Team Andy and the Funky Bunch

On Friday Marissa and I took a class at the CRWC called Step N' More. The class was interesting to say the least. It was basically a zumba class with a step. There will be video coming out next week with me dancing, so you guys can see first hand how awkward I looked. There's a 100% chance that you'll see me flailing around, having no idea the choreography of the class. I was constantly lost and about 4 steps behind the instructor. If you've ever seen a workout video from the 1980's with stepping and dancing, you'll know what to expect of me when you see the video. 

Nonetheless, the class was a pretty good workout. Even though I pretty much looked like the dumbest person in the class, it was still pretty fun. When Marissa and I weren't completely lost from being so far behind, we were laughing at each other and how dumb we looked. It was basically dancing for 60 minutes, so I was able to get a pretty good sweat going (picture below). 

Today I had a brilliant idea. I sent Marissa (pictured below) pictures of food. It worked perfectly, I'm pretty sure she's going to go to Chipotle tonight for dinner. Trust me it was torture googling all of my favorite food to save the pictures to my desktop, but it's worth it. I'm in this challenge to win and I will be the first to admit that I'm not above any sort of sabotage or foul-play. 

I wouldn't necessarily say that Marissa is mentally weak, but right now she is staring at the pictures of food with papa john's phone number typed into her phone. I think this was a great idea for Team Andy. 

Unfortunately the Tennessee Travelers lost a hard fought match tonight. The squad battled but eventually fell by around 15ish points. The team we were playing only had 5 people so they had no subs the entire game. They also out-ran us. It was pretty impressive. I was getting winded 2-3 minutes in and those dudes were just flying up and down the court. I ended up going 1 for 1 from the floor with 4 points. I also had around 2 rebounds and one steal. The stroke felt great tonight and my three pointer was cash money right when it left my hand. 

Our captain, “flipper” didn’t show up, it definitely hurt team moral. Flip had a family dinner he needed to attend to so he got a free pass this time. He’s going to have to run extra laps this week in practice. Even though we lost everyone fought hard and battled through the whole game. We ended the first half down almost 30 points and got it to 12 points towards the end of the game. 

There’s one more game in the regular season and hopefully the squad can pull out a win and try and slide into the B playoff bracket. The team is starting to come together nicely and the team chemistry is near 100%. We sometimes even hang out on non game days. 

I met with Dakota for the third time yesterday. It's slowly getting better, but it's also still really hard. Every time I meet with Dakota, it is definitely my best workout of the week. However, he kills me every time and the muscle group we work is so sore. We worked chest and shoulders, and I was able to learn some new exercise movements. Dakota showed me how to do "super sets," which is combining multiple sets back to back to get a better workout. Super setting makes the workout significantly harder; on the other hand, it also leads to a better workout overall. 

The Tennessee Travelers are 1-1. Thanks to a spectacular performance from mostly everyone on the team, except me, We were able to walk away with a 20 point victory in our second outing of the season. Our point guard, Michael "The Duke" Rooney came out firing from deep and managed to stroke a couple threes. The captain, Nate "Flipper" Selborg was strong in the post and hit a few shots as well. The announcer summed up his performance perfectly when he yelled out halfway through the game, "thats a baaaaaad man down-low!" Matt "Red" Maiers hit a few turn-arounds, while Joe "Jumpin' Jumpin'" Kelly (he loves (Destiny's Child) was all over the floor. It was a good outing for the entire team and everyone contributed. 

It's amazing how much more fun intramural sports are when you actually win the game. At the same you have to be mindful that we were the team that lost by 20+ish two weeks ago. So I try to not talk too much or have too much fun. I went 1 for 3 from the field with 2 points and (maybe?) one rebound. That stat-line doesn't really jump out at you, but my box out skills were perfection. No one rebounded over me, I made sure of that. I took two 3's, but they didn't go in. However, the stroke felt great, I'll hit at least 7 next time out, put your bets in now. It's free money.  

Marissa and I worked out with Dakota again on Wednesday and it was leg day. Brutal. Absolutely brutal. We couldn't get a videographer there, thank God. My face was so red afterwards I thought I might need an oxygen tank. Dakota had us doing squats, dead lifts, lunges, and step ups. The lunges and step ups were combined and I didn't think I was going to make it. When we were finished I thought I was going to have to roll out of the CRWC Wolf of Wall Street style. My legs felt like that moment before a cramp sets in, but the cramps never happened. I spent the entire day in fear that I was going to collapse at any given moment and not be able to get up. 

When I got back to work following the workout I did my patented move of laying on the floor in the middle of the office for around 5 minutes (see below). It was incredibly awkward when a client came in for a meeting and I struggled for a good 30 seconds before I was able to stand up again. Shes waiting to use our office meeting table and I'm rolling around on the floor like an idiot gasping for air. 

This just into the newsroom, I'm dominating Marissa in the Fitbit category. Seriously I almost feel bad for the poor girl, it's pure domination. Fitbit sends me personal emails every week to congratulate me on how badly I'm beating Marissa. Check it out below. 

Check out those Stats! ^^^^^ 

I almost beat Marissa by 17,000 steps last week. She better step it up (<--- Ha get it?) if she wants to keep this thing close. The only thing that I'm a little nervous about is those sleep numbers. I haven't graduated college yet. I need to get that up to at lease 9 hours a night to be safe. 

The Fitbit's are going great and they give a ton of useful infromation. If you're interested in buying one (I would highly reccommend). They're currently on sale at Tech Connection. 

On Monday Marissa and I went to the Burge Dining Hall to meet with a dietitian, Joann. Joann was awesome and gave us some great tips about what foods to eat and how much of each food to eat. I learned that I get to eat way more than Marissa because she has baby hands and that was great news. 

This weekend my roommate Jake told me, “calories don’t count on Valentines day.” I took this statement to heart and treated it like it was a cold-hard fact. I don’t believe there is any research out there supporting Jake’s claim and it came back to haunt me a bit. I had pizza both Friday night and Saturday night. Friday night with my parents in town, and Saturday with Kim. The pizza tasted fantastic. It was awesome to have two cheat meals in one weekend but I was not feeling the best on Sunday. This week I’m going to have to stay pretty strict to the diet to make up for last weekend. 

On Sunday, I was feeling pretty heavy (literally) after my Friday and Saturday pizza parties. I went to the gym and worked out for a couple of hours. I saw a two of my intramural buddies there taking advantage of our bye week by working out only their biceps. Joe (I’ve mentioned him before) and Michael were working on getting some massive arms, and flexing in the mirror between each set. Also Michael was wearing jeggings (that’s all I’ve got on that one). 

Oh boy. I met with my physical trainer, Dakota, today. I also died today. In all seriousness my training session was so hard. We did a whole body workout and now my whole body hurts. We started out with some chest and shoulders. I did fine early on, felt good. Then moved into some back and arms, still doing okay, I was getting a little tired. Then we did legs. I started out decently, then about mid-way through set two everything started to hurt. All of a sudden my arms just started getting sore, my butt started cramping, and I couldn't breathe. It looked like I I just came up for air after my scuba diving equipment broke, gasping for air and sweating. I am incredibly sore already, walking up stairs is so painful and it's only 4pm. 

Hey everyone, so today instead of a written blog I made a couple of vlogs (video blogs)! I decided that it would be fun to take a video or two of me at Hy-Vee getting my first batch of healthy foods. I did not take into account how awkward it would be to film myself walking around Hy-Vee. The first video below is when I was at the store, the second is the wrap-up when I got home.