Bird Dog
Just home from another hockey weekend in the GTA. An early exit because the win we needed came in OT, which wasn’t enough. It was a great weekend of hockey. Charlotte played 2 of her best games of the season while the rink was packed with scouts. She iced the cake. I couldn’t be happier for her, I couldn’t be more proud.
As I arrived at the hotel Thursday, I was put in the know that the manblog had once again been taken over by hackers, I spent a few hours sorting that out and adding a bit of security to make it harder to mess with in the future…we shall see. Sadly, it cost the last post….I will repop Slabs Leg porn in addition to the re-introduction of Pumper…our newest manblogger.
I have been battling a cold all week, it’s almost left me, I’m hoping tomorrow sees me back at 100%. I did manage 2 visits to the hotel gym this weekend, a well-equipped hotel gym…I managed a half-assed chest and shoulders workout those days…and will revisit chest tomorrow. My workout is a progressive resistance model which adds reps and then weight, and I’m at an add weight level….the idea of putting myself under heavier weight makes me happy. I am 10 years older than I was when I last trained hard…and found myself under 120-pound dumbbells for 3 sets of 12….Can I do that again at 55? I’m hoping to get there before the end of summer….but that will mean a gym membership. My dumbbells only go to 90s, and I will eat them up shortly….time to figure out which gyms are A) not too busy, B) have heavy ass weights.
Chatted with Keith Bray at the rink…about trt…and the manblog…he reads the manblog and mentioned he knows my life….
The fact of the matter is the manblog isn’t my life….its a bit…just a piece. It’s the bit I’m thinking when I sit down and peck away at this keyboard. All the things I thought about writing about this week….I’ve forgotten. I’m writing in this moment….the now….this isn’t my life…there is a pile of great things… and a pile of crap things…going on that I am not thinking about at this moment, so I’m not pecking away about them…….but it does remind me of something I was going to talk about this week….
The difference between aging men and women….I was talking with a friend of mine about this and said I would discuss it from my point of view……and here it is. I will use hot yoga from 2 weeks ago as the example….I hope the fact that I’ve checked every woman out within eyesight doesn’t freak too many out but….we are human after all.
Ok….Hot yoga 2 weeks ago….the lay of the land. There are 40 people in the room, myself and one other man….I think he is around my age, I’ve seen him before….he is going to be wearing the same tank top the next time I see him also….I’m not sure I would wear a tank top to yoga….but thats me…..
So, to my direct left is Charlotte…and to my right is the mother of one of Charlottes best friends when she was 6 or 7….Charlotte didn’t remember her…and beside her an old friend of mine, and Rhiannon’s babysitter when she was 5-8 years old. So…for me its a comfortable space. Directly in front of me is a late 20’s early 30s woman, 5’5″ tall, built like a brick shit house….attractive….I think I would say she was the second most attractive woman in the place. Now….further than 15 feet away in this dimly like space my old eyesight starts to fail me….beside Charlotte was an older woman….in her 60’s…mid to upper 60’s… beside her were 2 younger women, average build, one in her 30s and one in her 20’s.
The 60 ish year old woman was muscular…like…for her age, very muscular.
And this is the conversation I had with this friend of mine….makeup….the perception is that it is ok for men to get older but not women…..but who thinks that? Was the average built 20-year-old better than the 60 year old? Negative. To be fair…I have enough 20-something daughters that 20-somethings are simply not attractive to me anymore. So how about the 30-somethings, well, there was an average built woman and the brick. As I said, the brick was the second best looking woman in the place….to me.
The 60-something woman was the most attractive in the house. She was parked beside me in the lot, she was wearing no make-up. She may have caught me looking because I did notice she was smiling pretty heavy….or she really enjoyed hot yoga.
All this to say….I don’t think makeup makes as much of a difference as people think….and after an afternoon in the pool that makeup is going to find its way into the skimmer. What is left behind matters.
While I toss a couple of cheesies in my mouth….I realize that the same applies to me and every other man….that realization, for the first time in my life…comes at a higher cost now. My fitness level is not about looking good to the opposite sex….its about living a long life….it might help me not have to live that life alone if I care about how I look …. maybe I should consider eyeliner….
And Now…The Weather…
Suds – Quote: “I am just on the loading dose People say they see results at the maintenance dose. 0.75mg – 1mg. It will be interesting to see if it makes me even more sick than I am now lol Pepto-Bismol is my best friend.
Next week I move up to 0.5mg
184.5. Woot woot”
Suds seems pumped and looking forward to her updose…I am interested to see how the wegovy goes, I think we are about 50% participants on Wegovy?
Suds Photo of the week:
Krista – wants to hide until the seasonal depression ends….sometime around when she is shopping for a new bathing suit in the linens aisle. She did play soccer this week, so at least she isn’t living solely for others.
