About Kent Cowgill
Articles filed under...
abs ab_ripper andylester arms back baggyshorts bestpractices biceps bike birthday blog bugs bus calculator cardio catalyst cgi chart chest chinups code cpan datamodel dbi doctor documentation exercise exhaustion fitness flattire flat_tire google gps heart_rate helmet history home houston html humor journal kate kenpo kenpo_x kettlebell knees lazy legs lisa lisanne maps math matthew michaelmckenna mom montreal motivation movie mysql oops orm P90X pain park patellar_tendonitis patrick pdf perl phb photos physical_therapy plyometrics poor_gait presentation procrastination progress pullups pushups pyramid rabbits racecondition rant refactor rest ribs ride route running shoulders situps slides sore spike sql statistics syntax test testing textile timex training triceps ups versioncontrol video vim vimrc walk warren work workouts yapc yapcna2007 yoga youtube

A R C H I V E S

(3)
(1)
(3)
(2)
(7)
(15)
(16)
(25)
(3)
(4)
(2)
(4)
(11)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(10)
(5)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(9)
(21)
(3)
(3)
(1)
(6)
(4)
(1)
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)


    Is Kent Cowgill Online?
    View Kent Cowgill's profile on LinkedIn
    Add to Technorati Favorites

    Recent Entries...

    Re: Re: Yoga kicks my butt

    Chris @ 46: Tatyana @ 21 – at best its a stop gap measure...

    Re: Vibram FiveFingers FTW

    Hats off to whoever wrote this up and potesd it....

    Re: A little more detail on using a new model

    百度 [url=http://www.sina.com]sina[/url] ...

    Re: Catching up through week 7

    testing video ...

    Re: Porting a non-Moose object to Moose

    Wow, look what I found, greedy genius ...

    Re: Porting a non-Moose object to Moose

    Kevin, You're right, that does seem a little confusing. ...

    Re: Porting a non-Moose object to Moose

    Wait. I'm confused. Moose isn't the tool to reach for. So...

    Re: Porting a non-Moose object to Moose

    You should switch to MooseX::Types to declare your Typed and...

    Porting a non-Moose object to Moose

    I'm currently working with a lot of legacy code in an envi...

    Testing strategy for mocking code

    I keep finding myself using the following idiom for writing ...

    weblog | `web·lôg -läg |
    noun
    Another term for BLOG
    ORIGIN 1990s: from web in the sense [World Wide Web] and log in the sense [regular record of incidents.]
    blog | bläg |
    noun
    A web site on which an individual or group of users produces an ongoing narrative.
    ORIGIN a shortening of WEBLOG.

    Motivation, or lack thereof

    Kent Cowgill

    Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - all a whole lot of nothing.

    No Yoga, no Legs and Back, no Ab Ripper, no Kenpo, no X Stretch.

    Granted, I made a few trips to a few stores over the weekend, toting along a heavy car seat with a 19+ pound infant in it. And we got a lot of stuff from the trips to the stores, so I had to carry a lot. So that counts for something.

    I just couldn't find the time, energy, or motivation for the regular workouts.

    Also, I was running low on protein drinks. But that's just a lame excuse.

    This week I'm back on track (again), for now. It might get rough when more family arrives for Thanksgiving. We'll see.

    Yesterday was Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, and Ab Ripper.

    I did a few more pushups than last time. 106, up from 99. The number of triceps moves I did went down a little, but the weights went up across the board. Shoulders, the same - down a little in the numbers, but all the weights increased.

    Ab ripper I was pretty tired, so that number went way down, 332 down from 380. Overall, OK. I think my performance was a little lackluster because I got such a late start. I was still sweating like crazy, but I didn't finish until about 12:25. At night. Ugh!

    I'll start Plyometrics tonight at a more reasonable time.

    Related Photos: None

    My pants are on fire!

    Kent Cowgill

    I lied.

    Friday evening I didn't do anything.

    Saturday morning, though, I did legs and back and the Ab Ripper X. 60 pullups of a couple varieties and 39 chinups, for a total of 99 pullups and chinups. I used 10 pound dumbbells through the exercises Tony says "everyone uses some weight on these", no weight on the "weight optional" moves. I think I'm far enough along to add in weights on the weight optional exercises, but I'll start light. I'm also thinking I can add a little more weight to the "everyone" moves, too.

