MR Forum Fit Club: Go, you chicken fat, go!

[pRICE cUBE]

MR Forum Fit Club info:

-To encourage each other attain fitness goals, share experiences, educate and uplift each other.

-If you haven't started yet, you are welcome at anytime.

-Share as much or as little as you want with the group.

-Starting out doesn't need to be a big step, just take that step.

-You are worth it.



Last Week: Got in 2 upper body workouts.

This week's goal: 3 upper body workouts and 2 leg workouts.

Traveling is over for the summer. Lots and lots of good eats, less exercise equaled loss of belt notch. I am determined to get back the notch I lost.


Some info on that Chicken Fat song in the Apple ad http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/apples-go-...-it-158304

Touch down
Every morning
Ten times!
Not just
Now and then.
Give that chicken fat
Back to the chicken,
And don't be chicken again.
No, don't be chicken again.

Push up
Every morning
Ten times.
Push up
Starting low.
Once more on the rise.
Nuts to the flabby guys!
Go, you chicken fat, go away!
Go, you chicken fat, go!

Left! Left! Left! Left!
Left a good pound and a quarter.
Was it right, right that it should be left?
Yes, I left! Left! Left! Left!
Left a good pound and a quarter.
It was right (left), right (left) that it should be left!

Now, touch your toes with me. Ready!

Touch down (up)
Every morning (down)
Ten times!
(Three!) Not just (up)
(Four!) Now and then (up)
(Five!) Give that (up) chicken fat
(Six!) Back to the (up) chicken and
(Seven!) Don't be (up) chicken (Eight!) again
(up) No, (Nine!) don't be (up) chicken again. (Ten...halt!)

Hit the dirt! Hit!
Push ups next,
Nice and steady.
Not too fast.
Ready!

Push up (down)
Every morning (up)
Ten times!
Push up,
Starting low.
(Down! That's five.) Once more (down) on the rise
(Six!) Nuts to the (down) flabby guys.
(Seven!) Go, you (down) chicken fat, (Everybody sing!) go away.
Go, you chicken fat, go!

[sekker]

Good last week - fit in an old short one size smaller than in my main wardrobe. Old because I havent been an L in twenty years.

The bad - drove two days total with no activity...

[OWC Jamie]

Added 2 miles to my 4.2 mile evening bike ride.
So up to 6.2.

No changes in belt notches though.

[Lux Interior]

Retreated back to the treadmill now that the sun refuses to rise before 6 am. So much easier to maintain a 10 kph pace with no hills and a steady, reliable breeze from the ceiling fan. It's just so boring.

Have 7 weeks to train for the VA 10-Miler. Hope to drop below 200 pounds by then. Makes that mile-long hill at the end a little easier without the extra weight.

Back to the gym, so back to a regular stretching routine. Was pleasantly surprised that I haven't lost much flexibility since May.

Also trying to walk at least 20 km/week.

[Catzilla]

The good: Week off, could theoretically ride every day.
The bad: Had my appendix out this AM.

[Speedy]

Lux Interior wrote:
Retreated back to the treadmill now that the sun refuses to rise before 6 am. So much easier to maintain a 10 kph pace with no hills and a steady, reliable breeze from the ceiling fan. It's just so boring.

Have 7 weeks to train for the VA 10-Miler. Hope to drop below 200 pounds by then. Makes that mile-long hill at the end a little easier without the extra weight.

Back to the gym, so back to a regular stretching routine. Was pleasantly surprised that I haven't lost much flexibility since May.

Also trying to walk at least 20 km/week.

Put a desktop on your treadmill for your computer, etc. 10 kph is quite brisk!!! I barely manage a third of that at my fastest; at your pace a desktop for your treadmill would probably be impractical.

Stretching. I need to stretch, which I find so boring. I believe basketball player Michael Jordan spent hours stretching. A local TV human interest fluff piece was about a mid-70's guy who was a marathoner. The reporter kept going on about his workouts and the subject kept interrupting and interjecting, "and lots of stretching;" it was actually humorous when he repeatedly stuck his face into center frame to interject. But it showed how important he felt stretching was to his regimen. He looked like he was 40.

A ten-miler? Are you sure you're in the right club with all us fatties?? Maybe you could run in the opposite direction so that that last uphill mile would be your first downhill?

I got in 41.86 miles on the treadmill at a bit over 2 MPH. 11.3 miles of light interval training out on the road with my wife (weather and activities didn't cooperate so fewer miles than last week.)

My wife wants me to work on upper body strength training so that eventually my belt buckle can once again be seen. In my case, upper body is above the knees. And stretching. And more stretching. My ultimate goals are to have a belly measurement smaller than my chest measurement. And to run/walk a marathon which I first and last did 34 years ago.

[Speedy]

Catzilla wrote:
The good: Week off, could theoretically ride every day.
The bad: Had my appendix out this AM.

Ouch. Wishes for a speedy and uneventful recovery.

[pRICE cUBE]

sekker wrote:
Good last week - fit in an old short one size smaller than in my main wardrobe. Old because I havent been an L in twenty years.

SWEET!

billb wrote:
Added 2 miles to my 4.2 mile evening bike ride.
So up to 6.2.
No changes in belt notches though.

Keep at it my, the notch will come your way.

Lux Interior wrote:
Retreated back to the treadmill now that the sun refuses to rise before 6 am. So much easier to maintain a 10 kph pace with no hills and a steady, reliable breeze from the ceiling fan. It's just so boring.
Have 7 weeks to train for the VA 10-Miler. Hope to drop below 200 pounds by then. Makes that mile-long hill at the end a little easier without the extra weight.
Back to the gym, so back to a regular stretching routine. Was pleasantly surprised that I haven't lost much flexibility since May.
Also trying to walk at least 20 km/week.

That's what TV and iPads with documentaries are for. Keep at it.

Catzilla wrote:
The good: Week off, could theoretically ride every day.
The bad: Had my appendix out this AM.

Ouch, get well soon. Losing an appendix is still weight loss. Atta boy!

Speedy wrote:
My wife wants me to work on upper body strength training so that eventually my belt buckle can once again be seen. In my case, upper body is above the knees. And stretching. And more stretching. My ultimate goals are to have a belly measurement smaller than my chest measurement. And to run/walk a marathon which I first and last did 34 years ago.

I find that mixing chest flye with dumbbells and an isolation machine have really improved my chest muscle tone. Iso machine builds volume and dumbbell builds the stabilizer muscles. Best of luck.

[Lux Interior]

Speedy wrote:
A ten-miler? Are you sure you're in the right club with all us fatties?? Maybe you could run in the opposite direction so that that last uphill mile would be your first downhill?

Ha! It's an out and back course, so you DO get to run it downhill first!

But it's a brutal course; long downhill, long uphill, short steep uphill, long downhill and then the last looooooooong uphill after you have already run 8 miles.

[Don C]

Got in my two gym visits last week, one with my trainer. He upped my reps today so I was, as expected, more tired when I finished.

Got in a two mile or more walk every day (which got us in front of the Super moon last night). A couple of those walks were on the "Big Four Pedestrian/bicycle bridge" across the Ohio River which is half a mile each way; long approaches and walks in park on the Louisville side or around Jeffersonville on the Indiana side make for a nice walk.

Back is definitely stronger now without the chronic low back ache I've had. Weight is up a couple of pounds due in part to the Indian buffet on Friday but more discrete eating should fix that this week.