Bad genetics? Look, this is a definite NO. A complete cop-out. You know what bad genetics are? Being born without legs. A propensity to gain fat around your midsection is NOT bad genetics.
Got to the gym this morning by threatening myself, but it was good once there.
Duration 0:56:05
Number of Heart Beats 7020 beats
Recovery -10 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 93 bpm
Average Heart Rate 125 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 172 bpm
Standard Deviation 18.9 bpm
Distance 2.2 km
We did the usual circuit setup - 2 x weights machines, cardio session, machines, cardio, etc.
The first blip is five stair runs.
The second is a run around the block of industrial units that the gym is in.
The third is five runs up the steep sandy slope between the gym and the freeway. (The huge spike is when the pod came off my shoe…)
The fourth is another run around the building.
The fifth is 100 punches into the pads, run 30mx2 to the wall and back, 100 punches, run back to the wall, break (hold pads), 100 punches and the run.
Then inside to do a few situps, bum-lifts, bicycling and a plank.
VERY tired after that.
And I suspect we’ve got a lot more of this outside work coming up as we head into summer. The good news is that when we do that, we do weights in the Red Room (Nautilus gear). I love that room.
About a year ago I had a major shift in the way I thought about eating, and it has improved my health ever since.
The way I used to eat: I associated unhealthy food with pleasure, and healthy foods with pain.
I would think about that burger, fries, and milkshake all day. About how juicy and tasty it would be, how satisfied I would be afterwards, and how good it make me feel.
Isn’t this what most people do? They ‘reward’ themselves with chocolate cake when they have ‘been good’ or ‘deserve a break’, where the salad feels like punishment.
Sometimes after an especially hard day at work, when I was stressed out and exhausted, I would reward myself with some junk food. In a sense, I was using food like medication. The food was a drug I took to relieve stress!
That’s the fundamental problem. If you associate unhealthy foods with pleasure and healthy foods with pain, then eating right will always be difficult. Mentally, you are telling yourself that eating healthy food is a burden and hard to do, so what do you expect? Eventually, you will lose that battle of will power.
But then one day I was watching a Tony Robbins video, and he helped me make this shift in thinking…
The way I eat now: I associate unhealthy food with pain and healthy food with pleasure.
Have you ever noticed that after gorging yourself on that burger, fries, and shake…you feel a little bit tired? Have you ever had indigestion, and felt like a brick was lodged in your stomach?
These are the sort of feelings you can begin to associate with unhealthy food.
Tony Robbins took it a step further. He asked you to vividly imagine your heart and arteries being clogged, and showed you graphic images to imprint it in your brain.
Warning, clicking the links below can be disturbing if you have a weak stomach!
The next time you are thinking about eating that slice of pizza, with all the oil and fat dripping off of it, picture your arteries filling up with that fat like this. Picture a surgeon having to cut open your chest and putting a stint in your heart so that the blood can keep flowing. Try to find a picture that actually makes you feel a little bit sick.
If you vividly imagine these things, you can train yourself to actually feel pain (in the form of nausea or disgust) at the idea of eating unhealthy foods.
Similarly, you can train yourself to associate positive images with healthy food. Imagine yourself with tons of energy, ready to take on the world, and achieving high levels of productivity (making more money).
Start to think of your body like it was a super-sonic airplane that you fill with high-energy jet fuel. You wouldn’t pour sugar in the gas tank of such a marvelous machine, so why put it into your body?
Use whatever is motivating to you in particular and train yourself to recall that image any time you need it. Eventually, just bringing up that picture in your mind can cause the same emotions to flood your body. This will help you make the right decisions when eating.
Instead of using food to make you feel better, use it as a way to get energy, and you’ll see dramatic changes in your health over time!
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“SparkPeople is making the world a healthier place one person at a time.”
Yeah, sure they are. With advice like this:
Eating Less Calories than you Burn each Day.
Eat anything less than what you use each day (1500 cal BMR, 250 cal digestion= 1750), consistently, and you will lose weight. So, if you eat 1200 on this day (a 550 calorie deficit), and all week long like this, you will lose 1 pound (3500 calories) in about a week.
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Of course, the example above was just for simplicity. You can cut any number of calories from your diet (more or less than the 500 in the example) and you can burn more or less than the example illustrates. As long as you are consistent, your deficit will “add up” over time…and you’ll slim down.
What a load of absolute rubbish. I guess these ‘experts’ haven’t even heard of the idea of the body responding to famine conditions.
Rode to the gym, did an hour’s boxing, hadn’t do enough by the end so did six stair runs with pushups to break them up.
Shower, then a ride to Subiaco Oval, Woosha presser then ride home.
Drivers are idiots.
Over 1400 kcal expended. Nice. Apart from the SORE legs.
Oh yeah, had the skinfolds done. Started at 293, now down to 212, which means 8Kg of fat lost, even through the weight has only dropped a couple of kilos. Guess I’ve been building muscles!
Went to Launceston on the weekend with the Eagles, and while the hotel didn’t have a gym, I did end up doing about 2 1/2 hours walking on the Friday. Saturday was madness, and I did a fair bit of running around then as well.
I was just too exhausted to go to the gym yesterday. I wrote 8447 publishable words from last Monday through Sunday, which is a ridiculous amount, but all my editors were VERY happy with the results.
At the gym this morning. Went for a class, but no surprises, I was the only one there and it didn’t happen, so I was off to the treadmill again.
