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When I look back on my life over the past few years I can plainly see the hand of the Lord actively working in my life. There can be little doubt in my mind that He has called me to serve Him and His people. He has revealed Himself to me in the midst of suffering and peace and has resolved my...

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Hey guys, Been a long time since I posted here. If you want to know what has been going on in my life the last year or so, check out this post on my other blog. I haven't been very active on there but I am planning on changing that starting today. Lots of exciting things going on in my life right now, I hope you will follow me over there if you haven't already! - Matt

I'm Back! On a New Blog!

Hey guys,

I know I have been AWOL for a really long time and a lot of you probably have completely forgotten about me, haha. Anyway, I have finally decided to get back into blogging and decided it would be best to start a new blog rather than continue on this one. This is mostly due to the fact that the new blog I wanted to create is not strictly fitness related. A lot has happened in my life since I stopped posting here and to make a long story short I have rediscovered a passion and fire for my faith in Christ. I am planning on going to seminary in the not so distant future and I wanted a place to write out my thoughts on a wide spectrum of topics but through a Christian perspective. All that to say, I would love it if you guys would like to follow my new blog and stay in touch! I have missed the fitblr community and I am still planning on writing up my weight loss / fitness goals on my new blog. So I hope you will follow me or at the very least send me a message and say hello! Here is the link for new blog.

Hope you are all doing well! :)

- Matt

Dinner! I'm getting back on track! (Taken with instagram)

Listening to the Come on Feel The Illinois album after all this time just makes me appreciate how much of a genius Sufjan Stevens is. He is one of the all time greats in my book.

Da Holidays.

Over the course of the past two weeks I have managed to do a fine job of falling off of the proverbial wagon once again. A voice in my head said "Screw It, it's the holidays." and I listened to it like an obliviously foolish...fool. Didn't eat right at all, didn't work out, didn't go on tumblr, pretty much switched off all the inhibitions I have built up towards an unhealthy lifestyle. However, my one saving grace is that I have been living healthier for so long now that this short vacation I took from a healthy lifestyle has felt more foreign than anything.

Now that I am back in to the groove of a normal work week and life is getting back to normal I don't want to keep eating Reese's peanut butter cup cheesecake, fried chicken, or anything like it. The desire to eat right and get back to the box is very much still alive in me and I know it is going to feel good to get back on track. I am fairly certain that the guys at my CrossFit box probably think I am dead, haha.

I hope you all had an awesome Christmas and holidays in my absence. I had a really wonderful Christmas myself, got a number of great gifts (including a Kindle Fire, woot!). However, my favorite part was the giving this year, I really went all out and tried to give my family the best Christmas I could. This year has been pretty rough on us what with my mom having surgery to get rid of cancer and problems with my Dad's job. So I wanted to try and show them how much they all meant to me. I gave my Dad a "12-Lap NASCAR Racing Experience" where he gets to drive around a real Nascar Race Track in a real Nascar car. He has been a big Nascar fan for a long time and I knew this was something on his bucket list, so it was great to help make it happen. For my Mom I got her a 90min Massage, Body Wrap, and Facial at a local Spa here in town. I figured after all she had been through with the surgery and recovery, it would do her a lot of good to go somewhere and let herself be pampered. For my Sister, her big gift was an iPod nano. After she lost her first iPod she has been kind of lost without her music (being a music major) so she was happy to get a new one, haha.

Last but not least, I managed to snag a 7 Nights and Days stay at a resort of their choosing through Groupon.com which really took them by surprise. I had a big elaborate scavenger hunt laid out in the house with clues to what the gift was and they had to go around and collect them until they figured it out. It was a lot of fun and not a Christmas I will soon forget. That's all for now. :0)

- Matt

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Dragonball z of course.

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How is this even a choice? Become a Z Fighter and be more powerful than all of these things combined, haha.

- Matt (Yes I am aware how nerdy this post is.)

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Pretty much all the paleo information you need!

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Ha, awesome.

- Matt

Hokay, the holidays are over, time to stop eating like crap and get back on track. Paleo and CrossFit are in my near future.

Well...really they've BEEN over. Regardless, I got work to do before summer comes around. Gotta get in better shape before hiking season starts.

- Matt

Whew.

This week has been incredibly busy. There has been a lot going on at work lately and I have had to work some overtime to get things done. Combined with the general rush that is associated with the Holidays and it has been a whirlwind of a week. Which would explain my slight absences from Tumblr and my inability to get hardly any workouts in this week. It has been a bust in terms of living healthy this week. Christmas treats + Not working out because I've been so busy = Blarghhh. Oh well, I will be ready to get back on it once the Holiday's are over and all this madness subsides, haha.

-Matt

Got me a Hot Date Tonight with an Awesome girl.

Don't wait up late guys. ;0)

- Matt

Just took a Microsoft Certification Exam

And PASSED! Woohoo. A big bonus from work is headed to my bank account for passing as well. Today is a good day. :)

-Matt

CrossFit WOD: Push Ups and Box Jumps and Burpees, Oh My.

So tonight's WOD was pretty crazy for a Monday, haha. Here is the run down:

12/19/11 WOD

20 Minutes (Every Minute on the Minute Do:)

7 Push-Ups

7 Box Jumps

Rest for 5 Minutes

75 Burpees for Time.

The Push Ups got really though around the half way mark for me, being a big guy it takes a lot of energy and muscle to continuously pick myself up off the ground, haha. So I ended up switching out some of the Push-Ups for abmat sit-ups every so often to keep my arms from just being wasted. That turned out to be a good idea because I had the 75 Burpees to do after the initial WOD, haha. I wont lie, the Burpees were really rough for me, Burpees in general are always difficult and I am super slow at them. However, I don't think I've ever done this many in a row at one time. Only collectively over the course of a WOD have I done 75-100. So it took almost everything I had to finish them and by the end there I was being cheered on by the entire box and guys were getting down and doing them with me. It really helped push me through to the end. We have a great community here at Blue Ridge CrossFit, they came through for me tonight.

I can already tell my shoulder and back muscles are going to be spent tomorrow, haha. Oh well, feels good man.

- Matt

Da Good Stuff.

- Matt

#Sufjan Stevens #Christmas #Album

I Got Four Words For You Guys: Sufjan Steven Christmas Albums

Jamming alllll week. The best Christmas albums ever. - Matt

Ron Paul Owned on Jay Leno Tonight. Best Interview I've Ever Seen of Him! :0)

Ron Paul 2012!

-Matt

Christmas Shopping

So for the first time since I started buying my own Christmas presents for my family. I have literally no idea what to get any of them. Sure their have been hints dropped and a few ideas here and there but I am really absolutely clueless and next weekend is Christmas.

I am of the opinion that Christmas gifts need to have a lot of thought, time and energy put into them. It is not in me to just go out and purchase some blender at Walmart for my mom for Christmas, that is not how I roll. When you get a gift from Matt Metcalf, you remember it because it means something or is unique/special. I hate generic gifts and I hate supporting big retail stores and avoid it around the holidays because of how I feel they have corrupted the holiday into something it was never intended to be.

So here I sit, determined to figure out what to get my family, tomorrow I head out to shop, we shall see what I come up with.

- Matt

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