So today being my last day of my independent study class i find my self looking back on my improvement throughout the school year, in and out of class. In the 4 years at Grafton High School i have never had such improvement through well being and fitness as my senior year. I went from working out for recreation to exercising and eating to benefit my self as a whole. I run more, i lift more, and i have noticeably ate much better too.

When i ate, i thought generously about how much i was eating and when i was doing so. I began eating more healthy plates, and when i did some research on diets i found that with the right diet and exercise for me was the paleo diet which i had attempted shortly as an underclassmen. The paleo diet is bassiacally only the things that people from the paleolithic periods would eat. So that means no dairy, no sugar, no processed foods, and all meat, meat, vegetables, and more meat. Along with nuts and fruit for snacks everyday my diet changed drastically. I got chronic headaches for a week, and fealt a constant lack of energy and focus, and then a week later i fealt better than i did before i started.

My main goal for the school year was to simply get in shape and get into healthy habits in life. I didn't want to get stronger or thinner, i just wanted to see where getting fit would take me. In total this year I've dropped 40lbs, and have gained much muscle mass. I broke previous held records of mine, and felt great doing so. I feel that i have had a pretty decent year, and i am really looking forward to my progress in the next few years as i continue to learn and grow while continuing to eat well and exercise everyday!

So last weekend i did a serious landscaping job at one of my dad's co-workers house. We had started the project two weeks ago and had to replace a broken iragation system with a new one, and then lay new top-soil over the hoses. There was lots of trench digging, shoveling, and heavy lifting all day. I got to learn how to drive a bobcat, when we had to move lots of dirt a long way. The job was pretty good, and i defeniteley learned alot of new stuff. Im looking forward to working with this guy again in the future.

I also did a lot of longboarding and fishing this weekend, i had a fun time. I went out for prob an hour on saturday and another hour yesterday on my longboard. I went fishing yesterday morning with my friends and then went to dinner over at my grandparents house.

Height: 73.75 in
Weight: 193.6 lbs

April Vacation

      Over April vacation i had a good time with all my friends. I did a nice hike at purgatory last monday. It was so hot; around 89 degrees that day. We went in the caves and hiked up and down the cliffs and stuff. It was fun. On wednesday i went on a run around the Rayburn Mountain Biking trails. I went in the morning with my friend. We probably ran for 2.5 miles, we were out there for a half an hour. I went out on my mountain bike on sunday and that was pretty fun too, i only went for like 25 min though.

       I did Back Squats in personal fitness the other day. We did 5 sets of 5 reps. The wieght i used for my sets was 95, 115, 135, 135, 145. on the last two sets i only got up to 4 reps though. It was a pretty solid workout and i feel like i tried pretty hard.

Height: 74in
Weight: 195lbs

5 x 10 Deadlifts

I worked out in personal fitness today, we did 5 sets of 10 Deadlifts. For weight for each set I did 115-185-235-255-275lbs. I feel I did a pretty good job on this workout, although I only finished 8 reps out of 10 sets. I'm proud of myself for doing this well but I feel as if I could have still tried a little bit harder.

Mile Run + Presidential Fitness Test

So my previous mile time of 8:24 was brought down to 7:50. I am very happy with drop in my mile time. this week we have the presidential fitness testing. I got 53 sit-ups in a minute, and 22 on the sit and reach that last time i did it. We have yet to do the shuttle tun so im looking to to sucseed in doing better than last time on that also.

I heard from a friend that we are doing push-press for a workout today. I am looking forward to some good weight lifting.

height: 74in
weight: 193.8lbs

Mountain Biking and Spring Sports

So my goal for this spring is to get back into mountain biking and spring tennis. I went out mountain biking  twice already and frankly I sucked hardcore. I went over to Rayburn, a trail network of single track mountain biking trails. It had changed a lot. There were fallen trails everywhere, and new trail loops all over. I struggled with climbs that i had mastered last summer. The drops and rock bridges that i once went out of my way to go over where now an absolute challenge. Although i had struggled with some stuff i also instinctively could do some of the other features that i mastered in previous seasons. There is this one trail with three or four old fallen trees, and instead of cutting them up and moving them from the trail, people had stacked up logs and rocks to make it able to trek right up and over the massive logs in the middle of the trail. I had fun. My dad i went out for around an hour or so. I'm gonna go out again on Saturday with my friend James.

The Boy's Tennis team at our school started a few days ago, and i still have to sign up, but i am looking forward to getting back into that too. I enjoy the awesome workouts and conditioning that we have to do to build strength up for matches. Im not very good at tennis but i can manage, so i hope to get better this season.

Dead Wrong

Dead Wrong is a true crossfit workout. Dead lifts, running, and burpees is about as crossfit as you can get really. This intense workout starts with a warm-up of one 400m run, 100 jump ropes, and 50 sit-ups, 3 times. Dead wrong is 3 rounds of 25 sit-ups, a 400m run, 10 dead lifts, and 25 burpees for time. It was very very intense. My time was 20:21 min. I feel very good about this time, yet i haven't been working out very much. I think with a little amount of time i can shorten this time down to 16-17 min no problem...I'm looking forward to achieving this goal.