The Start of My Offseason

Right, so im now in my offseason from baseball, and the only physical exertion i'm planning besides my training is the non-organized kind: climbing, parkour, exploring, canoing, biking, ping-pong (yay) and the like. That said, i'm going to spend the next 28 days on a fat loss period; i want to cut down before beginning a slow mass gain. I don't like the idea of getting fat for a short time, cutting, fat again, and so on, so i just want to get my body fat lower, and then maintain it while slowly gaining muscle.

I was gong to be following a Cosgrove method for fat loss, combining complexes and interval training, but i'm tossing out the complexes, and replacing them with bodyweight circuits and compound lifting. I'll be cutting back by only 500 or so calories (probably less at the start) while taking a protein shake to add about 50g of protein a day to maintain muscle.

The game plan is 4 days a week..

Monday: Bodyweight Circuit
Tuesday: Sprint Intervals + compound lifts
Wednesday: rest
Thursday: Bodyweight Circuit
Friday: Sprint Intervals + compound lifts
Saturday: rest
Sunday: rest

New Mexico Trip

So last weekend i headed down to New Mexico for the better part of three days for my aunt's wedding, hoping to support her, but also to go and enjoy the landscape and mountainous region of Taos. Getting off of the plane i realized that, prior to this trip, i had never seen mountains before. Not in person at least. So from the 2 hour trip from Albuquerque to Taos, all i could do was ogle the mountains that rose up on either side of us as we drove through valleys and along the Rio Grande River. To be honest, up until the last 1.5 days of the trip, i really didn't talk to anyone all that much-i kept daydreaming about scaling these steep cliffs and jumping all over them. For a period of time, it seemed that i wasn't going to get to do anything though; scheduling and a lack of initiative kept getting in the way..lucky for me, my mom and uncle wanted to hike on a mountain very badly, so we convinced ourselves to wake up at 5 am two days in a row (sunday and monday) so as to have enough time to enjoy the scenery. As for the wedding (the main reason i went, of course) it went just fine about 10 ft from the edge of the Rio Grande Gorge; an awesome view for anyone who's fortunate enough to see it. Anyway, i've uploaded some pictures, most of which i feel don't do justice to what i saw (to be honest i've heard this phrase plenty of times but didn't truly understand it until now).

where we hiked

me + uncles

my mama

awesome cliff face; you can't tell but it's incredibly steep from where i could see

bride and groom + random bikers from texas