Will-ness Overtime Report - Week 5
Happy Not-So-Fat Tuesday, y’all!
Current Weight: 169.5 pounds
Weekly Loss: 1.5 pounds
TOTAL LOSS: 17.5 pounds
Calories Burned: 1107 calories
I’m finally back under 170 pounds and I am now officially “caught up” on all those missed calories. It really feels good to be completely back on track!
Tomorrow Lent starts, so it will be easier for me to not pig out since almost everyone I know will be restraining themselves calorically as well. However, things are starting to get very busy and it will be a challenge to continue to find the time and the energy to keep working out at the high level of activity that have been engaging in. Last night, I worked out for an hour and burned 527 calories, and last Friday I burned 458 calories in only 50 minutes. While an hour doesn’t seem like a long time to exercise, the time it takes to set up, change clothes, start the hear rate monitor, and then clean up and log my workout after I’m done makes that single hour turn into almost twice that amount in terms of my overall schedule. It wouldn’t be any faster if I went to the gym: commuting, parking, changing clothes, finding a good spot in class, taking class, cleaning up, showering, and getting out of the parking lot was never less than a 2.5 - 3 hour affair when I had the Gold’s Gym membership. If anything, exercising at home has made it a lot easier even though I don’t have the space to set anything up permanently. I can literally roll out of bed, throw on my gym clothes, lay down the exercise mat, turn on the Xbox, and start working out in less time than it would take to drive to the gym. Then I can hop in my own shower and get dressed in my own bedroom and not have to stand in line for a hair dryer or worry about what horrible foot fungus I might catch if I don’t wear flip flops. Still, there are days where I feel I don’t even have enough time for a quick 30 minute workout and those are the days I’m really going to have to either [A] buckle down and make the time that day, or [B] plan ahead and schedule myself for an extra long and/or intense workout on a different day that week to make up for not being able to work out that day. As it is, I’m averaging about 3 to 4 workouts a week - roughly every other day - but that nice neat schedule may need to be tweaked. If I can just continue to stay on track with my calorie-burning goal, I will be very happy and I’m certain that with regular exercise, the pounds will come off slowly but surely.
The latest addition to our Xbox Kinect game collection is “Power Up Heroes.” This game was developed by the same company (Ubisoft) that made “Your Shape: Fitness Evolved” and “Child of Eden.” The concept is right out of a comic book: an evil entity called Malignance has distributed alien power emitters to corruptible humans in an attempt to build an army to take over the earth. His nemesis, Volta, has made the ultimate sacrifice by crash landing on the earth and giving you his power emitter which turns you into a super hero. Your job is to fight the evil minions, and ultimately Malignance himself, using a combination of super powers and hand-to-hand combat. It’s a very physical game with lots of punching, kicking, dodging, and other physical gestures that wind up giving you a pretty intense workout. I also found it very useful for working out frustrations. Sometimes you just want to hit something (or someone) and beating up virtual bad guys is always preferable to hurting an actual human being or damaging an actual object. My arms are completely worn out from last night’s gaming, but I have no regrets given the extreme satisfaction I had of literally pounding all of my frustrations with the past few days into the ground. I don’t think I’ll be doing any weight lifting in the near future, however. That will have to wait at least a couple of days. ;)
Current Weight: 169.5 pounds
Weekly Loss: 1.5 pounds
TOTAL LOSS: 17.5 pounds
Calories Burned: 1107 calories
I’m finally back under 170 pounds and I am now officially “caught up” on all those missed calories. It really feels good to be completely back on track!
Tomorrow Lent starts, so it will be easier for me to not pig out since almost everyone I know will be restraining themselves calorically as well. However, things are starting to get very busy and it will be a challenge to continue to find the time and the energy to keep working out at the high level of activity that have been engaging in. Last night, I worked out for an hour and burned 527 calories, and last Friday I burned 458 calories in only 50 minutes. While an hour doesn’t seem like a long time to exercise, the time it takes to set up, change clothes, start the hear rate monitor, and then clean up and log my workout after I’m done makes that single hour turn into almost twice that amount in terms of my overall schedule. It wouldn’t be any faster if I went to the gym: commuting, parking, changing clothes, finding a good spot in class, taking class, cleaning up, showering, and getting out of the parking lot was never less than a 2.5 - 3 hour affair when I had the Gold’s Gym membership. If anything, exercising at home has made it a lot easier even though I don’t have the space to set anything up permanently. I can literally roll out of bed, throw on my gym clothes, lay down the exercise mat, turn on the Xbox, and start working out in less time than it would take to drive to the gym. Then I can hop in my own shower and get dressed in my own bedroom and not have to stand in line for a hair dryer or worry about what horrible foot fungus I might catch if I don’t wear flip flops. Still, there are days where I feel I don’t even have enough time for a quick 30 minute workout and those are the days I’m really going to have to either [A] buckle down and make the time that day, or [B] plan ahead and schedule myself for an extra long and/or intense workout on a different day that week to make up for not being able to work out that day. As it is, I’m averaging about 3 to 4 workouts a week - roughly every other day - but that nice neat schedule may need to be tweaked. If I can just continue to stay on track with my calorie-burning goal, I will be very happy and I’m certain that with regular exercise, the pounds will come off slowly but surely.
The latest addition to our Xbox Kinect game collection is “Power Up Heroes.” This game was developed by the same company (Ubisoft) that made “Your Shape: Fitness Evolved” and “Child of Eden.” The concept is right out of a comic book: an evil entity called Malignance has distributed alien power emitters to corruptible humans in an attempt to build an army to take over the earth. His nemesis, Volta, has made the ultimate sacrifice by crash landing on the earth and giving you his power emitter which turns you into a super hero. Your job is to fight the evil minions, and ultimately Malignance himself, using a combination of super powers and hand-to-hand combat. It’s a very physical game with lots of punching, kicking, dodging, and other physical gestures that wind up giving you a pretty intense workout. I also found it very useful for working out frustrations. Sometimes you just want to hit something (or someone) and beating up virtual bad guys is always preferable to hurting an actual human being or damaging an actual object. My arms are completely worn out from last night’s gaming, but I have no regrets given the extreme satisfaction I had of literally pounding all of my frustrations with the past few days into the ground. I don’t think I’ll be doing any weight lifting in the near future, however. That will have to wait at least a couple of days. ;)