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darksleeper25
April 4th, 2007, 09:42 AM
Old Thread (http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=32602)

Hey all! I can't remember what, if anything I posted here on these forums about the reason for my 5 week break but i assure everyone that it was unavoidable.

My wife was in the hospital for over a month pregnant with twins. She During that time I was basically a single parent. If you don't know how hard that is, trust me when i say, IT'S HARD! Every morning I had to wake up an hour earlier than normal just to get my son ready so I could take him over to my mother's house while I go to work. After work, I would either go visit my wife or come home and pick up my son. Of course that all depended on whether someone else could watch my son to releive my mother. But I wasn't able to do any cardio, weight training, or food preparation during this time because if I did, it would mean no time with my son and my son is more important.

Well, the twins were delivered last monday, the 26th of March. They were 34 weeks when they were born but they both are very healthy and still doing great. Now that we're all back home and my wife's recovery is virtually done, I can get back into the swing of things. But, this time around my goals are different.

While my wife was in the hospital I traded all my car audio equipment for paintball equipment. Selling my stuff initially was a bit premature and I regreted it ever since. So i got new tuff and decided to get back into the tournament scene. So, my goal is to still lose as much fat as possible, but once I lose the fat I will be on a performance oriented workout plan. Things like sprints, stairs climbs, sled pulls, speed drills, etc., etc..

I weighed myself in the hospital with multiple scales and it was 208. I am confident that it may be less though because it was at the end of the day while i had all my clothes on. I'll update soon with more accurate information.

darksleeper25
April 10th, 2007, 09:37 AM
The stress of work has been getting to me lately. I'm a contractor so i don't have any vacation time or any other paid time off. So, I've still got about 10+ hours to make up at work from when my wife was in the hospital. It'll all be done by this weekend and on Monday I plan on joining a local gym right next to where I work off of Alafaya trail in orlando. It's called planet fitness, i only mention it because i know a lot of orlando'ers use JSF and I'm hoping some of you may go to this particular gym. maybe??? Anyways, I'm using this week to get back into the swing of things with amking time to pre-cook my meals for the week, figuring out a new schedule, and just overall balancing everything out.

My new goals are speed and flexibility. I'm looking to get back into tournament paintball and those two factors play the greatest role in my performance. So, once i get down to my goal bodyfat percentage of 10-12%, I'll start with some pretty intense sprint and reaction time training instead of my HIIT on the treadmill. One thing i personally found to help out quite a bit a few months ago was core/stability training.

Chameleon
April 10th, 2007, 04:10 PM
congrats on the twins!!! :claphigh:

it's nice to see you back around these parts ;) I'm not sure if anyone here at JSF uses Planet Fitness or not... I go to Steel Mill on the corner of 50 and 436.... and a gym downtown called Metro Muscle at the corner of Rosalind & Robinson

darksleeper25
April 25th, 2007, 11:29 AM
congrats on the twins!!! :claphigh:

it's nice to see you back around these parts ;) I'm not sure if anyone here at JSF uses Planet Fitness or not... I go to Steel Mill on the corner of 50 and 436.... and a gym downtown called Metro Muscle at the corner of Rosalind & Robinson

Thank you, I don't have quite as much time as I used to to come here and update my journal anymore. So far I like planet fitness. I go on my lunch break to do my cardio. Once i get the wife puts me to work so i gotta do it before I get home.