Friday, August 15, 2008

Brutality Knows My Stubborn Self


I am growling at my current physical condition. What in the hell was I thinking? How could my male brain not realistically know the grueling schedule would beat me to a bloody pulp?

Let's backtrack to yesterday. At 5:30am, I jumped out of bed and promptly drove to the gym for an hour upper body workout. After eight hours at my job, I drove to Baton Rouge for tennis lessons. The hour long lesson was more akin to military boot camp! With no rest, I immediately played a tennis match against a higher rated player (4.0-4.5) for two hours. We split our sets, but he was hobbling around too much to play the third and final set. I was all Gung-Ho and ready to slay the beast too!

In retrospect, thank God we didn't play that third set. I woke up one cranky MOFO. My right wrist, back, knees and ankles are now sore as fuck. I am moody. I probably shouldn't comment on blogs today or I'll be brutally judgemental. Well, I did make that one comment after someone injured my brain. But that was it.

I think some good quality time at a resort spa will do me well this weekend. Since I am flying solo tomorrow, I have already scheduled my therapeutic massage for 3pm. I look forward to the rejuvenation of my mind, body, and spirit. Until my male brain stubbornly stacks yet another day of brutality on me.

11 Comments:

Blogger Lewis said...

I'd just chock it up to old age. I know it well.

August 15, 2008  
Blogger Ryan Charisma said...

Oh I love me a good sports massage.

August 15, 2008  
Blogger TonkaManOR said...

Sucks to get old! Just wait til you're 40!

August 15, 2008  
Blogger AJohnP said...

That's what you get for excercising.
It's no good I tell ya' - no good at all. ;-)

August 15, 2008  
Blogger mikeinbama said...

I'll give you a good rub down!

August 15, 2008  
Blogger Knight of Swords said...

*cough*
Brett.
I run 1.5 miles.
Work.
run 1.5 miles.
Gym various parts (day dependent)
Then go out.
Course I really did go to boot camp . .

August 15, 2008  
Blogger Brettcajun said...

LEO:

After I worked out for an hour in the morning, I logged three straight hours of intense tennis cardio with little to no rest. You have to run your ass off, suddenly stop, start again, change direction, jump up high at the net while you are hitting backhands, forehands, volleys, lobs and serves that are sometimes coming at you at 100 mph. It really puts stress on the muscles because there is nothing routine about like simply jogging at an even pace.

I am sure your jogs are strenuous enough. Just remember -- you are a lot younger than me. Four hours of working out/cardio is quite a bit in one day for a 38 year old like me.

August 15, 2008  
Anonymous Boomer said...

I echo Tonka's words...jeezaloo Brett just wait til your 40...or even 46 like me. I still work hard at the gym but my rule of thumb for a good day is when I finish the evening with all the parts that I started with that morning...and most of them still work! :)

August 15, 2008  
Blogger Mathias N Oz said...

Overtraining... you might be able to get away with it for a while, but eventually it is going to bite you in the ass... either through stalled progress or worse... injury.

August 15, 2008  
Blogger Knight of Swords said...

BRETT:

Depends on what the cardio is.
I'm sure you could keep up *winks*

August 16, 2008  
Blogger Timmy said...

Maybe your weekend will have a happy ending. ;-)

August 17, 2008  

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