January 12th, 2006
Fitness Update — Day 11
Clearly, I’m not doing something right. I mean, I’ve been pretty good about following my workout Brigadoon trailer , but I’m just not losing any weight. I may be losing fat, as my workout includes strength training, but I don’t have a good way to measure that accurately.
Dietarily, I’ve also cut out nearly all “bad” foods — particularly the copious amounts of junk food that I previously consumed. I think I’m going to have do something drastic and start monitoring my calories more closely again. That sucked, but it may be what it takes.
Granted, I’ve only been at this a little over a week, and maybe I should relax. I had hoped, however, to have lost at least a couple of pounds by now.
Maybe I’ll start taking and posting photos of myself weekly or something to keep track of my progress (if any). Maybe when I post them, I’ll post a baseline measurement of some of the other fitness indicators, such as my resting heart-rate and anything else I can find.The Compass full movie
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January 4th, 2006
A New Regimen For A New Year
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Beginning this week (starting Monday, January 2nd), I started a new training program and diet. You can check out the workout I’ve put together here.
The short-term goal is pretty simple. Lose fat. I’ll be running the Portland Marathon again this year (2006). I’d like to improve, dramatically if possible, on my time of 5:17:34. One way I can do that is by reducing the amount of fat that I have to haul down the road. In 2005, my race weight was 254 lbs. I’d like to be down to about 225 lbs (or lower!!) for the 2006 race. I weighed in at just a hair above 255 lbs this morning, so that’s about 30 lbs to go. I’d like to lose as much of the weight as possible (if not all of it) before May 29th. That’s when I’ll start training specifically for the marathon again and I’d like to be able to focus solely on my training and simply worry about maintaining my weight. That leaves me just about 20 weeks, so I’ll have to average about 1.5 lbs/wk over that stretch. Again, the goal is to lose fat, so I’ll be doing some strength training in order to maintain/improve muscle mass.
So far things have gone pretty well. I wasn’t able to run as long as I would’ve hoped on Monday, but I was able to go for a walk with the family, so at least I got some activity in.
Tuesday’s strength training went almost according to plan, except that I had to workout in my bedroom instead of the office, where I would normally workout, because there was (is) a bunch of stuff on the floor of the office. I watched the tail end of a great Orange Bowl between Penn State and Florida State.
This morning (Wednesday) I ran three miles. If I had been paying close attention, I would’ve noticed that my schedule actually called for me to run 4 miles today. I just changed it so that I’ll run the four miles tomorrow instead.
Fitness Diary — Day Zero
So, I’m starting this diary to allow me, primarily, to keep a record of my progress. I want this record to be available to me for editing and reviewing anytime, anywhere, so I’m keeping it here on my website.
Now, I’m not exactly thrilled with the prospect of having all the posts appear on the front page of the site, so I’ve created what I’d like to call my little “fitness ghetto” on the site. I’ll probably link to it from the front page, but I’ve excluded posts in the “fitness” category from showing up on the front page and the date archives.
Entries will likely consist of personal reports on my progress, succeed or fail, with my efforts to improve my physical health. That inlcudes things like exercise, diet, and anything else I deem relevant. I may include recipes for food. I’ll probably discuss my vital statistics, etc.
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