Working Out with My Son

This weekend my oldest got in as goalkeeper for the last quarter of the game. His league plays quarters because it helps with substitutions to ensure everyone plays half the game and it also forces kids to stop and get water (a good thing in South Carolina). So the last 15 minutes were his. He [...]

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Active August Day #28

Due to weather, sinuses, commitments, etc., it’s been a week since I’ve been able to get a decent work out in. However, with Active August coming to a close, I’m trying to finish strong. I spent an hour on the pitch tonight spending a lot of time working on kicking power and accuracy. I think [...]

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Active August Day #20

Today me and the oldest went out to the pitch for about 30 minutes. Didn’t get any work in yesterday due to church and the day before I went to bed early because I was feeling under the weather. So I really wanted to get a good workout in today even though I am still [...]

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Active August Day #17

Today I took the stairs more at work. Part of the reason is we had one of the elevators acting up. Nothing like riding up to your floor, stepping off, and realizing the floor of the elevator is almost a foot higher than the surface of the floor. Aside from that, I did take a [...]

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Active August Day #16

After a couple of days off tending to Princess, I got back to Active August today. There were too shifts, both soccer related. The first shift was passing the ball against the wall again, this time for about 12 minutes. I was doing almost exclusively long passes, until the very end where I started to [...]

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Active August Day #13

A good, hard 45 minute workout on the pitch today. A lot of cardio and I was feeling it towards the end. Warm up / cool down by walking & dribbling around the complex. Full field dribble at pace with shot on goal (spent most of my time doing this). Distance kicks down the full [...]

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Active August Day #12

It’s rainy and wet here in Columbia, SC. However, I was at church tonight and we have an indoor gym where part of the walls are made of cinder blocks. I happened to have a soccer ball with me as well. So all told I spent 40 minutes striking the soccer ball against the wall [...]

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Active August Day #10

Didn’t get up this morning feeling that great. Sinuses still hurting, but I did get out there this evening. Spent about 40 minutes all told, but 20 minutes of it was pretty light. My four year-old daughter and I went and passed the ball back and forth for 20 minutes. So while it didn’t do [...]

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Active August Day #9

With the sinus infection keeping me down, it’s been a few days since I’ve been able to do anything active. Today was the first day that I woke up not feeling like my sinuses were balloons. However, today being a Sunday, my schedule was extremely limited. So that meant pretty much leaving straight after evening [...]

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Active August Day #3

I didn’t do much of anything for day #2 because that was swallowed up by ministry. I was on my feet a lot teaching Sunday School and then giving the evening sermon. Once upon a time, when I was counting steps I found that I averaged 12-14,000 steps on any given Sunday, so it’s some [...]

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