Runner's High and Loose Skin.

Hey Blog2,

So anyway, I've been doing my jogs very consistently lately. Been getting six mile jogs in everyday and an eight in on fridays (which I'm going to be increasing next week). Except I don't run on Saturdays, or on Sundays. I've also been keeping up with my weight training, core strengthening, and in doing Spartacus. Although, Spartacus has been kind of suffering lately due to time frames and stuff. But, I'm still on the wagon and it's helping a lot to tone.

So, today I had the coolest feeling while I was running. I've felt this before, but never as cool feeling as I did today. I was running, and suddenly I got this rush and I felt like I could run forever. It was really cool, my body was feeling great, my legs felt light and I was ready to keep running on and on. I thought it felt really cool, and I'm starting to look forward to all of my runs now instead. If I don't get a run in, I feel distraught and depressed. I think they're the real binding factor when it comes to my exercise right now.

In my honest opinion, I feel like I could just do running. But, I know that I need strength, so myself and my good friend Scotsman (I'm going to call him that for now) have been lifting weights every tuesday and thursday. I can say that without his help, I'd be nowhere in terms of my lifting. He has been my spotter and helped me push beyond my limits, which has left me getting stronger and more tone. I've got pecs! WHAT?!

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I really do appreciate all of the help he's give me. I'm glad he's jumping onto the wagon with me and we're on kind of a path to become champs. He's already really buff though, he is just reclaiming his former glory is what I call it. It is really cool to not have to go at it alone either.

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So, in the title, I put loose skin, which is gross. Yeah, that's my problem right now as things stand. You see, I've been chubby my entire life, and so... when I lost sixty pounds over the last six to eight months all of that skin had to go somewhere. Well, it didn't go anywhere really... it kind of just stuck around. Since my body isn't really attuned to me being fit... it let all that skin kind of just chill there. So now it's all stupid and flab like... it's kind of gross when you think about it... and depict it in the way I did.

For the longest time, I thought it was fat, and then Scotsman pointed out to me that it was actually loose skin just sitting there. I was super disappointed... and distraught. Well, I do have a new found idea though, that I can get rid of it with hard work. Scotsman pointed out that it would take me about four months, but I decided I want to try and do it in two and a half. I even decided that for that time, I wont cut my hair, or shave till then (though... I think I'll probably cave and shave at least... it's really annoying). What I mean is, I wont cut my hair till I get tone in the mid-rif at least.

I do want to just tone all around though, but I really just want to get rid of the loose skin. It's gross... and I've got a lot of muscle and tone already built up from months of doing crunches and stuff. It's just taking a lot of time for my body to get use to not being... well... fat! Ha.

All in all, I just need time to get rid of this stuff. I'll get there eventually, I'm happy I'm more fit and healthier and stuff. In time, I'll be lookin' like Jason Momoa or Andy Whitfield (RIP Hero...).

So anyway, just thought I'd update you a bit Blog2 on what's going on. Grah! The road to become a champion is long and arduous! But feels good everyday!

Take it easy blog2.

Back on board.

Hey Blog 2,

So, I know it's been awhile since I've last updated. I've been a little busy with stuff, Senior Project, juggling life. Things like that, which have kept me from really coming around and updating how things are going. I should say that I went you before I went to blog 2, just thought I'd let you know. But that in no way means you're more special, you're probably just more interesting to visit than Blog for others.

So at any rate, I've gotten back on the wagon for working out. I've come down to about 200 pounds while I've been gone from you Blog 2. Which, I can blame LARP for that because it provides a really good cardio workout for an entire weekend. I've also been doing push-ups, pull-ups, and elevated crunches in the morning, day, and night. This has built quite a bit of muscle tone in my shoulders and chest. I've got PECKS! WHOA!

So at any rate, I've started Spartacus again. A friend of mine rekindled my need to get buff and look amazing. I'm on the road to victory, still, it's not like I've stopped. In fact, I just got back from my "In-between Spartacus Lifting/Cardio" workout. I know it's really late, and I should have done it earlier in the day... I like lifting at night because no one is around. So anyway, I'm still doing it.

