The ChillOut Log
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Life brings changes day to day
I got up today at 3:30AM. I had to adjust because of today's activities.
I ate my pre-workout meal.
It is now 6:30AM.
Instead of cardio this AM, I have to eliminate it, and replace it with my weight training (because it is normally done in the evening) and I have some important things to do.
Where there is a will there is way to adjust and give time. I understand this isnt always the case with life's responsibilities, but there is a difference between providing an excuse (and there is room to fit training in) and not even a remote possibility of getting it in. HAVE TO WANT IT! While some are off drinking there alcohol this weekend, and then recovering, I am diligently working on my goal and dont have to worry about those type of things........YES!
You can bet, if the activities shorten this evening, I see cardio in the PM. There is no doubt. I have the evil eye and my attitude is high!
Im off to train, staying mean and lean, BABY!
The cast iron weights have some problems: ME
Chillen
I got up today at 3:30AM. I had to adjust because of today's activities.
I ate my pre-workout meal.
It is now 6:30AM.
Instead of cardio this AM, I have to eliminate it, and replace it with my weight training (because it is normally done in the evening) and I have some important things to do.
Where there is a will there is way to adjust and give time. I understand this isnt always the case with life's responsibilities, but there is a difference between providing an excuse (and there is room to fit training in) and not even a remote possibility of getting it in. HAVE TO WANT IT! While some are off drinking there alcohol this weekend, and then recovering, I am diligently working on my goal and dont have to worry about those type of things........YES!
You can bet, if the activities shorten this evening, I see cardio in the PM. There is no doubt. I have the evil eye and my attitude is high!
Im off to train, staying mean and lean, BABY!
The cast iron weights have some problems: ME
Chillen
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I got up today at 3:30AM. omg, what on earth for?? was this intentional??
Chillen
ROCK ON MAN,
Jackie xxx
Yes, getting up that early was intentional. I had to compensate for some time I was going to lose this evening (as it turned out, it wasnt so bad), so I am going to tackle the bike and do some cardio here in a little bit. Abs are popping out like popcorn baby!
Hope things are well for you Jackie!
Chillen
WOW!So intresting to see your attitude 6 months ago! Encouraging! Thanks for admitting your own weaknesses!! - I didn't spell check btw excuse me!
Thanks, Shellsy. I have many weaknesses. So many in fact, I could possibly count them. Hope you are well and happy in all that you do in life and in fitness.
Happy New Year!
Chillen
aww kool, yh im good thanks, ive done a full body workout everyday for the past 5 including today
- which is well good, and tomorrow im going to take the day off working out. Is that an indoor bike yeah?? i wouldnt want u slidding about in the snow
hahai got a decent bike, i brought it about 6 months ago, i cant wait for the weather to get better, so i can use it more again
Things are going well thankyou very much, i hope your ok
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Jackie xxx
I have a slightly different view on welcoming the New Year:
1. Going to take the Mrs. out to dinner, and celebrate our marriage, and talk about the new year coming and how are love and respect for one another can grow and prosper. We are entering our 25th year of marriage. We both been married, once. (my choices in this dinner will remain in my calorie restrictions, no alcohol)
2. Going to give me a fat tissue loss a new year welcome, with 3 cardio sessions, and stay on track with my calarie deficit projections. There will NOT be any post Holiday complications or blues for me. Today is a weight training off day.
3. Taking both of my sons out to dinner and celebrate our relationship and plan some things for the coming new year. (my choice remain in calorie restrictions, no alcohol)
To me this is what its about.
I dont restrict a new year just to the holiday, a new year for anyone can happen at any given time during the year when they make up their mind and execute the things that motivate them as an individual.
Happy New Year!
Have a great one!
Off to do my 2nd cardio session for the day, before taking the Mrs. out on a very romantic and loving dinner.
Later!
Keep Rocken!
Chillen
1. Going to take the Mrs. out to dinner, and celebrate our marriage, and talk about the new year coming and how are love and respect for one another can grow and prosper. We are entering our 25th year of marriage. We both been married, once.
