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LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

Have you tried splitting up the two goals? I mean, you say you want to run farther and faster, are you trying to do them at the same time? If it were me, I would try and run, say, faster one day, but go less distance. Or run farther, but go slower. Break up those two, farther and faster, and slowly work at putting them together. It's good to break up the monotony of doing the same things - trying to push yourself in the same way.

For my 'extra' workouts, I'm a pretty hard core lover of Bodyrock. You can always give it a go!

I like it because A)It's free, B) It's all interval training - so the workouts are intense but short C) It's customizable - you work out at your level and do as much as you can. I also like it because they talk about diet, giving you 'clean' recipies to try. And they put up new videos every day or so. I honestly feel this has what's given me my jump start to losing weight. Now, I like to go jogging on top of my bodyrocking.

If you want that extra something, I'd highly recommend it.

http://www.bodyrock.tv

Also, I'm giving a thumbs up to calisthenics.
 
BananaHands

BananaHands

Staff member
Sorry for the delay. Just moved in at my new place and the internet hasn't come in yet.

Starting Weight: 213
Current Weight 1: 208.6
Current Weight 2: 205.2
Current Weight 3: 203.4
September Goal Weight: 200
Height: 6'1
Starting BMI: 28.1
Current BMI 1: 27.4
Current BMI 2: 27.1
Current BMI 3: 26.9
Current BF%: 18%
Former Bench: 115 lbs
Current Bench: 135 lbs
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Reaction: Okay, so I didn't reach my goal.:confused: Bummer.

Still, made some serious headway! The gut is going down, though still there. I definitely could watch what I'm eating a little better. I had a few occurrences of late night McDonalds, I'm hoping now that I'm in the city I'll be able to ride my bike a bit more. Been noticing that I've been getting out of breath a lot easier and my heart situation is practically in check, which is great. Oh, my 34 pants are starting to feel loose too, which is great. Haven't been a 32 since high school. Beard is coming in nicely, I've had to trim it down a few times but oh well.

Going to make my October goal a bit more realistic. It'd just be nice to be below 200.

Total Weight Lost: 9.6 Pounds
Missed Goal By: 3.4 Pounds
October Goal: 195.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

LittleKagsin said:
http://www.bodyrock.tv
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I did look at this site a few months ago. I can't tell you why I didn't bother with the work outs. I don't remember what turned me off from it. However, I am going to look it over again!

As for my running, I think what I may do is start alternating between the two C-to-5k apps I have. One is timed and one goes by distance. I liked the distance one a lot, but I think that is because it was a new routine.
 
LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

I was hesitant at first because the screen caps bothered me. But really, it is a great little site and the workouts will kick you in the rear. Anyway, I hope you can give it a try and find some success! =^^=
 
BananaHands

BananaHands

Staff member
October HalFitness - (Working Title: So Frighteningly Fit)
Final Day to Enter: October 6th
Mid-Month Check-in: October 17th
Final Check-In: October 31st-November 5th.
Be sure to submit your final check-in for September if you want to win a silly prize. I'll pick one up soon and will post what it is by Sunday.

Encourage people to join! Current members of HalForums or bring someone new into the fray!
 
Gared

Gared

Yeah, I'm in again. I'll have to make sure my gym membership is still active, once my brother-in-law returns from Greece, or Italy, or France, or wherever he is right now (he owns the gym and comped the membership for last year, but it may be up now). Assuming that it's either still active or that he's willing to comp me another year; I'll go with the following goals:

1) Hit the gym at least three times a week; 2x lifting and 1x cardio/endurance
2) Get my mile run time down to 9 minutes; last time I clocked it I believe it came in at 13 minutes, which was down significantly from the 21 minute time I'd originally put in.
3) Work up to 20 minutes of bike time at resistance 3 for warm-up cardio; previous best was 14 of 20 minutes at resistance 3, where the first and last 7 minutes were each at 3 and the middle was at 2.
4) Weight - I honestly don't care as much about the numbers on the scale as I do the final result of working out and being more active. I'm sure I'll either lose some weight, build some muscle, or both; but I know that if I go in just being motivated by the scale, I'll quickly falter.
 
Adam

Adam

I'm in. Pics when I get back. Although I've already lost most of the weight, I'm recomping now for muscle mass.
 
LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

I'm back in as well!!

My new goal will be down to a comfortable size 6. And I think I'd like to run a 5k while I'm at it.

I'm so excited to keep up with this and stay updated on everyone's progress. Seeing you guys post progress, or your exercises definately motivates me. Woot!
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

I'm definitely in again!

New goals:

- Skate a 25/5 FOR REALZ, YO. I'm actually going to shoot for 26/5 to give myself a little bit of wiggle room. This goal shouldn't be too hard, since I'm at 24 laps right now.
- Complete a Whole 30. I overall ate pretty okay on a day-to-day basis this month with intermittent episodes of eating like total shit (and one blackout drunk night, ugh). I feel like I have the fitness part of my life on track, but I'm going to try to hit the reset button on my eating habits. That's what's holding me back right now.
- Continue at least 5 workouts/week of 30 minutes or more.

I don't have a weight goal -- in fact, I'm not stepping on the scale until the final check-in. If I meet all of my goals, I will most definitely lose weight.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Alright, as before here are my main strength goals:

- 80 pushups in two minutes.
- 90 situps in two minutes.
- 20 pullups/chinups in one set (whichever one I'm feeling stronger with that day as they stress slightly different muscles).
- 10 widegrip pullups in one set.
- Bench press 200lbs as max press.

