Core Commit to Health & Fitness 2015, Round One: Jan 5 - Mar 15

[ergophobe]

15/15
2.5-mile run
5.5 mile run (found gorgeous new trail)
11 mile mt bike ride - 3.3 miles equiv
12 mile mt bike ride - 4 miles equiv (cool "new" trail right from my house).

Kind of a slacker week, but one of those would not have happened at all and both MTB rides would have been shorter (and I wouldn't have explored a new trail) if not for my CC mileage goal.

>>3 is more manageable.

My approach to goals is
- long term: pick some things that are big.
- short term: pick a small action that is slightly more than you would do if you didn't have a goal, so you rack up wins, rather than racking up losses, which for me saps motivation.

I used to practice this (and go there so rarely these days I forgot how many ads I plastered there). Might have to go back to it, but for now I'm trying to do Matt Cutts style 30-day challenges (January, failed miserably - goal was one letter on paper dropped in the actual mail to a friend every day, but only managed 14).

http://raisedbyturtles.org/make-slacking-hurt/

And I still believe this
http://raisedbyturtles.org/focus-on-tasks-not-goals/

[Rumbas]

Week 4
2/4

[jetboy]

Week 4 (week 2 for me):

3/5. A busy week, but the one swim was 1300m, so getting closer to the mile. This week is likely to be worse.

[Rupert]

Getting better here, but following all of your progress, if not performing   Had a couple of 3 mile walks over the w/e that really did some good stretching on my calves, and no badness.

Jetboy, they are good long swims, you are building it well. I might start swimming soon, I should be fine with crawl now.

Feb now... in the UK its getting lighter   New boat bought, new engine ( second hand) and so it all needs putting together ready for waterskiing this summer.   Planning to be fit enough for that as a goal.  Ah, Sue has booked me into 2 triathlons... and a third is on the list too: 
http://angleseysandman.com/

[ergophobe]

Week 4 (week 2 for me):

3/5. A busy week, but the one swim was 1300m, so getting closer to the mile. This week is likely to be worse.

I think I would drown somewhere around the 1000m mark ;-)

[littleman]

>My approach to goals

This is actually a topic I think a lot about.  I am very far from perfect in many aspects of my life, but when it comes to fitness I just made up my mind that I'm going to keep improving.

I agree with Yoda on this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4yd2W50No

You have to believe that it is going to happen and that you will do what you need to do to make it so.  Trying is really the same as starting something with the intention of giving up eventually.  In your mind you have to know that you will do what it takes and then the steps that need to happen feel like they have happened already.  Or, like it is your destiny and you can't go against it.

[Rupert]

This is the version I tell my daughter..  If only she would listen:

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

and this

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Damn, wrong forum.

[gm66]

Just watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead on youtube, quite moving, uplifting in the end and a testament to juicing.

[gm66]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mS0YA465ts

[Drastic]

>Just watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
Now watch forks over knives. It's on netflix.

That vid isn't viewable in US.

[Rumbas]

>Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Yeah, watched it a while ago and made me think about dusting off the juicer again.

[littleman]

I saw the movie and it is impressive.  I remember the scene where he asks the fat people how long they re going to live and they reply some very short time-span.  I've tried that with some of my obese friends and have gotten very similar answers.

I have two issue with juicing:
it is expensive
you toss the fiber

I'd rather just eat my fruits and vegetables.

[gm66]

Yes it is expensive, especially organic. But what cost health ?

I put the veggie fibre in soups.

[Drastic]

You guys need to blend, not juice, you waste nothing.

Vitamix or Blendtec...I have a green drink every morning first thing.

[gm66]

Trouble is with blending it's usually centrifugal and high speed, so the heat from the friction destroys around 50% of the good stuff.