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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 7:30:45 GMT -8
Week of 3/24
Sun: 1 hour treadmill Tue: Cablecross workout
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 27, 2019 10:01:46 GMT -8
M: Shovel snow. Walk dog 1.5 miles. Tu: Walk dog 1.5 miles. W: Walk 2 miles round-trip to Subway for lunch. Th: Walk around downtown Syracuse during lunch. F: Nada. Long stressful day at work. Sa: House/yard work in the morning. Short walk to/from Carrier Dome to watch the SU women in the NCAA tournament. Walk dog 1.5 miles in the evening. Su: Lumberjack all day (cut, section, and pile an 80' ash tree). Walk dog 1.5 miles. I burned nearly 3,000 each day, except for Sunday (4,400 calories). My stomach felt irritated/bloated, and it showed in my weight. I gained 2 pounds between the prior Sunday and Monday, and it stayed on all week. Feeling better now. My average weight and resting heart rate for the past few months/weeks: DATE October 2018: November 2018: December 2018: 12/30-1/5:
1/6-1/12: 1/13-1/19: 1/20-1/26: 1/27-2/2: 2/3-2/9: 2/10-2/16: 2/17-2/23: 2/24-3/2: 3/3-3/9: 3/10-3/16: 3/17-3/23: | WEIGHT 179.6 183.0 185.6 186.8
188.4 190.8 192.6 191.8 194.4 193.2 194.2 193.5 193.5 193.6 195.4
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 1, 2019 10:09:54 GMT -8
M: Long, horribly stressful day at work. Lift weights for 30 minutes prior to getting grilled in a public meeting. Tu: Neighborhood bike ride w/ my son. W: Walk dog 1.5 miles. Th: First bike commute of the year... 16 miles. Walk dog 1.5 miles. F: Nada. Stressful day at work followed by my daughter's band recital. Sa: Light to heavy yard work all day. Walk dog 1.5 miles in the evening. Burned 4,600 calories. Su: Nasty weather, but lightly active all day. Some light yard work, some indoor projects. Last week's bloating is gone. Weekly weight skewed by residual bloating the first couple of days. My average weight and resting heart rate for the past few months/weeks: DATE October 2018: November 2018: December 2018: 12/30-1/5:
1/6-1/12: 1/13-1/19: 1/20-1/26: 1/27-2/2: 2/3-2/9: 2/10-2/16: 2/17-2/23: 2/24-3/2: 3/3-3/9: 3/10-3/16: 3/17-3/23: 3/24-3/30 | WEIGHT 179.6 183.0 185.6 186.8
188.4 190.8 192.6 191.8 194.4 193.2 194.2 193.5 193.5 193.6 195.4 193.9 | RESTING HR 48 50 50 52
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 5:56:48 GMT -8
Week of 31 Mar:
I have been ill for the last 4 days.
Tue: Landmine lift till fail. I spent over 2.5 hours, lifting, to find the point, for each exercise, where I could not do 10 reps with the weight lifted.
Thu: golf course hike. I am very sore from the lift till fail.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 8, 2019 5:11:14 GMT -8
M: Walk dog 1.5 miles. Tu: Run a total of 4 miles to/from tire change place. First time I've run in awhile. Walk dog 1.5 miles. W: Bike commute 17 miles in 30 mph wind. That was interesting. Walk dog 1.5 miles. Th: Nada. Worked late. F: Nada. I worked a bit late, and the weather was nasty. I believe I fell asleep on the couch. Sa: Active all day doing yardwork and such. Walked a total of 2 hilly miles to/from Carrier Dome to see Monster Jam with my son. Burned 4,500 calories. Su: 5-mile hilly trail run. It's been awhile since I've run hills, and I did pretty good. Hike 3 miles with the family. Yardwork. Burned 4,200 calories. Work has been horribly stressful, and it's only going to get worse. I wore my fitness tracker on Tuesday's runs, and my estimated VO2 Max is 50, which puts me in the "Excellent" category for men my age. My average weight and resting heart rate for the past few months/weeks: DATE October 2018: November 2018: December 2018: 12/30-1/5:
1/6-1/12: 1/13-1/19: 1/20-1/26: 1/27-2/2: 2/3-2/9: 2/10-2/16: 2/17-2/23: 2/24-3/2: 3/3-3/9: 3/10-3/16: 3/17-3/23: 3/24-3/30: 3/31-4/6: | WEIGHT 179.6 183.0 185.6 186.8
188.4 190.8 192.6 191.8 194.4 193.2 194.2 193.5 193.5 193.6 195.4 193.9 193.6 | RESTING HR 48 50 50 52
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 6:01:40 GMT -8
Week of 4/7
Sun: brisk 1 mile walk. Hips feel stiff and sore so I am going to work on getting the kink out. Mon: vigorous house cleaning for guest.
