Finally, A Real Workbench

One of the benefits of getting physically active through Power 90 is that I seem to have more energy for everything, more stamina, more desire to do something other than sit at my desk.

A couple weeks ago or so, I finally got back into my shop and started finishing my current project which had mostly sat around as pieces of wood waiting for me to make something out of them. I attacked them with vigor (something I couldn’t have said before), and the result is the workbench you can see at the bottom of this post. It cost me less than $100 in materials and is pretty dang heavy. Now, it’s time to clean up the mess you see behind it.

What really excites me about it is that I can spend hours out there shifting wood around now, and I don’t feel tired or worn out or sore at the end of the day.

So I Forgot To Post On Day 30

Yeah, kind of late for doing that. Anyway, first 30 days, total weight loss of 11.6 pounds. Pretty much right on target, really. We’ve moved up to the second set of videos, and the workout is quite a bit more intense. Was almost like starting over, except that I didn’t hurt for days after doing it. The number of ab reps doubled, and the first day, I managed about 160 of them. The second time through the ab routine, I managed 195. Felt like I about killed myself, but I got through them. It’s amazing, really, how much change can happen in a month. When I first started, I could barely do five pushups (may have been less than that) without having to take a really long rest. I can now do twenty or more in a row. The ability of our body to change itself to meet new challenges is amazing.