Book: The Mindbody Prescription

At the suggestion of one of my online friends/fans, Forkmantis, I just finished reading The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain. This was a very insightful read, founded on the principle that the mind and body are one, and therefore physical manifestations of pain can controlled, and eliminated, by the brain. The theory is simply that we suppress stress and anger and the brain knows this, and inflicts pain on its own body as an outlet. Continue reading “Book: The Mindbody Prescription”

100 Push Ups, Week 4, Round 2!

I totally lost track of where I was, and have not been keeping up with the push ups plan. So I’m restarting Week 4 after doing an endurance test where I ended with 33. I guess I shouldn’t feel too badly about that, since I started with 20. Oh well. Here we go, again!

Hundred Push Ups Progress: Week 3

After totally botching my exhaustion test (due, I think, to changes in the weather making my stiff and achy all over the place), I decide that my pathetic showing of 16 (pathetic, given that I’d been routinely doing more as part of week two’s sets) wasn’t quite good enough. So I proceeded in week three, column two. I was in column three for the first couple of weeks, but didn’t quite make the cut. So instead of stopping, I’m just scaling down a bit and will hopefully regain some momentum.

100 Push Ups – Stall

I was supposed to do an exhaustion test on my push ups yesterday. I did, sort of, but couldn’t get past 16. I’ve been feeling out of sorts, and am trying to decide if I should just continue on in column 2 (given I could only manage 16) or try again tomorrow, or what.
Suggestions welcome.

Book Review: Christopher Moore's "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove"

Once again, Christopher Moore fails to disappoint. Set again in the little town of Pine Cove (which you’ll remember from his first book, Practical Demonkeeping), Christopher Moore once again brings us a supernatural comedy that made me laugh at least every other page, if not on every page, in The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Continue reading “Book Review: Christopher Moore's "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove"”

What Kind of Shape Am I Really In?

I had a routine physical a couple of weeks ago to see how I’m doing. Given my weight loss, age, and the fact that I hadn’t had one in several years, I figured it was time. I checked out pretty well in the office, and last week had bloodwork done. I just got the results. I’m within the “reference range” for a man my age on everything except my Calcium levels, which are 8.5 (in a reference range of 8.6-10.5mg/dl).
My doctor wrote a note on the results saying “These are great, Peter. Good work.”
On that note, anyone else up for joining me on the hundred pushups challenge?

Hundred Pushups: Week 2, Day 1

Ouch. Week two started today, with sets of 14, 14, 10, 10, and 15 pushups. The last one was a killer, and for the first time, my shoulder hurt right from the get-go, but I did them. I grunted and groaned, but I did ’em! Hah! Take that, old self!