Weight Loss Journey for Feeling Gooder

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Welcome to the forums newme47, great group of supportive folks around here so hope you'll enjoy your time on the forums. I'll be looking forward to reading about your progress on your thread here.


Tink: My workouts are being done at home for the weight lifting and bodyweight stuff I do and my walking is done outside walking to and from work from my bus stop. I'm in a good ol' winter wonderland climate so once the outdoor conditions improve enough that I won't have to risk severely twisting or breaking an ankle running on ice I'm planning to add jogging to the mix. I went online after Christmas and picked up a weight bench and weights from a local classified site. Much cheaper and affordable than either a gym membership or a set of new equipment.


Sunday is my weekly weigh in day so I've updated my first post again. Weight and body fat percentage still improving which is all I can ask for. Trying to plan a couple new exercises to focus on for the week.


Stepping up my exercise attempts this week. Going to keep the loss coming and start training for a spartan race.


Exercise goals of the week:

200 burpees

500 body weight squats

500 pushups

600 seconds of front plank
 
wow those are some crazy exercise goals. Thats great that your pushing yourself. just dont hurt your back. hurt your back and your exercise could be completely screwed for awhile. not saying you cant meet your goals. just be careful with the new weights. Looking forward to your continuous progress.
 
Good point size32. Nice thing about the additional exercises is there's no additional weight other than my own bodyweight but will still need to make sure I don't mess something up. I'm trying to concentrate on good form as I go.


I've managed to combine them into a killer superset consisting of:


45 seconds hold front plank

25 body weight squats

15 pushups

10 burpees


with minimal rest, each time I superset this will take about 4 minutes to get through. not sure I can do more than one superset in a row but if I can manage to do this 20 times I will end up hitting my burpee, front plank and squat goals and will only require an additional 200 pushups.


Just finished one superset... pretty killer.
 
Hi feelgooder thanks for the welcome! Congrats to you you're doing so well!!! I am only at the start of my diet but it's very encouraging to hear how well you and everyone is doing on the forums!
 
Off to a good start hitting my weekly exercise goals. Over the course of the day yesterday I managed to fit in 6 of the above supersets. Each one required a lot of recovery time but eventually the recovery time will come down some.


Also tried an experiment over the weekend to see if I have been lifting heavy enough weights by adding additional weight to my pathetic inclined bench press. Decided to use the bar I have set up for doing normal bench presses to attempt incline and to my surprise I was still able to do complete sets of 15 reps. Will need to get more creative with the workouts to find a way to push myself harder in that regard. The drawback to working out solo is that there's no spotter around to help find what the max weight is for a particular exercise and training to failure isn't always an option. Have spoken to a friend who had good suggestions like using dumb bells instead of barbell (should help with not getting pinned under heavy weight)


Incline exercises seem a lot safer since I'll be able to let the weight roll down and not get stuck on my chest.
 
I have had a couple of times when I was benching pretty heavy with no spotter and got stuck and had to do this pathetic roll the bar down to my waist which hurt (my body and my feelings)


Getting to the point now where we have to fight harder to keep showing progress. You are doing a better job than me, but I havent given up.
 
Have had it happen to me once in a gym... not a pretty sight. At the time my workout buddy was close by but wasn't actively spotting but taught me a valuable lesson.


Fighting to see consistent loss is getting to be a bigger chore. Looking forward to spring thaw and the option of getting out for a jog in the morning or evening of course it means I'll be losing my firewood chores.
 
Wow you're doing amazing with the exercise feelGooder! I am just using the exercise bike for now and some toning exercises slowly moving up to doing a bit more
 
Thanks newme47, 6 weeks ago I was doing very little in the way of exercise.


Once the weight loss starts and the energy level starts raising, it gets a little easier to add new things to the routine. As brawny mentioned to me back then, the little changes can start a snowball effect of good things in motion.


The best piece of exercise equipment I have by far is my own bodyweight. Exercises that force me to move my own mass around the room wear me out pretty quick still.
 
Hi FeelingGooder thanks so much for the encouragement.. i know i am very unfit and hopefully like you say once the weight drops off i will feel more like burning up those cals!
 
Making decent progress on the weekly goals I have set for myself but my Sunday workout really seems to have done a number on my core. Have had to take it really easy on the planks for the past couple days.


Exercise goals of the week:

200 burpees

500 body weight squats

500 pushups

600 seconds of front plank



Progress to date:

130 burpees

400 squats

265 pushups

405 seconds front plank



Also tried an experiment yesterday and ate a couple of ribs... Worst thing I have eaten since the beginning of January but I didn't eat the entire rack and controlled portion size of meals throughout the day. Figure if I keep total calories under check it should be possible to slowly reincorporate this stuff into my diet long term which will increase the odds of me sticking with this long term.
 
good idea incorporating some of the good stuff if you can manage the proportions. your workouts look great. im sure your building lots of muscle that will help burn more fat faster.
 
Good job on the weekly goals...and the ribs. Because what is life without ribs (my son would for sure parish it is his favorite food group).
 
I am a firm believer in everything in moderation .... that is the key (I think) MODERATION. Totally depriving ourselves doesn't work .... at least it doesn't for me!


PS - I love ribs too .... and cheesy potatoes .... Lord help me!
 
size32

Don't appear to be building any more muscle, have been tracking lean body mass and it's mostly unchanged since I've started which I'll gladly settle while I'm reducing body fat. If I can get rid of this excessive layer of fat covering my muscles I may actually get to see some of them make an appearance one of these days.


oldschool

Have to agree with your son on the rib food group. They deserve their own place on the food pyramid.


lainey

You're absolutely right about the moderation part. Taking a temporary break from some of the worst culprits in my diet has been a big help but I think it'll be a lot more rewarding if I can reintroduce foods I don't want to give up permanently back in by reducing portion sizes. I think I'll just need to be careful to not start treating these foods as rewards as that would lead to some very bad decisions down the road.
 
Hey Tob,


Main use I've been getting out of the wii fit is to use it to do semi-regular weigh ins and get called obese on a regular basis. Seem to have misplaced the portion of the controller that you plug into the other to let you do the two handed stuff like jogging in place and shadow boxing stuff so have been doing the bodyweight and strength training exercises on my own instead.


So disheartening to see my little avatar blow up like the pilsbury doughboy every time it shows the sliding BMI scale post weigh in. On a positive note, the Wii does seem to report my weight as being a couple pounds lighter than my bathroom scale....
 
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