oops i did it again, fell off the blog wagon. i’m busy yo.
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all the sweat, none of the nutrition
26 Aug
Workouts are back on track.
The gym is happening. I do the machines and focus on arms, back, and some legwork. I’m walking at least 1.2 miles a day with the dog and have gotten in a couple of decent runs recently as well, including a 4-miler on Saturday. Last but not least, The Trekster and I continue to bond and did a 15-mile ride just yesterday. I’m loving that bike.
What needs to happen now is a record of my food intake on this blog, or at least somewhere. I don’t mind tracking my exercise here or on Fitocracy or Runkeeper because I’m actually succeeding at that. But tracking my food is a different story. I know I need to track my failures and shortcomings as well as my successes. I’m stacking the deck or not showing the full picture or something. I should have been a lawyer. Full disclosure must happen. Like the fact that I ate 5 chocolate chip cookies for supper last night. Or the ice cream I scarfed just before the 5 chocolate chip cookies. Or a couple of days ago when I forgot to eat lunch and then grabbed Sonic on the way home because, convenient and yummy and chemicals be damned.
Ok, full disclosure kind of sucks.
This has been a fitness update.
Yesterday’s workout
29 JulBecause you care.
I decided to give the foot another day off. Plus, I’m scared I will go crazy if I run on it and it acts ugly so I’m delaying expected disappointment. Such a great attitude I have, I know.
Anyway, the gym was good for me as it always is. Mind clearing and blood pumping and stress reducing. Good stuff!
Tonight…an attempted run I hope.
Walking:
0:23:15.3 || 1.3 mi || 17:21.5 min/mi || flat
Cycling (stationary):
0:45:00 || 10.6 mi || 3.5 %
Machine Seated Row:
30 lb x 10 reps
30 lb x 10 reps
30 lb x 10 reps
Reverse Grip Triceps Pushdown:
20 lb x 20 reps
20 lb x 20 reps
20 lb x 20 reps
Machine Bicep Curls:
20 lb x 3 reps
10 lb x 10 reps
10 lb x 10 reps
10 lb x 10 reps
Machine Chest Press:
30 lb x 10 reps
30 lb x 10 reps
30 lb x 10 reps
Leg Extensions:
20 lb x 10 reps
20 lb x 10 reps
20 lb x 10 reps
Seated Leg Curl:
30 lb x 12 reps
30 lb x 12 reps
30 lb x 12 reps
sweat
25 JulI managed a decent cross training workout at the gym last night. See? Yeah, I know. Arm strength is pretty sad.
Tonight, we run.
1/2 mary and battles with wacky nuts
8 JulIn a few months I’ll be “running” in my second half marathon. I use the word running loosely because I walked the majority of the one last year and while I plan to run most of this second one, I am not above walking parts of it as well. Ain’t no shame in walking my friends. I have a training plan worked out and will officially begin this evening. I had the greatest of intentions of getting up and going this morning but hello, snooze button. The best laid plans… This is why I will never make it to the Olympics. I like running in the mornings best but getting out the door is the hardest part. Afterwards I’m all happy and feeling good and ready for the day. Will try again though.
I’m excited about this one because its local and flat and a big deal for my town. I was to partially train and run it with a friend but that fell through so now I’m kind of looking for a new training partner, or at least seeing which of my friends are also running in it. If I’d known I’d probably have signed up for the Women’s Half with a couple of girlfriends like last year but you know what they say about hindsight.
I’ll try to keep this site updated with progress. Maybe. I’m not very good at blogging commitments so we’ll see. I have been killing it at the gym lately but I also killed some “wacky nut cookies” (as kiddo calls macadamia nut cookies) last night too so I’m probably breaking even on weight loss. Actually not true, I’m down some pounds and would like to keep that trend going. I am also trying to listen to my body for a change because injuries are lame (yuk yuk yuk). I have super sore biceps and my knees started complaining a couple of days ago. I shifted to the bike yesterday and got a good 17 miles in. Tonight we’ll try a steady run/walk on pavement and see what happens. It sucks getting old y’all.
Happy running!
