Who is my old friend you ask, he is the fifth workout a week that I try and do. Yesterday I got home from visiting some family in Alabama and had a little bit of time to do the custom upper body workout I created so I went ahead and did it. If any of you remember I did this workout a few weeks ago and said that I would be tweaking it but I never did it again due to having such a busy schedule lately. I did it yesterday with my medium resistance bands and remembered that it is a pretty good muscle building workout even though it only burns around 165 calories or so. I do plan on adding bent over rows with triceps kick backs to it now that I finally figured out how to make it register all my movements. (Turns out if you let your elbows go to far from your body it will not register the move.) I was also excited this morning that I weighed myself and was down 2.6 lbs from the last weigh (did it last night late so it was high) but I think that I can expect the weight to start moving again through the end of the month. I am down to 188 lbs from where I started at 265 at the beginning of the year with EA Active. I am still hoping to get down to 180 by the end of the month and I think it should not be all that much of an issue but I have been wrong before. One thing did happen to me this weekend that has not happened since I started to workout and diet. I didn't make the 5 lbs lost in two weeks goal that I set in WiiFit :-( the good thing is that is the first time in five and a half months that happened and I got to set a new two week goal of 5 lbs lost and I am already down 2.6 of those so I don't see that happening on this set of goals. The best part about getting to the 188 is that my wife and I are trying to get life insurance and the woman we spoke to said that since I was at 190 when we talked if I could get under 189 before the nurse came to do what she had to do to make sure we were insurable I would be placed in a different health group and would get a lower rate. WIN. When you look at my tracker graph you will see the one bar that is much lower than the rest, that is my upper body workout from last night (proof that it does not burn all that many calories) I am not all that concerned with the calorie count on that workout what I am more concerned with it that it helps build muscle. I am sure if you are reading this (all 2 of you) you know that muscle is the key to maintaining weight loss, fat just sits on your body and does nothing but when you can build muscle your normal activities burn more calories due to the added muscle on your body that is working to make the activities happen. I am seeing the benefits of that now since I can feel my stomach getting a bit firmer you can actually see a muscle in my arms and legs, and I can feel definition in my back and shoulders. Because of this new definition I was able to eat pizza and firehouse subs and other naughty things without gaining weight! I took the day off work tomorrow so I can sleep in and still get my morning workout in, later in the day the life insurance nurse will be stopping by then I am looking at house. After all that is done I am going to go running and see if I can't start to get some kind of consistency with that so I can start to plan on running the Race for the Cure when it comes to Nashville. Little bit of a rant today but I think it all needed to be said.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Hello old friend
Who is my old friend you ask, he is the fifth workout a week that I try and do. Yesterday I got home from visiting some family in Alabama and had a little bit of time to do the custom upper body workout I created so I went ahead and did it. If any of you remember I did this workout a few weeks ago and said that I would be tweaking it but I never did it again due to having such a busy schedule lately. I did it yesterday with my medium resistance bands and remembered that it is a pretty good muscle building workout even though it only burns around 165 calories or so. I do plan on adding bent over rows with triceps kick backs to it now that I finally figured out how to make it register all my movements. (Turns out if you let your elbows go to far from your body it will not register the move.) I was also excited this morning that I weighed myself and was down 2.6 lbs from the last weigh (did it last night late so it was high) but I think that I can expect the weight to start moving again through the end of the month. I am down to 188 lbs from where I started at 265 at the beginning of the year with EA Active. I am still hoping to get down to 180 by the end of the month and I think it should not be all that much of an issue but I have been wrong before. One thing did happen to me this weekend that has not happened since I started to workout and diet. I didn't make the 5 lbs lost in two weeks goal that I set in WiiFit :-( the good thing is that is the first time in five and a half months that happened and I got to set a new two week goal of 5 lbs lost and I am already down 2.6 of those so I don't see that happening on this set of goals. The best part about getting to the 188 is that my wife and I are trying to get life insurance and the woman we spoke to said that since I was at 190 when we talked if I could get under 189 before the nurse came to do what she had to do to make sure we were insurable I would be placed in a different health group and would get a lower rate. WIN. When you look at my tracker graph you will see the one bar that is much lower than the rest, that is my upper body workout from last night (proof that it does not burn all that many calories) I am not all that concerned with the calorie count on that workout what I am more concerned with it that it helps build muscle. I am sure if you are reading this (all 2 of you) you know that muscle is the key to maintaining weight loss, fat just sits on your body and does nothing but when you can build muscle your normal activities burn more calories due to the added muscle on your body that is working to make the activities happen. I am seeing the benefits of that now since I can feel my stomach getting a bit firmer you can actually see a muscle in my arms and legs, and I can feel definition in my back and shoulders. Because of this new definition I was able to eat pizza and firehouse subs and other naughty things without gaining weight! I took the day off work tomorrow so I can sleep in and still get my morning workout in, later in the day the life insurance nurse will be stopping by then I am looking at house. After all that is done I am going to go running and see if I can't start to get some kind of consistency with that so I can start to plan on running the Race for the Cure when it comes to Nashville. Little bit of a rant today but I think it all needed to be said.
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