But I took notice when I was finished, that I've still got a long way to go. I mean, I've lost about 50~60 pounds already, but I still look nowhere near where I can potentially be. There's still a lot of body fat there, and I need to work on getting rid of it with some serious fat burn.

I've got more protein, which is amazing, because that allows me to really do what I need to do. I'm working on a new system that is a little different from before, but not too far off. I'm going to start lifting, yes, lifting. Don't get me wrong though, I'm still going to be doing a lot of fat burning cardio. Here, let me break it down:

Monday:

Morning:

Six Mile Jog

Evening:

Spartacus Workout

Tuesday:

Morning:

Six Mile Jog

Evening:

Lifting

Jump Rope

Wednesday:

Morning:

Six Mile Jog

Evening:

Spartacus

Thursday:

Morning:

Six Mile Jog (Hopefully, these days are weird)

Evening:

Lifting

Jump Rope

Friday:

Morning:

Eight Mile Jog

Evening:

Spartacus

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So at any rate, on certain weekends, I'll be doing LARP as well. This should give me pretty good cardio on weekends, which are usually down time. It's going to be tough, but it should be awesome. They provide a lot of movement, and I sweat basically the entire weekend when I go out and do it. So it should help a lot.

Well, I'll update you soon Blog 2, I know I've said that in the past, but I'm for reals this time.

Oh, and a final note...

Bestie (I'm going to call her that for now), thinks I can't get an butt like Jason Momoa, so I'm going to try and prove her wrong. I've got a long way to go... my butt is nothing to brag about right now...

Wish me luck Blog 2!

I've done bad...

Hey Blog 2!

Uhm... I've been avoiding you lately. Not like I've been avoiding Blog, but... in another reason. Well, frankly, I've not been doing very good about keeping up with my exercises. I've been doing horrible, seriously... I'm ashamed of myself in that regard.

But I've been super busy with trying to maintain school, and my sanity... which I know sounds like an excuse, but it's really been that way. I know, I'm sorry...

The good news is, I'm going to hit it again real soon and hit it hard. I'm still eating well for the most part and still losing weight. I'm coming down to be 220, and when I hit the workouts again, that number will be SHREDDING.

So, just thought I'd update you there Blog 2... I've been doing so bad, but now that I've got some scope, I'm going to be hitting it hard again. Lets make this happen all right?

Well, I've got to get some rest, I'll be posting to you real soon Blog 2.

Later!

Slowly but surely.

Hey Blog 2!

Sorry for the neglect, I've been doing my job lately, just not very well. I can say that due to certain circumstances, I haven't been doing my jogs. However, I've been doing my Spartacus work-out stuff on a consistent basis. This is going to change though, I've just been up to a lot lately and it's been keeping me from getting really down to doing my jogs and core training... totally sucks butt!

But, I'm stepping up my jogs to six throughout the week, and eight on Fridays. This will give my body something to push forward for, as I feel like I need to get stronger if I plan on doing any marathon running at all. But also, I feel like my metabolism needs more of a boost, and the Spartacus alone doesn't do enough justice for my body. However, I've been doing a lot of upper body work and growing more muscle on my arms. This building of muscle has helped a lot and there's a noticeable change in how much leaner I'm looking.

What's totally unfortunate, is the fact that I'm running out of Protein Supplement. This totally sucks! Those things aren't really that cheap either, but I'll figure something out I guess. I'm really looking forward to the increase run distance, it's going to feel awesome. It's been awhile yeah, but I'm ready for this!

I definitely know that having consistent runs and Spartacus together gives a really good outcome, so I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. My deadline is not getting any further away, and I'm at a steady pace. So lets keep this going!

See you later Blog 2.

Spartacus Workout: Day One

Hey Blog!

So, this is a picture of me after I've finished off doing the first day of the Spartacus Workout. Lets just say, it was really tough, but it felt awesome! Seriously, it was the most I've ever sweat in my life and it was incredible. You can't tell with the shirt I'm wearing, but it was soaked, I know that's totally nasty... but it was actually a lot more fulfilling than it seems.

The workout itself is pretty intense, and it doesn't seem to stop. I took it kind of slow this time around, and went on something with it that my friend's mother told me earlier today:

"It's a marathon, not a sprint."

