neuroncollision

Let me set a few things straight here. I’m a guy, 26 years old, 5′6″, ~300 lbs. I’m a software engineer, and as such, I’m sedentary most of the day. I drink too much soda, I smoke too many cigarettes, and I eat too much food. Overall, a healthy lifestyle.

I hate working out. I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing anything more than turning a pedal on a bike, or propelling myself forward while staying in the same place on a treadmill. That is, working out seems to be a fruitless endeavour.

I’ve also noticed that, being the guy I am, I work up a healthy sweat while playing drums on Rock Band for any extended length of time. With the advent of this realization, I’ve decided to create a “workout” for Rock Band drums.

I weighed myself this morning. 301.4 lbs.

The idea is to play the drums for a constant span of time no less than thirty minutes a day, resting only to load the next song. I’d really like to play for an hour, however, I live in an apartment and my wife and I are a bit concerned about disturbing our neighbors, so I might have to cut it down to 30 minutes, depending on extenuating circumstances.

Aside from this, I don’t particularly plan to change my diet. We’re heading on vacation in two weeks, and purchased inexpensive food for consumption until we leave.

I have one real constraint working against me: Time
Best case scenario I have an hour a day to play. I need to maximize play time and minimize load/wait time, as these A) take away from play time and B) cause me to rest, thus lowering my heart. Under this guise, the objective of today’s post is to determine a good playlist toi play to.

The criteria:

• Decent Length
• Decent Difficulty
• Ability to perform the song and not fail.
• Overall Fun

As such, I’ve come up with the following songs for consideration (in no particular order):

• Simple Man (Expert)
• Wanted Dead or Alive (Expert)
• Ballroom Blitz (Hard)
• Blackhole Sun (Expert)
• Dani California (Hard)
• Gimme Shelter (Expert)
• Train Kept A Rollin’ (Hard)
• Won’t Get Fooled Again (Hard)
• Mississippi Queen (Expert)
• Enter Sandman (Hard)

10, decently long songs, on relatively difficult settings should keep me moving. I don’t know the song lengths of them, but I think this is at least 45 minutes, if not, I’ll have to add more.

I do plan on starting with Simple Man as a warm-up and finishing with Wanted: Dead or Alive as it’s the most fun I’ve had playing the drums yet.

So, I’ll post back tomorrow with results, thoughts, and tweaks.

Edit:

Additions to playlist:

• Maps (Expert)
• Green Grass High Tides (Hard)