So-so. I’m back on a beginner program (after finally adopting an advanced program a few months ago and dropping out, since the volume was just too much). With the restart I changed my squat form (from low bar to high bar), tweaked a muscle due to this and had to do some diagnostic work (I had a little more knee cave due to this and my Piriformis took a beating during the ascent/rotation) .

Last year I ditched an addiction and my fitness watch broke. Didn’t feel like replacing or fixing it, and went from 10k++ steps a day to maybe 7k. Gained a few KGs. They are not that noticeable on my frame (for others), but I don’t want to have them around when its time to shed the clothes.

Now everything is stabilized, I can ramp up the weights and the cardio again and hope that the upcoming biggish calorie cuts are not going to completely fuck me over in the weightroom.

I am only able to continue riding a bicycle after the crash that broke my neck and back 11 years ago because I was in race shape at the time. Fighting two SUVs on a bicycle was rough. I’m certainly not able to put in 400 miles or more per week on a bike any more. I can’t physically do much else other than ride a bike, even walking is hard, but I don’t think I’d still be around if I didn’t have my hour a day to escape the confines of a bed and get out of the house. I am a shell of my former self, but still enjoy the real freedom of a bicycle untethered to any real corporate tax for a right to exist on my terms.

Fairly happy. Four years in, and I feel like I’m getting most of the benefits from my homegym, insofar as my 5-day routine isn’t limited by a lack of equipment or machines. My goal was to undertake a consistent resistance training routine and I think I have that now.

Where I go from here is likely to be focused more on diet management.

I wish i enjoyed running at any weather. Canadisn winter is too rough