Workout Results for 04/19/07 - Day 2, Week 4, SI6
Day 2, Week 4, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Ramp It Up
Program Duration: 47 Minutes
Difficulty: Moderate . . .
So weighing in this morning . . . I was at 329.5 . . . before my workout. I think this week will be a solid 320's week. 2 weeks from today we leave for Vegas. If I can be at or below 325 when we leave, I'll be very happy. Probably do Slim in Six again tomorrow, then a 40 or so mile ride with Brandon and Steve on Saturday.
Workout Results for 04/17/07 - Day 1, Week 4, SI6
Day 1, Week 4, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Ramp It Up
Program Duration: 47 Minutes
Difficulty: Felt great today!
OK, even though I had to stop my workout for a couple of phone calls this morning (I'm trying to get two transactions to close simultaneously this week) I made it all the way through the Ramp It Up workout this morning. I even did most all the reps of everything. It felt really good. I can see the benefit of working out 6 days a week in terms of weight loss, but I think (and have been told) that giving your body a day to rest between gives your muscles a chance to repair themselves too. I'm going to try for 4 days of Ramp It Up this week.
A bonus . . . after our ride on Saturday and after taking a shower, I stepped on the scale again . . . mind you this was after breakfast, and drinking a bunch of water on the ride, my weight showed 329.5 . . . So I was stoked to see that TWO! Waking up this morning, I was at 332.0 after not working out Sunday or Monday. But after working out and having breakfast, I was at 331.5. I'd be willing to bet that by tomorrow morning, I can or will be at 329-ish . . . The overall trend is down people, that's all I care about right now. Just looking at this thing in 10 pound chunks. Maintaining the 320's this week will be the goal with the next up . . . 319 . . . I'd be totally stoked if I hit that by May 3rd, the day we leave for Vegas and the wedding, but I'm not holding my breath. If I can be in the low 320's by the 3rd, I'll be nearly as happy. I told Teri I was taking the Slim in Six DVD and resistance bands with us to Vegas . . . she wasn't really thrilled about it. :-) I just don't want to lose momentum. So if I can workout 2 days while I'm down there, I'll feel really good about it.
Workout Results for 04/14/07 - Bicycling
Today Teri and I loaded up the bikes (in seperate cars, time for a roof rack for the TL) and headed down to the orting trail. We left from the McMillan trail head and rode all the way to the South Prairie city limits. 10.13 miles (20.26 round trip) according to my cycle computer. As this was Teri's first ride on her new bike, I was really impressed with her! See my main blog entry for some more details.
Workout Results for 04/13/07 - Day 3, Week 3, SI6
Day 3, Week 3, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Ramp It Up
Program Duration: 20 Minutes
Difficulty: Didn't have it today.
Felt like puking when I got up this morning . . .but tried to do the workout anyway since I missed yesterday. I could only do 20 minutes. I wanted to get the resistance bands in, so I skipped the squats to get there. I did do the lunges and the pliays (sp?). So I got a quick 20 minute most of body workout. I'll shoot for the whole thing tomorrow though. Still small chance at seeing the 320's by tomorrow . . . small . . .
Workout Results for 4/11/07 - Day 2, Week 3, SI6
Day 2, Week 3, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Ramp It Up
Program Duration: 47 Minutes
Difficulty: Tough, especially the added abdominals and Yoga.
Ramp it up again today. Still not very flexible . . . the yoga is tough for me. I know the yoga will make me more flexible, but right now it's damn hard. Still can't do pushups to speak of after using the resistance bands . . . but hey, it's only day 2 of the program. I weighed myself this morning before my workout . . . scale read 331.5 . . . have a REALLY good shot at seeing the 320's by the end of THIS week. Yesterday too I started taking my new multi-vitamin. I think it actually curbed my appetite a bit. For lunch I just had a Fiber One bar and was full . . . Dunno.
