thanks everyone!! glad I have company in the pain weeny department. am getting better at it, today I am experimenting with the pain of feeling just a little hungry!
I am going to start a daily posting of calories burned (gowearfit) and calories eaten (the daily plate), along with my daily scale weight and the calculated deficit.
so data from yesterday:
burned 2680
eaten 2078
deficit 602
scale weight 153.25
today, I also had calipers done. my percent body fat went from 26.7 to 26.1% during the month of december and all of the various holiday celebrations. I am thrilled. but it is time to kick it into a higher gear. time to enter the nutrition pain cave.
my A race 5k is on march 8th, and I would like to lose a pound a week. I want to run as close to 23:30 as I can, and 8-10 pounds of weight loss would make it oh so much easier.
I am also committed to posting my bench press progressions. I do these weekly with my coach, who does everything in kilograms. my goal is to be able to do at least one rep of 90 pounds by march 8th. if my fat loss goes well, I would also be happy with 6 reps of 85 pounds by march 8th. unfortunately, what I thought was a rep before I started working with the coach, turns out to be a partial rep. in competition, you actually have to touch the bar to your chest without bouncing it off your chest. unfortunately, I have very long arms and legs, which doesn't make for very effective bench pressing or squatting. I have to get that much stronger because of the physics involved. my coach said I am DEFINITELY not built to be a weightlifter, lol. but he is very impressed with my athleticism and my running, and has no doubt that I will achieve my running goals. what he has helped me build in leg strength and core has been nothing short of phenomenal. I can't tell you how much better I feel on the track now.
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