A belated review of my fitness activity in April-through-June. You can read about the first quarter of the year (and L’s ED visit) here. I exercised 73% of the days in those three months, which I was hoping to beat in Q2.

Which I did. Barely. Officially I was at 73.3% in Q1. This past quarter I was at 73.6%. May was my best month of the year, but then a couple travel weekends, pool issues, and a heat wave in June made that my worst month of the year. The good news is I’ve locked in this month and am on pace to break May’s number.[1] I’ve also increased the distance I’m swimming by 25% since the beginning of this month.

Somehow in there I had a blip where my weight jumped up noticeably for two weeks. I would blame S for buying a Costco cheesecake for Father’s Day/my birthday and me being dumb enough to eat most of it over the course of a week. Seriously, I have zero self control when it comes to cheesecake, or monster Costco desserts in general. But the weight gain came two weeks later, so I’m not sure that was the cause. Fortunately I’m back to normal. The human body is a weird thing.

Blue days are strength training, red gym cardio, black other cardio (normally walks), and the new addition of green is swimming. Not that you can tell blue from black from green very well in this picture.

  1. I just jinxed myself into my back going out, my arthritic foot pains flaring up, etc.  ↩