Well I bought a Mountain Bike today. Now, between Scotty, Robert, Jamie, and Jake we all have one. I think Jamie, Jake and I are gonna hit up the Grapevine Trails today and try them out, and maybe go down to Pennyrile next Saturday.
Hopefully this will allow all of us to be more active and get rid or some of our beer bellies that have been accumulated through the tasty delicious beer we enjoy so regularly.
More food posting for today, 7 Classic Handheld Meals Made Healthy. I really like Men’s Health emails, if I could just dedicate myself back to eating good and working out I would be set. Hopefully the McDonald’s Challenge will let me get in the right frame of mind. Day 10 and still no fast food. And I’ve only had Subway twice, and even then it was the veggie sub only.
This is more a personal bookmark for myself, but I thought a few November Challenge people might find it interesting as well: One Pot Meals and recepies.
Ran across this article about 20 Reasons to Drop 20 Pounds. I’ve been getting Men’s Health emails ever since I purchased the Abs Diet book a few months back. By the way, I’d suggest the Abs Diet book for you guys who are also joining in this challenge, as it has several great tasting recepies that are good for you.
Below is the complete list of 20 reasons (included for you lazy types):
1. Because you whine that you need to. Have you ever been wrong about anything?
2. Twenty pounds of warm human fat can refill every bottle in an empty case of beer, with enough left over to fill your blender.
3. The statement “There’s more of me to love” has an actual bedroom translation of “There’s more of me to endure.”
4. It’s not scaling Everest or writing the great American novel. You can do it in your spare time.
5. You’ll speak of toaster pastries the way you talk about that dirty blonde from the blues bar in Berkeley, another whiskey-soaked lament over a love too great to last.
6. It’s the difference between being thought of as jolly or witty.
7. You’ll lose weight everywhere, including the suprapubic fat pad at the base of your penis. So as your belly shrinks, something else appears to grow.
8. Decreased: your chances of developing heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression, back pain, impotence, gallstones, joint problems, high blood pressure, low sperm counts, and an impressive collection of prescription-drug bottles.
9. Increased: your chances of putting four fingers on a basketball rim.
10. You’ll literally get closer to women.
11. Holy sh– . . . abs!
12. Men who lose weight never have less sex. They may not have more, mind you, but they never have less.
13. You’ll shock the world at your local pool by being the only “big splash” champ to win the “little splash” crown.
14. Research shows that since you’ll have less weight propelling you into the windshield, you’ll also have less risk of dying when your car hits a semi.
15. Every time you pick up a 20-pound dumbbell, you’ll remember.
16. You’ll be able to reach even more places to scratch.
17. The clothing cliche: It’s liberating the first time your pants fall down by themselves.
18. More pullups, because there’s less to pull up.
19. Wait till you ride a WaveRunner, quad, or snowmobile when you’re 20 pounds lighter. Vroom, baby.
20. In our society, people respect weight loss. Even if you do nothing cool or interesting or memorable for the rest of your life, you’ll have done that.
Well, since a friend from high-school has taken an interest in getting in better shape, and I’ve been dragging my feet at getting back in better shape, I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon too (if that’s ok fellas).
Basically the challenge is no fast food for the month of November, I didn’t have fast food yesterday, so I’ll count that day as down. If I do fall into eating fast food before the month is over, I will donate $100 bucks to charity. You guys can post here for suggestions of charities, or I’ll watch the other threads and pick one of those suggestions.
P.S. Maybe this was just the motivation I needed.
Well, I decided to start back lifting and I decided to go with a Max-OT style workout. I modified it to fit a 3-day split that I like use when working out. Right now my first 4-week segment looks like this:
Day 1: Bench Press, Incline Bench Press, Tricep Pushdowns, Wrist Dumbbell Curls.
Day 2: Military Press, Side Lateral Raise (Dumbbells), Upright Row, Lat Pull-downs (front).
Day 3: Squats, Leg Press, Alternating Dumbbell Curls, Cable Curls.
I also do a 16-minute “Max-OT” style interval cardio workout on the recumbant bike. I’ll hopefully be posting updates every few weeks.
Well, I’ve been doing the boxing workout and running on alternating days at least 5 days a week, trying to do 6 times a week, for 17 days now. I’ve also started taking some vitamins from GNC as well as some Hydroxycut Caffeine-free. I don’t know how much I’ve lost, as I didn’t weigh and haven’t weighed yet. I feel like I’m losing some, and I feel much better. I think I am going to try to next week add getting up early and running around the block in the mornings to the workout routine and see if that works better. I am planning on going back to weight training at least one day a week with this boxing/running plan as well.
Well, so far I’ve been doing pretty good. I started a modified version of a boxing HOC training, as well as I’ve started running alternating days. I also invested in some vitamins and other supplements to help me, and maybe, with some determination, I will stay focused and motivated on this plan. I’m going to try to post updates at 5 day intervals on here just to track my progress. What started this new attempt and increased motivation? I saw an ad in FHM promoting this article, I read it, and decided it was time to do this right. Now I just need some good running shoes.