Some catching up and discovery

Sunday and Tuesday I did my thing changed a couple of things around.  I was using the LOBOS while sitting down for the last 2 times and was doing quite a few reps.  Tuesday I returned to deep water treading and found for me it was harder to do.  I want the harder.  Next day very little soreness.  I must be getting use to it and maybe its tome to increase just a tad.  UBOS went great and I am trying to develop a way to do a swim stroke with the UBOS.  It's similar to how I use the UBOS now to work my triceps.  When I do the triceps I push back working the triceps only, turn the fin to a 45 degree angle which allows me to slice thru the water back to my original start position.  The swim stroke will be the same way.  It's all about technique.  My only issue is the pool is to small.  I am contemplating joining a nearby health club which has a large pool or... if I can tether myself  somehow with a rope. That also might work.  A little flotation device to add buoyancy and it will be one heck of a workout.  Tonight (Wednesday) my sis's bf got stuck in our backyard trying to remove a palm tree which had rotted and fell.  Used the chainsaw and my forearms swelled like balloons.  Very tight.  Did some digging with a shovel to get the truck out and tried to shake that tree to the ground.  Unsuccessful there but the point was this: 1 month ago there was no way I would've lasted or have been able to do the things I did tonight.  I'm sore now and I can feel it.  This is building my stamina up.  I kept shaking that tree waiting for that twinge in the back.  Not that I wasn't careful.  Just because I felt good doesn't mean I applied reckless abandon.  I did take a pain reliever afterwards because I do feel sore but it was not debilitating like other times.  As long as the weather hold tomorrow I will be back to my routine.  This weekend I will look for rope and kick board maybe. I need to go and see what I can come up with.  Have some other ideas in my head also for some other things.  Go bodyoars!!   

It's working

I know I am going to reach the time when everything starts to fall off much faster. I know I will reach a point when the muscle starts to replace and reshape my frame. I am building to that point.  I feel the muscles growing underneath the fat.  I know people are noticing because I am getting those looks from folks.  This is great stuff!!  I am not as sore as others times today.  I mean I can feel it but not like other days.  I am at the point where I can't wait till tomorrow for my workout.  Nothing is going to stop me.  HOOAH!   LOL

Todays workout and comments

First, I was beginning to wonder if any of this was paying off. Almost a month and even though I could tell some differences it would mean something to me if someone else saw something.  Today I got 2 compliments.  Each said I looked thinner.  Well, I still weigh the same but...I can see areas tightening up so I will take the compliments.  Just makes me more motivated.  Good workout tonight.  Everything felt great.  I might not put both straps on with the UBOS next time.  I don't think I need both of them on. I love what these are doing for me.  If all goes well I could see myself as an instructor for these.  It would be fun!!

Weeks worth

So I have a whole weeks worth of blogs to catch up with.  Things are going well in my opinion. I do my routine feel energized and sore sometimes feeling the change and seeing the  muscles grow.  I see changes perhaps only I can see as I have not heard from anyone at work express something they see.  Arms are getting a little thicker.  I see some firmness in the stomach.  Chest seems to be expanding with the pecs and lats pushing out a little bit.  I need to get some pics just to compare later on the changes.  I feel good.  No problems staying motivated.  Just one time where I took an extra day off because of tiredness. Today is an off day but I might just get in the pool to relax some, no workout.  One day I will reach the goal I want.  I won't stop....

Saturday and Sunday

Saturday and Sunday, first Sat.  Did my 600 and 200 and felt absolutely great!  No complaints. Sunday comes and because I felt so great from Saturday I decided I was going to something Sunday as well.  Well it wasn't a total mistake and I sure feel it today!  I am taking today off because I don't feel I should push it.  I can feel the soreness in an area I have never felt before.  I feel it in my Lats, where I have never felt anything before.  I feel i in my upper back, chest, arms.  I know this is going to build me quick!!  My six pack has one can...LOL...and I am working on getting that "V" shape body once I can get rid  of the hourglass one I now have.  :)  Truthfully, this is some great stuff and I have not wasted my money.  Its going to get me to where I have always wanted to me.  The results are nearly instantaneous.  I have already incorporated a couple of exercises not seen on the website.  Basically I strap only the forearm and mimic the stroke of a tennis player first with the right and then with the left.  I imagine a forehand stroke and then a backhand stroke turning my hips just like I was taught many, many  moons ago. I will have to show people through my own transformation and this motivates me all the more.   If you are a person who already is in some way muscular then this will pop you back out to your old body build days, no lie, no bull.

