The getting back in shape thread

[lupo pazzesco]

One-Fang has a good point. That's how it goes on BL when they get to individual weigh ins. After all, 3 lbs for one person and 2 for another could be a drastic difference in percentage of weight loss, if person A is 200 lbs, and person B is 250.

As for what I did for a workout today...

Frantic walking for over an hour counts, right...?

[Kiwi]

Im off now guys for my FIRST 10k ever!!!!!

have a good weekend!

[One-Fang]

You go Kiwi! I have one in two weeks, so let me know how it goes for you. We'll compare! (Not times, just ... how it felt, etc).

Lupo I read that. You poor thing! Yes, I think you burn a few calories hopping around doing the Need To Go dance! LOL

Just went out for a training run. 6.4km. Tough. But starting to get into a groove by the end, really. I think in many ways, 5+k runs are easier than 5k runs. It's the first 5k or so that's the toughest. After that it's hard going, but you're just plodding along, and you do start to feel like you can just keep going.

[One-Fang]

Added a 6.5k undulating hill run plus 2.3k on the flat today.

[lupo pazzesco]

Added a 6.5k undulating hill run plus 2.3k on the flat today.

That sounds like a good thing but...what's an "undulating run"?


I didn't workout today. AND went out for lunch at Jason's Deli so that was a lot of calories. But hey I'm not beating myself up about it. I'm doing well.

Forgot to mention I weighed myself yesterday, and lost another pound, even despite being hormonal and bloaty and crampy. So, good times.

I'll start working out again tomorrow. Although I did wander around a lot with EQ and DataJager at the bargain book sale by Friends of the Houston Public Library. Oh my were there loads and loads of cheap cheap books. <Sigh>

[iradney]

Went for a walk/run with the pooch last night - 90 minutes in all - 60 mins walking, 30 mins running.

I think I may have done something to my right knee Hurts a little bit when i straighten it...

[Rapscallion]

Two weeks back was naughty time - low exercise, ate too much. I'm now back to 17st 10lb. Exercising shortly.

Rapscallion

[One-Fang]

Undulating is some uphill, some downhill. The track in question was pretty much horizontal on average, but had a few slight ups and downs incorporated in it, as opposed to say up one entire hill then down the other side.

[Rapscallion]

Six times, one hour thirty, about 1086 calories.

Rapscallion

[SengaKitty]

OK yesterday, I walked about 3 miles to the river front. Don't remember how long it took, but it wasn't that long. Walked all along the river front, up some massive hills, down some massive hills, then home again another three miles. My legs are killing me...

[Kiwi]

Im just back now!!!!

Wow it was so fun! We got a timing chip as they have a staggered start so my offical time wont be posted until a few days from now because

55,000 people!!!! running/walking with us!

We estimate it was around 2 hours because we don't know how long we were in the holding pens as our group was set off in four stages and we were in the very last group!!! I will post my official time when I get it.

The whole thing went very quickly, my feet started hurting around 7km but we powered through (between walking to the race start, and back and forth to the hotel we actually covered over 13k). I was really dehydrated after the race but it was VERY fun.

How fun.....

we have signed up for the 10k in our own town for next saturday!!!!!!

kiwi is a sports person thingy now!

YAY I had fun! Weigh in is tomorrow morning.

[edible_hat]

I'd better join this thread again... I have to wear my nicest jeans to my wife's great grandmother's funeral since my formal trousers don't fit any more!

When we get back I'm going to do half an hour on the exercise bike. By Wednesday we should have our Wii and Wii Fit back (my mother borrowed it to see if she wants one, her Wii Fit age is nearly 15 years younger than her chronological age).

[One-Fang]

Yay Kiwi! I wouldn't weigh in tomorrow though. Between possible over-eating ("I've earned it") after the race, what the race took out of you, and the dehydration issue, your weight won't likely be very 'stable' until 2 days after the race. Or at least, don't pay it any mind if it's not good to you.

Raps, have you thought about a different approach? I'm sure six times up and down the same hill must be getting boring. Unless you're aiming for a distance endurance event, you'd get more in terms of improved fitness and ongoing calorie burn by doing the hill faster, instead of more times. Maybe go for three times, and try to be 5% quicker each time or something?

[Rapscallion]

The view's good on the way down, and I don't much care on the way up. I'm also hitting the mid 160s on the way up in terms of heart rate. I'm 39, so my theoretical maximum heart rate is 171, so I'm pushing it as it is. (When I started, my pulse went over 190, so there's a fair improvement there). Faster isn't a safe option.

Have considered getting an exercise bike for some constant heart rate of about 150 or so, but according to one site I read (after some GateKeeper prodding) it appears that I need to have a heart rate of 108 to 126 for best energy burn, whereas 126 to 153 is best for cardio. I'm no expert. I'm just using it to get fitter and lose some weight here or there.

Rapscallion

[One-Fang]

Target heart rate zones for fat burning are a common myth. As you already are, ignore that concept. It's a fallacy.

BTW, 220 - 39 is 181, not 171.