Posts under ‘Fitness’

Why is it people feel the need to touch babies that don’t belong to them? Yes, babies are cute, but I really don’t feel the urge to go over and grab children that are not directly related to me.
Case in point:
We were out shopping this evening and it rolled on to supper time, so we [...]

I’ve been continuing to track my weight on my Weight Tracker spreadsheet, and this month I had yet to break the low set at the end of last month. I had trouble figuring out why, as I could see I’ve worked out three out of every four days so far, including several days where I [...]

The Importance of Goals
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

Goals have been a big topic of conversation in our karate class the last few weeks, and I didn’t realize just how many I had until our sensei started us thinking about it. As such, I thought goals would be a good subject for my latest 52 Weeks photo.
I [...]

I must be doing something right, as I’m about to go down yet another belt size, I’m down a shirt size, and just this weekend I had to buy some pants the next size smaller than what I have been wearing.
I credit a lot of it to my karate classes, as an hour workout three [...]

The Biggest Loser challenge at work is over, but my team didn’t win. I came in at just under 3% loss, but our team average was only around 1.75% and we got smoked. The winners averaged about 8%. This, of course, means no moolah for Mikey.
The good news is I lost a good bit of [...]

So my man Cullen Bunn has been inspired to take up martial arts to get into shape. He found a tae kwon do school near his place, so I imagine he’ll be doing a lot more kicking than I do in Shuri-ryu. It will be cool to compare notes when we hang out at the [...]

Okay, a real grill man grills year-round, but that’s not always how it works. With Spring sprung and the weather getting warmer, however, it’s officially the season and time to break out the grill. I just ordered a proper temperature gauge for my charcoal grill/smoker, and while I was at it I downloaded a copy [...]

Academy of Okinawan Karate
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

Okay, I’m far from a master. I may not be able to take anyone down with my little finger or stand in a given stance for hours on end, but I can count to 10 in Japanese and show off my Shuri-Ryu fist!
I’m now two weeks into studying Shuri-Ryu [...]

Plate of Evil
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

The fitness kick is going strong. The wife baked up a plate of cookies, but so far I’ve been able to avoid munching out on them. Only one all day today, but I felt I earned it after both karate class and weight lifting.
Looking back at my record for the [...]

Trimming the Fat
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

This pic was almost a “before” picture, one I’d use for comparison purposes at the end of the Flickr 52 Weeks to see how I’ve changed now that I’m working out. I decided, though, that nobody wants to see my fat gut (and I’ve got several “Fat Mike” pics in [...]