Day 9: Lifting some real weights

It never hurts to find new and interesting ways to burn calories. Aside from everyone's favorite "exercise" (I hope none of us really think of that as work), you can take up a new game, or just put a new twist on your current routine. This is doubly helpful because it stresses your body in a new way and because it avoids the burnout of too much routine.

Today I tried some "olympic-style" weight lifting. I'm not sold on the value of this sort of exercise from a strength and conditioning perpective yet. It's seems a little tough on the joints, but with some instruction and/or supervision I'm willing to give it a shot. Did I mention that it's a blast? Getting strong enough to actually *press* 200lbs overhead isn't easy. With a little technique and practice though, it's a piece of cake for someone my size to do the Rocky Balboa move (love that movie :) and throw up some big weight.

Anyway, I'm not subbing this for regular strengh conditioning, but I'll do it so long I believe it's safe and fun. I also *slightly* improved my bench performance today.

Weight: Calories consumed: Aerobic time logged: Bench Press: Pull-ups: Mile time:

174lbs. 1700 0:00:00 175lbs (10, 9, 4) none ~6:30 min