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Running update

42.5 mins 5.45km in star Trac, 6.75km in fitbit, and 7km in Nike. Right knee is weak and tired. Left shoe is looser than right. I'm currently kinda sick, but sometimes running helps. Niko has a virus cold and fever.

Niko is still sick

around July 14-20 niko was given meds, an antibiotic of 5ml and something for the colds. We were barely able to stick to his 12hour (2x a day) schedule for the antibiotic since he would put up a fight and would need 2-3 people to administer it, even with generous bribes. It was on the 19th where he would later learn to just take the medicine without restraint. Prior to that he had a mild fever, which eventually rose. We went to the Wife's company doctor since the medicine was almost free as well as the consultation. Anyway, he's sick again. This time its pretty bad. He would not eat and fell asleep. He ate only a little, and now sleeps even though he woke up fairly early. he did not go to school today. Hopefully he gets better. Now that the bribes work, I hope its fairly smooth sailing administering the drugs from now on.

Running update

40 mins 5km star trac, 6km fitbit and 6.3km Nike Still at 1.5 incline. Rig the knee weaker and left foot carpal area weak.

Running update

5km 37 mins star Trac 6.22km Nike, and 5.8km in fitbit. Right knee feeling tired and undervaluing even tightness of shoes from poor attention to detail. Don't feel to bad. Recovering from yesterday. Getting to the more active lifestyle but it's still downing me from exhaustion but not from sickness. I really lost my old body.

Diet - No Time Table, Just Changing Habits

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Its made up of many very small victories. Small victories that are hard fought and won. Today I'm 166.4 end of day weight, which puts me at 13lbs loss from when my weight started to go down. Its a much slower progression but I'm taking my time and the lesson is - It takes time. Losing weight with a certain goal of time does not work for me. Because essentially its not the Weight that changes, but the Habits. Habits change when we replace them with other habits. So the time it takes to trial and error a new habit that works is the amount of time it will take. So now I just eat a breakfast steak for breakfast, with an egg  or protien shake, which ever I can do at the time. The protien shake works with coffee, although I like it cold so I prepare it a day in advance. I've never planned my meals before and now I do. I imagine what I will eat, and look forward to it even when before I didn't like it so much. It is a real compromise with adjustment. No more carbs, just m

Running update

48 minutes 6.48km Nike (calibrated) Star Trac 6km 6.13 fitbit Right knee acting up. It's feeling weak. I'm now hitting with the balls of my feet more but it's seems to be hurting my knees. To give my knees a break I'm going to be in 0 incline and average 6km. Tried 15kph and could sustain it enough to cover more than 200m. Punched till I have a new left hand knuckle scrape. My left misses and doesn't hit as squarely, so more scrapes. Will invest in good gloves. Kicks are slowly better, bow draw. Exercises is barely 30—45lbs in 10 seconds. Will practice to meet 80 seconds on a lower weight, while reverting back to 30-45lbs. Goal is 75lbs draw weight in the long run.

Running update

36 mins 5.15 star. Trac and fitbit 5.7 nike Shoe problems this time. Never felt this strong. Could be because I had breakfast scrambled eggs X2 and coffee and the other combination of the rest day and fighting exercise which made me stretch some muscles I've forgotten to use.

More Goals

Strength and Upperbody measure the progress of my punches. Basically I need to be able to make X number of punches of a certain strength in 90 minutes. Currently my muscles are not used to punching so hard, the back of my neck feels strain as I land a punch on a 30lbs bag.  Striking strength to strengthen my wrist and my posture. The ability to make fast strong punches. I will try to figure out how much damage I will be able to deliver from the bag and its shadow and some test measurements. The idea is to deliver more than 50 joules at the minimum (enough to cause comotio cordis ) at the torso. To be able to do  Be able to draw a 100lb bow 100x in an hour in the long term. I don't want to have the muscle specialization of a real horse archer who can do 60lbs effortlessly and even shoot an arrow a second. To reach that I have to condition to draw about 100lbs often enough. Ideally I can draw a longbow of about 40lbs. As for aiming a Bow and shooting it. I will just work on v

Running update

40 mins 5km star ttac 4.3 nike 5.9 fitbit Ate a lot yesterday, but probably within my calorie limit. Couldn't sleep early because we overstayed at chats mom and I had to fix a few things and Niko would not sleep early. In the ride home Niko wanted to talk, we were able to do so. He wanted to spell. We figured out radiator Springs and John corvette. Wow will have. More conversations soon I hope.

Running update

38 minutes to run 5.1km star trac 5km nike 5.78 fit bit Knees felt weak, specifically the left knee. My load out is unbalanced and Nike is acting up. Slept little because Niko had a nightmare that woke up even chat. He was screaming about radiator Springs and McQueen. He must have been bitten by the cockroach again because yesterday he had that bite rash again. The cockroach can go to our bed and look for food. I would feel it if I was not sedated but with the benadryl I can't. So it would have been possible it crawled around us and bit Niko. Niko slept calmly and better in our arms.

New Habits to Conditon, Upper Body Update

Lately I'm able to be cleaner and more organize. I've gotten my evening rituals down. Prepare Coffee and Protien Shake for the next day. 30mins Prepare Water by the bed for medicine and when I, or anyone gets thirsty.  Medicine by the Bed.  Niko brushing his teeth Fitbit on sleep tracking mode.  Phone on Sleep tracking mode.  Leave everything to Charge The morning rituals are different  Wake up early(5am). Get ready to run on some days, rest in others, and do the upper body exercises in other days. Today, July 2 is a rest day for me and I am very tired from yesterdays 12,000 steps and 42 minutes of activity.  Get a pull up bar installed, using the second expansion tube and hook.  After my work out, I blog my performance for tracking purposes. Write down how it all felt, to check for symptoms of something that may lead to injury. I listen to my work out music.   New - Listen to my Chinese lectures Pimelseur or Chinese Pod, while doing some morning chores.  E