Ladies, if you ask me any question at all re: cooking I'd be glad to answer it. I think Tamara is writing a great post about nutrition, and I'll probably link back to that and add my own thoughts when she's finished. I keep thinking about looking up some "beginner novice" friendly foodie sites for yall and then getting distracted - I have the attention span of a butterfly. Maybe tonight!
While I haven't been posting, I have been lifting weights and gimping along in my running!
Today's max weights were:
Deadlift 155x5
Bent-over row 115x5 (not sure if I'm doing these right, oh dear)
Military Press 65x5 (HELL YEAH I RULE)
Tuesday I ran outdoors, with the Cersei-dog, in the morning, then lifted in the afternoon. It showed, too - my squats sucked.
Squat 125x2 (down from 130x3 last week!)
Bench 85x5
Assisted Pullup - offset 130 lbs x3, then a break, then -130x4
I am quite happy with the gains I'm making, honestly. I have a bet going that I'll be able to squat and deadlift my body weight by early 2010, but as soon as I accomplish that, I'm going to try to cut my stupid belly fat without losing any of this hard-earned muscle. I don't look much different at a glance, but I have all these little rock-hard muscles everywhere! Yay!
Running - I made it to Week 4 on the c25k on the treadmill, then decided I'd just go run outside with my dog. Almost got heatstroke, discovered real running is completely unlike treadmill running, started over on that. It's a secondary goal. Like I said, I have an Internet Bet going and I can't lose my e-cred.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Wooo-DiJ
Thought I'd post with some happenings and some goals!
I've been pretty consistently running a 1.5 mile 'speed' day, and a 2.1 mile 'long day', and my times for each have dropped drastically. I started running a 13:40 1.5 mile, and around 19:50 for my two mile. I'm running, on average, 10-11 minute 1.5 mile times, and 17:20 two-mile time. Go me! I put in one three-mile run on pavement, and although my ankles were not a huge fan, I felt great afterward.
Yesterday I did my first sprint 'workout', where I ran around 100 meters as fast as possible, jogged back to the start, and repeated. Like most fitness aficionados, I love sprints. They burn more calories then jogging does, it keeps your heart rate and metabolism raised for much longer AFTER the work out, and just four repetitions of the 100 meters (plus a warm up run and a cool down run) had me EXHAUSTED and I'm sore everywhere. That's the thing about sprinting... it's great for the butt muscles as WELL as your core, your arms, your back.... everything hurts after sprinting. ;) Sprinting engages the butt muscles, where as jogging really doesn't. Sigh. I'm going to try to sprint twice a week, so we'll see how that goes.
I really want to run a 5K race in decent time, and I actually looked up some events in my area today... and found a few that might be do-able.
I have really slacked on my resistance training however, and I need to get back into doing my situps/pushups/weights. Running is nice for cardio, but my arms look great when I'm pumping my iron. ;)
Funder, I think you're going to have to teach Andrea AND me how to cook! :P
I've been pretty consistently running a 1.5 mile 'speed' day, and a 2.1 mile 'long day', and my times for each have dropped drastically. I started running a 13:40 1.5 mile, and around 19:50 for my two mile. I'm running, on average, 10-11 minute 1.5 mile times, and 17:20 two-mile time. Go me! I put in one three-mile run on pavement, and although my ankles were not a huge fan, I felt great afterward.
Yesterday I did my first sprint 'workout', where I ran around 100 meters as fast as possible, jogged back to the start, and repeated. Like most fitness aficionados, I love sprints. They burn more calories then jogging does, it keeps your heart rate and metabolism raised for much longer AFTER the work out, and just four repetitions of the 100 meters (plus a warm up run and a cool down run) had me EXHAUSTED and I'm sore everywhere. That's the thing about sprinting... it's great for the butt muscles as WELL as your core, your arms, your back.... everything hurts after sprinting. ;) Sprinting engages the butt muscles, where as jogging really doesn't. Sigh. I'm going to try to sprint twice a week, so we'll see how that goes.
I really want to run a 5K race in decent time, and I actually looked up some events in my area today... and found a few that might be do-able.
I have really slacked on my resistance training however, and I need to get back into doing my situps/pushups/weights. Running is nice for cardio, but my arms look great when I'm pumping my iron. ;)
Funder, I think you're going to have to teach Andrea AND me how to cook! :P
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