It is a new year and a time to set new goals or renew your old ones. Post in here for some accountability.
I'm in! Four workouts a week and diet adjustments to lean out by Summer.
In fo sho.
I'm going to start at 3/week. I plan to ramp up to 4 or 5 by end of the session.
I'm pleased to report that I got through the party season without regaining.
I want to swim at least once per week. I have to drive to the next town for that. Other exercise will happen when it happens, but that's the one I'm committing to.
My mission is another twelve pounds by spring ... which would make an even hundred pounds shed.
I've been taking in seams here and there but one of these days I'm going to go on a serious shopping binge for new clothes. :-)
>I'm pleased to report that I got through the party season without regaining.
Congrats! That is not an easy thing to accomplish with all the constant temptations around every corner during this time of year.
>My mission is another twelve pounds by spring ... which would make an even hundred pounds shed.
Nice! And the way you are doing it, slow and steady and a permanent lifestyle change, the weight has a very good chance of being gone for good.
So, do we get to see the progress pic in the spring?
That's inspiring Bucky! Keep up!
I'm trying to think of what to commit to. We just skied seven out of nine days, but it's hard in this weather to be consistent, but that's just lame excuses. Over the long weekend we skied 10 miles out to a hut and one of the people actually towed her 3 year-old out there. On one of the middle days, she knew she would be on mom duty all day, so she got up at 3:30 and skate skied 20 miles and was back before 6am.
I think my commit will be to ski or climb at least once during the week [edit: provided there is skiable snow and a reasonable place to climb], which these days means getting out in the dark. The weekends tend to take care of themselves.
[edit]added climbing alternative[/edit]
Well, I am in.
4 workouts a week. Not sure of what, but if I can pull in a run, a cycle and a swim then that would be good.
As for diet... reduce the wine.
Had new year at a friends holiday house, with a pool 200m away, so we were there every morning. lovely. so it has started well.
Starting the year feeling very positive, and your folks being so positive helps that, thanks.
Bucky, you are a star.. keep it up!
I'm in. Starting out with 3 workouts a week. Would like to go for 4, but got too much going on for it to be realistic.
My goal is to shred 20 pounds by July 1st. From 220 to 200-ish.
>>My goal is to shred 20 pounds
My goal is to stay sane. Relatively speaking anyway.
If anything, I'd like to gain weight, but that's hard in the winter without access to a gym (er... hard to gain good weight that is).
>> to stay sane
Go easy on that one.
Normal people are boring.
Gaining has always been extremely easy for me, all I have to do is eat regular food at quantities that feel normal for me. I am sitting at about 190 right now, all my lifting numbers are up. I went from 12% bf up to 15%, definitely time to lean back down!
Cool!
I'm in too. After a holiday full of activity, I've managed to catch myself a nasty back spasm, so I'm in for 3 exercise
or stretch sessions per week.
Buckworks - amazing! You'll soon be at a point where if you wanted to remind yourself where you came from, you could just give me a piggy back ride for a day! Yowzers!
QuoteNormal people are boring.
This doesn't seem like an immediate concern...
Week 1 - 4/4
It was a good week, I took my 15 y.o. daughter with me for the two weekend workouts. It is kind of fun to see her take pride in her progress -- she keeps rolling up her sleeves and checking out her biceps in the mirror.
Hey Well done! Daughters can be inspirational! ....sometimes.
My 14 year old just got back from skiing without me...
But.. Sue got me training. This w/e we cycled to a 5K, ran the race, and cycled home again. tired... yup thats me.
2 other swim sessions. Both hard. so because I need pepping up, (tennis is off due to bad arm) I am going to count that as:
5/4
(not 3/4) 8)
Quote from: littleman on January 11, 2016, 04:17:35 PM
she keeps rolling up her sleeves and checking out her biceps in the mirror.
Love that girl already. A friend's 14 year-old daughter did 14 pullups the other day and I told her I'd give her $50 when she hit 20 pullups. It took about a week. Apparently she wasn't trying that hard when she did 14.
I did my one midweek skiing or climbing session (climbing)
- plus over 4 hours of snow shoveling, including 1.5 hours of heavy, wet snow. Main fitness program: don't get my snowblower fixed.
- plus about 3.5 hours of AT skiing (think alpine skiing with no lifts or trails)
- plus an easy hike.