Thursday W/O and new arrival

Pleasant surprise today.  My UBOS arrived!!!  But first the LOBOS workout.  All went well 600 vertical and 200 horizontal with no pain, all went very smooth.  Now on to the new arrival.  UBOS....when I arrived home I did a dry run putting them on alone and I managed that with no real difficulties..  After the LOBOS workout out came the UBOS.  Smooth installation in the water not hard to figure out how to do it.  Wrapped well around the forearms and upper arm.  I re-observed the webpage www.bodyoars.com, and between that and the email Craig Wise sent I was ready to go.  Right away I knew it was going to work.  Now I had to modify Craig's instructions just a tad because of the shape of my pool and how it it deepens but I believe I obeyed the spirit of most of the exercises.  What I want to know is this:  How come 100,000 of these haven't been sold?  Just like he said the load is directly onto the area worked.  My biceps felt it right away and I can see why he sets the reps at 30 per exercise.  I did what he recommended and experimented just a tad with some others.  He is right you could come up with thousands of different combos. Now some I didn't do just because I didn't want to fool with them.  I wanted to acquaint myself with them.  I am utterly convinced this aquatic equipment could make thousands of the disabled gain the strength they needed to return to full healthy form.  The water plus Craig's wonderful invention would remove the disabled from their wheelchairs and place them back on their feet.  From now on my choice of exercise equipment will be BODYOARS.  As a disclaimer I receive no compensation for my blog but I would sure like to sell them and help others!!!!

Tuesday

Tuesdays workout went well.  Did the 600 and 200 horizontal.  I can feel this working.  Looked at my six pack and I am beginning to see one can...LOL  I am feeling good. It is working and I am satisfied with the LOBOS.  I have to be more careful about putting them on.  If put on just a little crooked it can make the workout feel weird.  I am the most motivated in a long time because I can see and feel results.  Not dramatic results but results that if I tried to do by running or some other gravity led exercise I know I would have felt more pain in my joints and would not have continued. .  Since my problem is Degenerative Disc Disease and a couple of my vertebrae are nearly bone on bone this exercise is very stress free.  I feel stronger and stronger all the time. Speedos here I come!!  LOL

Sunday

So Sunday's workout was good.  In fact in keeping with my stubbornness I decided to do more than my scheduled 400 vertical and 100 horizontal repetitions.  Because....the deception of this equipment really fools you.  You don't think you are getting much and I fell for it....again.  After breezing through my the first 300 and not feeling a thing.  I came to the 400th rep with really none of the fatigue I have normally felt.  So lets go further on I say to myself...why not?  So how much more should I do?  100 more is 25% more, thats a good number!!  497, 98, 99, 500!! Lets go more I still feel good. So I reach the 600 mark...ok enough.  Could I have gone more? Yes, but something said if you do, you will be asking for it.  Next came the 100 horizontal.  No sweat, how many more? 50 more and out from the pool I came.  Ah... I think I made a mistake. Instantly gravity has spoken it's law to my legs, back and arms, chest and abs.  Perhaps I did too much ...again.  I am sore today at work but...most of this dissipated by noon time.  What I feel now is tightness the tightness of well worked muscles.  I feel it tightening different areas in my body and I see some places where it is doing its work.  Maybe others can't see it but I can because who else see my body more than I do? A little tight here and a little more flat there.  I even want to get in the pool today and do a warm up of a 100 or so.  But  we are getting some well needed rain and this might be thwarted.  I am ready!  Go, go, go...LOBOS!!

Fridays Workout

So in keeping with my strategy of every other day.  I did my bodyoars workout.  Stuck with the 400 repetitions but I had in my hands Aqua Logix bells. At first I tried a side to side motion with the bells.  I ended up with a up and down motion as it seemed to balance me better.  I started to feel the muscles work at around the 85th rep and felt it even more every 100 reps.  By the time I was reaching the 400 mark I was ready to stop but at the same time I knew I could continue.  Herein lies the deception.  You feel you can go on further and continuing on would really be no problem.  But that is how I got so sore the last time.  My leg muscles are have always been big since my tennis days especially the calf muscles.  After my 400 reps I went to the steps and did another 100 reps while sitting..  Plus since I had bells in my hands they had to have done 400 reps of motion as well.  Though the pull on the bells was tiny in comparison to the pull on my legs. So I am sure if any one is reading this they want to know if I am losing weight.  What I am losing are inches I believe.  I can feel muscles tightening up.  My stomach feels flatter though it has a long way to go to be flat.  Side/obliques the same way.  Chest? yep. Shoulders? yes sir...Arms? Yes even my arms.  I know my UBOS coming soon will 10 times advance this. My intention is to do one every other day.  So that makes my pool work at 6 times a week. Nutritional changes?  I quit sodas.  Only one in 2 weeks.  I drink water at work now mostly.  I intend to start my protein shakes up tomorrow just need some pineapple juice.  I have the rest.  This is my time and I intend to push.  I have some things to prove.  Come on UBOS!!

I have learned it is very easy to overdo the use of the LOBOS.  AS per the inventor of this great product I will skip today with LOBOS.  Maybe just use the aqualogix bells in the pool.....only till my UBOS come!!   I know the UBOS will be also very efficent.  Anyway, its too easy to overdo it with LOBOS.  Water Resistance provides so much more.  I can't wait to get my UBOS!!  This is the year I get back into shape!!!

Resumed again tonight

Resumed workouts today.  I recovered enough from my soreness and tiredness to continue.  I conducted my workout much different tonight.  First I counted my reps.  Stuck to exactly 400 vertically and 100 sitting down.  I think this is a better course since water resistance is much higher than air. Better to slow burn I think.  It will come and then ....a new me.