Welcome To Earth David

Here is this weeks Monday Muscle Madness photo post. Each Monday I post a picture of guys who are in great shape for workout inspiration. I also write about my own adventures in trying to get in shape to look like the guys who’s pictures I post.

Someday I am going to look like this guy. Ok, yeah…. I know, I’m dreaming right! But it could happen… in a million years LOL. I have been very very lazy over the past couple of weeks so I can’t say anything about my progress on losing weight because I haven’t lost any. I am stuck at the same weight I started out at at the start of the summer. I haven’t gained any weight, but I haven’t lost any either. I just got on the scale and it registered 168. That is up 3 pounds from the last time I weighed myself which was about two weeks ago. That really isn’t a big deal though because my weight always flucuates a few pounds up and down anyway. As long as I don’t go over 170 again then I won’t worry about it. I am actually a little disappointed in myself that I haven’t stayed motivated to at least keep up with my walking. I need to get back into that. It’s been about two weeks now since I got out and took a good long hard walk. I am such a lazy man!

No pictures in this post. No song list. I went out walking after dark this evening. It was a full moon. A very beautiful night for walking. I walked 5.52 miles, burned 638 calories, and stepped 13,456 steps. I would have walked further but my feet were getting sore…. I guess from walking so far yesterday.

This post is a day late since I will be blogging about my walk that I took yesterday. I didn’t go walking Friday, Saturday, or Sunday because I had a blister on my big toe from walking so much yesterday. I had to give my toe some time to heal. Yesterday I went to my favorite park out to Long Cane Park, which is my favorite park to go walking at on West Point Lake in West Point, Ga. I set a new walking record again. I walked 9.69 miles, burned 1,121 calories, 23,614 steps in 4 hrs and 13 mins. I think that is awesome!! I will get rid of my love handles if it kills me!

Song’s I heard while walking:

1. SuReal - You Take My Breath Away (DJ Tiesto Mix)
2. DJ Shog - Stranger On This Planet (The Hitmen Remix)
3. Jennifer Lopez - Play My Fucking Song (Thunderpuss Remix)
4. DJ Martinez Featuring Laia - I Wanna Be Free (Pitchmen Remix Edit)
5. Depeche Mode & Prince - When Doves Cry (Fatboy Slim Remix)
6. Serena Paris - Look At Us (Extended Remix)
7. DrizaBone - Real Love (Nush Harmony Remix)
8. George Michael - Spin It And Feel It (DJ Martin H Ultra Rare Megamix)
9. DJ Tiesto Featuring BT - Loves Comes Again (Original Mix)
10. Deborah Cox - Mr. Lonely (Original Mix)
11. Trip Theory - The Spacemen Are Coming (Original Mix)
12. ATB - Let You Go (Ultimix Mix)
13. Kim English - Higher Things (Thunderpuss Anthem)
14. Depeche Mode - Megamode 3 (Deep Dance Mix)
15. Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Q’s Unlocked Alternative Mix)
16. Snap - Rythem Is A Dancer (DJ Delirious Remix)
17. Pat Hodges - Saving My Love (DJ Rosabel Mix)
18. LeAnn Rimes - Suddenly (DJ Encore Radio Edit)

I had another day out at the lake today getting my exercise. I also bought a new pedometer that counts calories burned so that I could keep up with that better than trying to guestimate it like I’ve been doing it. What is up with the freaking weather this week!!? It seems like the weather has been nice and clear almost every day this week except for when I get ready to go outside and get my walk on…. then it starts clouding up and getting all nasty. Anyway I had a good time today regardless of the weather. I walked 5.59 miles, took 13,645 steps, and burned 647 calories. That isn’t too bad considering I wasn’t planning to walk that much today and I have another blister on my left big toe from all the walking I’ve been doing this week. It is a blister on the same spot that my last one was at a week or so ago and it hurts! Maybe I should take a break from walking over the next three days since I’ll be working anyway to let my toe heal up a bit. Blisters suck!

