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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
The good news: I filled all of my Apple Fitness rings this week, and every day I exceeded my move goal by at least 50%.
The bad news: any calories lost to exercise were easily regained with a vengeance by an endless parade of vacation food and alcoholic beverages.
I’m going to try to trick myself into thinking it’s not that bad by weighing myself when I get home and then seeing what it is again in the morning so the number goes down slightly.
How do y’all maintain your exercise patterns with colder weather? Maybe it’s because I only bike and don’t go to a gym, but once the weather turns my consistency falls apart. The sad thing is I don’t even live somewhere cold enough where snow or anything is a concern, I’m just lacking in will power apparently!
I maintain my schedule by having a variety of exercises that i enjoy doing just to ensure my exercise habit doesn't fall through. Which, i recognize might not be something youre willing to diversify.
It does help though, and keeps things interesting. I also bought a super cheap (99CAD) bike trainer that i plop down in the living room and watch a movie with. Its called a Tacx
I’m struggling with that this year but the past three years I easily worked out in the cold. I would even do the sauna and then go out to the cold right away.
You are completely right, what works for me is two things, when I feel that it is cold outside, I ask myself "Would an athlete skip just because it's cold?", and the answer is always no, which means if I want to be an athlete I have to behave like one.
Second thing is to always force myself to warm up at home, this makes me mentally prepared removing the feel of not wanting to go, and helps with the cold outside.
My ideal weight seems to be about 8kg less than my current weight, both according to BMI and waist circumference measurements. I didn't do any proper body fat measurements yet though, perhaps I should.
So I started experimenting a 16:8 and 18:6 type of fasting. That is, eat for 6 or 8 hours, then restrain from taking any calories for 16 or 18 hours. I do the 16 hour thing on passive days, and the 18 hour thing on active days.
Feels like it might be working. I'm down 3kg from my peak weight and it's not feeling too horrible. We'll see if I can keep it up.
I also started doing ITF Taekwondo (or like they want to call it "Taekwon-Do"). Perhaps the 6th or 7th budo sport I've tried in my life. It seems fine, and might a be a good fit for me since I really like kicking and the mobility that kind of practice gives you. The philosophy of the sport has some eyebrow-raising facets, like the fact that it was founded by a north korean general, or how they strive to differentiate from the other Taekwondo side with silly things like changed spelling of the word. But hey, I also drive a car by a manufacturer whose owner is publically a fascist, so perhaps I can bear this one too.
Im off of work as of today which means its climb time! I kicked it off prematurely by going on Wednesday to a new gym and just CRUSHING for three hours. Might have been the best session ive had in a year. They were almost literally prodding me with the broom to push me out, i still had energy and sent a dyno v5 that really should have been marked a 4, at the last minute. I still had energy and strength to keep going... and then i woke up yesterday! Just about everything was sore and bones were creaking.
I thought i was pretty good on climbing till friday(today) but then my friend wanted to go so i did. Turns out, i barely need an excuse. Some crazy forearm pains while trying stuff at my limits but in general i still felt really good. Even a couple of campusing runs on v2/3's and a 5.11+ route. All in all, not bad.
The potentially stupid part is that i plan on going again today. Mainly because fridays are a climbing day, but also just to say hello to some folks and do my ab routine. Take it easy, smoke a joint and just kind of poke at some problems. Starting off the month really well.