It has certainly been a while since I updated this blog. I’ve been busy lately, and things have been going really well. There are some things worth noting that have happened or are happening, though, and I wanted to point them out.
Fitness
My workouts have been going really well lately. I just finished up a 4 week period of hard work and better nutrition. While I haven’t been eating super clean, I’m a relatively lean 230 pounds at 5′11″ and that’s nothing to be ashamed about. The amount of weight I lift has been consistently going up, also. I’m pretty happy when I’m doing deep squats with 365 for sets of 8. I’ve also been doing front squats with pretty heavy weights (255 pounds) for sets of 8.
These last 4 weeks I’ve been concentrating on getting my chest a little bit bigger and that has gone pretty well. I’ve gotten stronger so I’m hitting out 255 pounds for sets of 8 on flat barbell bench press. That’s nothing to sneeze at, I suppose. More importantly, my chest has increased in volume, which was my real goal.
I’m about to switch up my exercise regimen to concentrate on my biceps because I find that they’re lagging behind the rest of my body. Unlike most people, I don’t generally do a dedicated biceps workout because I’m not too concerned about those muscles as far as strength goes. Now, though, I need to get them bigger because they look out of place compared to the rest of my body. I’ll be hitting them twice a week for the next four weeks.
In addition, I’ll be going with a different rep scheme over the next four weeks. These past four weeks, I generally went four sets of eight repetitions. Now, I’ll be going with five sets of 5, 5, 10, 20, 20. It should be interesting, that’s for sure. I’m going to try to not back off on the weight but will mostly keep the same exercises. We’ll see what happens, though.
Business
I don’t even remember the last time I posted about business here, but things have been going great. My biggest client and I have a great working relationship and I’ve been working on some interesting projects lately. I still love doing what I’m doing and I love the new challenges that I face everyday.
I’m looking at buying a new computer for development. I’ll be building the computer myself and I’ve pretty much picked out all the components. I’ll make a post when I actually order all the parts about what exactly I went with. I’m buying the computer to speed up my development speed and efficiency. I find that my current development computer slows me down a little bit and I hope to be more productive with my new tool.
There is some exciting things that I’m not sure if I can talk about yet, but I will announce them soon if I can.
Personal
Angela and I continue to do great out in Seattle. We went out yesterday and walked around downtown Seattle and it was a blast. We also saw the new X-Men movie, and it was awesome. I am a huge comic book fan, so I might be a little biased, but I definitely recommend it.
Unfortunately, there are some things that aren’t so great right now. My mom has lung cancer, and we’re still not sure what kind of treatment she’ll be receiving. This is especially hard because my grandpa just went through a long struggle with cancer before he died. Also, my grandmother had the same type of cancer as my mom has before she died. It sucks, but things will hopefully be OK.
So that’s it for now. I’m doing well, making a lot of friends at the gym, a lot of connections online, and things couldn’t be better.
