Anyone want to shape up in 2018? A continuing journey.......

mcgruff10

rgambs said:

I ate a half a pan of brownies last night, so I'm going to try to work hard and eat little today.

"Something inspirational"-
Me

I had Chinese food last night and ipa s. Ugh. 
Just did a really nice leg workout at home. 

oftenreading

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

mcgruff10

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

Very very good point about the food. Three hour bike ride sounds awesome. Pavement or trails?

oftenreading

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

Very very good point about the food. Three hour bike ride sounds awesome. Pavement or trails?

A mixture of both. I am lucky enough to live in a place that is very cycle friendly. We have an extensive network of off road trails, some paved and some dirt, and many streets with dedicated bike lanes. 

mcgruff10

oftenreading said:

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

Very very good point about the food. Three hour bike ride sounds awesome. Pavement or trails?

A mixture of both. I am lucky enough to live in a place that is very cycle friendly. We have an extensive network of off road trails, some paved and some dirt, and many streets with dedicated bike lanes. 

That is great. You think you ll do around 25-30 miles? Are you in Vancouver?

rgambs

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

I would never give up the foods I love! 

oftenreading

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

Very very good point about the food. Three hour bike ride sounds awesome. Pavement or trails?

A mixture of both. I am lucky enough to live in a place that is very cycle friendly. We have an extensive network of off road trails, some paved and some dirt, and many streets with dedicated bike lanes. 

That is great. You think you ll do around 25-30 miles? Are you in Vancouver?

Victoria. 

Satudrday morning is my purely recreational ride. Today is a ride with purpose; I have a bunch of errands to do and will finish up at the hospital to visit my mom before coming home. I am not completely car-free, but am as car-light as I can be, so I do a lot of my day to day stuff by bike. I have no idea how far I’ll ride. 

mcgruff10

oftenreading said:

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

mcgruff10 said:

oftenreading said:

What's the point of life if you can't enjoy food?

I'm having a big bowl of fresh fruit (which I love - no hardship here) and a pain au chocolat from one of my favourite bakeries for breakfast. In a couple of hours I'll go for a bike ride that will probably end up being about three hours in total. The sun is shining so it's a good day. 

Very very good point about the food. Three hour bike ride sounds awesome. Pavement or trails?

A mixture of both. I am lucky enough to live in a place that is very cycle friendly. We have an extensive network of off road trails, some paved and some dirt, and many streets with dedicated bike lanes. 

That is great. You think you ll do around 25-30 miles? Are you in Vancouver?

Victoria. 

Satudrday morning is my purely recreational ride. Today is a ride with purpose; I have a bunch of errands to do and will finish up at the hospital to visit my mom before coming home. I am not completely car-free, but am as car-light as I can be, so I do a lot of my day to day stuff by bike. I have no idea how far I’ll ride. 

I absolutely love victoria!  lucky you for living there.  I was there many many moons ago.  is the sticky widget pub still around?  (god I drank waaaay too many beers there lol)

oftenreading

Sticky Wicket . It’s a cricket term. And yes, still here. 

curmudgeoness

markymark550 said:

Yeah, I could do without the ones always posing and flexing. I don't mind actually watching a video of someone doing a good lift. And, yeah, I've posted a couple of vids of me lifting, but nothing in a long time. I just don't care enough to bother someone to record the lift.

My husband took video of himself at the gym this morning -- leg press, tire flipping, etc. Apparently, this is for some video they are putting together of management at work, and he thought it would be funny to have his clip focus on "doing the heavy lifting."

I swear I saw a guy at the gym kissing his biceps while he was doing curls the other day.

curmudgeoness

FoxyRedLa said:

Ok so watching pinkpop 92 while on the elliptical = look the fuck out! and it's not easy to find a groove I was all over the place!  damn these guys are in shape! How the hell do they do it? I have nothing else to say except I burned more calories than normal and my lungs are getting stronger. 

Curm - am I supposed to breathe thru my nose and out my mouth when running? Is that true? I'm a total mouth breather but feel I have more control over my breathing. I'm not really running but I feel like I'm cruising along. 

Um... I don't know. I tried to think about this while running today. I think that when I am maintaining a comfortable pace, I do indeed breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth. When racing or doing speed work, it's whatever keeps me from passing out, LOL.

If I am running outside in cold weather (something I no longer have to do! Woot!) I try to breathe in through my nose so I don't irritate my throat.

curmudgeoness

I bought myself a new Garmin for my birthday, and I love it! My old watch was a Polar trainer, 8.5 years old, and, wow, has technology come a long way in that time. The GPS seems to be quite accurate (this was a big complaint of mine about the Fitbit I tried), the face is easy to read (important at my age), and, wow, I am faster and in better shape than I thought I was. I really don't know anything about VO2 Max, so I felt bad when the watch said mine is 49%. Then I looked up what the numbers actually mean, LOL, and I felt a lot better.