So, I kept it up on a slower pace rather than trying to go for a crap ton. I think I did it just about right, although I'm finding that my right knee is really giving me trouble and it's holding me back a bit. I don't know what's up with it, but it aches a bit every time I need to support my weight with it. I think I need to go get it checked, which I'll probably be doing pretty soon just to figure it out. It's irking me because it is making it tough to do some of the workouts I need to do.

I'll post some of the workouts I did probably tomorrow blog, I'm really tired after all that so I'm going to take off.

This is only day one of many Blog! Wish me luck!

Protein?!

Hey blog,

So this is me, several weeks into this with four months remaining left to lose about... 55 pounds. Well, at least... something like that. Although I do anticipate that I'll probably not reach One-Sixty... simply because I've got quite a bit of muscle mass going on. But, I'm making quite a bit of progress so far.

Recently, I found out I'm probably not getting enough protein in my diet, so with some instruction from my older sister I managed to pick up a package of whey protein. It's surprisingly good stuff, and I think it'll help a lot with my muscles constantly being pushed everyday. I think protein was a definite problem, as I've been doing a lot of jogging, bicycle riding, and core work and not getting enough protein to help rebuild after every hard day of work out.

I think this will help me get over a bit of a hump right now. I'm doing a lot of Cardio, and I noticed today my calves have shrunk an incredible amount, it's kind of insane! My legs are also toning out a bit, and I'm losing fat and it's replacing with muscle tone. It's really cool to be able to see an improvement everyday which is giving me a lot of confidence that I can truly do this by the end of the four months. Lets hope I can keep it up.

I've also managed to bicycle ride about 20.2 miles the other day. This is boding well, as I'm working myself to be able to bicycle ride to a beach near my house... by near... I mean 44 miles round trip. I'm honestly stoked about it, and I think I can pull it off. The scary thing about this trip is that there are these HUGE hills going out there, and one I know if is even hard to get up in a car. But... I think I can handle it.

"Go forward, and push yourself. Till the pain either kills you, or refines you into a champion"

Well, lets see how things go. I'll update in a little bit Blog 2!

Results results!

Hey Blog... erm... Blog two? Err... whatever...


So at any rate, there are noticeable differences in how I look since I started. Last week, I kind of let myself go, and didn't do much working out at all, I simply rested. But, as it turns out, that was all right for my body and it kind of needed it. So this weekend, I pushed a little to get it back into the swing of things. Here's what I did:

Saturday:

Fifteen-point-five mile bicycle ride to the Schwinn store in Fremont.

Agility Training with the jump rope and some slight boxing exercises.

Played Ninja with friends.

Sunday:

I went out with my buddies to the park to smack each other around with foam weapons and be nerds.

Monday:

Ten mile bicycle ride to the bank.


So, I've been a bit more active this weekend than I usually am on the weekends. On account of, weekends are usually my time of rest. But since I had a whole week to really rest up, it's good that I got the chance to do a little bit of activity this weekend instead. Although I'm a little disappointed I didn't get to do some jogging and core building yesterday night, it's all right, I did a lot that day.

Today, I wanted to start doing my morning Jog, Daytime bicycle ride, and Nighttime Jog. However, I ended up sleeping... a crap ton. I mean, I slept, and I didn't want to get up. I'd say it was good though, because it gave my body a chance to recover from the weekend more so than on Monday night's small sleep. But it didn't let my toe heal up, which by the way... has been being really odd and irritated. It didn't stop me from jogging today, but it's been bothering me a little bit.

So, right, the noticeable differences as a result of my work outs. So, my chest feels tighter, and my belly is coming down. My legs are toning and so is my back a bit, along with my butt... which... up till now has been somewhat of a worry for me. Not sure why. My arms aren't as jiggly... but they still are. But hey, that happens, baby steps. OH yeah... and my calves man. Overall, I'm excited to see things are going this direction. I'm excited for the new change of jogging time so that my metabolism throughout the day will stay up, I've already noticed that it has started to rise significantly. It's time to push up and keep on rollin'!

I'm pretty determined to keep this up, and it's turning out really well. I'm somewhat at a plateau in weight by number simply on the fact that my body is burning fat, but also building muscle at the same time with all of this stuff. It's awesome really, but I am noticing my body is still burning fat at a pretty good rate. My friend told me about doing a sauna idea where I go and sit in a sauna everyday to burn off water weight. Sounded like a good plan, but I don't think I can handle that... we'll see.

