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My workout and diet

Well, I guess I should really just call it my workout. I do not follow as strict as a diet as I should. I will watch what I eat and try to not over eat, but there are times when I want a beer and some fried chicken wings.

5 to 7 days a week, I will go to the gym in the morning. I will go directly to my bike. It is my bike. I like that bike and if someone is on it. Well, it will just wreck my day. There is another one that I like, but that one is my favorite. I will stake my claim on the bike and then walk a lap around the gym on the indoor track. (10 times around = 1 mile)

I will stretch a little and then break into my workout on the bike. I will do the Body for Life 20 minute HIIT method. Here is how it works, on a scale 1 to 10 is 1 is standing still and 10 is all out sprint. I will do a 5 for two minutes then over the next 16 minutes, broke up into 4 separate segments will be a 6, 7, 8, 9 and then the 18th minute will be a 10, then the 19th will be a 5.

3 to 4 days a week, I will be back at night to lift weights.  Building muscle is a great way to speed up the metabolism.  So, you can actually work out less when you are at your ideal body weight, but I have found that you will want to be more active when you are feeling much better.

I will chest and triceps, then back and biceps, then shoulders and the legs.  I will toss in some ab work from time to time as well, whether in the morning or the afternoon.  Some days, when I am feeling really energetic.  I will jog/spring a quarter to a half mile it really juices the metabolism.

I know I would be experience greater weight loss if I would watch my diet better, but man cannot live by bread alone and my ideal goal weight is 225 lbs.  I know that may seem like a lot to some people, but I do carry a nice amount of muscle on me now.

Here is one of my inspirational videos:

So, stay tuned for some great updates on my loss and from my sponsors.  Here is to you seeing less of me

Dave Woodson

Hurry up and wait

I will admit that I am a chronic procrastinator, but I thrive under a deadline.  If I have weeks to do something.  I will wait to the last possible moment to get it done.  However, under a deadline.  I kill it.  I come in under most times or nail just as the clock strikes the deadline.

I am, also, a very impatient person.  I know exactly where I get that from, Mom and Dad.  I make the joke that my brother got the best of my parents and I got the worst.  What I hate with working with the public is that they are impatient and must have it now.  So, when I accommodate and hurry right over they are lounging back as if nothing is going on and nothing needs to be done.

This is the same guy who will call my office line at 930 in the evening.  I have learned to ignore my phone over the years and I can go to be not worrying about it.  Really, at 930 at night, there is not a lot that I can do about it anyway.  My wed guys are all doing something else, my underwriters are asleep and I know my processor will kill me if I call that late.

Learning to squelch the “hurry up and wait” monster is hard.  It is not an easy monster to defeat.  I battle it every day.  I learned to make a list, use my calender function on my blackberry and just have that “I don’t care” look on my face.  I know that last one really gets people, but it is fun to watch the look on their face when you roll up with a completed project done right and done way before time is up.

Making it all happen in the required time frame and then some

Dave Woodson