Health and Fitness

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:51 pm

He's only 5'2"

Postby **CBear3** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:53 pm

Marathon #2 training update.
I hate running, and everything chafes. Chicago can't come soon enough...

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:19 pm

I'm 5'9" and yes, I have decent legs and a butt...I can't bench for sh*t haha...so yeah, it's a solid buck 40, buck 50 below the equator..

Postby **skullman80** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:11 pm

All of my friends are doing this keto diet now. They dropped a crap load of weight in the first few weeks, but to me it's just another fad. They are doing protein bombs and eating a crap load of just meat and cheeses. I've read where the rapid weight loss at the beginning is mainly water weight.

Anyone else do this? Just seems like a stricter Atkins diet. And is more of a short term thing than long term.

I love carbs way too much to ever do keto.

Postby **skullman80** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:12 pm

All diets are just CICO via a different name. In keto, as with a lot of diets, the initial loss is water and less stuff (I say it that way for your delicate ears, NAN) in your system.

This.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:22 pm

I can hear two... how do I put this delicately. Ummm, fat people. I can hear two fat people over in our sales department right now discussing what foods are healthiest for you. Now I used to be a fat guy. I get it. I thought I was eating a healthy diet because I'd have a side of veggies and a salad every so often, but damn. I know for a fact that one of them drinks heavily almost nightly and the other eats like sh*t. He was just talking this morning about how he was out at place last night eating gravy covered french fries and wings. jfc.

Lololol

Postby **dodint** » Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:53 am

I'm trapped in my own madness loop this morning.

Yesterday I was at a new low weight of 270.0. Great! My next milestone is 268.6, the lowest weight of the most successful campaign I've had since 2013.
Today I step on the scale and it registers 263 pounds. Okay. Very unlikely. I fuss with it, reset it, try it on a few different floors, seems to work again.
Weigh myself, 268.3.
...
So...is it valid? Do I get to celebrate my achievement or what? I have no other scale at this house to validate.
I try a 50lb dumbell just to see what it says, registers at 50.8. Okay. Cool.
Wait, how do I know what the dumbell actually weighs?
Return four lines above...

I guess I'll just roll with it until Saturday when I'm at my other house and I can see what that scale says. Hate that this thing acts up the day I get to a milestone I've been working towards for 85 days.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:00 am

Meh, that's what it says...roll with it. Play it as it lies...congrats...

Postby **CBear3** » Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:02 am

Celebrate it, 100%

Postby **meow** » Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:45 am

Go to a truck weight station

I kid. Great job!

Postby **iamjs** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:07 am

@shafnutz05 I know you've done a half in Philly before. Have you run or do you know anybody who has done the Rock and Roll half? Kicking around doing another half, and the course doesn't look too bad in regards to elevation.

http://www.runrocknroll.com/philadelphia/

Postby **count2infinity** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:31 am

Stop worrying about daily numbers, dodint. If you want to worry about a number, average your weekly weight and follow that, or better yet, look at a monthly average. Daily numbers, especially on wonky scales, mean nothing.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:52 am

I've been doing daily numbers and plotting trends since 2005. I think I'm going to go ahead and stick with it. Any single weigh-in is useless in isolation, but being able to do a 7, 14, 21 and total duration analysis on any given day is absolutely worth it. I can't think of a single situation where data analysis benefits from data collection with a lower frequency rate. Daily weigh-ins are key to my routine so if the scale is acting up it undercuts everything.

Also, it's a very expensive scale, the **** thing should just work.

It initially measured me 8 pounds low this morning. I think it's a little early for the batteries to be dying. I might get in touch with Garmin and see if they have an idea, or if the warranty is any good.

Postby **skullman80** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:05 am

Libra on my droid is what I use for trends. Works perfectly and helps with what I know are just daily fluctuations. I weigh daily and just plug the number into that and it trends it all out for me perfectly.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:11 am

I have a spreadsheet that I've been using since 2005. And Garmin Connect/MFP share data. But I also plot my daily weight on my Google Calendar. I really believe that my (most peoples?) bodies work on a weekly cycle if they have a job that's routine. So knowing what I weighed the last three Saturdays, or Tuesdays, or Mondays is important to me. Really calms me down and keeps me motivated. Until the input becomes unreliable.

I'm just very tied to data and devices. I won't run without a watch, I can't just do fitness for the sake of it, the effort needs to be checked against a benchmark.

Postby **skullman80** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:24 am

My Garmin vivofit is permanently attached to my arm. The data it provides is great. Sync to mfp. Chart it in libra on my phone. Works perfectly.

I'm always up a food few lbs on the weekend due to how much I eat and salt intake...always evens out by mid-week and the trend line in libra is what I pay attention to.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:08 pm

@shafnutz05 I know you've done a half in Philly before. Have you run or do you know anybody who has done the Rock and Roll half? Kicking around doing another half, and the course doesn't look too bad in regards to elevation.

http://www.runrocknroll.com/philadelphia/

Hey there!

The Rock and Roll half course is not bad at all. IIRC, the first 3-4 miles or so wind down Ben Franklin Parkway and then down and back through the city. Then, you basically just go out Kelly or MLK Jr. Drive and come back. Very gentle, rolling hills. The biggest hill on the whole course is probably coming back up the parkway around Mile 4ish.

Postby **MR25** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:51 pm

I'm up over 190 for the first time in my life.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:58 pm

Jacked.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:00 pm

Fatass.

I haven't been below 190 since I left boot camp 8 years ago.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:31 pm

Beefcake.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:35 pm

Brutus, the f*ckin, Barber Beefcake

Postby **Morkle** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:50 pm

With the baby coming, I'm planning to switch my after-work routine to early morning. Does anyone have any tips for getting up early in the morning?

I feel like forcing myself to get up early for two months should help to switch my schedule around.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:51 pm

Even boot camp couldn't convert me. Any time I have a few days off I revert to going to bed at 2am and waking at 10am.

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:57 pm

With the baby coming, I'm planning to switch my after-work routine to early morning. Does anyone have any tips for getting up early in the morning?

I feel like forcing myself to get up early for two months should help to switch my schedule around.

Ask @mikey he's always asleep at 3 and up at 5.