You are probably wondering what I have been up to or what my plans/goals are going to be for the year.
Quite simply, as of this morning I am down 19lbs from the 1st of the year.
I have been doing P90X and very minimal running/cycling. I needed to get some meat on my bones again, I am tired of feeling "skinny", I wanted to feel "normal".
For me, normal is probably very different from most people, growing up in construction I have always had a good amount of muscle mass. Endurance sports pretty much strip your body clean of muscle mass and leaves you w/ those long lean muscles.
My thoughts thus far were, January was a cut month. February is a bulk month (back off on calorie cutting). March will be a cut month to get my weight to 190lbs (my goal weight).
What I have noticed is that I have been getting huge gains on the lifting front. I am repping pullups and chinups without using a chair to get up and have increased all of my weights several times. I see great definition trying to peak through.
The reason I backed off of the diet a bit is because I wanted to have more weight on my body for a lot of the lifting exercises (which use your body weight majority of the time) and for running.
It's no question that if someone trains to run weighing about 20lbs heavier than they race at... they will be a MUCH stronger runner on race day. I am a unique person, while it's fun to throw my weight loss and gain numbers out there, I can gain/drop weight very easy. I know my body very well and I make all of the proper adjustments to drop weight as efficiently as possible (none of which are detrimental to my health, I never reduce my water intake which is over a gallon a day).
So February has been my month to maximize my workouts w/ my current body weight. It's a kickstart program so to speak. I have run a 10 miler and a 4 miler the next day and had no issues w/ heart rate or leg tiredness. This surprised me since I have only run a handful of times with all but one workout at 3 miles or less haha.
So far I think this is working for me. When I hit the 200lb mark, probably this weekend, I will do my first time trial for the 5min mile. At that point the training plan is put into effect.
Probably won't be updating much since it's all the same old boring crap... I will list my mile attempts and my thoughts on where I am at. Other than that, the blog is going to be boring lately, not much else going on.
Thanks for reading!
8 comments:
You need to gain 150 pounds, then go on "The Biggest Loser" and eat that show alive for lunch!
Dude, whatever you do to make you run so fast is working. Maybe I should hit the weights! It's nice to see a blog post from you. Keep up the good work!
I wish I could get rid of my extra weight quickly. I need to drop a lot before I run the Comrades on 2 June. Luckily the high mileage in training will help.
"You are probably wondering what I have been up to or what my plans/goals are going to be for the year."
-Nope. Not really. HAHAHA!
Awesome progress on the weight and weight lifting front. I still can't get myself to lift and build up the muscle. I get bored with it.
There is certainly something to the strength = speed approach. Over a mile I bet weight = speed, so keep that in mind too.
Who would wonder about you and your plans.....the master of the no plan training plan.
If I gained 20 pounds I would look like a bowling ball with arms and legs.....and the smooth bald spot that keeps showing up.
These past three weeks Maria has me max lifting and I can tell how much stronger I am just from that alone but I am leaned out. I can almost qualify for the US Women's Gymnastics team with what I weigh......haha!
just wait ....when you get to be my age youll just want to go longer and longer....so might as well do it different now!
Ah! "Training 20 lbs heavier than they race at." Um, yeah! That's been my plan.
Now to just lose it for Knoxville so you don't need your back brace when you pull me out of the water.
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