Shadows In Motion

Fitocracy is bugging out on me and it isn’t posting my workouts to Tumblr.  Hopefully this screen shot will work.

Total calories burned:  Approximately 630 calories or more.

Personal record:  14:24 mins/mi average (yes, beginner).

Runner peoples!  What’s a good, free alternative to RunKeeper?  RK’s schedules insist that I work my life around their schedules (eg; I have to start on the date that THEY specify rather than when it works into MY schedule).  This is not acceptable.

Ergo I need a good, free alternative to RunKeeper that basically does the same thing as RunKeeper, but doesn’t expect me to change my life to fit when they think is a good time to start a particular activity.

Thanks!

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Les Mills Combat Review

My full review of Les Mills Combat, from the perspective of your every day joe just trying to lose weight.

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This week was not as efficient as it could have been.  In looking back over my FItocracy entries for this week I’m surprised that I’ve only worked out 4 out of the 7 days.  That’s not acceptable, and I’ll have to keep myself on the ball this coming week.

Missing the two days wasn’t entirely without reason.  In one case it was only a Stretch X routine.  The other was quite frankly a case of not eating enough, so I wouldn’t have been able to physically do the workout.  No, that wasn’t an eating disorder issue.  It was a money issue.  I didn’t have enough in the house to eat.

Of the workouts that I did do:

Today (May 12th):  Kenpo X.

I made today’s Kenpo X routine a little more intense by adding in some plyo.  Instead of simply doing the “doubles” quickly, I turned them into a process of forward jump + technique + immediately jumping back.  Kenpo X tends to be a little too easy and I don’t have the money for body weights, so I modified the workout to add intensity.

May 10th:  Chest, Shoulders, & Triceps:

Friday’s exercise was very rough.  My body was tired, I didn’t have quite enough fuel to do a workout but I did it anyway.  Pushing through and making it happen was the theme of the day, but obviously there were no increases in the amount of weight used.

May 8th: Back & Biceps:

There wasn’t anything note worthy about Wednesday’s workout.  I lifted heavy things and put them back down for 50+ minutes.  It felt good.  No problems, no additions.

May 7th: Plyometrics:

Tuesday’s workout essentially foreshadowed the rest of the week.  The temps are increasing and it had rained, leading to an increase in humidity.  This in turn caused complications with my asthma.  I pushed through as much as I could, but was ultimately only able to do 29 minutes of P90X Plyometrics that day.  As I recall I used my so-called “rescue inhaler” twice that evening.

Asthma is usually not a significant problem for me, but I do have days where it hits and I will need to step out of that evening’s exercise.  It’s simply an issue that I work around.  Like Tony says in the P90X videos, you can’t let your ego get in the way.

That was week 10.  I’m hoping that week 11 will be much better, but I am a little uncertain.  I’m beginning my running training and there’s rain in the forecast, so we’ll see how it goes.

Thankfully this is not the norm for me.  Most weeks go much better than this one.

I am feeling all kinds of better after finishing my workout. (◠‿◠✿)

I earned 455 points for my workout on Fitocracy!

• General P90X +455 pts

  • 0:50:00 || Intense! (+455 pts)
  • P90X: Kenpo X. I make the exercise more intense by turning the fast (with sound) “doubles” (eg; punch and drag) into plyometric moves. Ex: Bounce forward, do the double strike, and immediately bounce back. Repeat for all doubles.

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Fitocracy is bugging out and won’t post to Tumblr, so I’m posting the details manually.

Workout:  P90X:  Chest, Shoulders, & Triceps
Fitocracy Points: 546

Thoughts & Comments:

Today was a day that my body was not ready for the workout.  Perhaps it was because yesterday was a cheat day, so I didn’t have “good fuel” to run on today.  In any case, I had to seriously push to get through it.

This means no weight increases today and a few extra short breaks, but I definitely “brought it”.

It’s great to have it done.  I always feel so good after a workout.

Post workout meal:  Salad with a bit of dressing, a hand full of sun flower seeds, a plumb, and a “cutie” orange.  Hmm..

Week 10 Exercise Schedule Is Posted

Les Mills Combat is finished so I’ll be focusing on finishing the first round of P90X.  My (lower) back is hurting quite a bit this week, so I will need to lower the intensity or even take a day or two off.

Via Wordpress.com | The Exercise Schedule

• Gut size before: 44.1 inches
• Gut size resulting from being sick: 42^1/2 inches
• Gut size after recovering:  44 inches.
• Gut size now: 42^1/2 inches.

Four months ago I got sick.  Very sick.  At that time, in two mere weeks (edit: or was it three?) I dropped from 220 pounds to 214.8 pounds.  You can read my post about it.  I gained it all back once my body recovered, but I was mostly okay with that.

Fast forward to today and things are much better.  I can once again feel nearly as much of “me” gone as I did four months ago, but this time it’s been done through hard work and healthy eating, and it’s only going to keep getting better.

Interesting fact:  I still weigh 220 pounds even though my body measurement today match what was taken after a period of rapid weight loss at 214.8 pounds.  It’s like I said several days ago, the scale is no longer a useful tool in measuring my progress.  A measuring tape is the only way to go.