Gym and Gaining Weight Update

It’s been a couple of weeks since I started going to the gym. I figured I would give an update and some thoughts on my progress.

I had my second session with the trainer the workout was the same as the last workout. Afterwards he tried to sell me a package. I can’t knock him doing his job but I don’t think that I going to hire the trainer though. I’m a DIY type of guy and I get the thrill of learning new things and processes.  Additionally, I just don’t think hiring a trainer fit into my health and fitness goals. The main reason I’m using the gym is as intermediary between now and I get healthy. I’m hoping by the time the weather breaks I will be healthy enough to get back to running and doing CrossFit. I wish I didn’t have to spend the money on the gym but my Achilles tendon is so damn iffy and I can’t pull myself to pay that hot 120-160 dollars a month for a service that I can’t even use to its fullest potential. I know many of my CrossFit friends will say something like, you can modify to compensate for my Achilles, I know I could but I know myself and I will end up not modifying my exercises and probably hurt my Achilles even more.

The other day I stepped on the scale and I’m 10 pounds away from my original starting weight.  When I saw the weight I just shrugged and shook my head. I told myself that this has to stop; I need to do whatever I can to prevent this from happening again.

At the gym I’ve been doing mostly function fitness. I get all of my cardio from the C2 rowing machine. I usually do some type of intervals like Tabatas or 1 min on 20 second off. There have been days where I’ve rowed 2-3 miles straight and let me tell you that shit was brutal. I was thinking that I should do C25k intervals on the rowing machine just to give me a format to follow. After the rowing machine I usually alternate between upper and lower body and I do some type of ab work every day. Eventually I will make a work plan in November. However for now I just want to give myself some time to settle in and not rush the process. I have to be cognizant of my shoulder and neck injuries from the car accidents and now my Achilles tendon… Man, I’m falling apart…

 

That’s all I have… Until next time.

100 Days of Burpees Challenge Failed!

100 Day Burpees Challenge FAILED

What’s up goal crushers! Like the quote above I’m not going to waste time covering up a failure, I’m going to learn from it and go on to the next challenge.  Earlier this year started the 100 day burpees challenge, I started off very enthusiastic but I did not finish the challenge. I could go on with excuses and explanations on why I didn’t finish the 100 day burpees challenge but I’m not going to do that. I’m going to accept the fact that I didn’t finish and plan to do it again. This is a common lesson in life, if you fail its ok, just try again.

 

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.

-H. Stanley Judd

I will keep you posted on the start day of 100 Days of Burpees Challenge 2.0. Before I sign off I want to leave you with one last thought…. Once you let go of you fears you will be unstoppable. Do you want to be unstoppable? You owe it to yourself to be the greatest you that you can be.

100 Day Burpees Challenge FAILED

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Until next time I’m 300 Pounds and Running

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

Weekly Weigh-In, WOD, Run Recap #2

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 1/11/13 I weighed 299. watch to video below to see my current weight!

Workout, Run Recap

1/11/13: Nice easy run… It’s gets dark here around 4:30PM

Easy Run on 1/11/13

1/13/13: First long run of the year.. 6.16 mile and 1546 calories burnt.

Long Run

 

1/15/13: Brutal WOD! Warm Up:  “Ab-O-matic” 4 Rounds (30 seconds each) Barbell Roll Out, Supine Air Bicycle, Russian Twist, V-Ups. WOD: 50 DB Thrusters, 40 Walking Lunges, 30 Ring Ring Rows, 20 Air Squats, 10 Grasshopper Push Ups, 20 Air Squats, 30 Ring Dips, 40 Burpees, 50 DB Snatch. Time Finished: 22:59

Wod 1.15.13

1/16/13: 300 Pounds and Running in the snow! Easy 3 mile run.

running in the snow

1/17/13: This WOD was pretty crazy! Warm up:  Broad Jump 5×3 WOD: 4 rounds (30sec each exercise): Jump Rope, Push Press (barbell), Mtn. Climber, Push Ups. Rest 1 min! 3 Rounds (30sec each exercise): Pull Ups, Toes to Bar, Air Squat. Rest 1 min! 2 Rounds (30sec each exercise): Sit Ups, Superman Back Extensions. Rest 1 min!1 Round: 30 OH Squat, 30 Bar Facing Burpees, 30 MB Slams (Finished 8:48)

WOD 1.17.13

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

Weekly Weigh-In, WOD, Run Recap #1

Welcome to the inaugural 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 1/2/13 I weighed 305.9 let’s see what I weigh this now.

 

Weigh In

 

 

Aww Snap! I’m back under 300 pounds… That feels good let’s see if I can stay there this time.

Workout, Run Recap

Lately my workouts and runs have been a little sporadic, so this weekend I will be working on a workout/run schedule this will help me stay organize since the semester starts in a week or so. Here are my workouts/ run for this week.

1/3/13: This was my first run of the year… I was a little rusty so I ran intervals of 3 minutes of running and 2 minutes of walking 7 times. Resulting in 2.64 miles ran and 811 calories burned via my Polar FT40. I also went to CrossFit of this day and did FRAN! My thruster weight was 75 lbs. and I use a heavy-duty band for my assisted pull-ups; finishing in 8:07.

Run WOD FranWOD Fran thusterWOD Fran Pull Up

1/14/13: The WOD was a team workout consisting of 4 alternating rounds of 20 Manmakers, sit-ups, 20 Medicine ball clean/slam @ 20lbs and sit-ups. Time finish: 29:29 If you don’t know what a manmaker is check out this video.

 

Wod Eat Your Vegetables

 

1/7/13: I ran a nice little 5K to get my week started.

 

Run 1.7.13

 

1/8/13: The WOD was 10-1 overhead squat@ 105 lbs. (OHS) and hand release (HR) push-ups, five minute rest and 1-10 front squat @105 lbs. and ring dips. (*note 10-1 starts with 10 OHS and 1 HR push-up, then 9 OHS and 3 HR push-ups…so on until you do  1 OHS and 10 HR pushups.)

wod 1.8

1/10/13: I ran 4.01 miles with an average pace of 13’26” with 832 calories burned.

Run 1.10

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