Tue: Cablecross workout.
Thu: 1 Hr. treadmill, 630.7 calories.
Sat: 1.1 mile walk.
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Post by msdoolittle on Apr 8, 2019 7:19:53 GMT -8
I think I'm behind a couple of weeks. I had a wrench thrown at me a couple of weeks ago and it made it difficult to do my workouts. I think I'm getting back on track, and hopefully stay that way. Work stress is no one's friend.
Week of 3/25 M: Run.... OUTSIDE!!! In shorts! 2.1 miles. Stella has to get her groove back. It was no where near a fast run. Tu: Swim - 500 Yards W: Zwift ride of New York City, around Central Park. 6 Miles Th: Nada - This is where the work stress kicks in F: Nada - Work late Sa: Hiked dogs 3 miles Su: Worked and then came home to cook and clean
M: Worked late (end of month close) Tu: Still working late W: Zwift ride - Watopia - 10.2 Miles Th: Swim 600 Yards F: Run 2.5 miles, still have a long way to go with my run. I have to trust that it will come back to me. Sa: Zwift ride - Watopia - 10 miles Su: Dog walk 2 miles in the gorgeous CO sun. Swim 800 yards. While I'm mostly doing pull sets with a little bit of kick drills in between, I feel like the swimming is getting easier. My breathing is coming a little easier as well. I'm stringing together 100 x 25 yard laps right now, and will hopefully start swimming 200 yards before having to take a break.
Depending on weather Saturday, I might meet up with a few women who are training for the Boulder 70.3 HIM for a 10 mile bicycle ride. Almost everyone who posted is starting from ground zero and while they'll be on road bikes, I'll be on my gravel bike. Hope I can keep up. And if not, I'll just tell them to go on ahead without me.
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Post by msdoolittle on Apr 15, 2019 10:37:23 GMT -8
Yeah, so..... I started out strong last week. Then Wednesday night (my rest day) all came crashing down around me.
M: Yoga 1 hour Tu: Short 2 mile run/walk W: Rest Day Th: Slept all day F: Nada/slept Sa: 2 mile walk with the dogs / busy all day with very little rest Su: 1 mile walk with the dogs / again, busy all day with very little rest until 5:30 when I sat down and started watching GoT
Monday through Wednesday I had been in some sort of fog, like just doing basic things was wearing me out. The run on Tuesday after work was especially difficult. I have had a nagging cough that was making it difficult to sleep at night, so I started taking a cough medicine on Tuesday night. Before taking, I thought I'd check my bp. It was elevated, but I figured it was only due to my run earlier.
Wednesday was especially difficult to get through, and being a rest day, I should not have felt that way. I took my bp again and it was WAY too high. Which lead to a mini panic attack and me waking the husband to take me to the ER at 10pm. So, we sat in the ER from 11pm to 2am. My blood tests came back okay, my lung x-ray was clear and I had one little blip on my EKG that the doc couldn't tell if it was recent or old.
