Weight: 216 lbs.
Activity: Not much. I did do biceps & shoulders again but no time on treadmill, no cardio, etc. Looking forward to 3-4 hours of walking desk tomorrow.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Stats for May 29
Weight: 214 lbs.
Activity: 40 min on treadmill, 3.11 miles, 472 calories burned.
Also did the Boulder Hash House Harriers event today, which was a "pick-up" Hash. Everyone assembled at the start, and the initial hare got a 5-lb bag of flour and a 5-minute head start. Once we caught him, the "catcher" got the bag and a 4-minute head start. And so on. Think the ultimate impact was somewhere between 3.5 and 5 miles of mostly walking/hiking/wading across hip-deep "creeks". Good times. :)
Activity: 40 min on treadmill, 3.11 miles, 472 calories burned.
Also did the Boulder Hash House Harriers event today, which was a "pick-up" Hash. Everyone assembled at the start, and the initial hare got a 5-lb bag of flour and a 5-minute head start. Once we caught him, the "catcher" got the bag and a 4-minute head start. And so on. Think the ultimate impact was somewhere between 3.5 and 5 miles of mostly walking/hiking/wading across hip-deep "creeks". Good times. :)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Stats for May 28
Didn't get as much done as I'd hoped for a variety of reasons but ended the day reasonably well with a 32-min hill climb (5-8% slope) on the treadmill. And I did get in some yardwork and some weight training so I'm OK.
Weight: 217
Activity:
- Treadmill: 32 min, 1.75 miles, 302 calories
- 45 min yardwork
- Decent biceps and shoulders workout
Stats for May 27
Weight: 213.
Activity: 2 hrs 20 min on the treadmill, 5.3 miles covered, 817 calories burned.
Activity: 2 hrs 20 min on the treadmill, 5.3 miles covered, 817 calories burned.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Stats for May 26
Weight: 218
Activity: 2 hrs on the treadmill, 4.1 miles covered, 605 calories burned.
Activity: 2 hrs on the treadmill, 4.1 miles covered, 605 calories burned.
Not as lean, still a Marine
I used to be in the Marines - 7 years including two as a USMC Drill Instructor. At one point I was at 170 lbs, running 20+ miles a week at a 7-min mile pace, benching 225 for reps and leg pressing over 1,000 lbs. I had a 32-in waist and a 46-in chest. In other words, I was a pretty prototypical Marine.
Then I got a sedentary job, and got old, and a bunch of other issues. So now I look about what I looked like in high school, which is not really what I'm looking for.
Two things have come up that have caused me to rethink things. The first is a challenge from a bunch of my jarhead buddies to run as close as possible to a perfect physical fitness test by our 40th birthdays. I'm already 40 so I'm using one of theirs, in August 2011. A perfect score for when we were in requires 20 pullups in a single go, 80 situps (or I may sub the current 100 crunches) in 2 min, and a 3-mile run in under 18 min.
The second was an epiphany I had recently the details I won't go into here. But suffice that I intend to apply my will, my discipline, and my spare time to radically rearchitecting myself physically. And since I respond well to tracking and to stimulus, both positive and negative, I intend to do this in a very public way.
So.
My workouts will include some or all of the following:
At least every day I will publish what I did and where I am. I will do these posts at night before I go to bed so I'm consistent and so my workouts are done for the day. I will also try to post pics, as regrettable as they may be at the start of this process. I have a number of goals for this project but one in particular stands out - I wanna see if I can get fit enough to fit in my dress blues as they were tailored the day I got out of the Marines in 1996.
This is an extraordinarily personal blog, so even though it is connected through the magic of Blogger/Google to my professional accounts, I don't intend to do professional stuff here. Anything you, the reader, choose to read into this or into my professional account through this is up to you.
Then I got a sedentary job, and got old, and a bunch of other issues. So now I look about what I looked like in high school, which is not really what I'm looking for.
Two things have come up that have caused me to rethink things. The first is a challenge from a bunch of my jarhead buddies to run as close as possible to a perfect physical fitness test by our 40th birthdays. I'm already 40 so I'm using one of theirs, in August 2011. A perfect score for when we were in requires 20 pullups in a single go, 80 situps (or I may sub the current 100 crunches) in 2 min, and a 3-mile run in under 18 min.
The second was an epiphany I had recently the details I won't go into here. But suffice that I intend to apply my will, my discipline, and my spare time to radically rearchitecting myself physically. And since I respond well to tracking and to stimulus, both positive and negative, I intend to do this in a very public way.
So.
My workouts will include some or all of the following:
- I have a treadmill and have converted it into a working desk. I typically walk at 2 mph at 2-4% incline and can do that for hours at a stretch.
- I will also power-walk and run on the treadmill before/after working hours.
- I have free weights and will be doing very basic workouts - bench press, triceps/biceps curl, shoulder presses, lunges
- I have jump ropes, both normal and weighted
- I taught, and will return to, the USMC "Daily 7" including the world-famous "X-count bodybuilders". For an example of this see http://www.military.com/military-fitness/workouts/8-count-body-builder-pushup---pullup-pyramid.
At least every day I will publish what I did and where I am. I will do these posts at night before I go to bed so I'm consistent and so my workouts are done for the day. I will also try to post pics, as regrettable as they may be at the start of this process. I have a number of goals for this project but one in particular stands out - I wanna see if I can get fit enough to fit in my dress blues as they were tailored the day I got out of the Marines in 1996.
This is an extraordinarily personal blog, so even though it is connected through the magic of Blogger/Google to my professional accounts, I don't intend to do professional stuff here. Anything you, the reader, choose to read into this or into my professional account through this is up to you.
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