Scheduling and workouts

I want to talk about when I like to workout.

    I dont really have an ideal time when i want to workout.  I just know that I want to have AT LEAST an hour for a workout.  I find this hard in the morning, such as if i need to be into work by 8, that means that i have to be out of the gym by 7:45 to make sure that i have enough time to walk to work. Cause the gym is just across the street from where i work.  But that means that I need to get to the gym at 6:45.  Which means that i have to be up at 6 to get everything ready for work AND the gym.  So the mornings are a pain in the ass.  Now if i wanted to do it in the afternoon, yeah i could do that but my lunch break would be longer then an hour, which is frowned upon. 

     So that only leaves the evening. This is a good time, except that i could be exhausted from work and other stuff that has come up during the day.  So I dont really have a set time when I go and work out, i just try to squeeze one in when ever I can, which is not the best way to do it. 

Gaming

     Just like working out, I have a problem with getting a solid time slot of gaming.  Because all gamers know that if you actually want to make progress in your game, you need to play it for a couple of hours at a time, other wise you get no where. 

     School get out in the early afternoon, but then I want to get my homework done right away.  And I have classes in the morning, plus gaming in the morning is just a bad idea.  This is because i get really sucked in to a game and cant put it down, even to eat. 

    This only leaves the evening to game,  But by then the other people in my house have gotten home and would like to use the TV.  so I cant do it in the evening, this only leaves the late nights, or weekends, and typically i have other obligations. Hopefully those will go away.  

killing time by Flaneur, here

Now time by Danilecker, here

Saints and Stairs

Sorry guys that i have not posted in a while. School has been keeping me from posting.

So I have gotten a couple of new games: Dead Island, Deus Ex.  But I have been playing some old games.

I picked up Saints Row and Saints Row 2,  just so that i know what the new Saints Row game is going to be like.

So Saints Row is  very fun game,

Although it is an old game, its still fun and the story is engaging.

     The technical side of the game, like most old games, does not hold up to the test of time.  Saints row came out early in the 360s lifespan. The graphics compared to now are BAD, however not bad enough that you cant play the game, but its irritating.

     The game play is EXACTLY like GTA,  but the game doesnt ever try and hide the fact that its a clone.  You go around killing rival gang members and commenting crimes.  Over time you gain territory and earn money.  the amount of guns and cars that you can get is big,  there are 8 categories of guns and 3 or 4 in each category.  This is a large number, but there are redundancies in each category.  There are alot of guns, but you realize what you like very early on.

     The story is a little different from GTA, where in Saints Row you are fighting a gang war.  The story is about as old as time.  But it seems like it has been presented slightly differently maner.

Over all the game is a blast.  I cant wait to move on to Saints Row 2.

Fitness!!!!!!

     I just got a member ship to 24 hour fitness.  The gym is good and I am really glad that I can start doing exercises with more weight.  having a gym ins so helpful when you want to get stronger.

    Because I want to be a firefighter I have been using the stair master thing.  MY LORD! walking stairs is so hard.  you work up a sweat so fast.  The one problem that I have with any sort of walking type of thing, is that i get shin splints really easily.  The only problem I have with this is because I cant do this stuff for a really long time. 

Damnit shin splints suck alot.

Saints Row image here

stair image found here

Deus EX and a solid workout (for once)

So I bought the game Deus Ex.
It is an awesome game.  but the really cool thing about it is that it offers you several ways to go about beating the game.  At the end, there are several ending you can have, depending on the press of a button. Aside from the really cool endings and the alternate paths you can take to accomplish the objectives, the story is really good.  The story flows very well and is believable.  Some video game stories don't feel right, like they try and fit to many plot twists in, or the plot twist is not a twist but a 180 jump.  With Deus Ex the twists are, not easy to guess, but easy to accept. .

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The graphics are amazing and the style in which they are presented goes well with the game.  most of the game play takes place at night or around sunset,  so there are alot of subdued colors.  this gives the game a slightly edgy feel and makes the game tense.  there are other games that try to make you feel tense, but it doesnt always work, with Deus Ex the story fits with the style which fits with the sound and makes it an all around great game.


WORKOUT!!!!
I was finally able to get a good workout in.  To me a good workout is one in which I feel tired afterward, yet invigorated.  I think the difference between this one and what i have previously been doing is that this one i did a slightly longer cardio.  recently my cardio has been lack luster, this one i did around 20 mins, which felt great.  For the weights I did clean and press with the sand bag, then squats and finally some hammer swings with the tire.  I did all of this in a circuit so there was minimal rest until after i completed all of the exercises.

But it felt really good. I will be doing more of that rotation, just because i know that i can do it and it felt good.

next cardio thing: STAIRS

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