Day 37

Doing these posts at the end of each week, I ve decided. Seeing as I'm incapable of getting on here every other day.

First workout of the new regiment went well, excited for part b tonight. I'll have a more indept review at the end of this week. Weighed in at 226.4 this weekend so I think I'm back to lossing weigh not gaining musule lol.

Other than that, nothing more to report. Again, check out my post at the end of the week for the full deets on the new workout regiment.

Thanks for Reading

Derek 

Day 29

Haven't been on in a while, just giving a small update.

Everything's going well, I have switched to doing the MH's workout AND running on the same day. Trying to give my body some rest days, like it deserves ha. Real excited to get this month out of the way and take on next months workout!

Friday will be the start of that, pry practice some of the reps out on Thursday and blog bout em. Other than that nothing, hopeing to finish the week out strong and move on!

Thanks for Reading

Derek

Day 23 (MH's workout A)

Sorry bout the change but I not fixed the problem.....me haha. Anyways three more days down and still feeling great!

I have dropped the RunKeeper for just intervoles every other day. That's about the only change. This is the last full week in this month's MH's workout and next month is a whole new set. I'll have more info as I get closer. That's it for now.

Thanks for reading

Derek

Weigh In After Week 3

I've May have gained a little bit of musule........haha

Day 20 (MH's workout B)

This ones real late, I haven't gotten around to it yet, but here it is.

Everything went well, defiantly building quiet a bit of strength! Both my exercises went smoothly, I didn't change anything in either one.

Nothing else today. Tomorrow I'll have another weigh in as well as another three workouts. Switching my days and what I do on them. Will make more sence when I'm done with em.

Thanks for reading

Derek

Day 18 (MH's workout A)

Ok guys, from now on I'm only doing these every other day, so to have more content on each, and I also plan on taking the Men's Health workout father than the running. So, eventually it will just be the MH's.

Ok, getting that out of the way, yesterday was good, and today was great! The RunKeeper had me running 2 miles, however I haven't got that far, so I split it up again. Running as hard and as far as I could, then resting. Was a good workout.

Today was even better. Feel my self going through the sets without even thinking about it. And they seem to be going faster and faster day after day! 

Took a peek at my weight, as well, today. I'm gaining back my weight back in musule haha. Looking like I did at Sunday's weigh in, but I'm back up to 230. So that's news lol.

Bout it for today. Going to run tomorrow, and be back on Friday with the deets on both workouts. See ya then!

Thanks for reading

Derek

Day 16 (MH's workout B)

Short one today. Another day down. No changes, same old same old. Marking this one down. Was a lot easier today tho. 

Tomorrow's running, check it out in the post!

Thanks for reading 

Derek

Day 15 (RunKeeper)

Easy day today, took it easy this time. Kind if treated my self to an easy day ha. Did the work out, brisk walk or jog for 45 minutes. I walked the whole 45 minutes. I was active most of the rest of the day too, so I feel pretty good about my exercise today. 

Nothing else, really looking forward to next weeks weigh in! Tomorrow I'm back at the men's health, so check back then to read all about it!

Thanks for reading

Derek

Weigh In After Week 2

Wow....that's pretty much all I have to say hahaha. No, this is amazing! That makes it almost a total of 7 lbs lost! 

I'm super pumped up today and for the rest of of this transformation! It's a great feeling! Another post is coming later today, I'm back to running today. Check it out in couple of hours!

Thanks For Reading

Derek

Day 14 (MH's workout A)

Week two is down and out! Another successful week out of the way and I'm half way though the first phase. Today was another MH's workout and it was good. Really feeling it in my strength and body. 

Didn't change anything in the workout. Kept the same weights, same sets. Really nothing changed. Real excited about tomorrow's weigh in though. Really intrested in the progress I've made so far!

So check back in tomorrow for both posts: the weigh in and tomorrows RunKeeper post. Should be a fun day!

Thanks For Reading

Derek

Day 13 ( RunKeeper)

Another running day, another 1.5 mile run/walk. Ok so now I know I'm defiantly running longer distances. The other times were just guesses, but this time, I know I'm running farther each day.

Other than that, nothing else to report. A good day, all in all. Tomorrow's another men's health workout, the start of another round. So check it out in tomorrow's post.

Thanks for reading

Derek

Day 12 (MH's workout B)

Another late one that I forgot to do ha

Not much to tell. Same thing over today. I am pretty sure I did a bit more reps today, though. So that's awesome.

Another running day tomorrow, check it out in tomorrow's post. Later

Thanks for reading

Derek

Day 11 (RunKeeper)

Another good day. Beautiful day to go for a run. Today was another run walk intervolves. 5 Min. warm up followed by 20 min. of 1 min running then 1min 30sec walk and so on. Felt great today, ran faster than I every have today, about 8 min/mile so that was a plus.

