Jorg's Brain Log

For the whole day I’ve been thinking about what to write for on my blog today. I promised myself to write a post today, so I have to do it. It’s hard to write something when creativity is low, and normally this would mean I would skip the day.

The whole thing about waiting for creativity is that it doesn’t come with regular waves. Sometimes it takes days before it happened by itself and I feel creative again.

But the same thing as with any other wave is that it doesn’t take a lot to create a big wave. A small wrinkle in the water is sometimes enough to start a big wave. Just like this post; After one sentence I didn’t have to think anymore about what to write. It just came by itself.

This applies to a lot of stuff. Just take a small step, just get in the car, just do 5 minutes of work, etc, etc. It’s that first step that counts. The moment you start something you’re more likely to finish it. Starting something is the most difficult part of it.

I’m glad I started writing the first sentence of this post today. Finishing was easy!

Interesting new year already! After so many years I’m still learning new stuff about myself. Just the way it should be.

Last year I did a lot of experiments with nutrition to see where my slow metabolism came from. And in the coming 4 weeks I’m going to prove to myself that it’s all in the grains, or in my case, the bread I eat.

During the Paleo Diet of last year it became already clear that it’s not about the calories, but what kind of food I eat. As soon as I cut back on the grains, the kilo’s literally flew off. But problem was that I didn’t only take it with one variable, I changed my whole way of eating.

So this time the only variable I will change is that I won’t eat bread anymore (which I normally took at breakfast, lunch and sometimes a late evening snack).

Curious where this will take me! For the rest I will stick to the same 4 eating moments per day, concentrating on getting some extra proteins by eating enough eggs, fish and chicken, but keeping  it the same and real as normally. Oh yeah, the soda light is standard nowadays. I can’t remember the last time I drank normal soda, so that’s a good thing now that I’m accustomed to it.

Good-bye mr. Bread!

On January 4th I started with some new sport goals and after a month of sports I can see I’m pretty happy how it went for the first four weeks. Learned a lot about working with schedules, sudden changes, children, people in general and how to overcome dissapointments when you can’t do what you’ve planned.

Below my complete list of what sport activities I’ve done in January (without the details);

It may seem a lot but when I break it down to the list below, you’ll see it’s pretty doable (for me that is)

• 11x sport moments
• 4x fitness (45 min x 4 = 3 hours)
• 3x running (40 min average x 3 = 2 hours)
• 2x snowboarding (60 min x 2 = 2 hours)
• 1x swimming (60 min = 1 hour)
• 1x freediving (60 min = 1 hour)
• Total: 9 hours per week
• Getting my bag, travel, etc): 6 hours
• Total time including preparation: 15 hours.

So on average it’s about 1 hour 20 minutes per day of sport and including changing into sport clothes, getting sport bag, travelling to swimmingpool, skicentre, etc it become around 2 hours per day. Pretty doable for a healthy, fun and andrenaline filled life.

What do you think about it? To much? Or can you imagine I even want to sport more?

As taken from the movie ‘The Bucket List’, below a nice list of 101 things you ”have to do before you die”. It is not my own list, but I’m working on my own personalized version. Inspirational stuff!

And another Shark Sports event in the pocket! Do I love organizing! Today was our first freediving competition of 2010 with some amazing results. Eric van Riet Paap did a 200 meter, Daan a 175 and Nanja a 155 .

For people who don’t know what freediving is all about, it is sometimes hard to understand how amazing the performance in the video below is.

More about the competition here.

Nothing to add. Completely agree with the man!

After my root canal treatment I went home with a pretty good feeling. The pain was gone and in a matter of weeks it would all be finished when the filled up the hole in my tooth…

How different the last days have been. Last Thursday I’ve got the treatment and on Friday afternoon I started to feel my heartbeat in my tooth. Saturday morning I was in real pain again and my tooth was banging all the time. On Sunday I didn’t know what to do anymore because of the pain and called the weekend dentist.

It appeared that my tooth has filled up with fluid from the inflamation and put pressure on the tooth from the inside. So after opening up and cleaning the whole tooth from the inside again, I could smile again.

Went home and the rest of the Sunday was perfect again. Monday was also pretty okay, but my tooth started banging again. On on Monday evening the pain went from light to heavy within an hour. Again a visit to the evening dentist, but this time the story was worse.

The dentist was drilling in my inflamed tooth and cleaning it for about 45 minutes, which was pretty doable. But right afterwards, it was coming in strong! Pain, pain, pain in my whole jaw! The dentist told me to get antibiotics immediately at the hospital and start right away.

In the 30 minute ride to home I was literally screaming it out from the pain! At home I was jumping in the shower for 5 minutes, lying on bed for 5 minutes and baning my head against the door for 5 minutes, and repeated that schedule for around 3 hours.

After some antibiotics, sleeping pills and asperine I was still wide awake and didn’t know what to do. Okay, time for drastic measures… Alcohol!

After two shots of Amaretto d’Issarono I didn’t remember putting away my glass and woke up the next day without any pains…

Already two weeks of sport are over and it feels great. I’m still searching for a flow and for a right schedule for all the sport I want to do. Just testing things out and searching for a good feeling.

Running goes well, as goes fitness. How much I missed fitness… It feels good to lift weights again! A real testosterone booster for me. Regular sports on regular intervals works pretty well for me. As long as I keep going, it’s not hard to stay on track.

It’s the resting I’m worried about! If I rest for a few days, starting up is much harder already. So for the coming time I keep a busy schedule with minimum rest. In the last two weeks I’ve done the following for now and I need to tweak it a little bit more.

• 04 m fitness
• 05 t fitness
• 06 w running / snowboarding
• 07 t fitness / freediving
• 08 f fitness
• 09 s running
• 10 s -
• 11 m fitness / running
• 12 t fitness / swimming
• 13 w running / snowboarding
• 14 t freediving
• 15 f running
• 16 s fitness / snowboarding
• 17 s fitness / running

This morning I woke up from a terrible pain in my tooth. After an hour of trying to forget the pain I gave up and called the dentist. One hour later I was in his chair and he confirmed my fear of a big inflamed tooth. Time for a root canal treatment…

Well, as I’ve heard enough (terrible) stories about this treatment, I wasn’t too pleased with it. Especially because it was already inflamed and pain killers wouldn’t help. Nice. But to be honest, it wasn’t that bad and the pain wasn’t worse then a normal drilling session with the dentist.

After I came home I wondered what the dentist did to my tooth and looked it up on Youtube. To be honest, I didn’t expect it to be such heavy work. Looks pretty intense to me! Glad I didn’t know it beforehand! I’m already looking forward to my next appointment where they will finish the job! brrr…