Joshuaseu's Training log for 61 day challenge

[joshuaseu]

Current wt 255lbs
Measurements : (have to get from home, then i'll edit this in)


Nutrition Goals:
from the research I've done, i need to eat 1900 calories a day for fat loss. So my goal for this is to maintain approximately 100+/- calories

Fitness Goal:
1) I began biking to work (1.5 miles) last week, i want to maintain this 4 times (to work in morning, home for lunch, back to work, then home for day) at least 4 days a week, with rain, hail, tornadoes, etc. being resonable excuses to drive. i will also allow myself to share rides, e.g. if i only ride two times one day, as long as the one day i could have driven, i ride two times, then i'll still meet my goal. this is not transferable from week to week though, if i ride five days a week, 4 times a day, for 4 weeks, i can't take a whole week off.

2) I'm currently doing the fat loss workouts, in NROL, and i want to stick to this 3 days a week. i generally workout on M,W,F, but will allow one week off during the 61 days, as i am on scedule for one june 27-july 2 (going fishing in minnesota at that time, well deserved break i think, but we use row boats and do a lot of 4 wheeling and dirt biking, so i'll still be getting a good workout)

Personal goals:
1) I'd like to lose 10 lbs

2) at last measurement (about three weeks ago) i had lost 12 inches i believe overall, by the end of this, I'd like to increase that to 20 inches overall

3) catch at least a 3 lbs walleye, at least a 30 inch northern, and at least a 3 pound bass while fishing (is this a realistic goal? or an uncountable personal goal?:p either way, i'm hoping for it)


Competetive goal:

Don't know yet, will have to do some research and see what's available

[joshuaseu]

Well, guess i'll get started to get the habit in place,

• breakfast: whole grain cereal with skim milk, 15grams protein powder, green tea, water
• rode bike to work
• snack large carrot
• have had about 40 ounces of water so far

They will not all be detailed as i will not post over weekends, but i will try and post while at work, and give a synopsis of weekends or nonpost days when i can.

• lunch - 2 eggs, 2 sausage links, 2 bacon, water (all you can eat buffet at country kitchen paid for by my work, i think i did ok considering i could have had all you can eat, i think the food temptation devil must have known i was starting this up today, darn them)
• rode bike home for a break
• rode bike back to work

Also i take some omega 3 supplements, vit C, glutamine, arginine-lysine, goat weed, and a multi vit 4-5 days a week.

and it wouldn't let me edit my first post after i started the second, so here are my measurements

Start is october of 2006 at 255 lbs, i wasn't very regular with any kind of routine until end of february, but i didn't measure myself then, but it was probably pretty close to october's measurements, and now is today.

chest start 47 1/2 Now
waist start 47 Now
hips start 50 Now
biceps start R 17 L 17 Now R L
thighs start R 27 L 27 1/2 Now R L

[joshuaseu]

doesn't give you much time to edit does it.

Now measurements

Chest 49
waist 45
hips 48
bicep L 18 R 18 1/2
Thigh L 27 R 28

and had an apple for a snack

[joshuaseu]

Some edits for my goals

Nutrition goal

1. I'm going to change my format here, to one along the lines of others i have seen, i want to maintain clean eating for 110 points. if i give myself credit for something, and someone disagrees with it, then let me konw and i'll reevaluate it.

Personal goal (no, i'm not changeing the fishing one)

1. for inches lost, i'm going to revise this to 10 positive inches. e.g. if i lose 5 inches from waist and 2 from hips ( fat loss ) and gain an inch to my biceps and thighs (muscle gain ) then that will be a total of 11 inches of positive changes and i will have exceeded my goal

Competetive goal

1. Still looking

[msmozrt]

Good luck with the challenge!

[joshuaseu]

• rode bike back home
• snack yogurt
• supper 10 oz pork steak grilled, fat trimmed, grilled green pepper stuffed with diced carrots and barbecue sauce, nig glass green tea unsweetened and water
• walked a 2 mile track pushing one kid in stroller and chasing other on his big wheel, lots of back tracking, prob went about 2.25 miles
• snack artichoke with tablespoon butter, water

well that's gonna be the day, i made my goal of riding, i think i ate pretty well for the day, and i got some extra exercise in with family included, so i'd say it was a good day.

Tommorow, i'm not working, so i'll ride my bike to the gym, work out (make an increase in at least two areas, my permanent workout goal), ride home, continue to eat clean, maybe take my bike to the track and go around once to get up to around 6 miles i would have gone for work. here's hoping for success for me.

[joshuaseu]

June 1st

• breakfast - green pepper, garlic clove, 5 shrinp, sauteed in tbs olive oil, two eggs and sandwhich size slice of colbyjack cheese, green tea, water
• rode bike for 2 miles this morning
• added log to sig this morning
• check in done for week 1

[joshuaseu]

Well, for the rest of thday i did well until supper, we went fishing, and caught a nice limit, and i caved in and had to fry them. i fried tem in olive oil at least with just a light dusting of flour and seasoned salt, and had two light beers. but other then tht, i met the goals for the day, including getting in a good workout and upping my squat and push press.

so i guess i lost a point for supper.

tommorow i have a volunteer project at church, it'll be a lot of yard work, digging trenches, pruning trees, and it'll take about 5 hours. then to a wedding in the afternoon.

i'd like to try and maintain clean eating again, ( i don't care for cake, so that should ot be a problem at the wedding, and they're not serving any other foods.)

[lance02]

Good luck in the challenge! Yard work is good physical exercise, and volunteering is also a great thing. Keep it up!