Krista’s new bathing suit:
YogaJenni– ah….she mentioned today she is an undereater….ah………..geez….she is just plain starving herself overweight…who knew it was that easy. Lets see….she sent photos of peanut butter bars with what appears to be oats, I punched the recipe into chat and it totaled 3000 cals, divi that by 20 and each one of those is 120 calories….not bad….but just 6 grams of protein each….13.5 grams of carbs, 9 grams of fat. Not a whole lot better than 2 old-fashioned plain timbits….and a lot less work to make. In fact if you just rolled the timbits in protein powder you are better off with the timbits……..just saying….
YJ also claimed to eat a burger at some point, but I havent been able to figure out what non-meat product it was created from…or was it meat…..things are unclear here….Although Oats are touted as a super food, they are actually used to fatten up livestock for winter……..ah…..fatten….up……livestock…..there is a surplus produced….ah….like Oat farming is government subsidized….so we better advertise about how healthy it is!
YJ and I are in tough….a vegan….keeping the oat industry alive one peanut butter fat pill with oat milk latte at a time.
157 pounds.
Tbag – Ok….The Tbag story. Let me open up here by offering my opinion…..not popular in this crowd. The guy Tbag is talking about it an idiot…..a snake….I’ve only put him to sleep twice in my life and if the 3rd time comes around I will offer his a kick before he comes wakes up.
Tbag’s revised story: Weight: friggen 145 again, lol … I need someone to follow me around and slap the cookies out of my hand. Date night is a no-go. I’m choosing myself and moving on.
The original–>Weight: friggen 145 again, lol After many years of hoping we would be something more… I finally got clarity. He chose someone else. My heart is a little tender right now but surprisingly, I’m okay. I guess I was holding onto an idea, not reality. Lesson learned. I didn’t get the ending I imagined, but I got the closure I needed. I’m choosing myself and moving on, at peace and a little lighter… Now I just need to stay off the cookies!
Tbag is a good friend of mine….she is a good friend to everyone in her life…a good person….who loves one of the biggest aholes in the world.
If you think the above is the worst insult I could come up with….I’ve just deleted it….because I care too much about T and she says the guy is still her friend.
Sorry T….
The photo of the week here?
Slab– Weight today: 126.5lbs Likely forced to office 3 days a week soon then 4 in July but think it will be Cornwall (the gym will be a challenge).
Legs
The pipe:
Jeremy– You’re so “Vein”. A few months now back in the gym It has been interesting to be aware of the self talk, often quite negative and trying to corale it, not conquer it. That voice pushes me, calls me on my own BS and if I react correctly, it improves me. I am really enjoying it, bought myself a stationary bike for non gym days because my legs are the lions share of the problem for me so I will be intentional about fixing that, as I am able. Lying in bed, having a heart to heart with my pooch and I noticed something I havent seen since in years,a bulbous vein in my arm. There was a time that I was quite vascular, no longer but it was a sign that I am back on the right path. 203 lbs Onwards!
Pumper-Pumpers intro post was lost with the most recent BS so let me try my best to recreate it….
ok…pumper is 49 years old, 5’10” tall and started at about 218 pounds. She has been a fitness instructor for years…a regular human lifetime. She has been focussing on putting everyone else first…and is now trying to do more for herself….with the help of wegovy.
And her update this week:
Alright so since Sunday I’ve fluctuated between 201 and 202.6. This morning was 201.6. So let’s say 202 for the weight in. This morning I fit into my size 12 jeans comfortably so that is a definite win. I think I may need to try on some of my other size 10 and 12 clothes from my closet to see what else fits now! Yay! Finding out I should be aiming to eat .8 to 1 gram of protein per pound, gives a very high number of grams of protein per day and I struggled to make it to 100 grams each day so far. So that was disheartening.
I have starting measurements for Pumper and will update the table with those and her April 1 numbers next week.
I think pumper is a perfect candidate for this transformation:
https://www.facebook.com/xtinefit
she is following the direction of this:
https://facebook.com/reel/2689571634750412/?mibextid=wwXIfr&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fv%2F1boTJosZ1V%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr&rdid=XGJmplY4w15SM2uH
…..I just think…..
Russett– holding…no diet for a few months, we will still loosely track sour patch kid consumption.
HotTub– has dropped out for now….we will loosely track this ones life choices also…small fish on random foods is not the strangest of her choices recently…
Yours Truly– I hit my march target….my bday is 2 weeks out. 210 is likely impossible. Tomorrow I am going to wake up and turn the screws a bit tighter, see what I can do in 14 days. Once it warms up I will start running….I could run half decent in 2018….I think I might do better now….we will see.
My pic of the week, the left side:
The Quote of The Day
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Ev would appreciate an MM quote.
I’m in a weird space right now…..hmmm…I will figure it out.
I managed a tough week, huge expenses, but I managed it. One more weekend on the road for u22 and then a couple of tournament weekends….and I might be able to balance the books around here a bit.
I hope you had a wonderful day. The forecast looks glorious, may the sun shine down.