I logged another song list of tunes I listened to while I walked today:

1. Madonna - Like A Prayer (Dance Mix)
2. Debbie Gibson - Out Of The Blue (Ultimix)
3. 20 Fingers - Mr. Personality (Groove Mix)
4. Madonna - Music (Groove Armada Club Mix)
5. Angel - How Could I Lie (Eddie Baez Anthem Vocal)
6. Aretha Franklin - Pride A Deeper Love (Razor N Quido Remix)
7. Rihanna - SOS (DJ Gizmo Remix)
8. Pebbles - Backyard (Uptown Club Version)
9. Various Artists Freestyle Megamix
10. Trip Theory - Steppin’ (At Your Own Pace Mix)
11. Shapeshifter’s - Lola’s Theme (Who The Fuck Is Lola Club Mix)
12. Perpetuous Dreamer - Dust Wave (Armin Van Buuren’s Rising Star Mix
13. Backstreet Boy’s - Larger Than Life (DJ KemiKal Remix)
14. Kenny Login’s - Playing With The Boy’s (Dance Mix)
15. DJ Unknown - The Ultimate Techno Mix (Who’s Opinion Remix)

Yesterday I took a drive out to Long Cane Park and took a walk in the rain. Actually it wasn’t really raining… It was more like drizzling. Earlier in the day I had recieved Chamblee54’s comment on my cellphone about walking and listening to the world around you instead of listening to music on an mp3 player and that is what I did. It was really nice to hear the raindrops falling on my umbrella as well as the tree frogs, birds chirping, fish jumping in the water out on the lake, some swimmers out in the water throwing frisbee and enjoying a light rainy evening and seeing the sun settle down behind a thick blanket of rain clouds. I didn’t push myself too hard as I was too busy enjoying the scenery around the lake. I walked a total of 2.71 miles and 6,627 steps.

Today is supposed to be laundry day, but I think I’m going to put off laundry until later this evening because I think I am going to go back out to the lake again today and get a good long walk in before my off time is over, and I may not feel like getting out for a walk tomorrow after work.

I went for a walk this evening around 10:00 p.m. There was a storm brewing and I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to walk very long before I’d have to get out of the rain. I was able to walk 3.07 miles with 7,512 steps counted before the rain started to fall. I would have liked to walk more but I didn’t care to get wet while I was carrying my mp3 player and my cellphone. It was a nice walk and the air outside wasn’t too hot. I think I may go walking after sunset more often this summer. It is much cooler that way.

Songs I heard during this exercise:

1. Madonna - Sidewalk Talk (Discotec Remix)
2. DJ Tecnick - Club Attack (1998 Club Hits Megamix)
3. Savage Garden - To The Moon and Back (Almighty Transensual Mix)
4. Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (808 State Remix)
5. Rushroom - Don’t Give Up (Rob Mayth Remix)
6. Armin Van Heldon - My My My (Original Mix)
7. Level 42 - Lessons In Love (Shep Pettibone Remix)
8. Destiny’s Child - No No No (Wyclef Jean Mix)
9. Ferry Corsten - It’s Time (Freestyle Mix)
10. Rockell - The Dance (Hex Dez Club Mix)

I’m starting something new here. It’s my new fitness journal. Something to motivate me more to work out and try to get in better shape and also something to give me something else to write about. I was orginally going to do this as a walking journal but at some point in the future I want to get into some weight training and maybe start riding my bike again and I didn’t want to have different categories set up to write about each different activity and so since each of those activities fall under fitness then I thought it better suited just to write everything under the fitness category. I can keep a seperate walking journal on a different page seperated from my blog to keep up with how many miles I walk.

I’ve got some awesome news to start this off with. Today I broke my summer walking record. You are not going to believe this. Today I walked an incredible 8.20 miles with 20,048 steps recorded on my pedometer. If my calculations are correct then I burned 680 calories. I think that is the farthest I have ever walked since I got out of the army years ago, and what is more incredible is that just a few weeks ago I was in the hospital emergency room with a busted knee. I pushed myself hard out there today. I really want to lose a few pounds. I’m not fat, but I could stand to lose a few pounds. Tomorrow, I probably won’t walk so far… that is if I do go walk at all. Those 8 miles really wore me out today.

If any of you are interested in learning about the benefits of walking for health and fitness you can check out Walking at About.com

This is week #4 in Monday Muscle Madness. This is my weekly photo post focusing on healthy, well defined men with muscular bodies. Here is this weeks work out inspiration. A surfer ready to tackle the waves. Surfing must be a really tough sport and quite physically draining to give those guys the lean bodies they get from doing it. I have never surfed before myself but I always wanted to try it out. Unfortunately I don’t live near a beach that has waves worth putting a surf board in the water for, and I don’t swim very well so I would probably be too afraid to try it anyway.

An update to my recent knee injury: My knee has pretty much healed up. It is still a little swollen but not bad. I am walking just as normally as I was before now and I am getting back into my physical activities again. I have started walking routinely again. I am back to walking 6 miles at a time when I walk for weight loss purposes which is what I’m about to go do when I finish writing this post.

I am still wanting to get into some weight training and I have been thinking about getting rid of some furniture in my living room so that I can make room for a weight bench. Well I’m off to go take my walk now. I won’t lose any weight sitting here on my ass!