Monthly Archives: March 2009

What The Hell is CCC and Why Am I Doing It?

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Have you ever done something that you have no idea why you are doing it, but kept on doing so anyway?What did you learn from the experience, was it worth it? I have come to realize I am the extreme person who will try anything. I don’t care how hard it is, I just want to try it.

I have been on this workout craze for 2 weeks now and this is going to be the last week before I insert my full-body workout back into my regimen and cut down on the cardio. I don’t have a real reason why I have been working out like crazy for the past couple of weeks. It could be because just for the hell of it or to be ripped all over, which I am very close to being already. There really isn’t a real reason why I do crazy things for no reason at all, but I feel it challenges my body, mind, and whatever the else I learn from the whole experience.

CCC?

While I was listening to some up-tempo music writing in my journal the other day I decided I was going to go all out in my workout this week. I was going to do more than the 2 weeks combine to get myself looking the way I want. So I thought of the Crazy Cardio Challenge. Yep, I am going to do yet another crazy exreme experiment just for the hell of it. I don’t like weighing myself, so I will take a picture after I am done. I will also do some video footage of this experiment and probably some audio. I am going to be accountable for everything I do, so I will also use twitter to document my progress.

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Why Should You Read My Blog?

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Valentine Flowers

Why should you read my….
blog? Why should you spend your important time reading what I write for fun? Why should you listen to a 27 year old municipal worker, who doesn’t have all of it figured out himself? Why should you listen to a dreamer and a person who goes on rants about following your passions so much? Why should you listen to somebody who is pretty much in the same position in life tell you life lessons?

What’s My Story
Those are very good questions and this very question can be ask for anyone who is online trying to give valid advice to people. I started this blog almost 4 years ago on a thought of just to write a paragraph. I didn’t know what I wanted to do at the time and went to work like any other person to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. I have a very interesting look on life and thought it would be a chance for me to tell my story and also figure out what I want to do for me. Each day is precious, we hear that statement so many times, and don’t realize what it means until we are pushed beyond our comfort level. I was telling a reader of my blog a year or so ago that we are all lost, we sit in our cube or where ever thinking about the future and not living in the moment. We really don’t know what we want to do and we know what we are presently doing isn’t it.

Experience is King
So lets go back to the questions up top. Through my writings and defiant actions I have accomplished going on a magical trip I dreamed about ever since I was in high school. I managed to bullshit my way to jobs mainly by leaning on my past life experience, than the actual job description. I manage to stop being timid and short-coming through my writing and eventually to real-world situations. I have been able to document the ups and downs of the business venture I started a couple of years ago and the continuous pursuit to start another successful business. I have tried different activities and suppose hobbies to figure out what I liked. Through my words and actions I have found my passion and am taking steps to make it a reality.

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How Many Floors Can You Walk? I walked…

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“Hey, you want to take the stairs? It won’t take long and we will beat all of these people trying to take the elevator”, a short guy with glasses said.

I looked at him and he was dead serious in a joking way. I looked around and thought it couldn’t hurt. I told him, “sure, why not”.

I ran up 5 flights of stairs and was out of energy, I was already sweating and walked the rest of the remaining 4 flights of stairs. The older gentleman was still running up the flight of stairs, he got off 2 floors up and at a quicker time. I was like, wtf, how did he do that?

I sat down in my chair and took a couple of puffs of doctor-approve air and drank tons of water. I didn’t think much of it until I arrived to work this past monday. I have already been doing some cardio for a week and a half already, but it seemed like nothing compared to the brief time struggling up the 9 flights of stairs. So yesterday I decided I would put in some extra cardio and walk up the stairs. I was going to just stop at the 15th floor, which is the same one I work on. But I kept going and going and going and going all the way to the 25th floor of the building. I felt I accomplished so much in that short, but felt long time, and wanted to do more exercises. I continued to walk done the stairs back to my cubicle on the 15th floor.

I told a couple of people what I done and they were shocked. Everyone was saying why did I do that, you are is such good shape already? I had no answer, I had no real reason why I traveled up to the top of the building via the stairs, it was something I just wanted to do. There are so many scenarios where I do things just for the hell of it and can’t put a finger on the why (taking the Nike saying literally, every time). So today I walked up the 25 floors of stairs (actually more, started in the basement) again and I timed myself. Less than 8 minutes up and a total of 10 minutes to get back down to my floor. I thought it would take longer, I thought the task would be a little harder with me being all sore and not stretching from the day before. Nope, it wasn’t, I didn’t use my puffer this time. I wanted to do it again, but my work clothes were getting wet because of the sweating and went ahead and ate my lunch (a hand full and a half of almonds and raisins and a cup of water). I think I am going to try to do this 2-3 times per week, just for the hell of it, and see what else I learn about myself.

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