    353 core moves during Ab Ripper X - a nice improvement for directly after another workout. I was hoping to do Yoga X in the afternoon or evening, but Lisa and I went out for dinner (thanks to Michelle for babysitting!) and I felt like having a nice drink with my dinner. Which usually means I won't generally feel up for exercising afterwards - even though I should've - the restaurant we went to had gelato and I just couldn't refuse.

    Sunday morning I did the Yoga X up through the side balance poses, and stopped again before Warrior 3 (which, the last time I tried, I just couldn't get anywhere near what they're doing on the DVD). So that's close to 50 minutes of Yoga, and judging by the amount of sweat on my yoga mat, still a pretty strenuous workout. I'm hoping all the plank/upward facing dog/downward facing dog moves don't weaken my triceps too much for tomorrow, since it'll already be time for another chest, triceps, and shoulders routine. I also noticed a lot of extra burn in my quadriceps during all the warrior 1 and 2 moves, most likely due to hitting legs the day before.

    And of course I intended to do the Kenpo X routine later on in the evening.

    Just once I'd like to follow the exact schedule and not feel like I have to do a lot of catching up on the weekends.

    I hate to sound like a broken record, but I passed on Kenpo X Sunday night. I noticed a little pain or annoyance in the achilles tendon of my right foot, so I figured I'd rest.

    Monday, right back on schedule for Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, and Ab Ripper.

    For chest - primarily pushups - and I did about 99, up from around 82 last week. I'm not really firm on these numbers, since I seem to add them up mid-workout, and my sweaty, hurried math hasn't proven to be extremely accurate. I had a big increase in numbers of the floor flys - I didn't try to slide my hands on a towel this time, which helped me do a bigger number. Everything else I increased the reps a fair amount.

    For shoulders, there wasn't much of an increase in the raw number, but I increased the weight slightly for nearly every move - including one I shouldn't have (I only did 5 "fly-row presses" after having done 7 at a slightly lower weight last week. I also decreased the weight on the weighted shoulder circles, because I couldn't do all 40 last time.

    For triceps, I did 116 moves, up from about 113 last week. No real surprises here. Increased the weight on most moves, increased the reps where I didn't increase weight.

    And then right to Ab Ripper X. 380 moves, an all-time high - even more than when doing Ab Ripper alone! I felt like I had extra gas in the tank, so I busted out more than the minimum for the fifer scissors, hip rock 'n' raise, pulse ups, v-up/roll-up combos, and leg climbs. I'm still not up to 50 (!) cross leg wide side ups, but I'm getting there.

    Now I just want to try to keep on track all week.

    Related Photos: None

    More therapy, still in week 5

    Kent Cowgill

    August 27:

    Back to the physical therapist today. Today they did something to my back - it felt like they were trying to dislocate my shoulder blade. But it sounds more painful than it was - it was primarily just a weird feeling. They also had me do a bunch of shoulder stuff, and some triceps stuff. Which I'm hoping won't get too much in the way of...

    Push ups: Week 5, column 2, day 2. 17 then 17 then 16 then 16 then 14 then 14 then 12 then maxed out at 20. Rested about 45 seconds between sets for a total of 126 in about 7 minutes, give or take.

    Chin ups: Week 1, column 3, day 2. 12 then 12 then 10 (these are getting pretty tough) then 9 (yeah, not too many more, but then I still) maxed out at 8. Barely. Rested about 90 seconds between sets for a total of 51 in about 8 minutes.

    And then I noticed that I'm somehow out of Ensure™ bottles, which I was using as a post-workout protein shake. I was pretty sure I had some left. So, it appears that someone absconded with them. It totally couldn't have been me that took the last one and forgot about it. So I had to resort to some yogurt, which - now I'm not sure if it's the brand, or what, but - didn't taste all that great.

    August 28:

    Physical therapy today. My physical therapist is a sadist. The first half wasn't so bad, pretty much the standard stuff - treadmill, arm bike, stretches, light abs, shoulder, and gluteal work. But then I had to be in a pushup stance and walk my hands up onto a step and then back down. 30 times. And if that wasn't bad enough, then I had to hold a plank on a stability ball for 30 seconds. Twice. And then a set of stability ball roll-ins - uh, it says on that page that they're an "advanced" exercise? Sheesh. Let's not forget that just the day before, I did some triceps pulldowns in physical therapy and then went home to do 126 pushups. And boy, are my arms tired. No desire, motivation, or energy to do absolutely anything at home afterwards.

    Related Photos: None

    Main Page | Login

    Do you want to buy me ? Find more gift ideas at my wishlist