Friday the weight-in went just as I suspected it would. sadly no boner was had, but I have some good results to report to both on my readers. I started the month at 211 lbs now I’m at 205 lbs. A Six pound loss in a month isn’t too bad. It’s not great either, I was hoping for more but I take what I can get.
When I arrived home Friday after the gym. I was unpacking my gym bag and noticed that I couldn’t find my ipod. First I checked the car and the shorts I was wearing. Then I just assumed that I must have put it in my locker. Saturday, I went back to the gym, checked the locker, empty. I asked the dude at the desk if anyone turned one in, “Nope” he said I gave him my name and phone and told him to call if it turns up. In the mean time I am FREAKING OUT!! I get home and sounded the RED ALERT!! I alert the media, the president, the Merchant Marines and the Grand Puba of the Kiwanis club. Then I recheck the gym bag… nothing… its empty.
I then retrace my steps, I didn’t go anywhere after the gym. I recheck the rental car (yea, I still have it its been 3 weeks since the accident, you don’t even what to know the kind of BS the repair shop it trying to pull) I check between the seats, under the seats, the glove box. I even check my ass, nothing there but a small Chinaman.
I deside that I must have left it just sitting on the bench and some thief must have walked off with it. Its gone forever. As I was walking around the house in a morning the loss of my work out partner, I decide to go somewhere, I don’t recall where, but I just had to go somewhere. I put on my left shoe then my right shoe. But I can’t get my right shoe on there is something obstructing my foot from being inserted into the the shoe… I turn the shoe over and out drops MY IPOD!! It was in my shoe the whole TIME!! HOORAY! I exclamed!! HOORAY!! IM SO HAPPY!! I cancel the RED ALERT, and the universe returns back to its normal state. All is well.
Saturday, I actually upgraded the website. Can you tell? Cuz ya shouldn’t be able to tell.
It was too hot to do any yard work. Next weekend it will be in the 40’s so I’ll do it then.
Thursday the Cheifs play there first pre season game on the NFL Network. Make sure you check them out. What? You don’t get the NFL network? You must have Crime Warner huh? Sucks to be you!
I’m going to be pretty busy this week at work again. Lots of overtime to be had. But I’m not staying past 6 or 7 any night that I plan to work out. When I do I won’t get home and eat dinner until after 9.
Peace out!
6 responses so far ↓
1 SkinnyJoe // Aug 5, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I read your training log just for shits… and that is mostly what I found. You’ve got some bad math going on with the calorie calculator. For a guy your weight, 5 miles won’t burn 1325 calories, unless you’ve got the incline set to something impossible.
Try a more scientific calorie calculator:
http://www.runnersworld.com/channel/0,7119,s6-242-0-0-0,00.html
A dude your weight should burn around 160 a mile.
That will give you a better grasp of what you need to be eating for weight loss.
2 The D // Aug 5, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Skinny-The total calories burned comes from my heart monitor. It displays the total time of the work out (typically 1 hour) the time spent in the heart rate zone (I have it set to zone 5 167-185 bpm) tonight, Tuesday was 35 min in the zone. Average heart rate (AHR) peak or maximum heart rate (PHR), Min heart rate (MHR 85) and total calories burned.
I don’t figure all that jazz. Those numbers on that link you gave me are generic numbers they are about as helpful as the BMI scale.
My max heart rate is 185 bpm. I work at 85-90 percent of that. Does that play in to your counts?
One thing you might not have figured is that I can run flat out at an 8 min mile pace. But that usually spends all my gas. But I try to do it the last mile on the treadmill. You don’t see those results on the 5 miles in 60 min which comes out to 12 min per mile pace.
Yes, I am aware the diet is pure shit.
3 red // Aug 6, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The difference could be total calorie burn vs. net calorie burn, but who cares?
4 SkinnyJoe // Aug 6, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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I’m guessing your monitor needs some kind of calibration to give you an accurate calorie count.
The POS treadmills my gym used to have assumed the user weighed 330 lbs.
You had to click through a bunch of dumb screens to get your weight set right for an accurate calorie count.
Using a heart rate monitor for training isn’t exactly an intuitive process.
I picked up a book on using one a few years back, read it and gave it away to a friend.
But the jist of that book was that your heart has :
A base bpm (beats per minute) rate (resting)
An aerobic bpm range (typically 55-85% of peak)
An an-aerobic bpm range (85% of peak or higher)
A peak rate bpm ( rule of thumb value: 220 - your age)
The aerobic and an-aerobic ranges are what we care about when using a heart rate monitor.
In your aerobic range, you’re replacing oxygen in your blood stream at the same rate that you are using it.
In the an-aerobic range, you are in a situation where you are depleting the oxygen faster than you can replace it.
The aerobic state is the ideal range for weight loss and endurance training because in this range you will be able to exercise for the longest peroid of time.
The an-aerobic range should be employed for short periods for increasing your aerobic capacity. i.e. wind sprints, fartleks, stairs, hills.
That will in turn make you faster because your heart and lungs will work more efficiently, and you’ll be able to sustain higher speeds inside of your aerobic range.
The rest of the book was B.S. about personalizing your workouts, but it told the beginner users do about 3 times as many aerobic workouts as an-aerobic.
That took some Swedish chick 150+ pages to explain and cost me $14.95 and a weekend to read it.
The heart rate you exercise at doesn’t entirely have a direct effect on the calories you’ll burn.
I’m trying to explain above that in aerobic range, you’ll be able to work for a longer peroid of time and burn more calories.
That 85% range border also appears to be a fungible value, I’ve read other sources that put it at 75%.
Your heart rate monitor may have a function that helps you determine your personal peak rate, my old one did.
Check out the manual that came with it.
For mine, I had to warm up, then run a quarter mile as fast as I could and check the rate at the end of the run.
From reading your running log, it seems like you’re working in the an-aerobic range exclusively.
That is why you’re needing walking breaks.
Slow it down a little, try to jog at 70-75% of your peak heart rate and see if you can avoid walk breaks.
Here is where I’d insult you, but nothing comes to mind right now.
5 The D // Aug 6, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Skinny-Thanks for all the info I have never heard of an-aerobic work out. I always have just done as much as I could for the one hour that I’m on the treadmill or out side running. either running faster with less walks or a combination of the two.
Apparently I’m doing it wrong. I’ll look in to this further with the heart rate monitor and percentages and all that stuff and get back to you.
6 red // Aug 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
Aerobic = burns fat
Anaerobic = burns whatever’s undigested in your stomach.
That took me 10 seconds to explain.
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