Getting better everyday! I'm really enjoying this a lot more than I thought ever would. Its a great feeling bettering yourself and making that effort to invest in yourself. Its awesome! Tomorrows part B of the Men's Health workout. See all about it tomorrow!



Thanks For Reading


Derek

Day 10 (MHs workout A)

Sorry for the lateness. This I kind of just forgot about after I did it haha

Anyways another good work out. I stuck with 25 dumbells, doing more reps that last time in my 20 second time frame. Think I sweated a lot more yesterday than I did any other day doing these. I'm assuming that's because I'm doing more reps.

So another day down. Check out today's post, if I remember lol. This one is RunKeeper and I'll be doing intervoles of 1min running followed by 1.5 min walks. Should be fun ha check it out!

Thanks For Reading

Derek

Day 9 (RunKeeper)

Best day of running yet! Today was another 1.5 mile fast walk/run. I started off with my usual 5 min. warm up, and then I decided to see how far I could run without breaking. I impressed myself to be honest haha, cause I went a little more than a half mile without stopping, only stopping for a brief water break then went back at it with another half mile run! After I walked a little and finished off the workout strong running.

Still had a little energy left, so I ran a couple more laps around the yard and finished up with a couple walking laps. Don't know if it was the cold air or what but I defiantly ran a lot bet today and I felt like I had all the energy in the world ha. Whatever it was, it felt good. That's about it for today, really feeling good. Tomorrow is the start of another round of the Men's Health workout so check back in tomorrow for all the deets!



Thanks For Reading

Derek 

Day 8 (MH workout B)

Start of a new week today and I was already feeling great after my first weigh in today! Today was another installment of the Men's Health workout and it felt even better than the first time. I defiantly favor dumbbell over everything else haha. 

The only change in the workout that I did was up the weigh from 15 to 20 lbs, which did make a lot of difference. Real excited to hit this week hard and come out on the other side better. Also can't wait for next weeks weigh in! 

Tomorrow I'll be back at that pesky running again ha. Another run/walk mile and a half. Check out tomorrow's post all about it!

Thanks for Reading 

Derek

Weigh In After Week 1

Weighed in today and it's official I've lost a little more than a pound this last week! Really amazed that I took that short of time. Real excited for this next week, and working that much harder to reaching my goals!

I'll be doing the MH's workout in a couple of hours. Check it out later today!

Thanks For Reading

Derek

Day 7 (RunKeeper)

Hey everybody! Week one Down and out!

Nother day down, the last one in this week! Running exercise was pretty easy, brisk walk/jog for 45 minutes strait, just to get in the mindset of being active over long periods of time. Again, I split it up, jogging for about .2 mile, then resting by walking .2 mile. It wasnt to hard on my body, might have been a little unexpected just moving for that amount of time.

Other than that, everything went well and i finished up week strong. Im doing a weigh in tomorrow, real excited to see what i buned off. Also tomorrows workout is part B of the Mens Health, even more excited to do that again. Chack it out in tomorrows post.



Thanks For Reading,

Derek

Day 6 (MH workout A)

Sorry this one is late, did the workout and didn't have time to get in here and post so I left it for today.

Anyways, another good day, did more reps than I had before. I did up the dumbbell weight from 20 to 25, made it that much harder. Other than that no major changes. Did the workout, at the end I did not feel as tired as I did the first time around so I am getting better haha. Really nothing new to report on right now, just the same old same old. I have noticed that I'm not eating as much at meals and spreading my eating out over the day. Don't know if that's a side affect from me exercising or its just the mindset I've moved into, either way, I know this is a good thing :) .

Check out the next post for my last running exercise this week


Thanks for Reading

Derek

Day 5 (RunKeeper)

Another great day for running and another day of feeling good.

Today was a lot easier than the other days. Today was another mile and a half run or walk and, again, I split it up. 5 minute warm up again, then running about a quarter mile each time (farthest I've gone so far). Felt really good after my time was up on my 1.5 mile, so I went for about another half mile or so on and off. Defiantly felt like I could have kept going after my extra couple laps, I wanted to go more, but decided not to wear myself out and call it a day.

Finished up the workout with a total distance of 2.27 miles. Feel like I'm running longer everyday, and it feels awesome haha. I know I keep saying this but I mean it, I'm excited for the future and I'm Always looking forward to more!

That's all for today, check back in tomorrow for the second round of the phase one of the Men's Health.


Thanks again,


Derek 

Day 4 (MH's Workout B)

Great workout today, real simple too.

This one is by far my favorite, integrating the dumbbells three times in the workout. And so I have dubbed this Dumbbell Hero haha. Anyways really great workout, worked all of the major parts of the of the body. Felt really good afterwards. Find myself doing more and more reps each day, so I'm definitely getting better. Really looking forward to doing this one again.

