Accept that some days you are the pigeon...

...and some days you are the statue. ~Dilbert

Today was interesting. The Dude and I did a 1 mile warmup walk around the neighborhood. Upon returning to The Bat Dojo I noticed something moving on my front lawn. I took a quick look and there was this cool little road runner, who quickly hopped up onto my mailbox and pretty much just sat there looking around. I took a few snaps, one of which one is below after he hopped back down. I've always liked birds, I used to raise them as a kid and even had an unofficial pet crow for a summer. He used to visit our house and hang out. He would hop around our pool area begging for snacks and tease our pet Dachshund..much to my adolescent amusement :)

 Today's workout is a small step up in the long, smooth progression of increasing difficulty. The workout was 10 minutes of exercise with nine 15 second rest intervals.

Here's what we done did:

Each item performed at 100% for 1 minute.

Then 15 seconds of rest.

1 - kick the bag
2 - punch the bag
3 - elbows and knees to the bag
4 - guard jumps - holding blue mini ball not your own hands or the bag--> a bitch
5 - Punch, drop, kick, stands
6 - 3 ball ladders
7 - 4 square:
    - low crawl (under bag/rings), 
    - bear crawl
    - lateral pushup walk
    - crab walk
8 - Lateral ladders(side steps) with 10 lb mini ball. Each ladder end, do 3 around the head rotations each direction.
9 - Mini Ball slams
10 - Turkish get ups with mini ball, arm straight up.

11 - Hurl (just kidding)

Here's the heartrate chart:

As you can see, there is a psychosomatic minijump the seconds before the hard cardio portion. Just like prior workout! There are 9 spikes of heartrate. Yet wasn't there 10 exercises? Yes, the 1st one builds the heartrate up, and it climbed during the 1st rest interval and merged into the 2nd exercise spike. It's an interesting element to note. Heartrates(we'll mine anyways) seem to carry inertia during acceleration. 

The Dude Bag Bashing

The Dude Bag Bashing again

The Dude Ball Grabbing  ;)

My Bag Bashing

My Ball Grabbing

 

My Ball Grabbing..again

GEEK ALERT -- STOP NOW IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ ABOUT NERD STUFF!!

Last post had a PSA recommending one to strip EXIF data from JPG's. EXIF data is bits of data about your image. Cameras and camera phones stuff the EXIF data chock full of crap in which hackers and stalkers love to harvest. In particular, GPS data from phones is a stalkers dream. As you wander around your house taking pics of your lovely petunias, posting them to Facebook or tweeting to the universe, some creep is dragging out the location data.

How does one rip out the EXIF crap? There are plenty of ways. Keep in mind, this change is permanent!

1. If you have Photoshop (Mac or Win), open your image and re-save it using the option "Save for Web". This will strip it all out.

2. If you are on Linux/Ubuntu etc... Install Gimp(also for Windows!) and install this plugin: http://registry.gimp.org/node/33

It will allow one to "Save for Web", effectively peeling out the EXIF data.

3. If you do not have Photoshop or Gimp try googling for EXIF editors. For Linux they are limited to the command line i.e. jhead, exiftool etc... Not hard to use, just not friendly for noobs. One benefit of commandline tools is, with one command one can peel out all the EXIF data for 10 bazillian images!

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install jhead

$ cd /into/the/directory/of/your/files

$ jhead -purejpg filename.jpg

This will rip out that pesky EXIF data for the file "filename.jpg". If you want to rip it out from all the files in that directory:

$ jhead -purejpg *.jpg

4. PhotoMe might be useful for people as well. It's free. It's only for Windows, but Mac/Linux people can run Wine (windows emulator) and it works just fine.

Later!

Mark