Haven't made an update, progress continues...

Getting back into exercise after the surgery was difficult. On top of being out of the habit, the cautious feeling as are associated with a new scar were there too. It took a few weeks, but I did manage a few walks, now I have added strength training into the mix.

Last week I printed out a kettlebell routine that not only did weight training, but pushups as well. My first night, as usual, I overdid it. Did 100 pushups and I so felt it in my arms. Then stubborn me went the next night and was only able to do 30 pushups.On the thrid night I managed 60 pushups. Now all the while I am doing pushups I am doing kettlebell exercises as well. Squats, deadlifts, high pulls and swings. After 5 reps of each I swap to doing 5 pushups. Rinse repeat until I cant do anymore or 20 minutes expires. Have yet to hit 20 minutes.

Took the weekend to heal up, arms were so tight that I could not bend them to reach my face. By Monday, I was ok and started over again. This week I managed 60 pushups again, and tonight I plan on doing the walking. I am still working on getting down to 400 pounds by the end of August, and I hope this kick in the ass will do it for me. My overall goal is by December to see a significant change in my body type. So far, I have found that jeans I had been gifted last year, now fit perfectly. So there's a small "Cheer" in my section for that. So for now, I will focus on the day by day exercises and see where I go from there.

Endurance is up! Pain is down!

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Set out to do a mile walk, made the happy mistake of eating first and bringing water with me. So I ended up just keeping walking. I wanted to go walking before work, but ended up sleeping in a bit too late. Once home from work, I set out.

I was hoping, at least after mile 2, that I would break the 3 mile mark on this walk but I just missed it. So next time I will add another block on the walk and boost up the distance a bit more. Aside from the mileage, the inclines I have been hitting are quite rough. After all the walking I have done though, I realized that my lower back is not hurting at all. The pain is mostly located in my upper shoulder area. Not sure what I am doing wrong/right but I will figure it out.

If I keep this up, I will definitely hit my weight goal I set.  Huzzah!

Interesting observation day

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Today was a short walk day. Just trying to keep limber and toughen up my feet again. I didn't take any water this time, but it seems I could have gone farther had I done so and I also noticed that when I carried the water bottle, I didn't have the swelling feeling in my hands. I figure this was due to active carrying of a solid object which allowed me to squeeze the blood out of my hands. It was an interesting observation.

Time to shower and get ready work work.

Endurance walk test

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Did my first walk in awhile. since before my surgery. Lately I have been getting more and more ansi just sitting around. So I decided that I needed to see where my endurance lies. I know I have been losing weight, my knee has not been bothering me at all if any. So I took it slow and steady, brought my phone and a quart of water.

I did pretty good and I have burned off a lot of excess energy. It's a trial to even type this up. So, short update, huzzah for me!

Well... That happened..

Well in a twist of fate, it seems that my efforts to stay out from under a knife were thrown to the side.