One of Tony Horton’s best quotes for me is when he talks about being more durable out in the real world. This rings true with me since that is the reason that I go started on this journey in the first place. Even though I was in the gym working hard, I could bench 400lbs and shoulder press my bodyweight (almost 300lbs), my real world applications were not being met. I was still out of breath climbing stairs, I was unsure of myself while performing simple DIY tasks around the house because my flexibility and functional strength just weren’t up to par. In recent days I have pushed my durability to the max with home workouts and work around the house including one day I traversed 3 floors of our  home more than 50 times in 3 hours (that’s almost 3000 steps! The CN Tower in Toronto has 1770!!). That day we re-purposed a room on our top floor back into a bedroom and moved all of my wife’s crafting supplies down to the basement where we will be creating a new office / crafting space for her. On the fitness side I created a workout to celebrate the good weather by installing my gymnastics rings on the deck where they were last year. The workout looked like this:
Pullups
Wall ball (26lb)
Ring Dips
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-5-4-3-2-1 = 70 movements each
It was a good workout, although I managed to break the strap on my Suunto T6d in the process. That sent me on a  quest for a new strap which I found at Walmart for $16 (it’s a Timex Ironman TX1240 and it fits perfectly!). So if you have a Suunto and you don’t want to spend $50 on a new Suunto strap, get yourself to Walmart!
Tonight is cardio abs bootcamp and back to coaching, it almost feels like I have had a rest week with being off work since my parents are in town. But it’s time to get back to work, hammer out the last few days of round 9 and decide the format of this site going forward. My inability or unwillingness to stick to P90X2 as a whole leads me to believe it’s time for a change but I am not sure how or what. Stay tuned!
