Humm, geek doesn’t generally make you think of a guy in shape.  I grew being an athlete, but not so much anymore.  I have played soccer, was on swim team, basketball, baseball, football (midget, high school, indoor, and flag), wrestling, and track and field (12200 meter, 200×4 relay, shot-put, and discus).  Of course I did weight lifting, but I really got in to lifting after high school.  I did a program call “How to increase your bench press by 50 pounds” by Muscle Media.  I ended up putting 60 pounds on my bench in 14 workouts!  At this time I was lifting 4 or 5 times a week while taking protein and creatine.  At this time I was also playing indoor full contact football.

That was then, and this is now.  Now I sit at a desk and work remotely on server all around the world.  My drive is around an hour each way.  This puts me back in Lincoln around 6pm.  That is enough time to get home at around 6:15pm, make sure my kid is in his Tae Kwon Do uniform, and then to head out at 6:40pm to get to class by 7pm.  That lasts till 8pm.  Get home around 8:15pm and put the kids to bed.  Around 8:30pm I am finally eating dinner.  9pm rolls around and normally I am finally able to kick back.

I have tried to go to a gym in Lincoln around this time but the place was packed at the times I wanted to go.  So now what?  I got a Wii and I found a game called My Fitness Coach.  This is less of a game and more of a customizable workout dvd.  It has you enter a lot of data about yourself (height, weight, age, arm size, chest size, hips, etc.).  You then have to go through some tests such as sitting heart rate and active heart rate and how many of different exercises you can do (sit ups, push ups, squats, etc).  After you set up all this, it helps to build a custom workout program for you.

I am combining this with a site call Daily Burn.  This lets you track you food intake and calorie burns.  My goal is losing 35 pounds and being able to easily run a mile.  We will see how it goes.