The Retrowave Panther

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Saturday's Fitness Training

I have a solid, overall training regimen in place. An embed of the Google Calendar is on the Fitness page with a decent responsive styling. Honestly, Google really ought to provide something other than iframes for its rendering, but one gets the sense that they quit the development of the product a decade ago.

At any rate, I crammed a lot of good things into today!

Project Planning (4-6am)

I mapped out where I am going, something I will be planning every Saturday as I review my progress. It is beneficial to do this weekly.

Yoga & Meditate (7-8am)

I did not do too much yoga. In my first rep of a Sun Salutation, my patella said, "No you're not." I brought in my old gamma waves into my meditation session via my Bluetooth sleep mask.

VR (8-8:45am)

I played a new game, Gods of Gravity:

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I followed it up with the party mode of Beat Saber so that I could face off with my high scores for five songs, including the first one I did in that mode back in early December: The Weeknd's Save Your Tears. Yep, beat my personal best. I am lighter; I am faster.

Stationary Bike at the Gym (9-10am)

I had my second biking session since joining the gym. For now, I like to maintain a cadence of 65 and adust levels/resistance accordingly. Eventually, I will punch that up in the upcoming weeks when my right quad finally comes to the party. It is the first I recorded with the equipment's app:

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Hey, and I did not spill my complimentary coffee again on that cooldown walk!

Fuel Up (11:15 AM)

I drink 12 tbsps of butter in my iced coffee before heading up to the gym each day. Now for today, what I whipped up after my gym time was fantastic! I cooked a whisked egg on a small pan in a tablespoon of bacon fat until it was leaning toward being brown. My intent was that it could be a taco shell. I then did another. I cooked my standard half package of bacon and...whala: 2 bacon tacos. I omitted the ground beef because I emotionally ate some prosciutto last night and wanted to pull back from the chance of that gluconeogenesis.

Pool Things & Weeding (just too long)

At one point, I just had a pair of needle nose pliers going after the neglected growth that is housed in the cracks next to the pool. *sigh*

@thePool: Cardio (4-4:45pm)

I just ran around with a skimmer in hand.

Retrowave

This has become one of my favorite songs to train to on Beat Saber. Now, I have already recognized The Weeknd is Michael Jackson Meets Synthwave. Today is the first time I have seen this video—it totally confirms my take. I want to build myself into THIS: