100 Day Burpee Challenge

100 Day Burpee Challenge

***UPDATE** Be sure to mention me @300lbsandrunnin and use  the hashtag #100DaysOfBurpees on Twitter! Good Luck!

What’s up goal crushers! Are you ready for a challenge? How about a Burpee Challenge? I would like to invite all of you to take part in the 100 Day Burpee Challenge beginning February 1st, 2013. As many of you know I also do Crossfit and one of the exercise that I demise the most is the dreaded BURPEE! I thought to myself what other way to fal in love with this exercise is do them for 100 days straight. Yes I must be crazy, but I love a challenge. I urge you all to try it out. The rules are as follows:

One Burpee will be performed on the first day and one burpee will be added every day for 100 days. On the 100th day (If starting on Febuary 1st, will be May 11th) I will be doing 100 burpees. You can visit my Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/300poundsandrunning to cheer me on and give me encouragement, because I really demise with burpees.

100 Day Burpee Challenge

100 Day Burpee Challenge Rules:

1. If you already can do 100 burpees…. consider 200 burpees for the challenge.

2.You may complete the day’s burpees all at once or broken up throughout the day as time allows.

3. The challenge is about discipline… if you miss a day, you must start over.

4. If you don’t start the challenge on day one, you may “buy in” by doing all the missed day’s burpees on your starting day.

5. Any burpees performed during a CrossFit workout may count toward your day’s total.

6. Have fun doing burpees.

If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, YouTube: 300 Pounds and Running Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds And Running

Weekly Weigh-In, WOD, Run Recap #3

Wod for 1/25/13

Welcome to the Weekly Weigh-in, WOD, Run Recap (W3R2). This is where I give insight of what exercises I’m doing throughout the week, from last Friday to this Friday. So let’s get into it!

Weigh-In

On 1/18/13 I weighed 296.7,  lets see what my current weight is:

 300 pounds and running weigh in

Workout, Run Recap

1/20/13: Long slow distance.. 4.84 miles ran and 1045 calories burned

run 1.20

1/22/13: Easy short run before I went to class

run 1.22

1/23/13: SKILL: Max Time: Ring L Sit x 3 Team WOD: AMRAP 15 min; 250m Row and Max Rep Kettlebell Swings

wod 1.23

 

1/24/13: Tempo 5 mile run

run 1.24

1/25/13: Warm Up: Partner Wheel Barrow x5 gym lengths each / Partner Leap Frog x 5 gym lengths / Cart Wheels x 2 gym lengths. WOD: For Time; OH Barbell Lunges 21-15-9 Push Ups, Mountain Climbers; 9-21-15 Ring Dips, DB Push Press, Prisoner Box Jumps (Note: This is a team WOD… Partner 1 will perform as many OH BB lunges as they can while partner 2 does the 21-15-9. When partner 2 finishes they switch. After both have completed 21-15-9 and OH lunges, they can advance to the second portion of the WOD. Your team score is the total number of prisoner box jumps. For each second you finish behind the team in first place, your team must deduct one box jump per second for your final total. Good Luck!)

Wod 1.25

Well there you have it folks that was this week’s Weigh-in, WOD, Run Recap. If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds And Running

5 Tips to Increase Vegetable Intake

One of the major changes I made during this weight loss journey was to increase my vegetable intake. Being a man I thought that only consist of eating salads (rabbit food) every day. After a while I just got sick and tired of eating rabbit food. The problem then became how do I get enough vegetables without eating rabbit food? After a few months a trial and error here are a few tips that I’ve found success to increase vegetables in my diet.

5 Tips to Increase Vegetable Intake

Eat Soup: There’s nothing better than a warm soup on a cold winter day. They are very easy to cook; it consist of only a few steps; chop up veggies, add liquid based (low sodium, low fat of course) , set it in the slow cooker and forget it. Looking for some soup recipes? Martinus got you covered here are some soup recipes from my fellow FitFluential Ambassadors. Check them out and tell them Martinus sent you.

Make an omelet: This is by far one of my favorite ways to add vegetables to my diet. Chop up your favorite veggies and put it in your omelet.  Don’t have time to make an omelet? Scramble the eggs with the veggies and you’re golden!

Single serve you veggies: After going grocery shopping take 10 -20 minutes to wash, chop and bag your veggies into single servings. This will give you a head start for the week. This will make your vegetables easily accessible when you are looking in the fridge for a snack and the only thing you see is your veggies individually wrapped waiting on you.