Decent week.
I also try to do 30 pullups and 30 pushups most mornings before breakfast, but I don't track those... and I give myself a pass on shoveling days.
Even with ergophobe bearing the brunt of shoveling duty this last week due to this back spasm, I feel like I got more than my share. Short ski, hike and climbing sessions plus daily stretching sessions means I'm 7/3 or so... but this is always what it's like at the beginning, isn't it?
4/3 last week. Woot!
> daughter with me for the two weekend workouts
Same here. Taking my 11 year old for some basement work-outs at home. She's going skiing with her Youth club and has to get in better shape. Squatting, lounges, calf raises and a bunch of push-ups. She's whining and complaining but has figured out that it actually works.
Made my goal -- 1/1
I know, 1 sounds lame. The thing is, it's a specific one: one day of skiing on a workday (and I realized I need to commit to at least one other workday activity each week).
This week I was lame on Mon & Tues. I did me default 25 pullups and 25 pushups before breakfast and that was it. Went for short climbing sessions on Wed, Thur.... and still hadn't managed my workday ski. If not for The Commit I would have let it pass.
When I got up at 5:30 on Friday, it was raining and not an exciting ski day. But I had a commitment, so I piled in the car in the dark with two kinds of skis (skate and alpine touring aka AT) so I could choose whatever looked best. With a few inches of sloppy gook, that had to be AT. So I put the skins on my skis and started up in a decreasing rain... and this is the result
https://goo.gl/photos/BMC8d3MboCx1XLcG7
All day at work I kept looking at that first panorama and smiling. This absolutely would not have happened without this commitment here.
Only a bit over 1000 feet of vertical total, but it was good exercise, good fun and a major mood changer.
I also skate skied on Saturday and Sunday. So a good week of activity, but as I guessed, that workday ski outing is the tough one!
Oh Gorgeous! Very envious, what a lovely place to live.
2 runs
2 swims
1 family workout.. Year starting well.
Booked flights to Peru in the summer so the family is on a get fit mode.
Quote from: Rupert on January 18, 2016, 11:11:46 AM
Booked flights to Peru in the summer so the family is on a get fit mode.
Macchu Pichu?
:)
Part of it... has to be.. Have you been?
3/3
No, but a friend did the full Inca Trail with a guide a couple of years ago and said it was amazing. It took them quite a while to actually get to Macchu Pichu and by that time the guide (who I want to say had a relevant doctorate) had essentially given them a course on Inca culture. He loved the experience. I could put you in contact if you wanted.
Also, the guy down the way from me is from Peru and was a military pilot so he has probably seen a fair bit of the country. I could put you in touch with one or both.
Looks amazing Ergo. Nice busy week Rupert. Good job Rumbas.
Me: just 1/4, got sick Tuesday and it kept me down for the rest of the week. It killed my appetite and made me not able to sleep. I shed three pounds from this and I just know my lifts are going to be down when I get back this week. Oh well, gotta roll with it.
We have booked the trail, and have a HUGE list of places to go.
I will mail you direct, dont want to talk about this in the open.. Paranoid, yup!!!
I'm a soft 3/3 this week. My back is feeling somewhat better, and I got out for activity twice and got one nice long stretch session in. I could have worked harder on the 'exercise' days, but being good to my back feels right for now. Hoping to crank it up a little in the next week.
4/4, it was a pretty standard week.
good swim tuesday...
Short run thurs
5k slow run sat.
Then cycled 20 hilly miles
Sunday.. day of rest.
4/4 for my count
Getting fitter.
Primary goal: 1/1 (7.2 mile ski before work)
Secondary goal: 3/4 (I said "weekends will take care of themselves" but it turns out they don't. Did nothing on Saturday).
Climbing session midweek plus an 11.4-mile skate ski on Sunday
3/3 - getting back into the regular grind.
4/4, diet on point this week too.
Great week
2 out of 1 on my primary goal - skate skied 6 miles before work on Tues and 12 miles after work on Wed, that last third or so in the dark. I'm proud of that last one.
5/4 on my secondary goal - a couple long climbing sessions and a short backcountry ski day with some full-on faceshots
Plus about 1.5 hrs of snow shoveling and a really short climbing session
you folks are doing well:
2 hard swims...
1 easy cycle.
