Posted on 19th July 2010 by Ben Krasner in Health & Fitness
Physical Fitness, Weight Loss
Okay so this is the first Monday following our first week of our newly found active spirit and it’s time for me to weigh in to start tracking the data. My goal is to step on the scale every Monday morning to see where I’m at. I’ll store the data in Excel and generate a line chart just for kicks.
So, today I step on the scale and… 227 lbs. That’s my starting point. I know I’ve been both lighter than that and heavier than that within the past few months but this is the official number I’m using after apparently putting on a number of pounds in just the previous month or two. That’s pretty nasty, really. A great weight if I was a fullback for a college football team – don’t I wish! Not such a great weight when just a couple of months ago I was 209 and heading below that… and that without a regular exercise program in place at the time.
I’m actually guessing that I may stay at that weight for a week or so while I work out. Considering how out of shape I am I’m not physically able to work out with any gusto for more than about 40 minutes in any single workout before being exhausted. Plus, I would expect that I might gain muscle back that I have clearly lost and replaced with a squishier, jigglier substance, and that muscle will be more dense and heavy. We’ll see, but I don’t think I can burn off enough fat during this early stage of working out to lose a lot on the scale in short order. I’m okay with that, as long as I am getting back into shape and can accomplish more while running, exercising and lifting.
And, with that, I’m off!
Posted on 19th July 2010 by Ben Krasner in Day to Day Goodies | Health & Fitness
Healthy Kids Healthy Weight Run, Physical Fitness, Weight Loss
The results from yesterday’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight Run/Walk were posted, today. They broke down the results by just about every category you would want; be it male/female or age group. As I had written in my race recap, yesterday, They also had given us all a chip to attach to our shoes which allows everyone to get a specific time on their run, rather than just a gun time. So I was able to see exactly how I stacked up against the rest of the race participants.
Here are The results of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight Run/Walk. If you click on the male age group of 30-34 you will see my result – in all of it’s baseline glory. There were 16 participants in my age group and I finished dead last. My chip time (so the total time it took my chip to cross both the starting line and the finish line) was 40:21 – yikes. That’s over 40 minutes to travel 3 miles by jogging and walking. I finished 187th out of 234… Let’s cut this short and just say there’s a lot of room for improvement. This was pretty much the exact baseline I thought I would see but needed confirmed. I am way out of shape and need to keep this effort in the forefront of my mind at all times, right now.
Every day I am asking myself, the following questions:
- Is today one of the minimum 5 days this week where I work out?
- What will I do for my work out?
- When will I work out?
… and while that doesn’t sound like much, it’s a big step forward. That’s the first and last time I ever finish last in anything that I try – period.
