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Daily Body Metrics 07/02/09

lorenz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:34:02 +0000

I had a great workout yesterday with a lot of focus on rehabing my shoulder and spine muscles. I spent 45 minutes just doing shoulder blade rotations, shoulder blade pushups, and stretches. Then Eddie and I did a light back workout with a strong emphasis on perfect form.

Calories out: 3272, Calories in: 3300, Protein: 255g, Carbs: 395g, Fat: 78g

My heart rate during the workout:

My back workout:

Daily Stats 07/01/09

lorenz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:29:48 +0000

I actually worked out twice today. I had an easy going session with Trevor this morning where we mostly focused on light core training movements. A few hours later, Eddie and I got together and did a light leg work out. The heart rate chart is from my second workout with Eddie (my batteries were dead for the first one).

I’ve scaled down my lifting weight a lot in the last few weeks to fix my body and reprogram myself to lift with proper form. I think one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do is to rewire my neuro-muscular communication. Once your body gets used to doing something in a particular way, it’s very hard to change. That’s why old habits die hard.

Daily Diet 07/01/09

lorenz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:18:19 +0000

As I mentioned in my last post, keeping on top of all my tracking has been really hard the last few days. I finally pulled my self together today and got everything down. One of the most challenging aspects of life tracking is actually planning. If I don’t do a good job of planning everything I eat and all my workouts in advance, it becomes much harder to properly track everything.

Calories out: 3349, Calories in: 2716, Protein: 260g, Carbs: 305g, Fat: 42g

Hiking in Paradise

lorenz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:51:28 +0000

Last weekend I hiked the Na’Pali coast by myself. I’ve never camped alone before and it just seemed like a great way to meditate and center myself. The Na’Pali Coast is on the north side of Kauai and the 11 mile hike to the beach at the end of the trail, Kalalau, is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. It’s also a really hard trek to do in one day, with thousand foot drop offs on a one foot wide path and over 5000 feet of elevation change. I didn’t have a lot of time, so I hiked in all 11 miles last Friday, stayed the day Saturday, and hiked back all Sunday.

When I got back I was exhausted. It’s taken me three days just to recover. In the meantime, although I’ve been roughly sticking to my diet, I haven’t been religiously tracking like I usually do. I don’t think I realized how much effort all this tracking takes till now. I totally felt burnt out these last three days. My take away: when you try to do too much, even of the things you love, you’ll likely overwhelm yourself and get less done in the long run. I lost three days of productivity because I crammed a five day hike into three days.

That being said, the hike was amazing. Kalalau is the most beautiful place on the planet. Check out the amazing photos from the Na’Pali Coast and, of course, a video of the hike…

Dinner with Gilad!

lorenz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:09:44 +0000

Yesterday Gilad from Bodies in Motion joined us for dinner at The Olive Tree. If you’ve never seen his fitness videos, check them out. He’s a legend, and he’s been doing this in Hawaii for over 26 years. We spent most of the time talking about his experience hiking through the Himalayas for 30 days by himself. Very awesome guy.

If it was easy, everyone would do it

lorenz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:09:50 +0000

Yesterday I hung out with Henk Rogers who controls the Tetris video game. We took a ride in his brand new Tesla. It was AWESOME.

Henk was the co-founder and lead investor of my last company, iLovePhotos. He’s been a major inspiration in my life and truly embodies the rags to riches story (at one time he worked as a cabbie).

Growing up in a poor family with eight siblings, Henk got into computers and video games early in the 80s. He went to the University of Hawaii just so that he could take the computer related courses and have access to all the equipment. Once he took all the classes, he dropped out.

At the time he hunkered down and wrote the first role playing game in Japan called The Black Onyx. After a brief stumble, the game turned out to be a massive hit. As his company grew, he travelled the world looking for games to publish and came across Tetris. The Tetris licensing story is, itself, worthy of a James Bond movie. Lots of Soviet agencies and multi-national companies vied to prevent Henk from obtaining rights to the game. Henk become good friends with the actual creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, and struck a deal with Nintendo. Through sheer perseverance and audacity he was able to gradually secure all the rights to the game over a span of 20 years.

Now, of course, Tetris is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is the most popular casual game in the world (even Google recently celebrated it’s 25th Anniversary). It’s easy to write it off as luck. But consider how many games are created each year and just how simple Tetris is – colorful falling blocks that form lines. The funny thing about luck is just how much work it takes. Henk has spent the last 25 years making Tetris into a “lucky” global phenomenon.

A couple years ago, I was really struggling with some issues at the company. I asked Henk for some advice and he said, “if it was easy, everyone would do it.” I remember that line every time I encounter a challenge.

Dancing in Kalalau

lorenz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:26:40 +0000

Daily Diet 06/25/09

lorenz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:13:47 +0000

I’m always amazed at how quickly my body can gain and lose weight. I’ve gained almost 5 pounds since I’ve adjusted my diet. Hopefully most of it is muscle and water weight.

Calories out: 3002, Calories in: 3450, Protein: 330g, Carbs: 302g, Fat: 89g

Where does inspiration come from?

lorenz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:48:44 +0000

Daily Diet 06/23/09

lorenz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:01:09 +0000

It’s pretty challenging eating 6 – 8 times a day. I think the hardest part is staying creative about what to eat. When I get lazy, I just stick to sandwiches. Lots and lots of sandwiches and wraps. Today I was lazy, but I came up with an awesome wrap: whole wheat tortilla bread, sliced chicken strips, hummus, chopped tomatoes and onion. About 250 cals total and super healthy and filling. By the way, I generally don’t record low calorie vegetables unless I eat a large amount. They’re usually just 10 – 20 cals.

Body bugg says I burned 2727 calories today. I’m going to have to disagree. I didn’t wear it for about 7 hours today between 5 and 12 pm. I would expect that the BB would take my historical daily average to compute what I most likely burned when I don’t wear it. Instead it flat lines my caloric output to pretty much sleep level. Not very user friendly.

Calories out: 2727, Calories in: 3188, Protein: 352g, Carbs: 304g, Fat: 69g