Fat Kid’s Ironman Fitness Blog

Post by:Brad Hefta-Gaub

Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 10:21 pm  |  3 Comments »

 

I have a confession.

I don’t like to stretch. I also don’t like to lift weights… unless I have someone like Tyler around to give a hard time to the way guys who are good friends do.

I am an action oriented person. Which seems a little strange as I type that, since most of my life has been spent sitting (at a computer). I’ve been “into” computers since I got to use my first TRS-80 at age 10. I’ve been making my living from computers since I started my first company at age 12 writing software for Commodore C-64 computers, which was a significant upgrade from the first computer I owned.

Action hasn’t always meant running Marathons, or riding fixed gear double-centuries, or completing Ironman triathlons.  Before my life with fitness, it meant staying up all night coding, or running a record label with Punk bands from Seattle, or whatever other crazy idea I got into my head.

But the fact of the matter is…. I have not yet found a spark in stretching… flexibility.

I tried Yoga… I think I had a pretty good teacher… but it didn’t stick.

I also don’t get massages regularly… which I probably should. My PT says I have “very compact muscles”… I take it as a compliment… but it almost sounds a little like when you brought artwork home to your mom in pre-school and she said “Oh isn’t that INTERESTING”… Uh… is that a euphemism for crap?!

So today… the day after an 18 mile run… a day in which I’ve been too busy to workout…  would be a perfect day to go do 30 minutes of stretching… but instead… I’ll blog… and then get stuck reading wikipedia’s definition of euphemism.

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Activities: Year to Date

Distances
Bike: 94 miles
Run : 26 miles
Hours of Activity
 Bike: 6.5 - 59.6%
 Run : 3.8 - 35.0%
 Flex: 0.6 - 5.4%
  Total:10.9