Day 890 - It is a splendid morning

A nice Saturday morning.Again with low humidity. Hallelujah! The morning's coolness gives one a chance to feel the difference between the morning, day and night. You can feel the pressure in the atmosphere being lifted. I feel truly blessed that God has given me these simple abilities to enjoy these feelings.

Today, is my 890 TH consecutive day of attempting to do a cardiovascular workout of 60 or more minutes. I have succeeded in the last 889 days. I have completed 892 workouts within that span of time. I am presently 110 days away from reaching a milestone of 1,000 consecutive days of doing that type of workout. I have been using the arc trainer for the last 183 days. I began using the arc trainer on January 28TH. prior to that I was doing my 60 minute workouts using the Life cycle bike. I felt awesome using it. However, the machine could not hold without breaking. In an effort to keep the gym I was using satisfied I decided to start using the arc trainer. So far no complaints. However, I do wish there were more "available" machines that worked the way I like.

Almost ready to take a hack at day 890. I am excited about the challenge!

recently.

It was indeed a great challenge. A challenge that I enjoyed immensely. I thank God that he gave me strength to take part in it.

As I got on the machine at around 7 am I had a determination that I would burn a significant amount more calories within the hour than I had in the previous days. My determination held up as I burned 1393 calories in the hour. The 1393 is the most I have burned since day 884 when I burned 1420. Why the drop off? I believe it has a decent to do with the time of the morning. I want my body to feel loose enough to burn 1400+ but in that time frame of 530 to 630 it has not recently.

As I strived to hit that 1400 calorie burn total for the hour a thought kept going through my mind. As I worked out it kept getting louder it said "if you wish to be great, then study greatness. What does that mean? It well it meant to me learn what greatness does and then learn from how they do great things. It allowed me to keep my focus on the amount of energy I needed to put into the challenge of 1400 burn per hour I was chasing. I chased it hard but I just could not catch it. That is OK by me today because it allowed me to try as hard as I could to attain the goal.

Day 889- A truly beautiful morning! No humidity, Yeah!

It is a beautiful morning. I think I will go outside a while, just to smile and breath in some clean fresh air. Awesome words to a song. Today I got up on less sleep than I have been accustomed to only 4 hours and 45 minutes. I did all I could and you know that is all I can ask. Despite burning only 1323 in the hour on this absolutely delicious morning, I feel great. I always try to cash in on weather breaks so I wanted more of a calorie burn today than what I got but heck the will to win is sometimes better than t and the the flesh is the result. he win. Vince Lombardi once said, "Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is." Vince and I agree the will is the spirit and the flesh is the result. We all know the spirit is willing but the flesh is week. That is why we all must realize the value of great conditioning. You see it is fatigue that takes away our courage. It has been said that fatigue makes cowards out of us all. It was said by Patton and then Lombardi.

Should we wish to attain victory we must be willing to pay the price for it's attainment.Part of the price includes preparation and part of preparation is getting in great condition. Great condition needed to handle the job. The job of showing up every day to workout.

Day 888- With the promise of August rapidly approaching....

We get a fleeting blast of humidity. The forecast is calling for a beautiful refreshing dose of less humidity following today. Can I get an Amen?

Yesterday, was an awesome physical day. We must realize we owe ourselves a few questions to dwell everyday. Did you know that if you ask your mind a question it does its best to give you an answer. That is why when we ask ourselves questions we must always ask them in the affirmative. A nice positive question like how did I get so lucky? Why do I love this? What is the nicest thing I can do for some one today?

OK --- You focus on asking yourself on asking positive questions. Today while I was doing my workout I noticed I was not putting the effort together that I feel I should. So I asked my self a very powerful question. What is the most calories I can burn from this point forward. So I burned that amount and it gave me joy!

A 1364 beats a 1360 any day of the week!

Day 887- Make it three! We are on a roll

The weather has been nice in the am. Humidity has been low. We tend to look towards distraction while we engage in activities we have to do rather than want to do. I always thought if there was one thing we can all work on all the time it is a simple concept called "want to". I believe it is a instinctive force that is within all of us. The exciting part is that we have had it all through our lives.

We all have that given instinct to ask until we get what we want. Think about this when we were just little kids and we wanted something real bad when did we stop asking for it? If you were like most you did not stop asking until you got it.

Now, ask yourself this when did you stop asking for something before you got it? I will give you the answer. You stopped asking for something before you got it when your want to went away. OK some may say I got something better or I lost interest but, it is still the absence of a want to that prevents us from getting what we want.

So if we now know that working on a "want to" is important in our lives, the question is how do we work on improving our want to?

It is a great question. A question that we can probably spend days discussing. I suppose the ability to identify what exactly we want will strengthen our chances for improving on our "want to". So take some time and discover what you want and find out why you want it. Then work on ways to improve that want and you will be able to work on your want to.

The meaning of life, what is it to you?

Today, I burned 1360 in the hour and felt great while doing it.

But, I must work on my "want to."

Day 886 - Second beautiful morning in as many days

With my early rising I was reminded of a thought. A simple question. It is true experience is usually the best teacher.....But, is the price usually too high? I challenge a few examples to prove that the yes response to that question.A hot stove that is touched by a toddler unaware of its danger. Playing with matches at a young age. Driving reckless. Running with scissors. Very pricey indeed. I am sure there are millions of experiences that do not nearly kill us that we can all be taught. But by and large I would say experience is the best teacher but the price is usually too high.

However, that should never stop our eagerness to learn from everything we do. I believe in a simple concept of plan, do and review. Real simple where are we going and how will we get there. Then, go. When we get there ask, "next time how can we get there faster? Also ask, how did we do?

Everyday, as I have traveled on this journey I am constantly asking, what can I do to improve on the day before performance?

The record for calories burned in 60 minutes is 1510 I have it documented. It occurred while I was on the arc trainer in area 3. The date was April 10Th 2010. Day 778- Workout 781 in 778 days.

I will continue to find a way to beat that number. I will gain inspiration from Roger Bannister the first person to break the 4 minute mile!

Today I got at the machine at one of the earliest times ever. The time was 5:07 am and I burned 1329 calories during the magic hour or hour of power.

Day 885- The weather is beautiful at 5:20 AM!

Thank God, we have been blessed with great weather today. I felt awesome as I woke up and attacked the machine today. I had to steer myself to the other area of the gym today. I noticed that the biggest difference in the machine I used today was it took longer to register a burned calorie. I also noticed the amount of energy I exerted to burn the calorie was more than I exerted on the other machine. Bottom line, I know I worked out as hard or just as hard as I did yesterday.

Burning a total of 1320 calories an hour was my total on day 885. It was probably equal to yesterday's total of 1420 in terms of actual energy spent with in that blessed HOUR.

Life offers us many things. I feel the only the ones that are blessed can find excitement in every challenge life throws out at us. May you be one of the blessed.

Day 884- A rich bounty of energy- God, how I love energy!

I suppose their are times of the day where we have the maximum amount of energy. If there was something called an energy measuring device where we could calculate how much energy we have at a given time that would be pretty awesome. However within the last 48 hours I thing I have uncovered something. I believe for my body I noticed that if I entitle it to a little extra rest a day it increases my energy.

Now, all this could just be me and my lifestyle but today and yesterday I found myself with more energy. I truly feel sorry people even myself at times when the feeling of energy is diminished. Energy what a precious commodity. The world would be a different place if we all had child like energy. A boundless reservoir of force and drive.

Well, today I felt like I had an endless reservoir of energy as I persevered to burn 1420 calories in the hour and do 460 crunches during the workout. We are now 116 days away from 1000- quadruple digit day! Q day - Comma Day - C day!