Haven't had a chance to workout lately. I won't make excuses, but I should be getting back into the swing of things this week. Won't be tomorrow, but should be on Thursday, hopefully Friday, and maybe Saturday. I have an appointment tomorrow and am going to a fitness meeting at work on Wednesday. Diet is going well. Still needing to make a better effort on the portions, but we're still making progress. The cleaning should occur regularly starting this weekend. Cya around!
M.G. Farmer
Monday, August 11, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Chapter 2: Working Out and Diet - Week 2 (Part 3)
Thursday
I think that I have discovered that I do better when I've eaten my lunch before working out. Normally I go and work out around 11:30 AM and then eat afterwords. For the most part I am tired during the afternoons and I'm wondering if this is why. On Thursdays, I am unable to go and workout until the afternoon. Because of this I ate my peanut butter and jelly around 11:30 AM. At 1:00 PM we worked out. I felt like I had more energy and did not have the mid-afternoon crash. I think next week I will try eating at 10:00 AM. If I have more energy next week, I'll make it a habit.
The actual workout was more of the same. I did the eliptical and then moved onto weights. I walked around the track between my sets of lunges. That seemed to help. When I got to the machine where I lift the weight up with my legs, I upped it to 135 pounds on each side. I may be sore in the morning. The diagonal squats had 45 pounds. Today was a good day!
M.G. Farmer
I think that I have discovered that I do better when I've eaten my lunch before working out. Normally I go and work out around 11:30 AM and then eat afterwords. For the most part I am tired during the afternoons and I'm wondering if this is why. On Thursdays, I am unable to go and workout until the afternoon. Because of this I ate my peanut butter and jelly around 11:30 AM. At 1:00 PM we worked out. I felt like I had more energy and did not have the mid-afternoon crash. I think next week I will try eating at 10:00 AM. If I have more energy next week, I'll make it a habit.
The actual workout was more of the same. I did the eliptical and then moved onto weights. I walked around the track between my sets of lunges. That seemed to help. When I got to the machine where I lift the weight up with my legs, I upped it to 135 pounds on each side. I may be sore in the morning. The diagonal squats had 45 pounds. Today was a good day!
M.G. Farmer
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Chapter 2: Working Out and Diet - Week 2 (Part 2)
Wednesday
Today was another day to run. This was much of the same when it came to running. The only thing of note was that I was tired and low on energy when I started. This meant my motivation was on the lower end of the scale. I was happily surprised, however, that I was able to maintain the pace I set for this week.
The weights were increased for this week. For the bench press I am now doing a warm up set at 35 pounds, and then two sets of 40. Slowly but surely! When I got to the bicep curl, I did three sets at 10 pounds. I also increased the weight on the hand weights. I started using 20 pound weights. I hope that next week I will be able to increase to 25. Enjoy!
M.G. Farmer
Today was another day to run. This was much of the same when it came to running. The only thing of note was that I was tired and low on energy when I started. This meant my motivation was on the lower end of the scale. I was happily surprised, however, that I was able to maintain the pace I set for this week.
The weights were increased for this week. For the bench press I am now doing a warm up set at 35 pounds, and then two sets of 40. Slowly but surely! When I got to the bicep curl, I did three sets at 10 pounds. I also increased the weight on the hand weights. I started using 20 pound weights. I hope that next week I will be able to increase to 25. Enjoy!
M.G. Farmer
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Chapter 2: Working Out and Diet - Week 2 (Part 1)
Monday
Today was a good day for running in a climate controlled gym. One of these days I'm going to run outside more often. Maybe I should do that on Saturday. There are plenty of parks around here. When I go to Florida and run outside my performance always suffers due to the heat. If I ever hope to participate in a 5k, I'll need to improve this. I've decided to incrementally increase the difficulty of my runs. We'll see how this works out. Each week I plan on adding an extra half of a kilometer. Last week I was running two kilometers, walking one, and running the final two. This week I will be running two and a half kilometers, walking one, and running the final one and a half. I hope to keep this up until I can run 5k without stopping. I may have to extend some of the intervals, but one can hope.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted. On Wednesday I should be increasing my weights, I'll let you know how it goes.
Tuesday
Similar to how I'm increasing the difficulty of my runs, I am also increasing the resistance of my eliptical exercises. I am now up to resistance eight and I can definitely feel that. Other than that, the first part of my day was pretty standard fare. I also decided to up the weights of my squats. I warmed up with 55 pounds and did two sets of 80. At first I was hesitant of doing weights because they weren't that much fun, but I must admit they are growing on me. I talked last week how I felt a lack of focus on the leg days. Today I started to rectify this.