Ate breakfast (2 Huevos Rancheros Rollups) after my workout this morning, then mowed the lawn. Today was my last day adding sausage to the rollups. Starting tomorrow, it'll just be tortillas, some sour cream, egg whites, salsa, cheese, onions and cilantro. Going to start bringing fiber/protein bars to work with me for snacks. I'm feeling reallly good this week!
Workout Results for 4/10/07 - Day 1, Week 3, SI6
Day 1, Week 3, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Ramp It Up
Program Duration: 47 Minutes
Difficulty: 1st Day on Ramp It Up . . . feels really LONG!
So today was the first day I've done "Ramp It Up" the second of the three workouts in Slim in Six. You start out the same as Start It Up, but faster. So all the moves you did in SIU are in this one, but much faster. And some of them get modified a bit, like the squats you add some kicks, etc. to them. The thing I really liked about RIU is that you add the resistance bands to really work on your biceps, triceps and shoulders. However, after the resistance band work, my arms were shot and I was useless for the pushups.
Now also, you do some work where you're on your knees and elbows and doing various leg lifts. Really works your bum. I could do most of them, but had to take some breaks in between. I noticed that the timer on the ab workouts was longer than for SIU . . . they add quite a bit more abdominal work in this one too. And after the ab work, there is still 6 minutes left on the timer and they add Yoga for that last 6 minutes. Just to show me how inflexible I am.
It's a great workout! Just gotta keep motivated to keep "pushing play".
Workouts 2 and 3 for 4/6/07
Well, I played 9 holes with my neighbor Mike . . . we just played the executive 9 at High Cedars golf course. Thankfully we couldn't get on the real course cause by the 3rd hole, I remembered why I never wear my frickin' golf shoes! Now I've got two bloodied ankles . . . lovely.
And for workout three today . . . I realized why it's probably time to get rid of the motorcycle. As much as I don't ride it, the battery was dead this afternoon when I tried to start it. So I jump started it with my car and rode it around for awhile. Thinking that would be enough time to charge the battery so when I got back on it would start right up. Nope. Wrong again. So here I sit at my office after trying to "bump start" the motorcycle. (basically running around a parking lot with the bike in gear, clutch in, getting to speed and dumping the clutch to compression start it.) My buddy Marcus is going to bring some jumper cables down and we'll get er' going again . . . then I'll park it in the garage and work on getting another new battery for it.
Gonna be a long day . . .
Workout Results 4/6/07 - Day 5, Week 2, SI6
Day 5, Week 2, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Start it Up
Program Duration: 25 Minutes
Difficulty: Slacked off a bit today, see below
Today I kept track of my Pushups and crunches:
Normal Pushups - 11
Knee Pushups - 0
Reverse Crunches - 18
Oblique Crunches - 30
Normal Crunches - 20
OK, so last night I blew my chances for being 329 by Saturday . . . our neighbors wanted to go out to dinner, so we went. They wanted to go to Outback Steakhouse. I haven't been there in years . . . (now I remember why, their steaks taste like kangaroo meat) but it is the land of the Bloomin' Onion after all. So half a bloomin' onion, a couple pieces of bread, a salad, baked potato and a steak later, here we are with most of the past 1.5 weeks of hard work gone . . . . . . It's all good though, I'm going to have days like that, the important thing is to get back up the next day and start again, which I did.
I didn't go as hard as I normally would have because my neighbor Mike and I are heading down to High Cedars at 9:30 to hit the little white ball into 9 holes. SWEET! First golf outing of the year! So I'll get a fair amount more of exercise for 3 hours walking around a golf course. (yeah, I know 9 holes shouldn't take 3 hours, but have you seen me play?)
Workout Results for 4/5/07 - Day 4, Week 2, SI6
Day 4, Week 2, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Start it Up
Program Duration: 25 Minutes
Difficulty: Felt good today, arms STILL tough. . .
