So I obviously am doing a pretty bad job week 1...

Something I have been thinking about though is the fact that I keep thinking "okay now I'm going to start getting serious now I'm going to start putting time in... "So I play a bit more, watch videos a bit more, I have done a few sessions with a coach... and I have gotten better. I guess I am just realizing that each new level I want to beat, means even more effort above and beyond what I was putting into the last level. I played 50NL yesterday and it felt really easy... and when I started playing a long time ago I didn't stand a chance. So I have been getting better.

Even though I said all the things I was going to do every day I didn't do them, I only went to the gym once... and I did a set of crunches or two... I need to put my pull-up bar back up too.

So I guess I need to be more specific with my schedule and also try to stick to it better. The hard part is however that during the day the games are harder, and it's hard to "work" at night... also I waste too much of my time during the day. I think I have a solution, I put 2K on Ultimate Bet, and the games there are much softer during the day, so I can find some good games easier... looks like they are soft through 2/4 actually. So in the AM I will play on UB and if I put hours in at night it will be on tilt unless I find UB is that much better.

Also I am going to cap my sessions at only 45 min for at least this week. That means more short sessions with 15 minute breaks, I am going to attempt to put together an 8 hour day like this. So the breakdown is still 6 hours playing for the 2 hours of breaks. During each break I will do a quick HH review, fill my water glass, and do my crunches to clear my mind out a bit before diving into another session. I will take 30 min or so for lunch. I will save watching videos for the evening and weekends. I'm not sure when I want my gym time. I would like to start playing around 9am at the latest preferably 8am though. So I will outline a detailed daily schedule, subject to changes, but this is what I will do on Monday.

0700 wake up

0730 gym

0845 Breakfast

0900 Start playing on UB

0945 Break crunches 25x4, HH review

1000 session 2

1045 Break

1100 Session 3

1145 Break

1200 Session 4

1245 Lunch & Armstrong pull-ups

1330 Session 5

1415 Break

1430 Session 6

1515 Break

1530 Session 7

1615 Break

1630 Session 8

1715 HH review, update blog

I think this is a great way to do it... but we'll see how it goes. As I get used to putting in the time I will start pushing the sessions out longer so that I get more actual playing time in the day. Any sessions with my coach will be in the evening. Videos, and any sessions I feel like on full tilt will be at night as well so this should be the minimum hours Monday through Friday.

Tomorrow I have to do a few things to get ready for the week...I am going to make it happen this time...

1. Set up pull-up bar

2. Write out workout program

3. Get headphones for working out

4. Print out my schedule & Armstrong program so it's by my desk

The last thing I want to mention is the winning switchover and stop loss. I don't think I can just not play the rest of the day if I have a bad session, so if I hit 3 buyins down in a session/day I will skip one session as a break. I don't really know what the games on UB will be like, if they are really bad and play worse than 50NL of full tilt I won't drop down, but if they are similar I will drop down once I am up $250 in a day.

Monday I will write about how the day went and if there are any changes I want to make, then I will switch over to shorter updates. And I will do better than I did this week on my blog at least that is 100% in my control.