I tend to be one that wants some schedule, some regularity, to my workouts. I like having a “training schedule” for running, even if I’m not planning to race. I like knowing when my twice-weekly weight lifting sessions will be. Same with biking, yoga, and martial arts. But what happens when I don’t feel like doing one or any of them? I’ve been kind of dragging myself to the gym for weight lifting out of necessity these past couple of weeks. My body needs the strength, my shins especially, but I find it hard to focus and do the reps correctly, and I feel the workout’s wasted if I just…

Tilting my bike seat down fixed about a hundred of my biking problems and discomforts. The first was the razor blades in crotch problem I mentioned Wednesday. That’s solved rather nicely. The second was a problem where I’d sort of had to hop onto the seat when I got on. Well, obviously, that’s fixed, too. Lastly, the seat now feels… well, like a seat. It’s like I’m just bracing my bottom against it rather than having to sit back (full weight) on it, like a cruiser seat. It gives me more power in the legs and I don’t have a problem figuring out where to balance my weight between my…

So Rose-Hulman has a Martial Arts Club, and I was so there tonight. I’ve been crunk about going since I learned that in addition to meeting on Monday nights (which I can’t do), they also meet on Wednesday nights (which I can do). My awkward ass was punching and blocking and flinging my legs around kicking and fucking up all kinds of shit. It’s pretty difficult to remember a series of moves and focus on doing them right on day one. It doesn’t help that I’m so damned easily embarrassed by my own awkwardness. Ugh. That shit’ll have to go, quick. I’ve got too much to learn in too little…

Swimming is awesome. I was surprised, though, by how bad at it I am and how not comfortable I am in the water. I’m straight up doggie paddling my laps and I’m very uncomfortable with being submersed. That’s weird, because I’ve never in the past had much fear of water and I used to be a decent swimmer. That said, the swimsuit is nice and swimming was an amazingly subtle workout. It was only later, as my muscle relaxed and the fatigue set in, that I realized how good and full body a workout it had been. It was quite a difference from running, where I feel kinda beat up…