Get Creative: Carrots and celery can get so boring at times. Get creative and try other types of vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, zucchini and etc.; for added bonus use hummus for a low calorie, full flavor vegetable dip.

Drink them: Dust that blender off and experiment with different combinations of fruit/veggie smoothies. Your smoothie is too thick? Try using a cheese cloth to strain the smoothie. Here are couple smoothie recipes to get you started.

By incorporating some of these tips into your daily routine your vegetable intake will increase significantly and you might even find new vegetables that you like. Now it’s your turn to “weigh in”! What are some things that you do to increase you vegetable intake? What is your favorite tip from today’s post? What are the best tasting vegetable soup/ smoothie that have ever had/made? What makes it so good?Also here are some other recipes that so you should check out.

If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running

 

Link Roundup for Week of 1/14/2013

Link Round-Up

Link Roundup: Here are a few links that I’ve found interesting during the week of 1/14/2013

 

This is what happened on 300 Pounds and Running this week…

If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running

Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor Review

Polar FT40 HRM Review

First I must say that I never thought of Polar heart rate monitor as a consumer product. I have used their straps plenty of times in the professional and academic settings. From undergrad when we wanted to track the heart rate of a person as they worked out and a 12 Lead ECG wasn’t needed; to currently using it in the lab on the project that I’m working on. Truth be told I didn’t know that Polar had consumer products until recently. I just looked up one day and everybody had one, including me! Last month I was super excited when Polar sent me their FT40 heart rate monitor.

When I first opened the box was I a little intimidated, even though I’ve used their products other people. I felt like I was the one that was going to be in the experiment.  After toying around with it for a couple of days, the one word that best describes the Polar FT40 heart rate monitor is EASY! The first thing that I liked was the manual was only 5-8 pages long, which made for an easy read. It took me about 30 seconds to get the watch fully function, which made for an easy setup. The FT40 has nice big numbers, which made for an easy to read display. The Ft40’s main feature the energy pointer always showed if I was fat burning or fitness training, which made it easy to target my intensity. The FT40 kept a log of all my sessions, which made it easy to track my progress. Lastly the FT40 has a smart calories feature which has been validated to be the most accurate estimation of calories burned commercially available, which made it easy for me to know that the calories I burned are accurate. See everything about the FT40 is easy.

I’ve had the Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor for about a month now and it’s amazing. I take it on my runs and when I’m doing CrossFit. It has the potential to be a staple in my workout regimen. However I have one main caveat that stopping it from being a main staple in my regimen and that’s the strap. I’m 6’2, 300 pounds, I’m bigger than the average man and sometimes the strap is uncomfortable for me. I have to adjust the strap to make it the longest that it can be and it’s on my jelly rolls very snug. Add in the fact that my rolls move and jump around when I’m running and that will equal a tight, twisted polar strap cutting into my fat. This doesn’t happen all the time but when it does, I have to stop and take off the strap. However this shouldn’t discourage anyone from checking out the Polar FT40, it’s just a reminder for me how much I got left in this journey.

All in all I would give this product an 8.5/10, the product is very easy to use and Polar has a great track record. However I’ve found the strap to be uncomfortable at times and that mainly because it’s not long enough to fit me properly. I would recommend Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor to anyone that is looking for a quick and easy way to know if you’re burning fat or improving fitness. You can get these on the Polar website for about $180, I’ve also seen them on Amazon for about $100. This is definitely an investment for your health in fitness.

If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running

Disclaimer: The Polar FT40 heart rate monitor was sent to me through a campaign with FitFluential. There was no compensation other than the heart rate monitor. All opinions are my own of course!

Link Roundup for Week of 1/7/2013

Link Round-Up

Link Roundup: Here are a few links that I’ve found interesting during the week of 1/7/2013

This is what happened on 300 Pounds and Running this week…

If you like what I’m doing please subscribe. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter:@300lbsandrunnin, Like the 300 Pounds and Running Facebook Page, if you are on: Instagram I’m @300PoundsAndRunning, Dailymile: @300lbsandrunnin, and Nike Plus:@300PoundsAndRunning. Lastly I’ve create a group on Facebook called Crushing Goal Together… This is a new support group to help anyone plan, track, and crush goals, be sure to check it out.

Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running