Mountain Punching

Here's the thing, I've thought about starting a blog for a while and for that while I've thought about how I'm not particularly keen on it. While it might be a good way to keep track of observations on the "One Punch Man" (fitness) side of the spectrum -- with perhaps less emphasis (at least initially) on the "Mets" side -- It is self indulgent drivel of the worst kind. Nevertheless, here goes, and, as life may collude with reality, content will of course be subject to incidental Mets flotsam.  

The One Punch Man thing. Hear me out -- It's not like I'm expecting anyone to read this -- I'm not even sure how this blog thing works. I imagine there’s some secret pipe system like from a church organ with tiny moths flying messages up and down the tubes ... something like that. Anyway, I was rambling to my sons one morning about how after several months I was finally able to do 100 push ups without stopping. So my youngest, the brain of the outfit, is like "hey that's like One Punch Man." I'm like "who is One Punch Man?" He says "Its this anime guy who can defeat any monster with one punch because of this workout he does." Naturally my curiosity was piqued, a guy who can defeat any creature with one punch? Because of a workout? "What about Godzilla?" I ask, "He's physically incapable of losing Dad, that's part of the character." Whatever.

The workout itself is simple, 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10K run, every day, for 10 years. At the conclusion of this plan you should be able to move mountains with one punch. So I figure, what better way for me to prepare for my inevitable confrontation with some former version of myself sent ahead to kill me (besides maybe Judo) than trying the One Punch Man plan? I figure I'll still be fairly young in 10 years and I've already got the 100 pushups ... Who wouldn’t want to chop mountains down with a punch? That’s some Jimi Hendrix voodoo shit right there.

Anyway, some history ... Three years ago I was was obese, smoking, unable to limp/run more than a few hundred feet maybe, I couldn't do a squat because of a bad knee. My Mom had just died … I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis, hyperlipidemia, and (eventually) sarcoidosis … My daughter was institutionalized for harming herself, my wife served me with divorce papers. I was depressed, missing time at work, in constant pain, constantly sick, sore throat, colds, on and on. Everyone was like, get used to it, you're old AF ... pretty soon you'll be dead. So I tried to get used to it and it sucked in a major way.

Things are a lot different now. Not sure how things changed but my therapist thinks I should figure it out ... Maybe bottle it. It kind of started with the Judo. After the wife moved out I decided to do something I've always wanted to, I enrolled us in Judo classes at our local Dojo.

Maybe this should be "Neekerbreeker's (Modified) One Punch Man Mets Judo Blog" ??

LETS GO METS!

Welcome home Jerry Blevins.