What's your workout?

Aug 202010

What do you do for exercise?

    

This is more a curiousity than anything.  Among weight loss and fitness bloggers we seem to love our running, our swimming, our weights (well..some of us anyway).  We also have our eliptical machines, our ARC Trainers (WooT), our evil bitch Stair Masters.

But there are so many more possibilities!

I guess my question is two part.  What ELSE do you do for exercise?  Or what ELSE would you like to do? 

For me, I’m pretty much falling on the typical standbys (running, eliptical, ARC, etc…etc…).  I’ve never been really big into sports, but I think hockey would be an awesome thing to get into, and I would like to eventually get back into Tae Kwon Do (did it when I was a kid and for a few months back in 2008, but only got to my Yellow Belt).

So what about you?  Want to get into a team sport (like hockey, soccer, football, etc…)?  Martials arts?  Want to become a traceur or freerunner?  Any future (or current) gymnasts out there? 

These are definitely not the only options, so all answers are welcome!

Have a great day!

Weekend Warriors Strike Back

Apr 022010

It’s that time again!

Brandon from So Long, Fat Ass is hosting another Weekend Warrior Challenge!  This will come in especially handy for some people, as Easter Weekend, with its big family dinners and abundance of Chocolate Bunnies, is a time where weight loss can fly right out of the window.

I’m a little late in my Challenge posting, but I very much wanted to participate.  Hopefully my website won’t crash this time :-P

Here are my goals for the weekend:

  • Run/walk/jog 20 miles. I need to at least run 3.53 miles by Saturday in order to have 20 miles of running under my belt for the week. The rest is just fat free, low calorie icing on the fat free, low calorie cake! :)
  • Eat conservatively. I’m going over both my aunts and my moms house, so I probably won’t be able to track the calories, so the goal here is basically to remember that I AM TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT.  So keep the chocolate bunnies to a minimum.
  • One strength training session. Oh man, I am sucking so much at this.  My participation in 100 pushups, 200 situps, and 200 squats is floundering, and I’m not doing much otherwise.  So I’ll push for one this weekend, and go from there.  Ugh.

So that’s what I’m trying for, and I’ll report back on Monday. 

What about you?  How are you going to try to stay healthy over Easter Weekend?

Have a great day, everyone!

 

 

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Relay for LifePS – If you can, I would like to encourage you to throw some support at David from Running…Because I Can, who is taking part in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.  I find that to be kind of awesome, and would love to be able to run for a cause in the near future too.  You can visit his pledge page here or get more information on his blog.  WooT!

Scales kinda suck.

Mar 242010

Hey ya’ll, remember that time long ago yesterday when I stepped on the scale and weighed 238.8.

Well, I done went and stepped on the scale again today (I can be a bit obsessive like that), and it shot out this little diddy:

That’s a pretty little number right? Not as pretty as it’s been, and it would have been handy a day earlier, but hey, I’ll take it!

Seriously though, there is no way in hell I lost 4.6 pounds of fat in a 24 hour period.  Weight gains do often go alongside with bad choices, but your body can also be very unpredictable.  You can have times when you are being a total shit and still see a loss.  Other times, you can do everything 100% right and see a gain.  Sometimes healthy food choices and exercise are the only way you will see pounds drop on the scale, other times a few trips to the bathroom will do the trick.

When I step on the scale tomorrow what will it say?  It could say 232.3, 236.5 or hell, even 241.3 (boo!) for all I know.

The point is, the scale should not be your ONLY measure of success, because it can (and will) fluctuate so much throughout the week that it will make your head spin.

Do you feel better about yourself?  Are you clothes fitting looser?  Are your manboobs (or otherwise flabby body part) shrinking, and maybe even starting to resemble a muscle?  Can you work out harder without feeling like you want to drop dead?

Did you answer yes to any of the above questions?  If so, then CONGRATULATIONS, you are probably doing something right, even if the scale isn’t telling you what you want to hear.

So go on, have a cookie.  I mean, have a lowcal-high fiber snack bar.  Wait, why are you rewarding yourself with food anyway?!  Get your ass to the gym.

Have a nice day :)

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