Hello all, contrary to some reports, I'm not Dead yet. Well ok, I stole that line from the movie and the T-shirt. I've not been posting often recently.
Holy cow it's been 2 months! Well, on that note, I decided was a good time to start back in this year and a great topic for this week's weekend-engagement topics.
My weekends have been filled with work, and only recently got back out this past holiday weekend. The shirt above was from an outing a few weeks ago. We went to see John Cleese live in Daytona Beach. His performance was great, he did a preview talk, then we watched the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, then John came back out and did a Q/A session and provided additional details on how the group came up with the movie and great insider info on some of the personalities of the group and audience of the time. It was very enjoyable.
That all leads to the weekend engagement question of what will I be doing this year differently. Well, I don't believe in "New Year Resolutions", but I do believe in committing to changes, regardless of the time of year. One of those changes I'll be making is continuing with my health journey.
I won't go into all the gory details, but I made a commitment to myself last year to exercise more, especially around cardio, which I've not done much of historically. I took on VR boxing with MetaQuest headset as a primary new method. Wow, was I surprised at the results. The short answer is I dropped 40 pounds (18Kg), reduced my overall fat percentage from 31% to 18%, reduced my visceral fat index from 13 to 7, my resting heartrate from 85 to 65 and reduced my metabolic age from 71 to 48 years (and I feel like it!). It's been a great journey that I'll provide in another post (no glp1 or other drugs, just hard work).
That level of change took commitment to action, and to continue. My primary driver was to get back into good enough shape to learn to surf. I've gotten up on the board a few times now, but still not quite what I'd call surfing just yet. Looking forward to the upcoming season in 3 months, and still working on core ab muscles and leg squat strength for better popups.
This has required cutting back a few other areas, like hive posting, the drone contest, other personal interests, and of course reining work back into reasonable hours. The work is getting back under control now, but still committed to the near daily exercise time.
You will start seeing more posts, I actually did get outside this past weekend for drone pics, wildlife pics and videos, so look for more regular postings and engagement.
Now for something completely different.....
Here some additional pics. I also received these wonderful killer rabbit slippers from the show. If you've never watched the killer rabbit skit from Monty Python, be sure to search it up.
I love the way the slippers flip up to show the bloody red fangs and teeth, ready for a good blood letting.
Run Away!