Today’s Blogging Challenge Topic is: How do you measure your fitness progress?
Blog Challenge
5 Mile Run/ Top 5 Vegetables
Yay! It’s the weekend; which means I can do some catching up on blogging. I don’t want to blame school as the reason of me not blogging, but it does take up the majority of my time. However I am excited because we should start data collection real soon on the project that I’m working on. In other news I ran my first 5 miles yesterday. I was happy when the run was over because my legs felt heavy throughout the run. I had the weirdest feeling of trying to push myself to run faster and not getting anywhere fast. I guess speed doesn’t matter when your main goal is to run. Plus I ran 5 miles for the first time; I think that’s a victory in itself. Now for the September Blogging Challenge topic: What are your five favorite vegetables?
My Fitness Bucket List
The weekend is here and I can’t wait to have a little R&R with my favorite girl. Let’s get in to today’s Blogging Challenge Topic: Share your fitness bucket list.
This topic was kind of tough because I never thought about a fitness bucket list until now. After giving it a couple of minutes of thought my Fitness Bucket List looks like this:
- Run/Complete the Disney Marathon
- Run/Complete the Boston Marathon
- Run/Complete the NYC Marathon
- Run/Complete a Marathon Overseas
- Do 10 Pull Ups
- Do 10 “Bruce Lee” Push Ups
- Complete the 100 Push Up Challenge
- Complete P90X
- Complete Insanity
- Master 3 Yoga Poses
- Add speed work into my runs
- Join a running team
- Complete a Triathlon
- Hike the Grand Canyon
- Plank for 5 minutes straight
- Complete an Ultra Marathon
Now it’s Your Turn! Share your fitness bucket list.
Until Next Time I’m 300 Pounds and Running
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How many pairs of workout shoes do you own?
Hello all,
How is everyone’s weekend? Me, I’m on cloud nine! I ran my first 5K today and met a lot of new people.
I will do a post about it tomorrow, so stay tuned!
Today’s September Blogging Challenge topic is:
How do you log your eating and/or workouts?
Hello everyone it’s day 6 of the September Healthy Living / Fitness Blogger Writing Challenge.
Today’s topic: How do you log your eating and/or workouts?
Well I use to log my food via spark people app and before that pen and pad. Both times I wasn’t successful in staying consistent. I’ll log one day, skip about 3 days and log again. I finally sat down with myself and ask, “Martinus why you can’t stay consistent with logging your food?” The answer I came up with is that rather ask myself “are you hungry” before I put food in my mouth than log what I’m eating. So I stop logging and started asking are you
Find Your Greatness/ Blog Challenge Day 4
Hello everyone! I hope your Labor Day weekend was a good as mine; I will do a recap of tomorrow. It’s back to reality today though; I got up ate breakfast and got ready to run outside; but I didn’t notice how hard it was raining. So I pack my duffle bag and left for school. I figured nobody in their right mind would be at the gym this early. I was totally wrong about that, the gym was packed. Luckily there were a few treadmills open, so I hopped on one and I started to do my thing; running at 4.6-5.0 mph which is a fairly challenging speed for me, I really had to focus to keep myself going. I’m about a mile in my run and this girl gets on the treadmill next to me and just takes off. Now I know I don’t suppose to compare myself to other people but she was running so fast that I had to look. 7.1 mph!! Are you serious? She makes my 4.6- 5.0 look like a warm up. Speaking of that she slowed down to 4.8 to get a sip of water and went back up to 7.0!!! By now I’m all off focused from my run, my form is all messed up, my breathing is all wrong and the feeling of discouragement starts to creep up on me. I was about to stop running and call it a day, but something told me to find my inner greatness and keep running. That’s when the inner conversation started, “What are you doing comparing yourself to another person? You know you are on a different journey than the person next to you. You’re doing great for where you are at in your journey! You know what you’re right!” So I pushed through to finish my 4 mile run. The moral of this story is that you have to be great within yourself. The only person that you can compare yourself against is the person in the mirror. Not the person next to you, not the person who’s already 3 years in their journey, and not the person who just started their journey. ONLY YOU! Like the NIKE Commercial “Find Your Greatness”
Afterwards I got on the ground and planked for 56 seconds! Not bad for my second day of planking. Shout out to the #plankadaypact @cherielianne (http://www.cherierunsthis.com), @VonChunk (http://vonchunk.wordpress.com/), @lizzieonthespot (http://www.lizzieonthespot.com), @IAmGBreezy !
Now for today’s blogging challenge topic: Describe your typical training schedule for a week.
Right now my training schedule is very simple.
- Run at least 3 miles a day, 5 days a week.
- Plank a day and beat the previous day by a second.
- Weight train for 1 hour at least 3 days a week; (Day 1: Upper Body, Day 2: Lower Body, Day 3: Total Body).
Now it’s your turn! What does your training schedule look like?
Until Next Time I’m 300 Pounds and Running