Posts Tagged ‘Exercise’

So nice here today.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The weather is so nice here today. 60 degrees, sun is out, light breeze. So I went for a walk outside. Normally I don’t do any exercises on the weekends, as its my time off, but I felt compelled. It’ll help balance out my slip up earlier this week, though that’s not what motivated me to do it. Its just SO nice outside.

So I walked the same thing I did the very first day I decided to start working out. Why did I go walking in the middle of January in Wisconsin? Yes, perhaps its because I’m crazy. The real reason, I tried to get the treadmill working and it wouldn’t work. Not sure exactly what was wrong with it, as it worked fine the next day. So my next thought was to walk in circles inside my garage. After a few times around, I felt like it was counter productive and I’d probably go insane doing it. So walking outside it was. It had snowed the day before, so there was still snow covering most the sidewalks. So I walked on the road. It took a lot out of me. I hadn’t worked out in anyway in…a long time, lol. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, my ankle hurt, I had worked up quite the sweat under my jacket.

Today was the first time I’d walked it since. It took me about half the time. My feet, legs, and ankle were sore, but after 5 to 10 minutes for them to relax and it was gone. It actually felt good.

Which made me think again about how crazy the human body is. How it responds when you push it and train it. I do stuff now that probably would have figuratively killed me back in January. If I’d be able to even do them at all. It helps to put things in perspective, and gives me hope for the future. It also keeps me motivated, I don’t want to go back to how I was, how out of shape I was, how unmotivated I was. I just need to keep at it, and I’ll achieve the goals I have set for myself. It might not be as quickly as I want, but I know its attainable with time. That’s a comforting thing to know.

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First week of weights.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

First, I just want to say “WOOT, I hit the 40 lbs under mark this week”.

I’ve also started to notice a difference when I look at myself in the mirror, which is a huge deal in keeping me motivated. Everyone around me also seems to be cheering me on, which is great. I still have to smack myself once in a while when I eat more then I really want to for dinner, but I’m managing to keep myself at or under 1500 calories a day, at least that’s what my rudimentary math is telling me. I don’t nit pick every little thing, I just try to eat small portions and more healthy. It seems to be working thus far.

I’ve been doing a 15 minute work out thing every day. I also walk for an hour on a treadmill mon thru fri and plan on walking outside when the weather improves some. Have to love Wisconsin winters that don’t want to go away. I may also get a bike for a bit of change. This week I added a weight training routine on mon/wed/fri after I do my cardio. Having never seriously lifted weights except when forced too in high school…it was kinda rough getting started. I did some research and picked out what I want to do to target my different muscle groups. I was not prepared for how I felt afterwards. It was a good feeling though, I know I had worked out my body in a way that was good for it.

Why did I add weight training? For many reasons. I’ve always wanted to be tone and have a nice build. I’ve always wanted to have that strength that comes from it. I know that it will help how I feel in the long run. I’m also trying to work on not losing my lean muscle mass from dieting. I know that being on a LCD I won’t really gain any muscle mass, but I can strengthen what I have and work to keep it, so that the ratio of fat to muscle in my body improves. This is all to try to be sure I don’t have large amounts of excess skin with the weight loss. That’s important to me. As much as I know I enjoy feeling better because of the weight loss, I also want to look better.

I mentioned goals, so I thought I would cover some of them.

Short term goals(by the end of April)

Get a job

Get to under 300 lbs

Get up to 2.5 miles in an hour on the treadmill

Continue to weight train and work out

Continue to stay smoke and soda free

Long term goals(year or two)

Go to school

Get to 175 lbs

Have 10% or less body fat

Be able to run a 7 minute mile

Be tone and fit looking

Not have my ankle bother me when I do physical activities

Live an active and fit lifestyle

Not have sleep apnea

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Just keep on keeping on.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Its been a month and a half since I started my diet and excersise regime.  I quit smoking a week and a half befor that time. I’m down 30 lbs in that time. So how do I feel?

I feel great, as scary as that is.  I mean, my ankle hurts, my knee hurts(cause of my ankle) and I’ve had a blister the size of a quarter on the bottom of my foot for a week. None of that really lessens how I feel though.  I wake up every day, and I feel more rested then I used too.  There are times during the day that I feel like going out running or something else.  I just need to be active.

Sometimes I kick myself, because this seems so easy, why didn’t I do this sooner? Why did I wait to start changing my life?  Then it dawns on me.  People do not change untill they are ready too.  You can force someone to quit something, but they will start again if they don’t truely want to stop.  I think that goes for anything in your life.

I’ll try to get a larger post with some of my thoughts in it up here eventually.  I get a lot of time to think while I work out, and spend a lot of it contemplating what I want to accomplish, and such.

Here is to keeping postative, and staying active.

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