Short one today, not much more to report on. Check back in tomorrow for another running day!


Thanks

Derek

Day 3 (RunKeeper)

Another day down, another day feeling good.

Todays workout was running if you didn't know and it felt like the first real exercise toward running a mile strait! This workout was cut up, having running/walking around 2 miles. Starting with a 5 minute warm up, where your free to do your own thing (I did my normal stretches and brisk walk). This warm up is followed up with intervolves of running steady for sixty seconds and walking a 90 second cool down. It has you do one of these sets 8 time thought out the work out, with adds up to running/walking for a total of around 30 minutes.

Overall, this was a great work out. I felt like I was running just a little farther each intervolve. Defiantly a good start on a endurance stand point. I finished completing 2.02 miles, total duration 28:03 minutes, and average running pace of 9:41 min/mile. Looking to improve these numbers by the end of this and real excited for the future.

Check back in tomorrow for a full report on the Men's Health workout part 2. Real excited for this one! See ya all tomorrow!

Thanks


Derek    

Day 2 (Men's Health's Workout A) of Phase One

Just finished the first of the Men's Health workout and man am I feeling it now haha.

This is a series of six exercise that you do each on in 20 second intervolves then resting for 40 seconds before moving on to the nest. doing all six is a revolution, and your suppose to do 4 to 6 revolutions for a full workout. I've cut out one exercise due to my hatred of the chin up bar and due not owning one, so I did 6 revolutions.

I warmed up with a stretch of the legs and a brisk walk around the pond to get ready for this. Did my first revolution and felt real good about it, Telling myself that this wasn't going to be that bad. I was wrong by the end of my 3rd set, I was sweating like crazy, a lot more than I normally do at least haha. As I finished my last set, I was feeling it, in a good way. I felt so good I took a quick jog around the pond and finished up with another brisk walk and cool down stretch.

Defiantly looking forward for the next workout Wednesday.

See you guys tomorrow!

Derek

Day 1 (RunKeeper)

 

Rain was the story of today, as you can see ha. Today I did the first training in the RunKeeper app. I told me to go at any pace for 1.5 mile. I split this up like I had been doing for the past week, with a little altercation. I did a walk/run on off deal, walking .18 mile, running .18 mile, and so on. pretty easy today, as it was really just a warm up day.

 

They rain was the worst part ha. Rained most of the day, didn't think it was going to stop so I went out in it and did my thing. Went inside, took a shower, and by that time I had stopped. just my luck I guess haha.

 

Looking forward to seeing how the rest of the week turns out. Check back in tomorrow for the start of the "Furious Fat Loss" Phase of the Men's Health workout. Lets see where this goes!

 

 

 

                                                                                           Derek

 

 

 



Prelogue

So I've been wanting to take a little belly fat off for awhile now and been looking for some ways to do it. After a couple Google searches as well as some Safari searches, I came up with the conclusion that most people out there losing weight are doing the same thing people have been doing for centuries, running. Weather it was running scared from wolves or running in a race, running is something our ancestors have done for a long time.

So, about two weeks or so ago, I decided to do as Tom Hanks and "Run, Forest, Run!" I thought I'd start with a mile, thinking that it was a good place to start, not being a professional in all. First day I made about a quarter mile before I was huffing and puffing. So I divided it up, run .2 mile, rest, run .2, rest, etc. I did this for a week, each day feeling really good after each run. But I kept telling myself that I wasn't going to improve unless I increased the length I was running.

Around that time I stumbled upon an app, RunKeeper. It tells you how long you've run, how far, and your mph, but what really caught my attention was that you can select a training for running a race. 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon is the races you can chose from. Each one gives you some other choices like beginner, were it tells you what you'll be doing, how many weeks it would take, among other things. thinking there's no better way to train to run a mile strait than to train for running 3.11 miles strait and not wanting to spend money just yet, I choose beginner 5K.

I started that today( read other post for deets). I also knew that people running were doing it every other day and doing another workout on the other days. As it so happened, I was reading in October's Men's Health and they have workout that was designed for weight loss over 3 mouths. It would be a workout you do every other day and saw that it was perfect for what I was trying to do. So I will also be taking on the Men's Health's "Strong and Lean in 90 Days" as well as my running. Phase one is in October's Issue, Phase two will be in November's, and of course, Phase three will be in December's. This should give me some versatility in my adventure into weight lose.

So check back day to day to see how I'm doing with the challenge that I've thrown down on myself. Encouragement welcomed! I am mostly doing this blog for myself, to keep me in check, but I do expect to have a few people to view it, so I will act like I'm talking to people just in case haha.


                                                                                      
                                                                                              Derek



Me at the Start

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