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.

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.

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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

 

Weight Loss Food Haul #1

Recently someone ask me if I was on some type of special diet, my response was know I don’t do I diets…this weight loss journey is about changing my lifestyle. When I think of diets I think of something temporary, something that will last about six months and then you are back to your regular scheduled program. What I’m doing is for life…it’s like a marriage, “until death do us apart,” for +26 years I’ve known what it’s like to be obese. It’s about time to know what it is to be at a healthy weight.. Then they ask, “Well what do I eat?What do I both from the grocery store?” Since I got my groceries deliveries a couple of days ago I thought that would be a great opportunity to show what I buy form the grocery store. So I present to you my food haul:

300 Pounds and Running Food Haul

 

Weight Loss Food Haul

 

Natural Whole Almonds, Granny Smith Apples, Broccoli Crowns, Red Cabbage , Celery, Cucumbers, Bulk Garlic, Ginger Root, Cilantro Herbs, Lemons, Cantaloupe Melon, Navel Oranges, Anjou Pears, Green Bell Peppers, Red Bell Peppers,  Golden Whole Pineapple, Salad Nature’s Promise Organics Baby Spinach & Spring Mix, Yellow Squash, Zucchini Squash , Bulk Shelled Walnuts, Beef Stew Meat Boneless Chuck Fresh, Turkey Ground 93% Fat Free Fresh, The Laughing Cow Mini Babybel Cheese Light – 6 ct, Tribe Hummus Sweet Roasted Red Pepper All Natural, All Whites 100% Liquid Egg Whites Fat Free, Dannon Oikos Greek Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt Peach Non Fat, Dannon Oikos Greek Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt Strawberry Non Fat, Lactaid 100% Lactose Free Chocolate Milk Low Fat 1%, LAND O LAKES Eggs Grade A Brown All Natural Large, Nature’s Promise Organics Vanilla Soy Milk Refrigerated, Stop & Shop Greek Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt Strawberry Non Fat, Stop & Shop String Cheese Reduced Fat All Natural – 16 ct, Stop & Shop Peas Green Petite All Natural, Kellogg’s Special K Cereal Vanilla Almond

 

Weight Loss Food Haul

 

Weight Watchers Snack Cakes Lemon Creme – 6 ct, Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Pasta Rotini Whole Grain, Nature’s Promise Organics Broth Chicken Low Sodium Fat Free, Indian Head Yellow Corn Meal Stone Ground, King Arthur Flour 100% Whole Wheat All Natural, Filippo Berio Olive Oil Extra Virgin Cold Pressed All Natural, Jif Peanut Butter Creamy Low Sodium & Less Sugar, Kikkoman Soy Sauce Less Sodium, McCormick Oregano Leaves, Slim-Fast High Protein Creamy Chocolate Powder Shake Mix.

Something to note about this food haul

I like to do my grocery shopping online because it limits me from buying junk food randomly. You know what I’m talking about..when you walk buy the milk and you notice the end cap across from it with Oreo’s and they are on sale 10 for $10. Shopping online cuts all of that stuff out..I make my menu for the week, we (My girlfriend and I) make my list of what we need, then we order them  online sticking to the list. It’s definite take a little more time to do but it always saves us money versus going to the store. Also you might notice that there is not a lot of meats on this list and that because we stay very close to a meat and fish market , so we usually get our meats the day before we are going to cook them.

Check out the vlog of my food haul! I’ve included some of my favorite healthy snacks that I’m order every week. I think you’re going to find this very informative and entertaining.

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!

Weekend Recap/ Weigh-In Wednesday/ Blog Challenge Day 5

Welcome Back to 300 Pounds and Running,

My weekend in D.C. was amazing it started with a 7 hour train ride from Hartford to Washington, DC; the cool part is we made a stop at the Baltimore Penn Station, that’s where I’m going for fitbloggin’12.

We got to D.C. around 3 pm, check in the hotel and went on our way. We hopped on the metro to go to this Brazilian restaurant called Fogo De Chao and the food was amazing. They had this card that you flipped over when you wanted them to bring you meat and the salad bar was huge! It’s foodie heaven!

300 Pounds and Running fogo de chao

Here’s a video of Fogo De Chao!

Afterwards we caught the metro back to Union Station to go our tour titled: Monuments by Moonlight. I’m glad we took this tour because it was very humid during the day. We stop by all the major monuments and got off at the MLK, JFK, and Lincoln Memorial.

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The next day I got and ran 3 miles in the hotel gym. Afterwards we went to B. Smith’s restaurant for brunch; I’m proud of myself because I only had 2 mimosas instead of the 4 I would usually get.

Here’s video about the restaurant

After brunch we went to the Holocaust Museum and came back to the hotel relaxed the rest of the day. On the last day I woke up and ran another 3 miles, had breakfast and checked out of the hotel. On the way back the train stopped in NYC so I walked around to stretch my legs only to find that they have Papaya Dog in the train station; 2 hotdogs and papaya juice please! That was the highlight of my train ride. If I gained weight this week it was well worth it.

Weigh-in Wednesday

Since there are a lot of things going on in this post I am not going to go into detail of my measurements. Last week I weighed 326.7 lbs. Let’s see what I weigh this week.

300 Pounds and Running 325.3

This week I weigh 325.3 lbs. – last week 326.6 lbs. = 1.3 pounds lost. I am surprise that I lost weight, I ate so well in D.C. I was pretty sure that I gain a pound or two. This shows I can go on vacation and still lose weight.

 

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Blogging Challenge Day 5: Share pictures of your favorite place to work out.

 

 

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I love running on UCONN’s Campus

 

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Running in my neighborhood

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I think that might be Santini

 

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I love running outside

Until Next Time I’m 300 Pounds and Running!

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Running Mad!

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Welcome Back to 300 Pounds and Running

Last night my girlfriend was pushing my buttons and I became irritated. I didn’t even argue with her I just went for a run. I left mainly to get out the house but my run ended up being very therapeutic.

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