I was instructed to monitor my bp for a week and if things hadn't returned to normal, to make a follow-up appt with my doc. I'm on day 5 and my bp was down to 118/91 this morning. The systolic looks MUCH better, but my diastolic, while it looks way better than Wed, has one day to shape up.
Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 7:44:30 GMT -8
Week of 4/14
Sun: golf course walk Tue: Cablecross Thu: treadmill
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 3:47:26 GMT -8
Week of 4/21
I began adding in, for walking, lifting my knees a bit more. From what I read a speed increase can be had through higher lifting of knees and the concept fits well with Che Running. After giving it a try for 2ish weeks, I do find that I walk faster and by using the lean, from Che Running, I am better able to gain more speed. I am now working on increasing my endurance; higher knee lifting.
Sun: 3.1 mile Golf Course Walk.
Tue: Landmine workout.
Thu: Golf Course hike with day pack, 10ish pounds. I kept lifting the knees. Tired I am.
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Post by msdoolittle on Apr 22, 2019 8:15:43 GMT -8
So, pretty much I focused on getting my diet back under control last week. I'm staying under 20g of carbs a day and my protein and fats are on point. I've dropped all of the bloating I had (about 5 lbs) and am back on track.
My blood pressure is looking much improved and I have now have 3 days in a row of normal readings. I really think the abnormal bp readings were due to the "No carbs left behind" diet I was eating. My body can no longer handle that kind of diet.
M: Yoga 1 hour Tu: Volleyball 2 hours W: Nada Th: Dog walk 2 miles through our hilly neighborhood F: Dog walk 1 mile through hilly neighborhood Sa: Swim 600 yards with stringing 100 yard laps together. I'm getting faster and I'm noticing that putting those 25 yard laps together is feeling easier. Woot! Su: I spent the day in the kitchen doing meal prep and laundry. I meant to get a trainer ride in, but I was feeling pretty exhausted.
Time to get my @ss back into the groove.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 22, 2019 8:22:56 GMT -8
Extremely stressful project at work. Working 10-12 hour days. Near-constant motion. I only have time to eat a banana in the morning. "Lunch" is low sodium V8 when I get a chance to drink it... about 32 oz per day. Normal dinner when I get home.
Weather has been nice so I've been trying to run when I have the energy. I did a nice 9-mile trail run yesterday morning.
I've been averaging 3,000 calories per weekday, and 4,000 on weekends.
All told I've lost 5 pounds in the past 10 days.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 2:58:36 GMT -8
Week of 4/28
Sun: This morning, around 5AM, I began working on a program to talk to a MyoWare muscle sensor. My progress so far has been to read my muscles and to read my wife's leg muscle. I found my wife, who has an ITB issue, move her leg muscles differently. My plan is to make a portable unit, that my wife can wear that will measure various muscles and display the measured signals, on a graph. The idea is to use the device as real time biofeedback in hopes that my wife can get a handle on this ITB issue.
Mon: 1/2 the cablecross workout and a golf course walk.
Tue: 1/2 cablecross workout and golf cource walk.
Thu: 3 mile walk.
Sat: 5ish mile walk along Issaquah creek.
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Post by msdoolittle on Apr 29, 2019 5:34:54 GMT -8
M: I meant to go to Yoga, but that wasn't happening. I worked late on Monday. Tu: Swam 700 yards W: Short run, intervals, 1.3 miles Th: Swim 900 yards, 1 mile dog walk F: Nada Sa: Dog Walk 1 mile, followed by a steep hike with a friend. Only 1.3 miles total, but 505' elevation gain. Su: Swim 600 yards, but only rested every 100 yards. It's getting better. Very excited with this progress. This is my hell week. And we're supposed to get a snow storm today. So, yay! BUT! I ordered my first wetsuit last night! Squee!! So excited!
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 29, 2019 15:50:06 GMT -8
I've list 10 lbs since April 18. But mostly because of this horrible job I'm on.
I competed in a 5-mile Mud Run this past weekend. The temperature was 33F, and there were about 10 water obstacles. It was both fun and horrible.
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