This is a great example of how far I have come in two years: I ran 13.7 miles this morning, steady pace, not pushing it. My time for the first 13.1 was just over 1:55. Two years ago, I ran -- raced -- a half-marathon, and my time was just over 1:57. My "easy run" pace is over a minute faster than it was two years ago. Al those miles have paid off, I guess.

I ran a 15K last weekend, 7:52 pace -- something I never would have guessed I was capable of doing. So I'm feeling pretty good about my running right now.

bootlegger10

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I am 11 days in on my diet.

No alcohol, no bread, no pasta so no carbs in general...

No fast food, no deep fried food...

This weekend I start a light workout to compliment my dieting to speed up the weight loss.

Goal is 190 living weight!

Good luck!  Once you drop that initial portion and go back on carbs life will seem so much more full and enjoyable lol

I did this last year and dropped 25lbs in two weeks.  It literally fell right off.  It took me a whole year of slacking off to gain it back, lol.
Now to just keep it off...

I am doing the same thing except lazier.  Dropped 45 lbs in spring 2013 and now working on losing the 20 lbs I have gained back. Loss 9lbs in 12 days thus far just limiting to 1000 calories.  Not healthy but efficient. No exercise as I would probably pass out!

rgambs

^^^ I've been there!
Lazy doesn't equal easy, that's for sure!  The cravings!
I was able to run about 10 miles a week very slowly when I was on 1000 a day, but now I run 18 or so much faster and lift hard 10 hours a week so so just can't keep it that low anymore.  If I try, I crash and binge, which happens from time to time periodically anyways.  Junk food is so good.

tempo_n_groove

bootlegger10 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I am 11 days in on my diet.

No alcohol, no bread, no pasta so no carbs in general...

No fast food, no deep fried food...

This weekend I start a light workout to compliment my dieting to speed up the weight loss.

Goal is 190 living weight!

Good luck!  Once you drop that initial portion and go back on carbs life will seem so much more full and enjoyable lol

I did this last year and dropped 25lbs in two weeks.  It literally fell right off.  It took me a whole year of slacking off to gain it back, lol.
Now to just keep it off...

I am doing the same thing except lazier.  Dropped 45 lbs in spring 2013 and now working on losing the 20 lbs I have gained back. Loss 9lbs in 12 days thus far just limiting to 1000 calories.  Not healthy but efficient. No exercise as I would probably pass out!

5lbs in 12 days so far.  Not as much as I wanted but its working.

rgambs

tempo_n_groove said:

bootlegger10 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I am 11 days in on my diet.

No alcohol, no bread, no pasta so no carbs in general...

No fast food, no deep fried food...

This weekend I start a light workout to compliment my dieting to speed up the weight loss.

Goal is 190 living weight!

Good luck!  Once you drop that initial portion and go back on carbs life will seem so much more full and enjoyable lol

I did this last year and dropped 25lbs in two weeks.  It literally fell right off.  It took me a whole year of slacking off to gain it back, lol.
Now to just keep it off...

I am doing the same thing except lazier.  Dropped 45 lbs in spring 2013 and now working on losing the 20 lbs I have gained back. Loss 9lbs in 12 days thus far just limiting to 1000 calories.  Not healthy but efficient. No exercise as I would probably pass out!

5lbs in 12 days so far.  Not as much as I wanted but its working.

2.5 lbs per day is excellent progress, any more than that and you will be cutting into your muscle more than you want.

mcgruff10

oftenreading said:

Sticky Wicket . It’s a cricket term. And yes, still here. 

Aaah that s right. From what I remember you guys had some excellent cider!

rgambs

CrossFit games have been keeping me motivated on the treadmill

mcgruff10

rgambs said:

CrossFit games have been keeping me motivated on the treadmill

Nice!  Yesterday I ran two miles outside and did a nice intense ab workout.   When I hit the gym today i'll be doing biceps/back and some sort of cardio.  A new diet also starts today with me.  I'm going to basically mimc tempo and ban all drinking and carbs for a few weeks.
Remember, bathing suit weather is just around the corner!

rgambs

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

CrossFit games have been keeping me motivated on the treadmill

Nice!  Yesterday I ran two miles outside and did a nice intense ab workout.   When I hit the gym today i'll be doing biceps/back and some sort of cardio.  A new diet also starts today with me.  I'm going to basically mimc tempo and ban all drinking and carbs for a few weeks.
Remember, bathing suit weather is just around the corner!

Good work!
I did 5 miles on treadmill, 2.25 miles, chest and triceps, then 2.75 miles.  10 minute mile pace.

Great lift, supersets on dips (parallel grips and bench dips) for 100 reps each and supersets on push-ups/cable crossovers 4 sets and push-ups/pec deck 4 sets done dropset style without breaks.
Other stuff too of course, but that's the only interesting part.  

Been loving the JM press lately, it's a hybrid between close grip bench and skull crushers.