TrainAmazing

Today was: Awake, coffee and supplements, asleep again, gym, work, therapist, yoga teacher training studying, read comic books, dinner and tea.

Spent the entire gym workout at a single squat rack, incorporating all exercises listed. Most happy about the 25-rep-set of Overhead Squat with the bar. This exercise is getting me not only super lean but really bringing out all the striations in my arms. I found the halo’s with the 45lb plate to be incredibly tough and that’s when the sweat really started dripping. Nice deadlift set of 22 reps before running out of there with 28 minutes to get to work.

Work was fun! I surprised the attendees with a warm up of a 10 minute run. Being as the weather is so much better the past few days, this run literally felt like a breeze. It was so enjoyable.

We warmed up with the walking lunges so the 5 exercises of the circuit included:

1. Single Leg Box Jump 2. Box Jump Burpee 3. Bear Crawl 4. Turkish Getups (right) 5. Turkish Getups (left)

SL box jump is a repeat of Tuesday but I’m going to keep putting that in the circuits until team mates get it. Several are very close but not quite there.

Decided to nix the pull-ups today although I want to get that back in the programming if not just for the lengthening of the spine.

The conversation with my therapist went well at least for me. Seemed like she might have had something else on her mind but she did a great job of reflecting back to me what I was exploring and encouraging me to go further. And honestly to help me see there may have been a roadblock that I was simply imagining to be there that is in fact not. Just like magic… *POOF!* gone. Felt pretty silly actually by the end.

I’m generating some really good ideas for my career, following up on things that are already in motion and situating myself within my person.

Who am I? What do I have to offer? How do I best be of service to myself and others? These questions are always swirling and within the context of culture and past conditioning, it definitely helps a lot to have someone on my side who seems to be a really good fit. If any one, especially a man out there is reading this, I know we’re not supposed to have feelings. We’re just supposed to work and keep our mouths shut. It’s not talked about that much because it’s seen as weakness but there are people you can talk to and hell you can talk to me!

The world is changing and if nothing else, I have decided to change, no matter what society and culture have to say about it. Men have rich inner lives that are just as emotional as women and deserve just as much attention and care as women and there is absolutely zero wrong with that.

So if you are out there in the shadows reading this and especially if you are thinking of doing something you might regret because you see no way out. I’m here for you Brother or Sister or however You identify. Keep going. It gets better. I promise you.

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That everything is training!

And you might as well train amazing!

Take care!

-M