At any rate, I've got to do a jog in a few, take it easy Blog... er... Blog 2!

A new blog for a great new purpose.

Hey Blog!

Err, well, this is blog two I suppose. But it's really just the same blog, but at any rate... this blog will be for a different reason. For this blog, "Gunning for One-Sixty", I'm going to use it to depict some of the cool things I do while I go for my goal of losing seventy-five pounds by summer. So I'll be talking a lot about the things I do fitness wise, as well as use this blog to talk about the travels I might embark on. So, this blog, will probably have some more pictures than the other one will. The other one is a bit more of a personal journal thing, and this one is more of a... memoirs of my adventures thing... if that makes any sense?

So, I think I'm going to go on with this one and get it moving. So first off, I currently weigh 235 pounds. I look rather bulky, because I made the mistake of building muscle before burning off fat. My starting weight was 250 pounds, which I've managed to cut down significantly over the past several weeks. I've been getting more and more progressive with the types of work out I do everyday (although this week there's been a lot of rain... so I've been a little stuck on my jogs, and I hate treadmills).

On a typical week I will run every night, starting with Sunday, a total of four miles. Everyday, I try to get in about five miles on my bicycle, and occasionally I'll go further to reach a destination. The other day, I rode ten-point-four miles to get to Best Buy at Union Landing to get a pair of headphones. Meanwhile, I try to do as many body-weight workouts as possible after I do those runs. On Thursdays, I do an extra two miles because I usually drive home on Fridays and tend to miss out on doing a jog on that night, I also miss out on my jog on Wednesdays... but that's because I'm doing some stuff with friends.

At any rate, here's a more visual breakdown of what I'll be doing for the next several months (This will change over time so my body doesn't get routine with it).

Sunday:

Stretching.

Four mile jog
250 Crunches (50 reps, 5 sets)
50 Mix Crunches (Other types of crunches)
3x 30 second Side planks.
3x 60 second Straight planks.
75 Mountain Climbers (25 reps, 3 sets)
30 Squat thrusts (10 reps, 3 sets)

Monday:

Stretching in the morning and throughout the day.
30 Push-ups in the morning.

Five mile bicycle ride around mid-day.

Four mile jog at night.
250 Crunches (50 reps, 5 sets)
50 Mix Crunches (Other types of crunches)
3x 30 second Side planks.
3x 60 second Straight planks.
75 Mountain Climbers (25 reps, 3 sets)
30 Squat thrusts (10 reps, 3 sets)

Tuesday:

Stretching in the morning and throughout the day.

Five mile bicycle ride about mid-day.

Four mile jog at night.
250 Crunches (50 reps, 5 sets)
50 Mix Crunches (Other types of crunches)
3x 30 second Side planks.
3x 60 second Straight planks.
75 Mountain Climbers (25 reps, 3 sets)
30 Squat thrusts (10 reps, 3 sets)

Wednesday:

Stretching in the morning, throughout the day.

30 Push-ups in the morning.

Eat healthy, and take a day to rest.

Thursday:

Stretching in the morning and throughout the day.

Five mile bicycle ride about mid-day.

Six mile jog at night.
250 Crunches (50 reps, 5 sets)
50 Mix Crunches (Other types of crunches)
3x 30 second Side planks.
3x 60 second Straight planks.
75 Mountain Climbers (25 reps, 3 sets)
30 Squat thrusts (10 reps, 3 sets)

Friday:

Stretching in the morning and throughout the day.

30 Push-ups in the morning.

Five mile bicycle ride about mid-day.


Saturday:

Stretching in the morning and throughout the day.

Misc. Distance bicycle ride about mid-day (Most likely, might even do this with my sister).


End better visual here!

So anyway, I'll be doing a lot of exercising in the next several months. Lots of drinking water, lots of eating right. I'm working on a nutritional plan, but it's a little tough to accomplish when you live off of dormitory food. But, I think I can manage with this pretty well.

So anyway, I think that's quite a bit for the first post on my new Fitness blog. Take it easy blog!