3/4 poor... but busy week. food and alc consumption excessive. 3 good parties.
4/3. Yay.
Oh dear. With the new job settling in, I seem to be failing miserably. I was doing OK until last week, when I was traveling for work and went 0/3, though I know that's no excuse. I could have at least done some stretching or popped down to the hotel fitness center for a quick jog. This week is slipping by quickly too... better get to it!
3/1 on my primary goal (one ski day on a working day) - AT skiing Monday morning and Wed evening, skate skiing on Friday
4/4 on my secondary (four days of activity total) - mellow classic XC on Sunday
Meh.. 0/3
did 4/4
Ergophobe, that seems quite intense.
Not really. It's mostly the getting my ass out of bed early that's hard. I typically ski for only about 1:15 or so.
Honestly, the "outdoor time" is the goal more than the exercise. It's about being in nature and exercising the soul. What happens to the body is #2. If I go AT skiing, I shoot for at least 1000 feet of vertical and if go skate skiing I shoot for at least 10km (6 miles). On a good day with a good surface, I'll go 11.5 miles RT to a super great viewpoint (with good snow conditions, I can do this in about 1:15, so it's right at my time limit usually).
Monday was fantastic - great snow and wild weather (listen to the sound on the video in this album from that morning - https://goo.gl/photos/4LYFX2rG94zraESu7 )... but then I got in a slow accident on icy roads on the way to work. Guy with chains on the rear wheels of his front-wheel drive car stopped in the road around a corner on very slick ice.
QuoteGuy with chains on the rear wheels of his front-wheel drive car
ha ha ! We are all different.
It does seem quite intense, agree with you there Littleman :)
Last week, seems so long ago...
2 runs
2 swims.
0 bike.
But getting out there.
Agreed on the outdoor time. Good indeed for the soul. I got to walk the dog. Its not a hit, or hard exercise. But good. Especially when it ends at a pub, we play cards as a family, east and chat.
Good week - skied about 35 miles Fri - Sun (14.8 + 8.4 + 12.1.... = 35.3)
2/1 - two pre-work ski sessions. A short by steep climb up the local ski area b/c the cross-country tracks weren't groomed and 14.8 miles before work on Friday. As the days get longer I hope to push that to 21 miles.
5/4 - managed a short run midweek and two skis on the weekend.
And a first run at taxes which, by far, was the most difficult run of the week.
>taxes
Yuck!
4/4 here
"Tax" is the wrong spelling. It ought to be a four-letter word. ;)
Oof! You've got that right, Buckworks!
I'm having a private discussion with myself about what counts as exercise vs what counts as activity, but not exercise. Going for a walk - activity, maybe not exercise. Going for a walk up a steel hill as fast as I can - definitely exercise.
Still, it was a good week. My semantic issues aside, I'm calling 4/3 in the last week. Not everything was gasping for breath, leg burning, exercise, but I got a little of that too.
Speaking of which - is it possible to pop a lung? I think this may have happened. ;)
Trying to jump back in. Had a death in the family (FIL) which naturally blew up our life for a while. A couple weeks later I suffered a low ankle sprain landing on someone else's foot after a vball block.
All healed up and life getting back to normal, still playing twice a week and got back into the gym once this week for the first time in a while.
Goal for next week is 4 total, 2 vball and 2 gym. Good to be back in the fray and glad to see all the torches being carried on.
Lots of travel and the holidays blew my diet. Prior to Halloween, I was stable at 173. Monday, back from yet another motorhome rally which featured yet another carb-crawl for some great food & beer, I was 199. As of today, I'm 189.
**NEED** to be 170 before Hanoi.
Whoa wtf, rc in here? <checks the temp in hell>
Hey, we need a goal for hanoi session next or markers for those going, already set mine yesterday. (195, I can only remember being 198 at my lightest)
>Whoa wtf, rc in here? <checks the temp in hell>
Been here once before. That was the collective response then, too.
As I shuffle away in my old age and hit the road every few weeks, keeping lean & mean (the mean part is easy) is getting tough.
>old age
It's tough losing weight when you stop at Cracker Barrel or Waffle House 2 or 3 times a day.
Quote from: rcjordan on February 18, 2016, 02:55:21 PM
It's tough losing weight when you stop at Cracker Barrel or Waffle House 2 or 3 times a day.
