Fitness Bump

I do boot camp twice a week and currently am running at least once (sometimes more) a week....outside of boot camp. Over the winter, I was hitting the weight room a lot more in addition to boot camp, etc but I really don't need/want to get much bigger and I'm usually busier doing other activities in the warmer months so I've cut back on lifting quite a bit lately.

 

Burned 400 Calories at the gym today!

 

told you, sexy as hell. it's just good i left out the full body shot, or hipforums would have to collectively change its panties.

and now you're obligated to post a tomato selfie.

 

Yeah, I get that. I just thought that by going an entire week off keto you would lose your keto-adaptation. Generally with a weekly refeed you don't run this risk because of the short duration, but an entire week seems like you would feel like shit for a week or two coming off the off week.

I did the keto diet for 2 years with no refeeds. I was a pretty staunch proponent of it a year or two ago, but now I don't really see it as being any more effective (from a weight loss perspective) than any other kind of diet that pays attention to caloric intake... at least for me. I think with keto people simply eat less because they're more or less eliminating an entire macronutrient group. Plus people in long-term ketosis are generally glycogen depleted, so that will account for some of the weight loss seen as well. A lot of people seem to be lauding the ketogenic diet as a panacea of sorts, and from an overall health perspective that just might be the case. But from a metabolic perspective there seems to be no evidence that would support a metabolic advantage to being in a state of ketosis for most people. I would DEFINITELY recommend a ketogenic diet to somebody who is insulin resistant or pre-diabetic, though.

 

I'm pretty excited tonight. In just about 12 hours exactly, we run. I expect it to be a little tougher than normal. It's rained a lot lately. The course will be very muddy and treacherous. The creek we will have to run through for a while will probably have pretty high water due to flooding (if it's still even part of the course...I assume it will be). A cold front has set in. It will be 36 degrees over night. We will be completely soaked with mud/water in the first one minute tomorrow morning. I think this all plays well for me. This is going to be awesome!! Let the games begin.

 

If anyone cares to know, the race today was pretty brutal. It was soooo cold and windy outside and the water obstacles felt like they were filled with ice water...seriously.

I am very pleased with how I did. I started at the front of the gate, lead from the very start and only slipped to second for a very short time. That was on the first steep hill (and we're talking about going up and down ski hills). A dude passed me on that hill but I stuck to my game plan and kept my planned pace knowing he was going to pay for that hill. I passed him at the top and was never really challenged after that. I pulled away and finished way ahead of my heat. There were about 150 in my heat again...which started at 9:40. I left them, passed most of the 9:20 heat and finished the race in front of many of the runners in the 9:00 heat. Mission: fucking accomplished today!! Racing again in the morning.

 

I am quickly regaining my strength on all my lifts. I should be back to where I was pre-mono within the next week. At the moment I am eating below maintenance calories, so between 2,300-2,500 calories per day. This seems like a lot for cutting, but consider I burn about 3,000-3500 per day since I have a job where I am constantly moving on my feet.

 

18k steps

 

I guess some word spread about my last race and I've been asked if I'm interested in running some Tough Mudder races. Well...yeah....of course I'm interested. I've wanting to do that for a long time but haven't really found anyone who I felt was really dedicated enough to doing it with me. So now it sounds like maybe I'll have some new people to train with. I love those kinds of races so much....I don't even feel like I need to train much harder....I just want to go do it tomorrow.

 

19,406 steps
15km
4,826 calories burned
205 active minutes
59 floors

 

I was thinking about your posts yesterday. Is this something you're doing at work? Just wondering.

 

It's just my whole day according to my Fitbit hehe. So there's dog walking, pool playing, exercise. I don't wear it though when I go horse riding because I get all these steps I'm not really taking. But yeah, that's apparently my day by day effort. I like to at least get 15,000 steps a day. This doesn't happen on weekends though.

