4 posts tagged “fitness”

While I missed the mark of 7 hours and 100 miles, I did a quite impressive 4h 6m and 66 miles. Not bad. I'm still thinking about April...

While at the gym at couple of days ago, I started thinking of a grueling-yet-attainable workou0t goal for the month.

Because that workout (and most others) was cardio, I figured the goal should be cardio based; here's what I came up with:

7 hours of cardio minimum for the month. In addition, 100 miles of total cardio.

How this can be accomplished;
SIMPLE!
* Based on past results, I can complete 2 elliptical miles at a near "sprint" pace in about 16 minutes; a more relaxed pace is a 10 minute mile, thus if I complete 3 total elliptical miles a week, that's 26 minutes (in one week).
* 8 miles can be accomplished in 30 minutes (give or take) on the stationary bike; if this is accomplished 3 times a week, that's 90 minutes and 24 miles (in one week)

A one week total is 116 minutes, and 27 miles; multiply that by 4 weeks, 464 (nearly 8 hours) and 108 miles.

Wish me luck!
Hangtime

**Edit**
Week end 3/8:
30 miles/90 minutes

Week end 3/15:
8 miles/30 minutes

Week End 3/22
14 miles/59 minutes

3/23 -3/31:
14 mi/66 min

...you're bound to run into someone familiar; I recently discovered two of my classmates live in the Metro (mind you, I'm from NE Ohio), one of which very, very close to where I live.

Picklez yesterday had a similar, but much more interesting story.

While at LA Fitness gettin' my cardio/torture on, I noticed a rather muscular guy on the machine next to me. I kinda glanced over, admiring (in a I-like-girls-but-can-appreciate-hard-work way) and thought nothing more of it. Then a younger guy comes over to him and starts talking to him...he then motions his 2 friends over to him then I heard the guys name...none other than former San Fransisco 49er

Garrison Hearst. As a somewhat former Niners fan, I thought to myself wow, how cool...but I didn't "mark out" like the other guy did...I let him enjoy his workout, I had work of my own to do.

This breaks my consecutive streak of only seeing former Atlanta Falcon


Jamal Anderson in public.

So I had the holy begeebes scared out of me last night; I stepped on the scale and it registered 189.2.

Now, Overboard would accost me for weighing myself at night, which is understandable, I guess, but the only thing I'd eaten in hours was a cheeseburger (hold all comments on the correlation between the cheeseburger and my weight until the end of the post, thank you). I have never, in my 25 years on God's Green Earth have I weighed so much.

Now, to many people, 6'2" 189lbs of muscle (and yes, the 6 pack was fairly intact) isn't bad...but many people aren't fighting in 8 weeks, and need to be under 185...comfortably under 185 (so I can eat that day).

Firstly, under normal circumstances, I probably wouldn't complain about (who knows, I might be fighting heavyweight next year) my weight; Overboard says she like me a little more on the heavier side, and well, I aim to please (within reason). A number of people I know have commented on the, more "appealing", "heavier" look; it has it's pros and cons, in my opinion.

First thing that comes to mind is diet. Yea, I should suck it up and go back to last years diet, but rice, veggies and chicken breast isn't all that appealing 8 times a week. Yea, there are variations, but basically that was it. 1/2 cup rice, 1/2 cup veggies, 1/2 -1 chicken breast 2 meals a day. Lest we forget the "protein only past 8" fiasco...I nearly put my hand through a door in Publix. Not a pretty sight.

Second thing is my workouts: I worked out 2x a day at least 3 days a week last year, I even went once or twice during the weekend. I can't do that now mainly because I was supplimenting last year. My weight is too high for that now. I can't pump an extra 100 grams of protein into my body plus creatine. I'd be 200 lbs before the end of June.

Thirdly, I don't eat like a bachelor any more. Overboard is a great cook, and I like to eat. I learned from last years experience; depriving myself of certain things isn't good. Don't get me wrong Overboard cooks extremely healthy, but again, I like to eat!

So here is the problem; I have to get the excess off. I have been walking a fine line between getting stronger, but not building too much muscle. How my weigh ballooned up 5 lbs, I dunno; Overboard says it's been grilling and the hectic weekend, etc. We'll see if/when it goes down...well, it will, but when.

Be solely!
Hangtime

Also, it is worth noting that even though I'm not working out as much as I did for last year's tournament, the quality is slightly better this year.