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Thursday, November 10, 2011

I must be getting boring

I only say that because I am noticing the number of page visits I am getting to the blog a day are going down. I am really not all the concerned about it since I have not really told anyone that I write the blog but it is nice to see people are interested in what I have today. First off let me start by giving everyone a soreness update, I have some pretty good soreness going on today most of it is in my chest. I do have some soreness in my triceps and a little in the biceps but mostly in my chest. I am not too surprised by this since I was able to get a few more reps in my chest and biceps and I added more weight to my triceps. I am telling you I think the strength is starting to come. This morning I did exactly what I said I was going to do and started my treadmill run at 5.5 MPH and finished the run at 8 MPH. It was harder than the last run I did when I started at 5 MPH as you might imagine but still was not too bad. I finished 2.25 miles in the twenty minutes and when it was all over I had to take a minute to just lean against the machine and catch my breath. Still was not as bad as the very first body for life run I remember from several years ago but it was getting close. I know I have not stated this in a while but I have now decided on a new goal. I want to get to the point on the treadmill runs where I can get three miles done in the 20 minutes that I run. Today was a good start in that direction and now that I have a new goal I will continue to increase the intensity until I get there. I figure I will run outside on Sunday so I don't use one of my 7 remaining rec center visits on a 20 minute workout, and will get on the treadmill again Tuesday morning and start at the 5.5 MPH like I did today. If I feel like I could have pushed a little harder like I do today then on Thursday I will count on starting at 6 MPH and going up to 8.5 MPH and see how that goes. I want to get to the 3 miles in 20 minutes before the end of my 12 week program. I can say that I am pretty happy that at the end of this week I will be halfway through. If I remember I have plans on Sunday before I do anything to get on the WiiFit scale and see where I am weight wise. This is going to be the first time in years that I actually want to see weight gain rather than weight loss when I get on the scale. I am just going to have to remind myself not to worry about what the WiiFit says about BMI etc. since it is only going on weight and does  not take muscle to body fat into consideration. One thing that I am curious about is what my body fat percentage is. I have been reading all kinds of things online talking about body fat percent and calorie intake etc for getting larger but don't really have a baseline since I have not weighted myself in about 2 months and have no idea what my body fat percentage is. I am going to try and get those questions answered this weekend. The WiiFit will tell me my weight and I will have to try and find a tape measure somewhere, take some measurements, and put the numbers into one of several online calculators to see what comes up. I am shooting for 10 % but I am thinking right now I am around 15 % and would be happy as all get out  if I was around 12 %. Keep an eye out to see the answers to these questions and more Sunday or Monday.... One last thing, I am doing something crazy and having yogurt with breakfast this morning. Something I have never done in my life.

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