Started running again this week... gonna try and do it at least every other day. Since the wedding, I can't exactly say that I haven't worked out though... my arms have toned a bit since starting heavily on the new 12-1/4 diet three months ago - 12oz steak on my left and a McDick's Quarter Pounder on my right (medium rare and with lots of ketchup respectively).
What happened to the glory days? What happened to the rock hard abs and the 40"vertical? What happened to the days when jogging meant a warm up of 30 minutes not a maximum of 3? What happened to the days when going "skins" in b-ball wasn't that bad? Seriously though, folks... us men (and, yes, you women) have all said, at one time or another, "What the hell happened!?". "I used to jog 4 miles not 4 meters", "I used to do push ups on my toes not on my knees", "I used to be 97lbs" - yeah, when you were 10yrs old!
.... What happened to the glory days?
You see... there used to be resistance when I put my hands on my waist. Okay, okay... I'll be honest... I never really had the "rock-hard" abs, but it wasn't exactly the same consistency as jello either! For all the guys reading this - give this a shot....
1. Put the palms of your hands on your waist (not on your hips - your hips are freakin' bone ... of course it's hard!)
2. While keeping your left palm attached to your left waist, use the other palm to give a gentle, but firm tap on your right waist.
3. If you're like me, then you should feel your left palm jiggle as the resonating waves travel across the sea of subcutaneous lipid of your stomach.
Neat thing with this folks is that it works the other way too - if you tap with your left, you can feel it with your right hand!
Don't worry guys and gals, I'm not complaining... weight or no weight - I GOT THE GIRL!!!
posted by JCandKim @7:42 AM
Mind you, I'm feeling the effects of aging already. While I can do stuff that I couldn't do when I was 16 (I study Capoeira and I can do backflips, which I couldn't do when I was younger), if I get hurt (ie: muscle strain/injury), it takes longer to heal than it used to.
Oh, and a good abs exercise which I swear by: Hang from a chin up bar and raise your legs so they touch the bar. Lower your legs really really slowly and stop them juuuuuuust short of touching the floor. To make it harder, keep your knees straight. DO NOT SWING.
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