After doing the squats, I decided to do lunges with the weights on my shoulder. I did three sets of 55 pounds on each side. The first set went well. I think I did the second set too soon after the first as I started to feel light headed. I walked two laps around the track before I completed my set of three. I think I will start doing two laps around the track before going on to the next set. The next exercise was a leg lift machine. The machine is a free weight machine and after being shown how to use it, I put 115 pounds on each side. Basically I'm sitting at a 45 degree angle and lifting the weight upwards. I did three sets of ten and plan on increasing the weight next time. The other one was a machine that made me do a squat at 45 degrees. I did 35 pounds on each side for this one. Once again I'll increase next time. Now I want to find some good abdominal exercises to add to this day and I think I'll be set. Any suggestions?
On a side note, I think I will check with my gym to see if they will let me take pictures of the gym for this blog. It should give you a better idea of what I'm doing. Cya!
M.G. Farmer
Today was a good day for running in a climate controlled gym. One of these days I'm going to run outside more often. Maybe I should do that on Saturday. There are plenty of parks around here. When I go to Florida and run outside my performance always suffers due to the heat. If I ever hope to participate in a 5k, I'll need to improve this. I've decided to incrementally increase the difficulty of my runs. We'll see how this works out. Each week I plan on adding an extra half of a kilometer. Last week I was running two kilometers, walking one, and running the final two. This week I will be running two and a half kilometers, walking one, and running the final one and a half. I hope to keep this up until I can run 5k without stopping. I may have to extend some of the intervals, but one can hope.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted. On Wednesday I should be increasing my weights, I'll let you know how it goes.
Tuesday
Similar to how I'm increasing the difficulty of my runs, I am also increasing the resistance of my eliptical exercises. I am now up to resistance eight and I can definitely feel that. Other than that, the first part of my day was pretty standard fare. I also decided to up the weights of my squats. I warmed up with 55 pounds and did two sets of 80. At first I was hesitant of doing weights because they weren't that much fun, but I must admit they are growing on me. I talked last week how I felt a lack of focus on the leg days. Today I started to rectify this.
After doing the squats, I decided to do lunges with the weights on my shoulder. I did three sets of 55 pounds on each side. The first set went well. I think I did the second set too soon after the first as I started to feel light headed. I walked two laps around the track before I completed my set of three. I think I will start doing two laps around the track before going on to the next set. The next exercise was a leg lift machine. The machine is a free weight machine and after being shown how to use it, I put 115 pounds on each side. Basically I'm sitting at a 45 degree angle and lifting the weight upwards. I did three sets of ten and plan on increasing the weight next time. The other one was a machine that made me do a squat at 45 degrees. I did 35 pounds on each side for this one. Once again I'll increase next time. Now I want to find some good abdominal exercises to add to this day and I think I'll be set. Any suggestions?
On a side note, I think I will check with my gym to see if they will let me take pictures of the gym for this blog. It should give you a better idea of what I'm doing. Cya!
M.G. Farmer
Chapter 3: The Master Bedroom
The master bedroom is actually one of the better looking rooms in the house. All it really needed was the floors vacuumed and the clothes put up. I'm going to try and keep the bed made, but that probably won't last long. We don't do tours of our house, and it's going to get unmade anyways. Also, since it's the bedroom we don't have a lot of people hanging out in it (at least we better not!).
Anyways, the vacuum we had was kind of old and was not sucking as much as it used to. We bought a new vacuum that was designed to pick up pet hair. I'm really surprised at how much hair was in that carpet. I think we could have built another Trixie out of that hair. Eventually we're going to tear up the carpet in that room. The previous owners of the house put carpet over the hardwood floors. With very little work we will have hardwood floors in the bedroom which should make it easier to clean. Here are some before and after pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Before:
After:
Anyways, the vacuum we had was kind of old and was not sucking as much as it used to. We bought a new vacuum that was designed to pick up pet hair. I'm really surprised at how much hair was in that carpet. I think we could have built another Trixie out of that hair. Eventually we're going to tear up the carpet in that room. The previous owners of the house put carpet over the hardwood floors. With very little work we will have hardwood floors in the bedroom which should make it easier to clean. Here are some before and after pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Before:
After:
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Chapter 2: Working Out and Diet - Week 1 (Part 3)
Thursday
I had a good workout today. I think I need to keep working out around 11 am. If I go later, I start running into meetings and other random things start to occur. I think 11 am is generally quiet because you have the beginnings of lunch. Anyways...