 

Ah....I see. The way the posts listed floors and steps made me wonder if you were running stair cases or something. I was thinking....wow....that's a lot of stairs!

 

Oh no lol that's just the undulation? of my walks with the dog. I'm not sure how it calculates the floors when I'm walking up a hill or something or if the GPS in the Fitbit can map that out for you because I can go back and trace it and it shows me a map of which streets I walked etc. maybe Google has used elevations to help that? I'm not sure lol. It's funny though because I don't feel like I did 50 flights of stairs, I used to run up a flight ten times and it felt completely different.

Also, I think for my stride, as I'm not tall lol, that the 15km might be an overexggerated guesstimate by my Fitbit though I added in my height and my step reach and that was its conclusion.

I should get a lot more steps playing pool but it seems the Fitbit had a hard time in counting my steps. When I first did it, I realized I walked a lot around the table but ever since its dropped off dramatically now I might only get a couple hundred steps for an hours play. Might be the way I hold my cue when I do walk because I have noticed if like, pushing a trolley in the supermarket, it does not count steps.

When I walk the dog I have lead in my right hand so I can swing my arm to register my steps.

I don't need the watch but I find it addictive. You are 300 steps away from another thousand so you push yourself for it. I know if I do my long 1hr, 5km walk, that's enough exercise for me to just continue doing what I'm doing. But I'm trying to get my mid section back to where it was pre America trip.

 

Got a weekend and late night job driving one of these things around town:



This'll work my lower body to death for sure!

 

I remember taking a ride in one of these things once. I forget who I was with, but we were definitely leaving the bar. I do remember laughing so hard during the ride that I almost peed my pants. Good times. Just looking at this picture and remembering that moment, is enough to make me giggle.

 

One of the trainers at my gym runs a 30 minute "Body Blast" class every Tuesday at 2pm. Because the class is held smack in the middle of the day, there is never more than three people who attend at one time. Luckily, today, I was the only one in the class.

Because I am at the gym several times per week, I very often see the guy who runs this class, and we frequently chat. He is a fairly muscular guy, has several tattoos on both arms, and quite a hard look about him. I don't think I've ever seen him smile. I really like his training style, however, because it is different than that of my own personal trainer. This particular fellow can get quite loud. Some people don't like to be yelled at when they are taking a class at the gym, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the other side of an argument with him, though.

Anyway, needless to say, I got my ass handed to me today. It isn't often that I feel like I am going to vomit after a workout, this maybe happens to me once or twice a month, but today I could actually feel the chunks rising in my throat. I managed to hold it together, but even now, I still feel a bit woozy.

Does anyone else ever feel like they are going to vomit after a workout? I'm not the biggest fan of feeling like I am going to vomit, but because it happens infrequently, I just deal with it, though I definitely wouldn't be pleased if I felt that way after every workout.

Oh, he also said that he was impressed with how toned my back looked, and that he could tell I have been training really hard. I have a minor insecurity when it comes to my back muscles, so that was a nice compliment to receive today.

 

I've never really had any issues with vomiting....even after super heavy work-outs and/or just eating before working out. There have been a couple of times during tough work-outs when I could kind of feel it during decline push-ups but....I just ate before getting there and it went away right after I got done with the push-ups.

Yesterday, I got to boot camp and the trainer casually asked me how it was going. I had a lot going on and said that I wasn't really feeling it but I was there. I've known her for a number of years. She stopped and said "I've never once heard you say you weren't feeling it!" I told her I was fine physically...just really busy. So she jokingly tells the group that since I said I wasn't feeling it, they were going to have to snap me out of it.....start running. Then they were giving me shit (each time I passed them) telling me it was my fault we had to run so much. I told them we would have had to run anyway and....if it was really something to teach some lesson....it wasn't really the right choice because this trainer knows I can run for a very long time. 10 or 15 minutes isn't a problem. Then we finished the night with sprints, which I got blamed for too. It was all in good fun though and funny if you were there.