Kramday’s Blog

To Wii or Not To Wii

For my nephew’s 10th birthday, I got him a Wii Fit.  I actually went around to a few stores before I decided to just order it online.  I’ll confess the temptation was pretty strong to pick up a Wii myself.  Then after the Fit arrived in the mail, I spent all day Saturday with the family playing video games.  It was a lot of fun.

Not part of that is obviously just hanging out with family.  But some it was just enjoying playing video games.  The last system that I actually owned was a ColecoVision.  The last system I played with any regularity was the old Nintendo NES back in college.  I’ve pretty much resisted the call of video games since then.  But the Wii, and especially the Fit, have me re-thinking that decision.

I just got a nice bonus at work and there is the itch to spend some of it.  Most of it is simply going to savings, but that’s not really “fun”.  So, I’ve decided that on Thursday I’ll make the drive over to Best Buy.  If it is in-stock, then I’ll buy it.  If not, then I guess it wasn’t meant to be.

Mar 2nd Health Update

My weight this morning was 251, again. I already addressed a lot of the issues in the post yesterday, so I won’t go over everything again.

Workout goals for the week

03/02 — 10 Minute Trainer:  Yoga Flex
03/03 — Elliptical Machine
03/04 — Elliptical Machine
03/05 — 10 Minute Trainer:  Yoga Flex
03/06 — day off (no volleyball)
03/07 — Elliptical Machine
03/08 — 10 Minute Trainer:  Yoga Flex

Actual workouts from last week

02/27 — Volleyball: 2 hours.  The night kind of started slow. Was having trouble getting into the first set of games. But then I played again during the second how and that was a lot of fun. Of course, we were playing with the Trainer ball that hour. It is really, really soft and does some crazy things in flight. That might have helped. Regardless, my back didn’t feel too bad afterward. Not great, but after two weeks off it felt better than I thought it would.
02/28 — Wii Fit: 00:35:00. It was a lot of fun, but also showed how far I had let myself go. It said my Wii Fit age was 54. I knew my BMI would be high, and it came in at 35.3.
03/01 — Elliptical Machine: 00:30:00. Program 4. Felt good. Noticed my left hip and back a little bit, but nothing like before. Definitely need to do more stretching though.

Blogging Plan

I mentioned in my last post that I want to try and post something everyday. Here is my general plan, though I know I won’t stick to it 100%.

1. Monday — Health Updates. This will be a review of what I did last week and what I plan to do for this week.
2. Tuesday — Misc Updates.  This could be whatever strikes my fancy.  It might be a new book I am reading, my sleep pattern for the last week, or the crazy thing that the cats did.
3. Wednesday — 101 Goals Update.  This will show my progress (or lack of) towards the 101 Goal list.  Hopefully, it will be a place to plan out the remaining goals to get them off the list.
4. Thursday — Mid-Week Exercise Check-In.  The plan is to review how the week is actually going.
5. Friday — Specific 101 Goal Update.  I’ll take a particular item off the 101 list and review it.  The baking bread post is probably the best example currently.

There you have the plan.  Now lets see if it survives contact with the enemy.

Mar 1st Health Update

Well, nice follow through on my part.

Actually, I was pretty confident that there wouldn’t be an update for the 16th, since I was out in Denver the whole week.  My plane left Monday at 8:30 and I got in at midnight on Friday.  Still, I had hoped to get an update in on the 23rd.

My weight has remained pretty steady around 251.  The official weigh-in will be tomorrow (Monday) morning, so we’ll see if that holds true.

I haven’t done a lot in the last few weeks.  I got on the elliptical machine a few times the week of the 9th, but that seemed to be bothering my left hip and lower back.  I took the rest of the week off, to give my feet more time to adjust to the orthotics.  I was feeling better by the time the trip to Denver came along, but I couldn’t put them in my dress shoes.  Still, I came back from Denver feeling much better than I expected.  Not great mind you, but better than expected.

I went to the chiropractor on Monday and had my trainer stretch me out on Tuesday.  The result of that was that I was feeling pretty good by the time volleyball came around on Friday night.  I didn’t do a ton of jumping (and no diving), but I did do some.  This was the first game with the orthotics and they made a huge difference.  Yesterday, I played around on the Wii Fit with the family, getting in about 35 mins total.  That was a lot of fun.  Even though I am feeling a little sore today, I expect to get on the elliptical machine tonight.  Tomorrow will definitely be a day off though.

The goal going forward is to post something here every weekday.  Not necessarily purely health related, but something either on that or progress towards the 101 goals.  Or whatever else strikes my fancy.  Feel free to call me out on that if it doesn’t happen.