Pics from the zoo

The thrill is gone?

The article below describes my experience with blogging well. However, it fails to discuss one important issue, especially with Facebook: the loss of control. I have noticed some migration away from Facebook as the amount of traffic becomes overwhelming or too many things get posted that the user would rather not see up. Blogging allows greater control for both readers and writers, in my view.

People who strive to have the greatest number of friends on Facebook or followers on Twitter don't make any sense to me. Like the guy who goes to a networking event and measures his success based on how many business cards he take home, these connections have no value unless there is a *real* connection. Similarly, the 'heavy users' who update status constantly with things like "Eating toast, yum!," should consider whether that kind of information would be interesting in a regular conversation. If that answer is no, don't post it.

One challenge for me is that this is a blog about fitness, healthy lifestyle, and nutition (though I mix it with other things like this post in a more 'traditional' blog pattern). But, lifestyle, workouts, and meals can be mundane, which can make for boring or overwhelming numbers of posts. Most specifically, I plan to try to use iPhone and photo posts to serve as online nutritional diary. This is useful and hopefully effective for me, but it makes for alot of non-thrilling content for my readers. For my readers then, I suggest you may want to consider less regular (weekly?) RSS feeds - so you can scan for more interesting/relevant updates.

I have been using Twitter for WoD postings, with mass postings every once in a while to keep transfer the records from Twitter to the blog. Hopefully I can get a better Twitter application for my iPhone soon (my current one, TwitterFon, crashes and stalls frequently) and transition nutrition photos to Twitter to consolidate blog traffic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07blogs.html?sq=abandoned%20blogs&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Looks like my old LBJ Follies Video

I made similar moves in my starring role in the Parking Nazi Video, my Monte Carlo had dents to prove it.

Late morning boost

Morning makanan

Omelet (egg white, mozzarella cheese, & sausage) for breakfast; fruit
for snack at office later.

Rowpee at the Ritz

WoD: "Rowpee." Row 500 m, Burpees 15. 5 Rounds for time. 24:26. That's 75 burpees: as awful as it sounds. 

Welcome to Crossfit Jakarta, JP.

The famous orange notebook of death

My desk. Oh, and a test of direct post from iPhone to blog. It worked!

Globogym, oh, Globogym

It's good my gym provides some space not covered by Hip Adductors and limited themselves to only two cable crossover machines. But naming the area "Functional Training" begs a series of questions. If this area is for the "functional" training, what is the rest of space and stuff for? Non-functional? A rare moment of honesty in an industry full of hucksters? What role do the swiss balls play in "functional" training? For all those times in life I must hoist an item to a high shelf with only a large beach ball to use as a footstep? Or when I have to standup on an unstable surface, like, ah, a sheet of ice floating in a lake? Perhaps I should just be happy my gym is so committed to my health that they are willing to devote about 5% of their floor space to "Functional Training" and give it a prominent label to take credit for their achievement.

Birth-week? Days of fun

A challenging week to get in good workouts and eat well: lots of celebrating to be done.  Both anniversary and birthday, so lots of good times and good food.  But, too much good times and good food.  A punishing workout today and a tough one last night are good steps to getting back on track.  Diet was better today.  

A couple of embassy events next week will make for another difficult week for controlling caloric intake and getting enough time in the gym.  

Relevant Twitter updates

WoD "Slurpee" Sumo High Deadlift Pull (SHDP), Burpee/Pullup (B/P). Inverse ladder. (SHDP 10, B/P 1; SHDP 9, B/P 2...SHDP 1, B/P 10). 40 Kg SHDP. 16:28. Tabbatta Squat - 12.

WoD: Montana Metric Mash (3M?). Row 500 meters, 5 reps of 50 pound dumbell shoulder press (100 lb. Load). 5 rounds for time. 15:47.6:38 PM Jun 9th from TwitterFon

WoD - Light day. 20 min bike, 3 sets pullups/dips. 3 sets overhead squats (20 kg). 30 min stretching. 4:52 PM Jun 7th from mobile web

WoD: Burpees/Squats Countdown from 5. Deadlift 5,4,3,2 (120kg). DB Press/SHDLP Countdown from 5 (20/30 kg). BodyPump. 8:30 PM Jun 6th from web

WoD (Friday): Max reps bench 60 kg - 32. Crossfit Erin (mod: jumping pullups) - 12:06. http://bit.ly/Bt1Cz

WoD: RPM and BodyPump. Good workout, despite this guy making noises in BodyPump class that could have passed for bull elk in mating season.
10:04 PM Jun 3rd from web

Body torn up for yesterday's WoD, esp shoulders and abs. Today some skill work with medicine ball cleans, RPM, and some grip-strength fun.
1:35 PM May 31st from web

WoD. Bench 3,2,1. (kg) 100, 105, 110f; Thrusters (25kg) 5, Burpees 5. 10 Rnds: 12m35s. Tabbatta Squats-Champion Version: Score 9. Abs4fun.
4:22 PM May 30th from web

WoD: Row - 3x500 m (60 sec rest). Under 1.55 rounds. Press 3x3 - (kg) 50, 60, 70f. RPM - 50 min. 6:28 PM May 29th from mobile web