{"id":224,"date":"2011-12-31T19:29:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T10:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:36:19","slug":"december-2011-fitness-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/december-2011-fitness-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2011 Fitness Diary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, December 1:<\/strong> December began with a quick chest, shoulders, and triceps workout after work. With a presentation on cults to prepare for Saturday, my gym time was severely limited.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, December 5:<\/strong> Back exercising after an enforced break due to that cult presentation which went well but left me exhausted! An\u00a0intense and\u00a0heart-pounding\u00a0cardio workout between work and Korean class:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111205.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday<\/b><strong>, December 6:<\/strong>\u00a0 A quick twenty-minute legs and core workout after work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Wednesday, December 7: <\/strong>A quick twenty-minute back, lats, traps, and biceps workout that left me very very sore the next day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Thursday, December :<\/strong> A rare pre-work workout saw testing my newish Vibram 5&#8217;s on the treadmill. Legs and feet felt great as I upped the speed to a decade high:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111208.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, December 10:<\/strong> Sixty-minutes in the gym which included my longest run for a very very long time (7 km) which was followed by a short chest, shoulders, triceps, and calves workout:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111210.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Sunday, December 11:<\/strong> A nice 1-kilometre swim before lunch with my trusty SwiMP3 playing some of my favourite John Williams:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111211.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, December 13:<\/strong> Four quick kilometres on the treadmill\u00a0that resulted in a sore Achilles\u00a0tendon followed by a back, lats, traps, biceps, forearms, and abs workout. I guess it&#8217;s back to the lower speeds at an incline until my Achilles heals itself:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111213.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, December 15:<\/strong> Weights after work: back, biceps, lats, traps, and forearms,<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Friday, December 16:<\/strong> Weights after work again: chest, shoulders, triceps, and abs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Saturday, December 17:<\/strong> 35 minutes on a spin bike to give my injured left ankle a break from the treadmill:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111220.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Sunday, December 18:<\/strong> A shorter but more intense swim (750 meters) because I had a train to catch:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111218.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Tuesday, December 20:<\/strong> To the gym after work again, this time for a longer session that involved weights (legs, back, biceps, lats, and traps) and a slower and steeper 4 kilometres on the treadmill while watching the end of<em> Saving Private Ryan:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111217.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, December 22:<\/strong> I&#8217;m pretty sure I went to the gym after work. What else would I have done?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Saturday, Xmas Eve!<\/strong> Four treadmill kilometres followed by (I think) a chest, shoulders, triceps, and legs workout.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111224.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Monday, December 26:<\/strong>\u00a0Four kilometres and a back and legs workout after work:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111226.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Wednesday, December 28: <\/strong>Another 4 kilometers after work (at a faster pace) followed by a chest, shoulders, and triceps workout:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111228.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0Saturday, December 31:<\/strong> Another 4 kilometres and a weight session (back, biceps, lower back, traps, lats, legs, and calves) to close out the month and the year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202011\/20111231.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 1: December began with a quick chest, shoulders, and triceps workout after work. 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