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Neither of us was lifting weights that were particularly difficult to us yesterday and yet we got hit pretty good with DOMs just one day after the fact.  It felt great.  We both discussed how excited we are to be back in the gym tomorrow.  It is just an awesome feeling!

Today I realized just how thankful I am that I get to workout with my son.  It is so much fun to mentor him through this process.  I am attempting to give him the lessons he will need to enable him to create his own workouts.  He has come a long way.  He came from not giving his full effort to where he is completely pounding his body at every workout.  He is seeing the benefits through his hockey playing.  It is just simply exciting to see how this is all working for us.  I am very proud of his efforts.

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I spent the day knocking off small tasks for work.  These are the kinds of things that make a huge difference for others, but take me very little time at all to accomplish.  I do this about every other week.  I sit down with some major focus and just plow through my captured list of small tasks.  When I was done today I went and processed all my meeting notes from last week into my GTD system.  This system is what keeps me organized and afloat.

I noticed an article on a body building forum about only being able to get 1 full body workout in a week when the man had intended to do 3.  My initial thought was that at least he is working out 1 day a week, but my next thought has to do with making time for things that are important to you.  Why the excuses?  Why not just buckle down and make the time for the gym?  I'm sure he could get up an hour earlier to fit in a full body workout more often.  If he were to sit down and think about ways to accomplish more gym time, it would happen.  My take is that it just isn't that important to him or he'd make the time.

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Matty's Workout Log

  

I spent part of the morning doing affirmations.  I've been working through the following today:

Affirmations:

I am a muscle building machine.

I have large muscles that burn fat from my body with ease.

I eat the right food in the right amount to continually build more muscle.

I will post my affirmations as I use them.  These have kept me very focused today.  I changed things up this time around by taking a break between missions, but even then, I had to make that mission a "rest" mission so that I could get ready for M5 itself.  I plan to knock off every single one of the goals listed in my mission goals.  I am going to post them in my sidebar and you guys can follow the progress accordingly.  I have these goals posted around in various places to remind myself what needs to get done.

I am preparing for my first video podcast of M5 and wanted to ask your opinion.  Please take this one question survey to help me determine what to do for my video podcast this week.  Whatever topic gets the most votes will be the topic I use for the podcast.

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My son, Matthew, will be joining me in this mission.  He and I took measurements and logged everything down.  We are ready to go.  In 10 weeks we will have transformed our bodies even further than we have so far.  It is going to be amazing.  Stay tuned to this blog for more on this transformation.

I spent the day doing family stuff.  I took Matthew to his job (he referees ice hockey games) at 10:30 a.m.  I stayed and watched both games because it made no sense to leave and come back.  I enjoyed watching him do what he loves to do. I took some pictures of him in action and posted them on my Facebook.  Have a look!

After Matty and I came home, I sat and watched a movie with Alyssa.  We caught up on the past couple of days.  She was very talkative!

After the movie, Alison and I went and got some shopping done.  We hurried around because we had something to do later that night.

Today we had another of our CAHA weekends.  We were scheduled for 2 games.  Our first game was against the #2 team in our division (#3 in the country).  My son played his worst game of the year (as did the team) and we lost 16-0.  After the game, the coach sat the kids down in the locker room and explained to them the things they needed to start doing better. He talked about earning the respect of other teams.  He spoke about how they must turn things around and now.  He let them know exactly what it was going to take for them to make a move and to earn some respect.  He also asked them to play all 3 periods of the next game hard to show respect for his friend, our other coach, who wasn't present for the morning game due to work obligations.

After that discussion we all went to breakfast and then on to the team manager's house.  On the way to the team manager's house several parents called to complain about the long "tirade" of the coach.  This created some major drama.  The parents seem to have the opinion that the coach doesn't know what he is doing.  I was quite amused in some respects by all of it.

Prior to our evening game the same coach came in and gave the kids another speech.  He basically made them tell everyone on the team what was something they had done wrong in the previous game and how they were going to fix that in the next game.  He reminded them of their promise from the morning game.  He pushed them to play all 3 periods hard.

Well, those kids went out and took the ice against a team they lost to 13-1 just 3 weeks ago.  After the first period we were down 2-1.  After the second period we were down 2-1.  The final score was a 3-2 loss for our team.  So many firsts happened during this game:  the first time we took the first shot on goal of the game, first time we had more than 15 shots on goal, first time in an official game where we scored more than 1 goal, first time we played all 3 periods of a game, first time we were in a game for all 3 periods.