First up was the eliptical machines. They are a nice change of pace from running because I work up just as much sweat, but I don't get out of breath as easily. I use the pre-programmed fat burner workout. Basically you start off at an incline of 4ish for two intervals (an interval is two minutes when doing 30 minutes). Then you go up to an incline of 8ish for two intervals, down for two, up for three, down for two, etc. I've also been gradually increasing my resistance and am up to a seven.
Today was leg day when it came to weights. I need to find some better exercises for this. For a leg day there isn't a whole lot of leg. Anyways, I start off with squats. Using a standard bar, I do a set of 10 at 55 pounds on each side. Afterwards, I do two sets of 10 at 70 pounds. Once this exercise is done I start to feel a bit lost. I want to incorporate more leg exercises and more ab work. Today I did 50 crunches (although I think I was doing them wrong. My stomach should be killing me now). I then randomly visited machines until it was time to go. It wasn't that I had a bad work out, but it seemed like I lacked focus. Anyways, I guess I need to do some research on this.
The food today was standard. Yesterday I made tacos and they were very good. I was also proud that I had left overs today. I still think I ate too much, but I'm making progress (last time I ate the whole batch). I'm glad that, for the most part, I like left overs. It's nice not to have to cook (although I need to start cooking more, my fiance has been doing the lioness' share of the work. Sorry dear!). I think I will cook next week. The question is what should I cook... Hmm.... This will take some thought. Anyways, I tried an experiment today that worked at well. I had a peanut butter and jelly burrito for lunch today! I used the tortillas I bought for tacos. It was good, but not as filling as a normal sandwich. I think I will switch back to the sandwiches. Only 30 more calories and I feel fuller. I think that is pretty much it for today. See ya tomorrow!
M.G. Farmer
I had a good workout today. I think I need to keep working out around 11 am. If I go later, I start running into meetings and other random things start to occur. I think 11 am is generally quiet because you have the beginnings of lunch. Anyways...
First up was the eliptical machines. They are a nice change of pace from running because I work up just as much sweat, but I don't get out of breath as easily. I use the pre-programmed fat burner workout. Basically you start off at an incline of 4ish for two intervals (an interval is two minutes when doing 30 minutes). Then you go up to an incline of 8ish for two intervals, down for two, up for three, down for two, etc. I've also been gradually increasing my resistance and am up to a seven.
Today was leg day when it came to weights. I need to find some better exercises for this. For a leg day there isn't a whole lot of leg. Anyways, I start off with squats. Using a standard bar, I do a set of 10 at 55 pounds on each side. Afterwards, I do two sets of 10 at 70 pounds. Once this exercise is done I start to feel a bit lost. I want to incorporate more leg exercises and more ab work. Today I did 50 crunches (although I think I was doing them wrong. My stomach should be killing me now). I then randomly visited machines until it was time to go. It wasn't that I had a bad work out, but it seemed like I lacked focus. Anyways, I guess I need to do some research on this.
The food today was standard. Yesterday I made tacos and they were very good. I was also proud that I had left overs today. I still think I ate too much, but I'm making progress (last time I ate the whole batch). I'm glad that, for the most part, I like left overs. It's nice not to have to cook (although I need to start cooking more, my fiance has been doing the lioness' share of the work. Sorry dear!). I think I will cook next week. The question is what should I cook... Hmm.... This will take some thought. Anyways, I tried an experiment today that worked at well. I had a peanut butter and jelly burrito for lunch today! I used the tortillas I bought for tacos. It was good, but not as filling as a normal sandwich. I think I will switch back to the sandwiches. Only 30 more calories and I feel fuller. I think that is pretty much it for today. See ya tomorrow!
M.G. Farmer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Chapter 2: Working Out and Diet - Week 1 (Part 2)
Wednesday
It turns out that today was the birthday of one of my co-workers. We decided to go out for lunch. It was a blast and very enjoyable. However, this meant that I was not able to work out (had to work a little later and had chores around the house). I am proud to report that I can still eat out on Friday. I did not eat a single piece of food at the restaurant. It was Mexican and I love Mexican. Anyways, this one is short and sweet (like yogurt!). Cya!
M.G. Farmer
It turns out that today was the birthday of one of my co-workers. We decided to go out for lunch. It was a blast and very enjoyable. However, this meant that I was not able to work out (had to work a little later and had chores around the house). I am proud to report that I can still eat out on Friday. I did not eat a single piece of food at the restaurant. It was Mexican and I love Mexican. Anyways, this one is short and sweet (like yogurt!). Cya!
M.G. Farmer
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