Thursday was the final day of my 50-day challenge to improve my fitness and leanness during the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's holidays. As I've written before, an ankle injury during the middle of the challenge may have slowed me down a little bit, but the positive effect was that I began hitting upper body very heavily in [...]
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Can't believe the 50-day holiday challenge is about over. I've had a great time. The bike accident, ankle re-injury, and subsequent time without biking, rowing, walking, or cardio machines slowed my fat loss a bit, but it had the positive effect of making me more gung-ho about my strength training. For a couple of weeks, [...] You know, I'm not sure I was counting the days in my 50-day challenge correctly before. But I don't have the patience to go back and change the titles of the previous posts . . . Thursday of last week was interesting. I wiped out on my bicycle (managed to drive my front tire into a [...] Statistics: my scale weight is down two pounds and my bodyfat percentage is down 1.5 points. Translation: I have burned 2.6 pounds of fat and gained 10 ounces of muscle since I began this 50-day holiday fitness challenge. Not bad, although I would like to have torched a little more fat. But the muscle is a [...] Time flies when you're having fun, yes? I'm 10 days into my holiday fitness challenge. Went cycling again today with my husband. The weather was beautiful, although the wind was pretty stiff. My legs were still tired from my leg workout at the gym two days ago and my ride yesterday. So tomorrow they'll get a [...] Once upon a time, I got some form of physical exercise every day. Free weights, walking, jogging, stair-climbing machine, etc. During that phase of life, I ate a relatively healthy diet but really didn't have to think about calories. My energy output (exercise) and input (food) were in balance. I'm striving for that ideal again. If [...] Had a great Thanksgiving, and today it was back to business. I worked legs and abs at the gym. There's a big chunk of leftover cheesecake in the refrigerator, and I found it didn't tempt me at all. It's liberating to feel that I'm in control and enjoying choosing the right things to eat. (But I [...] This is day 44 for me in Tom Venuto's 50-day holiday fitness challenge. I probably won't post every day, but I thought I'd write about some of my experiences along the way. Two months ago I was lamenting the fact that once again I had gotten out of shape and regained some of the weight that I [...] |
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