Didn’t have my ipod with me as I’d forgotten to transfer it to my gym back from my stuff I took to Tassie.
And, I’d forgotten my water bottle, and because I had mum’s car there, no spares in the car. Not going well.
But I hopped on the treadmill, did five minutes of warmup, and then pushed it up to 9.5km/h. Not fast by any means, but I did it for five minutes. Back to 5.5 for three minutes, then another five minutes at 9.5, before 10 minutes of 5.5 to cool down.
I really struggled towards the end of the second five minutes, really had to battle to not bring the speed down early. But I didn’t do it, which was a real positive.
After I’d finished, the woman who had been walking on the treadmill next to me to warmup pre-weights said something like “that looked like a real struggle”. And she was clearly right
I don’t see her too much anymore as she’s usually in early and I don’t go in too early much anymore, but we had a bit of a chat and she was “how much weight have you lost now?” I told her a couple of kilos and she said that I was clearly joking. I don’t think I am, that’s what it was last time I checked.
“Well, you’ve clearly lost them both from your face, if it’s right, but I don’t think it is” was the reply. So nice.
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This time I mean it. Too tired for now, so click the above link. It’ll keep you going until tomorrow.
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Got to the gym this morning by threatening myself, but it was good once there.
Duration 0:56:05
Number of Heart Beats 7020 beats
Recovery -10 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 93 bpm
Average Heart Rate 125 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 172 bpm
Standard Deviation 18.9 bpm
Distance 2.2 km
We did the usual circuit setup - 2 x weights machines, cardio session, machines, cardio, etc.
The first blip is five stair runs.
The second is a run around the block of industrial units that the gym is in.
The third is five runs up the steep sandy slope between the gym and the freeway. (The huge spike is when the pod came off my shoe…)
The fourth is another run around the building.
The fifth is 100 punches into the pads, run 30mx2 to the wall and back, 100 punches, run back to the wall, break (hold pads), 100 punches and the run.
Then inside to do a few situps, bum-lifts, bicycling and a plank.
VERY tired after that.
And I suspect we’ve got a lot more of this outside work coming up as we head into summer. The good news is that when we do that, we do weights in the Red Room (Nautilus gear). I love that room.
Quoted from http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/eating-for-energy-or-for-stress-relief.html:
If you want to see really really bad advice being put about as good info by experts, I’ve found a new winner.
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“SparkPeople is making the world a healthier place one person at a time.”
Yeah, sure they are. With advice like this:
What a load of absolute rubbish. I guess these ‘experts’ haven’t even heard of the idea of the body responding to famine conditions.
Halfwits.
Rode to the gym, did an hour’s boxing, hadn’t do enough by the end so did six stair runs with pushups to break them up.
Shower, then a ride to Subiaco Oval, Woosha presser then ride home.
Drivers are idiots.
Over 1400 kcal expended. Nice. Apart from the SORE legs.
Oh yeah, had the skinfolds done. Started at 293, now down to 212, which means 8Kg of fat lost, even through the weight has only dropped a couple of kilos. Guess I’ve been building muscles!
Looks like it is.
Went to Launceston on the weekend with the Eagles, and while the hotel didn’t have a gym, I did end up doing about 2 1/2 hours walking on the Friday. Saturday was madness, and I did a fair bit of running around then as well.
I was just too exhausted to go to the gym yesterday. I wrote 8447 publishable words from last Monday through Sunday, which is a ridiculous amount, but all my editors were VERY happy with the results.
At the gym this morning. Went for a class, but no surprises, I was the only one there and it didn’t happen, so I was off to the treadmill again.
Didn’t have my ipod with me as I’d forgotten to transfer it to my gym back from my stuff I took to Tassie.
And, I’d forgotten my water bottle, and because I had mum’s car there, no spares in the car. Not going well.
But I hopped on the treadmill, did five minutes of warmup, and then pushed it up to 9.5km/h. Not fast by any means, but I did it for five minutes. Back to 5.5 for three minutes, then another five minutes at 9.5, before 10 minutes of 5.5 to cool down.
I really struggled towards the end of the second five minutes, really had to battle to not bring the speed down early. But I didn’t do it, which was a real positive.
After I’d finished, the woman who had been walking on the treadmill next to me to warmup pre-weights said something like “that looked like a real struggle”. And she was clearly right
I don’t see her too much anymore as she’s usually in early and I don’t go in too early much anymore, but we had a bit of a chat and she was “how much weight have you lost now?” I told her a couple of kilos and she said that I was clearly joking. I don’t think I am, that’s what it was last time I checked.
“Well, you’ve clearly lost them both from your face, if it’s right, but I don’t think it is” was the reply. So nice.
Had a problem with the HRM the other day - it dropped out for a bit. I figured it was the batteries.
But then Cha had the same problem with her new one, and we wondered if it wasn’t tight enough, so we adjusted it, and it was fine.
So I adjusted mine, and no problems today. Took it in a couple of inches. Oh yeah, so nice.
No-one at the class again today, so I just did the treadmill, as I’m trying to get my running ability together.
5 minutes warmup, then
3 minutes walking @ 5.5
2 minutes jogging @ 9.0
Started at 4% for both (accidentally), then pulled it back to 2% about halfway through when I worked out why my calves were so sore…
Did the jog section six times then walked to cool down.
Time 54min
Max 174
Min 100
Ave 138
Cal 654
Happy with that.