Came across an old Tweet of mine yesterday: "My new religion believes that ice cream and cheese are good for you, regardless of what scientists say."
It takes an awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.
Running burns roughly 100 calories per mile (depends on body weight and pace, of course - that's actually on the higher end). 4 miles for every 100gms. And I find it *much* easier to eat over 100gms of cheese every day than I do to run over 4 miles every day (or eight every day or 12 every three days).
>awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.
Come to the Dark (Atkins) Side, EG. See that 10# drop the last few days? Meat & cheese. Nothing else.
It is hard for me to reconcile weight in my head. As most of you know from my insistent posting here over the years I lost 100 lbs. over the course of years. Last couple of years I've been working on gaining muscle mass and I think I've done pretty well there. As we know, muscle has a footprint.
I like the strength gains and the way I look now, but it messes with my head. My low was 172, my high was 272. Right now I'm at about 190. Logically it makes sense, but I'll have dreams about gaining it all back.
My diet is mostly meat and veggies, and a little fruit. I sit right above ketosis most of the time. I couldn't gain any muscle while sustaining ketosis.
>I sit right above ketosis most of the time
When at home, same for me. I run the wheels off the fleet of Replicators churning out chicken & pork by the pound(s). Can't eat fruit, and only a whiff of most vegetables, or it blows the diet. Low-carb is fine with me around home, I was born an extreme carnivore and my mom raised me on meat. I like ol' time country store hoop cheese (very sharp cheddar, but with a distinctive aftertaste) the best and we buy a reasonable facsimile of it at the grocery store deli. (Louise buys the whole loaf, they act like she's crazy.)
3 runs 1 swim.
so 4/4. Happy with that.
This week something almost every day, but too many ice creams. ED, that statistic is depressing.. I love cheese too.
4/4 last week
4/4 this week
177.5, down from 199 2 weeks ago
Well done Guys. i am losing count of the weeks.
Half term I ran 5 times in the week, a morning jog round the headland.
5/4
last week I did nothing.
0/4 ??? not good.
Very low carbs, plus restaurants load everything with salt. I figured 10# of it was water weight. Since the low-carb at home is low salt, I must react strongly when I travel. I happened to have my annual checkup last week. Doctor also thinks it was travel salt. At 2pm that day: BP 140/80, Sugar 112. Doctor says my target weight should be 170, not 165, so I'm getting in range. It'd be way better to be 165 before the Hanoi conf, though. Doubt I can make that, 170 will be hard enough to hit.
>Doctor
His basic reaction is "f### it, I'm happy as hell with whatever you're doing. Keep it up."
<added>
I'm not taking any meds for BP or sugar.
>I'm not taking any meds for BP or sugar.
Good for you! A lot of people don't think about Type II is as treatable with diet alone. You aren't going to have a blood sugar spike if you are eating very low carb. I have been trying to get my dad to think this way but he's just too addicted to sugar.
Looks like everyone missed last week
Last week
- 2/1 on my pre-work ski goal. Went 15 miles before work on Friday.
- 4/4 on my overall goal - skate skied 22 miles in some of the slowest conditions ever (what takes me 2:30 on a good day took me 3:30).
This week... less
- 1/1 - 11 mile skate ski, plus a short run the day before
- 3/4 - lazy weekend. Sat around all day on Saturday. Felt great.
Quote from: rcjordan on February 18, 2016, 04:40:38 PM
>awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.
Come to the Dark (Atkins) Side, EG. See that 10# drop the last few days? Meat & cheese. Nothing else.
I'm not looking to drop 10#. More looking to gain five or so, but not five of pure fat. The root problem is my activities these days are very endurance oriented not strength oriented, so more muscle wasting than muscle building.
4/4 last week. 2xgym 2xvball as planned.
Shooting for 5 this week, 2xvball, 3xgym. On schedule so far.
4/4, a good week of heavy lifting and some cardio.
Looks like we are at the end of this round. Who is up for another? Who wants to join in for the first time?
Phew.
3 runs
1 good swim so 4/4
niggley glut slowing me down. Rolling out and stretching every day but its not going away.
Bad wrist stopping tennis.
added... yes up for another... I need all the help with motivation I can get.
Only 3 last week, came down with a bug that lasted through the weekend.
In for next round.