(my choices in this dinner will remain in my calorie restrictions, no alcohol)2. Going to give me a fat tissue loss a new year welcome, with 3 cardio sessions, and stay on track with my calarie deficit projections. There will NOT be any post Holiday complications or blues for me. Today is a weight training off day.
3. Taking both of my sons out to dinner and celebrate our relationship and plan some things for the coming new year. (my choice remain in calorie restrictions, no alcohol)
To me this is what its about.
I dont restrict a new year just to the holiday, a new year for anyone can happen at any given time during the year when they make up their mind and execute the things that motivate them as an individual.
Happy New Year!
Have a great one!
Off to do my 2nd cardio session for the day, before taking the Mrs. out on a very romantic and loving dinner.
Later!
Keep Rocken!
Chillen
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December 31, 2007: Thoughts for the day
The following sums up (but not totally) my view on New Years:
People become so concerned with themselves between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be more concerned with themselves (in health and fitness) between the New Year and Christmas
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Additional thoughts on New Year's Holiday:
Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
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Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
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Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
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Mark Twain
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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Judith Crist
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.
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Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
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Joey Adams
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!
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Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men or women draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Robert Paul
I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
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Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.
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Leonard Bernstein
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
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G. K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights
jose Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Have a great day brotha and sista's!
Chillen
The following sums up (but not totally) my view on New Years:
People become so concerned with themselves between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be more concerned with themselves (in health and fitness) between the New Year and Christmas
=========================================
Additional thoughts on New Year's Holiday:
Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
==========================================
Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
==========================================
Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
==========================================
Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
==========================================
Mark Twain
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
==========================================
Judith Crist
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.
==========================================
Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
==========================================
Joey Adams
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!
==========================================
Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
=========================================
Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men or women draw on a bank where they have no account.
=========================================
Robert Paul
I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
=========================================
Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.
=========================================
Leonard Bernstein
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
========================================
G. K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
========================================
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
=========================================
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights
jose Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Have a great day brotha and sista's!
Chillen
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At 10pm tonight we enter the 3rd cardio session of the day. Today was a unforgettable day with my sons and my wife.
Soon some new pics, at the new projected weight of 161 (approx), and leaner and meaner than before coming in just a couple of weeks. I just love the battle, brotha and sista's!
Happy New Year to everyone!
Best wishes,
Chillen
Soon some new pics, at the new projected weight of 161 (approx), and leaner and meaner than before
coming in just a couple of weeks. I just love the battle, brotha and sista's!Happy New Year to everyone!
Best wishes,
Chillen
I feel GREAT! Its January 2008, and I am going to be 47 this year, and in the best shape of my life!
Happy New Year!
And, I open the New Year, with some Cardio 25M here in a few minutes. The first of two today.
It is also a weight lifting day. I weighed 162 this morning. Uh, oh, Im the same weight the last 10 days, but my BF has dropped. EXACTLY what I want.
I rocked in the New Year, keeping my goals close to my heart and doing things to take steps forward not backward, baby!
BE HAPPY everyone!
You guys, ROCK!
Chillen
Happy New Year!
And, I open the New Year, with some Cardio 25M here in a few minutes. The first of two today.
It is also a weight lifting day. I weighed 162 this morning. Uh, oh, Im the same weight the last 10 days, but my BF has dropped. EXACTLY what I want.
I rocked in the New Year, keeping my goals close to my heart and doing things to take steps forward not backward, baby!
BE HAPPY everyone!
You guys, ROCK!
Chillen
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Curious about someone doing 3 cardio sessions in 1 day.
- What ' type ' ( i.e HIIT ....steady pace ? ) of cardio did you do in each of the 3 sessions ?
- How long was each of the 3 cardio sessions ?
- How long was each of the 3 cardio sessions ?
You have earned it too, Jackie!
Happy New Year.........What a great year its gonna be for you and me, and everyone else on the forum! YEP.......over and out! HEHEHEHEHE!
