Not as fit as I thought

I'm sitting here now, drenched in sweat, with less than two months to my 40th birthday. I've continued eating a no sugar diet and I'm down to a very small amount of body fat around my navel which is probably sticking around (no pun intended) because I tend to pizza it up with the kiddo.

However, for the last two months to my goal I'm cutting out that last little bit of crap, and I'm stepping up my game.

As far as workouts go, I've continued to lift weights. I actually look forward to lifting these days. A lot. I've increased my dumbbells to 50 pounds each, and I do all of my weight lifting with those. I've also added a resistance band to my push ups, and I've installed a pull up bar in my house to get some much needed pull ups in.

However, my cardio has ONLY been my skateboarding for the last month. Now, I've skated a lot over the last month, but it just doesn't feel like enough.

If you look at my last post, I bought a resistance band/glove thing with DVD to workout with. In truth, I hadn't used it. I put it on and tried the DVD, but the DVD was all messed up and wouldn't play. Tonight, I took the initiative to find a video online and used the bands to workout. This is why I'm drenched in sweat. It was a great workout. The only problem I had was that the gloves have a velcro enclosure that kept digging into my back so I took it off for the last round of the workout.

I've decided to add 2 cardio routines into my week, and I've decided to go back to yoga one day each week. I learned today (doing the kicks) that I am not limber at all these days. I'm glad I workout at home and nobody had to see that.

You'll notice I've not been posting any month end pics. Well, I have decided to wait until the birthday and post a final pic then. 2 more months of hard work and good eating and we'll see where that takes us.

Oh, and I have given in. Despite my tirades on protein shakes, I'm simply not adding much muscle these days and I'm giving protein a try as well as an L-Glutamine supplement. I'll write more about that particular amino later.