Core Commit to Health & Fitness 2016, Round One: Jan 4 - Mar 6

Started by littleman, January 01, 2016, 11:57:10 PM

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Rumbas

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.

ergophobe

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!

Rupert

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.


... Make sure you live before you die.

ergophobe


Rupert

... Make sure you live before you die.

Rumbas


ergophobe

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.

littleman

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.

Rupert

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!!!
... Make sure you live before you die.

simplytheresa

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.

littleman


Rupert

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.
... Make sure you live before you die.

ergophobe

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


Rumbas


littleman