Chillen
I wrote about this several pages back, but to breifly recap:
Presently (and I say presently, because progression will take this higher, with a target minute limit), its 25m on a stationary recumbant upright bike (which has a gauge-we are both familiar with, and one I dont trust very much). I dont do 3 cardio session all the time. Sometimes (but not all the time), I will increase my food intake a tad (to MT Line), and allow the 3rd cadio session, to draw the deficit in calorie sense. (under MT Line)
During cardio, I have a set number of reps and sets I do with "plate weights". I call it "Plate Weight Cardio". I shoot for steady state cardio and have a MPH target and intensity target (and this too is progressive in nature, the intensity is the pedal tension number, and MPH target is the MPH I dont go under). I do make adjustments on the fly--dependent on the nature of my breathing (of which I just make a honest personal assessment, and just fricken do it). I dont get too technical about it and with how hard I can be on myself, this usually just takes care of itself:-------->Hard work.
Best regards,
Chillen
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So this is where everyone hangs out....
Thanks for the invite Chillen. When you suggested I read through some of this, I never expected the many MANY hours it would require. I did some reading and given the situation, I think this section offers quite a bit of good material if the writer's strike doesn't resolve soon enough. It's all here; drama, triumphs, comedy....the whole routine. Even a few of our favorite people razzlin' ya
Happy New Year to all and may all our goals & ambitions be realized in the days to come!
Thanks for the invite Chillen. When you suggested I read through some of this, I never expected the many MANY hours it would require. I did some reading and given the situation, I think this section offers quite a bit of good material if the writer's strike doesn't resolve soon enough. It's all here; drama, triumphs, comedy....the whole routine. Even a few of our favorite people razzlin' ya
Happy New Year to all and may all our goals & ambitions be realized in the days to come!
So this is where everyone hangs out....
Thanks for the invite Chillen. When you suggested I read through some of this, I never expected the many MANY hours it would require. I did some reading and given the situation, I think this section offers quite a bit of good material if the writer's strike doesn't resolve soon enough. It's all here; drama, triumphs, comedy....the whole routine. Even a few of our favorite people razzlin' ya
Happy New Year to all and may all our goals & ambitions be realized in the days to come!
HEY! BSL! I will posting the information, soon!
This year is going to be even better. I am even more motivated than before, if this were even possible!
Happy New Year to you too!
Best regards,
Chillen
This year is going to be even better. I am even more motivated than before, if this were even possible!
Ya know....that's what I like about you: you offer unconditional encouragement, support, advice and have sincerity in each word you write. Sure, sometimes it's a bit obvious that you've dropped a few weights on your head now and then
but you're a great guy and the forum wouldn't be the same without you. 
I know this sounds a bit corny and I don't know you very well....but just an hour ago I was working-out in the home gym and moving some heavy weights. I was pretty exhausted when I got to 12, but I thought "what would Chillen do?"...and I reached deep to find the energy to make it to 15. I'm all about accountability and having a network of friends to report to is awesome!
I sorta regret that my arrival on this forum was tainted by my response to what I perceived as a character attack. I would ask questions and some people's response seemed a bit humiliating, degrading or insulting. When I tried to answer questions, I'd get openly slammed. I realize now that was not necessarily their intent to belittle me...but then again, I've watched and seen other newcomers have the same response/result to these same innocently-abrasive people. In the end, it doesn't matter....it's not my problem, it's their problem and you can't make friends with everyone. Such is life. Onto a more positive year.....
I'm looking forward to your response to my question. To make it open, I'd asked Chillen how his own self-perception of himself was. As it applies to me, I've continued to lose weight, work-out, gain muscle....yet I continue to just see what's left and focus on the imperfections. Because Chillen is notoriously a lean/slender individual, I specifically wanted to know if he still, at times, ever felt heavy or fat. When you sit on the toilet and look down, do you see have some rolling-action on your skin, do you still look in the mirror and wonder if & when you'll ever get there? Do you ever feel heavy/bulky and feel like you need to lighten-up??? As this applies to me, will I ever feel light, slender & lean all the time, or is this perception erroneous and I'm setting goals & expectations that are totally unrealistic?
In short...when you reach "the goal" is it totally there and you feel accomplished in whole....or do you, a guy who is single-digit lean in bodyfat still feel bulky/heavy and falling short of your goal?
I'm sure you can answer this in less then 25 words
Thanks
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