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x2jmorris |
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Arkansas Man |
Favorite Century is the Hotter n Hell 100 in Wichita Falls, Texas in late August. Bruce |
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Mad_Angler |
In December 2010, my brother and I started planning a moose hunting trip in Alaska. I wanted to be fit enough to fully enjoy the trip. So I started working out. At first, I was using the WII and showing some improvement. Then, I started sixpackshortcuts. It is a program that is heavy on weightlifting. I saw good improvements in strength and a bit of cardio. The moose hunting trip was in September. It was quite physically demanding. But, my body held up and I had a great time. We ate really well but I still lost 10 pounds. After I got home, I quickly put the 10pounds back on. I was a bit tired of sixpackshortcuts. So, I bought P90X. I got the first 2 months of P90X done. It was amazing. I enjoyed the mix of strength, stretching, speed, etc. I also saw nice improvements in appearance and strength. Daughter 2 is about to start her senior year of high school soccer. So I bought Insanity Asylum. I thought it was a shorter, easier version of Insanity. Instead, it is a compressed, more intense version of Insanity. We both like it a lot. It is a great program to get ready for sports. We are just completing day 23 of 30. Once Asylum is done, I think I'll take a week of rest and then resume P90X. When that is done, I'm not sure what I'll do... |
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Woods Walker |
I am sadly back up to 295 lbs, because of arthritis, foot issues & poor eating habits. Now I got promoted to an office job, which got me off the cement floors for 10 hrs a day. My feet are feeling better, so its time to get it going again. Dropped 7 lbs this week. My goal is to lose the 1st 50 by my June 12th BWCA trip |
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Canoearoo |
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Dennisal |
Last week I started on the treadmill and the stationery bike. Both were not too bad on the hip pain, but just enough pain to take the ambition right out of me. Push ups, sit ups, and lifting weights don't seem to bother too much, so working on those things for now. |
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Canoearoo |
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CoachBigD |
x2jmorris: ..... Basically it is no bread, no rice, no pasta, no sugar, no alcohol, no red meat, no fried food, no fast food, and no salt. Not too terrible to do actually. Thankfully I was always a fast eater. I do it more to just be full so not much has changed except the alcohol cravings... sugar cravings can be bad too." I am 6' 2" and ballooned up to 318. Been a hard year with lots of stresses. I medicate stress and grief with food and alcohol. Had a good start to the year but never really got back on the wagon after a birthday trip to Cabo. About six weeks into the COVID quarantine, I decided I might as well get back on the wagon. I am doing something like what you describe. Something like keto but I have more protein and less fat than strict keto. I generally do not have a meal for breakfast. Instead, I have a cup of Earl Grey mixed with heavy cream, butter, and MCT oil. Most days that gets me to lunch at 11:00. Lunch and dinner are a meat of some sort with vegetables of some sort. Lots of salad with olive oil dressing. I am generally taking in much less calories. I started off just walking several times a week. A couple of weeks ago, after dropping below 300, I started lifting weights 3 times a week, walking three times a week, with one day of rest. One of the walk days, I try to do yoga but i am not always diligent about that. I suppose I should be. The weight lifting program is a modified Wendler 5/3/1 program. I lift three days a week. Monday the Squat is primary with bench press secondary. Wednesday Shoulder Press and Deadlift are co-primaries. Friday Bench Press is primary and Squat is secondary. There is a 4 week cycle with the first week lifting doing 3 sets of 5 reps, the second week is 3 sets of 3 repetitions, the third week is a set of 5 reps, a set of 3 reps, and a max out set. The fourth week is a recovery week of 3 sets of 5 at a very reduced weight. The max outs on week three establishes your new one rep max which sets the weights for each lift to use in the next four week cycle. My modification is that my first four week cycle I am not basing it off my actual 1 rep max since I have not lifted in over a year. Instead, I am am basically lifting an empty bar (45#) for everything except the deadlift, which I am lifting 95#. Each lifting session I start with walking on my treadmill to get good and warmed up. While I do this, I watch You Tube videos on the Homemade Wanderlust channel. Quite entertaining. I end each workout with "assistance exercises". Basically, the idea is get some work in on secondary muscle groups. I do a mixture of curls, shrugs, core work. On deadllift day, I also do Hang Cleans. This is a whole body lift and really gets the heart pumping. Next week is my first max out week. I will go ahead and attack this with probably just 90% effort to ease into it. I will also back away from my one rep max as the baseline for my second cycle. I am not looking to get injured :-) While I will still be very heavy when I have my trip in August (targeting 275), I will be on my third, four week cycle. My body will be somewhat used to lifting weight and to walking. Better than nothing. We all have to start somewhere. This trip I will taking with my 22 yo and 19 yo children. They will be in my Grumman aluminum tank and I am renting a solo to give it a whirl. If it goes well, I will plan on a solo in September. If it doesn't go well, my 19 yo will be using the solo canoe :-) |
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Canoearoo |
Back in December of 2011 our treadmill died when a power surge started our house on fire. I got a new treadmill now this month and need to loose the "Christmass and fire" weight I gained. So I want to loose that 8 pounds. I have done triathlon in the past but since I hate running I came in last; however it was really fun. It was a canoe bike run and I came in 2nd for canoeing :) |
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talusman |
The good news is that I did very little damage to the heart so once the 2nd stent is done I'll have zero blockage and it should be easier to go harder. I'll have to take a stress test to set my target heart rate. |
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x2jmorris |
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x2jmorris |
I eat a ton of raw oats mixed with olive oil/chia seeds/honey for breakfast. I have a scoop of whey protein at lunch time. Then dinner is usually Lentils/spinach/ground turkey/chicken/squash/or tofu. Then I spice those up with random sauces like buffalo/vinaigrette/bbq/etc to make it taste different. I have cheated and I have had about 7 cans of beer in the last two months. But I think I am doing quite well with it. |
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knitsocks77 |
And, Canoearoo, I also did a relay triathlon last October with canoeing, biking, and running...although I only did the biking portion but it was a fun event that I plan to do again this year. |
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Arkansas Man |
On a good note, I recently had some blood work done (I have MGUS and have to have yearly blood test to make sure the m protein levels do not increase which could show Multiple Myeoloma) and my Cholesterol was 169 and my triglycerides, HDL,& LDL levels were all good! So I am proud of that fact! Wife and I both have been going to the gym 3 days a week to lift and get stronger, Me for tone, her to strengthen her shoulder from her bike wreck. Keep on stayin fit!! Bruce |
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jwartman59 |
i carry a heavy canoe, 75 lbs, dry. last summer on the portage from pine lake to canoe lake (uphill way) i discovered that i wasn't up to this anymore. i didn't die but it was tough. yesterday i paddled the canoe route at lebanon hills park, eagan. about 5 miles of paddling this semi loop, lots of portages, most easy and short. kind of wierd to be carrying a canoe on hiking trails. at the end of the trip i had lifted my heavy canoe 12 times. that was a real workout. plus it is nice in there. |