in this. Honestly, 4 months of doing similar exercises with more weight never produced results like this… I guess this adds to the phase work smarter not harder. 🙂

I can definitely feel a difference in clothing. Most of my clothing has begun to relax considerably. Where I had a couple snug spots before are no longer. The only problematic thing is that the snug spots where my quadraceps are I don’t believe is ever going to go away since that entire area is lacking in fat and primarily muscle already. We shall see.

So that’s the end of this weeks report. Onto cool-down week with lots of stretching and cardio before rolling into the next toss up of the routine!

Ok, for those family members who love to look through the picture gallery bear with me. I’m in the process of migrating from Gallery2 to NextGen Gallery for WordPress so that I can better integrate all functions into the site as a whole instead of maintaining two seperate sites almost. For now there is a link in the Picture Gallery to the old one so you can jump over there if you were looking for something in particular. For now all the pictures from 2008 have been already moved over and all new pictures will be placed in the new location.

In both cases, it’s survival of the fittest.

For the record… I am super glad the party did not exceed the 15 people it did today… nothing like having a birthday party planned out based on a weather forcast that states ‘ 20% chance of late showers ‘ all the way up until the night before where it basically says ‘ the day is going to suck, hope you didn’t have outdoor plans ‘ … Yes… it rained on Arwen’s birthday and it forced the entire party into the house. Words cannot describe how happy I am that there were only five children present for my daughter’s 5th birthday. All in all despite the jungle things could be much worse. The house isn’t in too bad of a wreck and the only casualty seemed to be the kitchen floor which is a big win I say. Most the house has been cleaned and things have calmed down… back to work tomorrow so I need to get to bed. 

Thanks to those who came out to pack the house and chow down. 🙂