Today I kept track of my Pushups and crunches:
Normal Pushups - 15
Knee Pushups - 0
Reverse Crunches - 14
Oblique Crunches - 28
Normal Crunches - 30
I'm glad I took the last 5 minutes off yesterday. I was ready to attack it today. I did pretty well keeping up with the whole routine. 2 more days this week. Brandon, Steve and I are talking about taking an Easter ride on Sunday . . . if it's raining, I'm not going . . . but I think all the elliptical and now the SI6 workouts will really help my cycling ability too, so I'm anxious to see how the bike feels.
Workout Results for 4/4/07 - Day 3, Week 2, SI6
Day 2, Week 2, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Start it Up
Program Duration: 19 Minutes
Difficulty: Not Feelin' it today . . .
So today I skipped the pushups and the crunches. I just wasn't feeling it. I think my body is really fatigued . . . like I mentioned before, I think this is the most I've worked out since High School. However, I do have one piece of good news to report . . . I think I do have a SLIM chance at being in the 320's by the end of the week. So If I make it to 329.5 pounds (I'm currently 3.5 pounds away) by Saturday after my workout, that will make 10 pounds in 2 weeks. I'll be pretty damn stoked about that. Well regardless of when it happens I'll be stoked, but if I make it by Saturday, I'll be good.
I've really been working on what I'm eating too. Normally when Teri and I cook dinner, we'll cook 3 chicken breasts or pork chops, or whatever . . . usually I have two, she has one . . . well, chicken Monday night and pork chops last night and there is one of each left over in the fridge. AND yesterday I did go out for lunch with Marcus to Quiznos. Normally I would have a regular or large sandwich, yesterday only a small and none of the raspberry lemondade that I love so much. I'm just trying to make better choices than I normally would. I've got to realize that this is a distance event, not a sprint. It's not all going to happen overnight. I didn't get this big in a day and I'm not going to lose it all in a day either. Right now my focus is 299 . . . gettin' that weight to start with a two again . . . I can't wait!
Workout Results for 4/3/07 - Day 2, Week 2, SI6
Day 2, Week 2, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Start it Up
Program Duration: 25 Minutes
Difficulty: Better on the arms, but definitely fatigued today.
Today I kept track of my Pushups and crunches:
Normal Pushups - 10
Knee Pushups - 13
Reverse Crunches - 12
Oblique Crunches - 26
Normal Crunches - 20
I spoke to my buddies Brandon and Marcus yesterday who have both done the Slim in Six series. They also had issues keeping their arms up for the whole routine for at least the first 2 - 3 weeks. Today I kept my arms up through the whole warm up (1st time!) and probably 60% of the rest of the routine. So I'm getting there. I weighed myself this morning before doing the workout and I'm down another 1.5 pounds from where I was Saturday after my workout. So I feel really good about that. Even with a big nasty breakfast and a bucket of popcorn on Sunday, I was able to recover pretty easily. Yesterday was a good eating day. No drive thru whatsoever. My rollups for breakfast, couple of sandwiches (very dry and blah) for lunch, and for dinner a chicken breast, some rice-a-roni, and some pasta salad. Resisted the urge to go back for a second chicken breast. I'm trying . . . I really am!
Workout Results for 4/2/07 - Day 1, Week 2, SI6
Day 1, Week 2, Slim in Six Workout:
Program Followed: Start it Up
Program Duration: 25 Minutes
Difficulty: Shoulders really hurt today, didn't work the arms too hard.
Today I kept track of my Pushups and crunches:
Normal Pushups - 13
Knee Pushups - 6
Reverse Crunches - 16
Oblique Crunches - 24
Normal Crunches - 20
I really need to do some research on how I can get my shoulders to have more stamina . . . this is rediculous not being able to hold my arms out at my sides for more than a minute or so without some serious pain . . . sucks ass. But here we are, week 2!
Yesterday as Teri and I were walking around Fred Meyer shopping for the week, she mentioned that she can already see a difference in my chest . . . made my day that did! I know I'm not losing a ton of weight, but I do feel like I have more stamina and more strength most days. We'll see how good I feel on Saturday, but next week, I'd like to move to "Ramp it Up" a couple days.
