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Hi Everyone! I completed my first one hundred days last summer and I am coming up on 1 year of continuous exercise. A year ago I was at 143 pounds and now I have been in the 125-128 lb range for about 6 months. I decided to begin a new thread to help keep me focused on my goals. I want to get down below 125 (not sure how far). I started the SMSM program (for probably the sixth time) on Monday. I cannot wait to get the updated version! I have been doing LSB 1 hr 5 times a week since January and I am following Scott’s weight lifting program (and having good results).
I have dreamed of running a marathon for years but recently I have decided that I WILL do it. My plan is to run a 10K this fall, a half-marathon in spring 2009, and the full marathon later in 2009. I have tried to train for a marathon before, but my body always gave out on me. Since I have been running slow (long slow burn slow) for 5 hours a week since January, I have been able to increase my speed and endurance without ruining my knees. So, the journey officially begins on May 1 (the perfectionist in me feels the need to begin on the first day of the month).
DAY 1: Rest day, although I was on vacation and walked for hours during the day.
DAY 2: Rest day, all day driving home from vacation.
DAY 3: 20 minutes lifting weights: shoulders
DAY 4: Rest day
DAY 5: 1 hour LSB (slow running) and leg workout; 40 minutes stationary bike
DAY 6: 1.25 hours LSB (slow running) and ab workout; 40 minutes stationary bike
I am trying to do some cardio double ups this week as time allows.
Bree made a great comment..... phedippidations podcast is great,....and if your up to moving up your 1/2 marathon race, Steve (from the phedippidations podcast) has started a ‘self-supported’ World Wide half Marathon, where you run your own race (or enter one around the time that all the people participating run the race - in October)
Thanks Tom and Bree. I have listened to phedippidations before but it wasn’t really my thing. I tend to listen to music and audio books. For podcasts, I listen to MTM of course and I also listen to Fitness Rocks sometimes. Once a week I am doing a fast run for 5K on the treadmill. Most recently I have run it in 28.30. I can do about 9K in an hour and I can run about 80 minutes straight. I use a HRM and I am forcing myself to keep in 70-80% of my maximum HR which means that I am running between 7K and 8K in an hour. I am living in Greece at the moment so my treadmill is in kilometers.
DAY 10: ab workout
DAY 11: weight workout: shoulders; stationary bike 75 minutes
DAY 12: weight workout: legs; 1 hour run LSB, 1 hour bike
DAY 13: abs, LSB 1 hour walk
DAY 14: weight workout: chest/back; 1 hour LSB run; 1hour bike
DAY 15: 1 hour LSB walk; 40 min bike
DAY 16: weight workout: arms, 1 hour LSB walk
This has been a hard week. I am having no trouble getting motivated to exercise, but a little bored with my options. Right now, the only machines that I have access to are treadmills and a bike. I am hoping that a nearby pool will open up in June and I can swim.
My real trouble this week has been eating. With all this exercising, I continue to stay in the range 125-128 lbs; although I was almost up to 130 lbs this morning. Due, no doubt, to the fact that I really overate two days this week. I am trying to work out why I am doing this--right when my goals are so close.
DAY 17: rest day
DAY 18: weights: shoulders; stationary bike: 30 minutes
DAY 19: weights: legs; 1 hour LSB running
DAY 20: ab workout; long walk (over an hour)
DAY 21: weights: chest-back; 1 hour run, 30 minutes bike
DAY 22: ab workout; 1 hour run
DAY 23: weights: arms; 1 hour run
I continue to have high motivation for the exercise and low motivation for cutting my calories down enough to make more progress on the weight issues. I am definitely seeing real changes in my body from the weight lifting.
How are you doing? Reading your thread just now;
You’ve been going for about a month now, are you still happy with your program?
Do you find it difficult to cut back on calories also because people consider you ‘skinny’ and tell you off when you try?
I find it hard to react to this kind of comments from my environement, do you have some tips?
Do you need to diet at all? When you run like you are doesn’t it all go by itself?
(I am 59kg/130 but want to be 124 like last year) started training recently, hopefully this is going to stay! Your example sounds inspiring to me!
DAY 24 30 minutes of Pilates
DAY 25 weights: shoulders and 40 min bike
DAY 26 weights: legs and 1 hour run
DAY 27 30 minutes Pilates and 1 hour LSB
DAY 28 weights: chest/back and bike 45 min
DAY 29 abs and 1 hr walk/run
DAY 30 weights: arms, bike 45 min
DAY 31 1.5 hr run, abs
DAY 32 shoulders and bike 30 min
DAY 33 legs and 1hr walk
DAY 34 1 hr walk
DAY 35 chest/back and 1.5 hr run
DAY 36 rest day
DAY 37 arms, bike 1.5hr
DAY 38 abs
DAY 39 shoulders and 1.5 hr run
DAY 40 legs, 1 hr walk/run
DAY 41 rest day
DAY 42 chest/back and 1 hr walk
DAY 43 1 hr walk and 1 hr bike
DAY 44 arms and bike 1.5 hr
DAY 45 rest day
DAY 46 rest day
DAY 47 arms, bike 1 hr
DAY 48 bike 1.5 hr, abs
DAY 49 1.5 hr run. (plan to do shoulders tonight)
I am proud to post all this, but mad that despite all the hard work, my weight is back up to 129/130. We have been out of town and having lots of end of the school year activities. Sadly, here in Greece, my health club closed for the summer. It has been so hot that I can hardly bear to go running. Today I just about killed myself. I have a bike at home but this is not a big calorie burner.
Muriel, thanks for your comments. Sorry I haven’t responded in a more timely manner. At this point, I still enjoy the comments about my not needing to lose weight. So much of my life I have been overweight and it is really hard to think of myself as thin. On the other hand, I do need a response in these situations and so now I usually say, I am training for a marathon or a triathlon and so this makes it “okay” to them. When I have really been running I can eat essentially what I want and I don’t gain, but I don’t really lose either unless I watch my calories. Sadly, with this heat, I have not been able to keep up the running as much.
Yep, Greece is HOT! Make sure you stick to tropical schedules to save your heart! Running cannot be healthy unless you do it at 5.30 AM… Hope this heat is not a trend that will return every year in Greece, last year a lot of the forests burnt down, how is it now? Where in Greece are you?
I will go for a run in summery but with some clouds Holland…
How are you doing?
Are the university student walking in at your place, like here?
Getting busy between uni. walls again…
How is everything going with your training?
Sounds like you are going great. You can send some motivation my way. That’s cool that your starting to see some shape changing. That would be the motivation for me. Guess I had better move faster.