[joshuaseu]

bad - ate well most of the weekend, family ordered pizza one day, but i ate very clean the rest of the day and when it came i drank a lot of water beforehand, and was happy with two of the smallest pieces and one beer.

real bad - found out my brother was crushed under a pile of dirt on his job site and fractured his pelvis, so that's been a little bit of a stressor, he lives about 7 hours from me, so i'm going to go down and help him out this weekend.

good - got the volunteer thing done, worked hard for about a 9 hour day, the wedding went well, only had a bite of wifes cake. then went fishing, did a lot of walking, and caught a 24" long catfish. (woohoo) long fight with that one. and then the next day i got a 19" bass. (another woohoo) i

good - brother inlaw's family was there as well, he has a spanish wife, so we ate real tacos and fajita's, lot's of fresh vegetables, i went sparing on the tortilla's, and stuck to mostly meat and vegies.

good - got in my workout friday and some more biking and walking over the weekend.

good - woke up this morning and am down 5 pounds from last monday (another woohoo) i think this biking to and from work is paying off

[joshuaseu]

monday was great, ate great all day, got my workout squeezed in, albeit not until 9pm, but i got it, rode to and from work both times. got in some good time with the kids and wife. and talked to my mom and brother. good day all around, all goals met.

[joshuaseu]

Alright, learning as i go here. i'm going to use a format i see people using that i like to keep up to date on my goal progress.

Nutrition 8/10 / 110
Bike rides (one trip, from home to work, and back again is one point) 4/4 / 64
workouts 2/2 / 26
wt loss 5/10
inches change ?/10
Fish caught 1/3 (got the 3 pound bass)

[joshuaseu]

Nutrition 9/11 110
Wife wanted pizza and ice cream for supper last night, but i only had a single slice of pizza and we split a small cone, i didn't eat any of the cone

bike rides 5/5 64
thought i might miss this one this morning because it was pouring rain, but when i was ready to leave, it stopped and the skies cleared up, made it all the way in and it was a cool crisp ride to boot

weight 6/10
lost another pound this morning

[joshuaseu]

Nutrition 10/11 110

Bike Rides 6/6 64

Workouts 3/3 24

had to go to bed early, up at 0230 to head into work, today might get messed up a little bit, drove in this morning, try and make up the rides later in the day, gotta work a long day, then this afternoon heading to arkansas to help out brother. so, if i don't get rides in today, i'll prob miss this one this week, unless i can find a bike down there to ride. found a good body wt exercise program to do for friday and monday's lift's while i'm there, so i can stay on top of that.

[joshuaseu]

Alright, let's tally up the damage from the weekend

Nutrition 15/23 (-8) goal 110/122 points (12 points free)

Bike rides 10/15 (-5) goal 64/86 rides (22 that i can drive)

Workouts 4/5 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days

As i said in the check-in section, had a lot of pasta's, white breads, pizza, mainly for suppers, i was very careful about portion sizes and kept that under control, but i was not clean by any means.

There was no bike down there, and i didn't bring mine, but i'm going to give myself credit for 2 rides, one for cleaning out his truck, did the full service, vaccuming, shampoo'd carpets, armor all'd, washed and waxed the outside. so that's one. and the second, i spent a few hours packing his stuff and carrying out furniture, bed's, tv's, etc, and worked up a good sweat. that was probably more d/t the 90 degree 90% humidity though.

and i got in one body wt workout, the next workout day was monday, but i was on the road coming home, so, i ddin't get it squeezed in, but i plan on making it up by swithing my days to Tues, Thurs, Sat this week, and get caught back up, but until then, i'm gonna count one against myself to give me more motivation to stick to what i'm saying.

[joshuaseu]

Nutrition 19/27 (-8) goal 110/122 points (12 points free)going wellsince back from vacation, but the wife wants to go to des moines saturday to go out with her family, gonna have to be strong.

Bike rides 14/17 (-3) goal 64/86 rides (22 i can drive)made up a few rides yesterday, needed to go to grocery store after work, so i rode instead of drove, and tuesday, i took kids out to park and rode around track with them. so cut my defecit to 3 from 5)

Workouts 5/6 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days - holy cow, took to many days away from the gym, then tried to come in and increase my wt's by the same margin i'd been able to before, and it wiped me out, didn't even finish my final sets cause it hurt to much to pick the wt up, and today, my legs are sore, my chest and back are sore. my leg's were so sore getting out of bed, i was worried about riding my bike to work, but once i got on, it amazes me, it's like, what i needed, they're a little sore at first, but working them like that get's the blood flowing, and by the time i get to work, they feel much better then when i get out of bed, still a little sore, but much better. today i'm going to be starting a new lifting routine, so i'm prob gonna be in for a few days of soreness.

[joshuaseu]

Made a mistake this morning, wanted more then a bowl of cereal before taking off for work, so i made myself a couple eggs with cheese, then went out and got on my bike and realized the mistake i'd made. i was sluggish, almost went down once, even. and it was slow going, i know it took me a good 4-5 minutes longer then usual. kind of a downer from yesterday's good things, but, i still made it. stinkin bike is giving me some nasty callous/blisters on my palms as well, gonna get some gloves this weekend, and a helmet, car's don't look very hard for bikes. and i'm going in to get my bike fitted proffesionally, cause i'v gotten rid of the back pain, but now i'm leaning way to hard on the handle bars.

nutrition 21/29 (-8) goal 110/122 points (12 points free)

Bike rides 16/19 (-3) goal 64/86 rides (22 i can drive) yesterday i took a different route, had some huge downhills, some offroad, even a jump, and i cleared through all of it, the jump rattled me a little bit, but this is quite a lot of weight to get propelling through the air on a large jagged piece of metal, so, i was happy i didn't wipe out.

Workouts 6/7 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days

[James Newman]

You definitely need to get your bike properly umm.. yeah, I don't know the word but you know what I am talking about. How is your brother doing? What are you looking at for your new lifting routine?

Newman