No, that day number is not a typo.  I didn't lift yesterday, because I was travelling and when I got back the gyms were closed.  So rather than skip that lifting session, I'm shifting my weekly plan a day.  Now Monday will be a day off instead of Sunday, and I'll be lifting T-Th-Sa, and running W-F-Su.

On the plus side, it looks like the fitness ( Read more... )

8 weeks in, not much to report.  Seeing more noticeable increases in actual muscle mass, which is very rewarding, not really noticing much in cardio, but I haven't been timing myself, so maybe that has gotten better, I don't know.  I'm going to keep at the 3.5-4 mile runs I've been doing through the end of the 12 weeks, but after that may start ( Read more... )

Wow, 7 weeks done, and I've been keeping up with it well the whole time.  Well, I haven't been getting a new sheet to record the new week this past week, but I did record the weights I did on the old sheets, anyway.  Stayed over at my friend's place Friday night, and worked out in the fitness room there.  Nice, new stuff; Meridian may have some ( Read more... )

Good workout, but that's about all I can say for today.  Amazing how three friends can seriously let you down all in the course of about 6 hours.

But yeah, upping my weights on some more of my workout, though I think after my rapid progress on the bench press I've hit a plateau...hopefully it's not much of one because I'm still far from where I want ( Read more... )

Starting the 6th week of my workout, and boy is it feeling good.  I'm feeling more fit on my runs, and significantly stronger on my lifting.  I seem to be making a lot more progress in some areas of lifting than others; my back exercises (cable row and lat pulldown) haven't seen too much in the way of gains the way my chest, shoulder, and bicep ( ( Read more... )

So I go out for a nice run, a 4-mile loop in the area around my apartment, and boy is it hot and humid, despite it being evening. So I'm sweating like crazy, as might be expected.

Skip to the end of the run, stretching before going and resting for a bit, and I'm leaning forward to do some of the stretches. Some of my sweat from my forehead comes ( Read more... )

So I realized something today at the gym.  A very dramatic change has occurred at this point.  I *enjoy* going to the gym to lift.  After I started to feel and even slightly see the results of my working out I was glad that I went to the gym, and that kept me motivated and kept me going.  But now I actually like to do it, I look forward to it.  I ( Read more... )

So today was another running day, and I've got to say, Flogging Molly's "Drunken Lullabies" has a great beat to it for a good strong run, with an energetic melody to keep one going as well.  I wasn't quite able to keep that up the *whole* way, but a decent ways after that song was over and the next one started, and kept up a good pace.  I really ( Read more... )

So it's been 3 weeks now that I've been on this plan.  Really, the last day of the 3rd week was yesterday, since Sunday is a rest day, but it felt odd to put "done with 3 weeks" on day 20, so I waited until today ( Read more... )

Whew, well into my workout plan now, midway through week 3.  And I'm feeling great (physically, at least, problems as always in other aspects, but c'est la vie).  The problem at this point is where I'm going to work out.  I got transferred to a project that puts me on the client site most days, which is close to where I live but a ways from where I ( Read more... )