Current abilities:

- 55 pushups before failure (68% of goal)
- 76 situps in two minutes (84% of goal)
- 10 pullups/chinups (50% of goal)
- 4 widegrip pullups (40% of goal)
- Bench press 170lbs as max press (estimated based off of past strength workouts and current abilities... I need to get to my friends workout equipment to test this) (85% of goal)

I also want to do some running and some yoga but we will see what I'm able to accomplish. Curiously I inexplicably gained 5 lbs in the past two weeks... not sure whether that's muscle or fat... it's hard to tell with my frame. Even with muscle weight gains I don't want to go much past 190 for my heaviest.

I'll post a picture at the end of October... for better or for worse.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Still in. I estimate no weight loss for this last month (everything just kind of went to hell *rueful look*), so I'm basically going from square one.

Gonna see about that Y membership... I've found out some interesting information that told me that weight loss, in and of itself, is not necessarily my goal: I can achieve my goal simply by lowering body fat. This can be a thing.

This WILL be a thing. I WILL be 18% body fat by the end of this... I'm sitting at 23% right now, I believe. This is doable. It is known.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Ok so here is the latest from the run I did tonight:

1.57 miles total - 4.45 mph max - 17:27 avg pace

Last month:
1.79 miles total - 4.78 mph max speed - 18:12 avg pace

Those both include warm up and cool down distance and pace.

My overall pace is better. My total distance went down when I switched to a distance running program instead of a timed one, but I am running for longer intervals than before. So while it doesn't look like much improvement, I did change from timed intervals to distance intervals which I say accounts for my minor slow down. Still... GO ME! I was looking at the stats for my last 3 runs (which were all with the distance intervals) and can see improvement in my overall pace already. On 9/26 my overall pace for the actual workout was 16:36 and tonight's was 16:16! I think shaving twenty seconds in three workouts is something to crow about.
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

Officer_Charon said:
Still in. I estimate no weight loss for this last month (everything just kind of went to hell *rueful look*), so I'm basically going from square one.

Gonna see about that Y membership... I've found out some interesting information that told me that weight loss, in and of itself, is not necessarily my goal: I can achieve my goal simply by lowering body fat. This can be a thing.

This WILL be a thing. I WILL be 18% body fat by the end of this... I'm sitting at 23% right now, I believe. This is doable. It is known.
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It is known. You got this.
 
Gared

Gared

My return to working out is going to have to be put off by at least a week, as I've run into my first serious negative consequence of quitting smoking - blood pressure issues. My blood pressure used to be slightly high, and I was prescribed a very low dose of Lisinopril mainly to protect my kidneys from rampant sugar due to the diabetes, which also had the effect of lowering my blood pressure back to just slightly below normal. Now that I've quit smoking, my blood pressure is normal, and I've started having really, really, really, extremely, really bad dizzy spells when I stand, sit, or lie down. So until I can get in touch with my doc and get his permission to drop the blood pressure meds, I don't want to chance working out and fucking around with my BP.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Ah shit. I forgot to check in AND sign back up.

Well, my check in is a fail. I gained back 4 pounds because of travelling and funeral food. -_-
 
LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

I feel so whine-y, but the temperature has dropped so fast in the past week, I think my body is going in to 'eat for the winter!' mode. All I want to do is sit and eat, stock piling. My exercise regime has fallen pretty hard.

I know I can get back in to it, I just need to force myself better. I'm not giving up yet! I just wish the cold would go away..
 
BananaHands

BananaHands

Staff member
Hey losers.

Get it? Because we're losing weight? Eh?

Oh, I guess Gusto is gaining.

Hey losers and gainer.

Either way, I think we all know what MONDAY is! Check-in day! Don't go too crazy this weekend!
 
LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

Checking in!!

Starting size for Oct: 8 (24 in.)
Starting distance: 2.1 miles.

I'm also jumping back on to my healthy eating habits. They've kind of gone to the wayside this past week, but I'm back in the game.

Let's keep it up peeps! :)
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

Checking in as well!

I am on day 12 of my Whole 30 -- no grains/corn/potatoes/soy/dairy/added sugar/alcohol. I've managed to stay 100% compliant, even though I was in Chicago visiting my family last week, and I can tell I've already lost a few pounds. I'll have a final weigh-in when it's over.
 
BananaHands

BananaHands

Staff member
Starting Weight: 213
September Weight 3: 203.4
Current Weight: 200.6
Height: 6'1

September BF%: 18%
Current BF%: ???
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So close to being below 200. Also, living in the city is killing my eating habits, but I've been managing going to the gym at least five times a week. I keep trying to throw cardio in my workouts, but that'll only happen once a week because jogging/cardio is the worst.
 
David

David

I totally failed on this from September. My weight actually started to float above 220 which gave me an "Aw hell naw!" moment. I've reshuffled my sleep schedule and have actually been awake to go jogging in the morning for the past week and am averaging the needle pointing to 219 again. I'm currently researching workout methods so I can set a daily plan (pushups/situps MWF, leg lifts TTHS, ect.) and am hoping to make it a daily routine.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Pushed a car about 50-75 yards today. My lungs are STILL not happy with me... apparently my body's telling me it's still not better from whatever devil-virus attacked me a couple weeks back.

Dammit. I was going to run on Wednesday, too. I might still do it, but I have honest concerns about being able to breath afterwards...
 
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