Coffeebro
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Nice Brian. Thats really good. I can do 3 miles in 30 mins but I have to pause at least twice for leg maintenance. I wanna do a real 5k this summer.
Weight-Loss The Brat Pack June Weight Loss Challenge
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Nice Brian. Thats really good. I can do 3 miles in 30 mins but I have to pause at least twice for leg maintenance. I wanna do a real 5k this summer.
Trops
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Oh, I hate running. I hate it before I do it, I hate it the whole time I'm running, I love stopping. I don't even like that I did run. The thing is that I know that it really kick starts my weight loss, so I do it.
Runner's high? Never had it. Runner's dread is more like it. Now biking? I can do that for hours now and still love it. (Saturday was 1 hour and 50 min and I still had a bit more in me.) Nothing like biking in the right environment. Running, it only really makes sense if you are trying to lose weight or being chased.
Trops
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When you say HIIT, what do you mean? I take it to mean that you are exercising at a normal pace for a certain amount of time, and then kick it up for a certain amount of time. When I do it it's either on the eliptical machine or jogging. Say on the eliptical machine, I'll go at a normal pace, say 120 pace/min for 90 sec, then kick it up to 180-240 for 30 sec. That's one cycle. I'll try to do as many cycles as I can. Usually after 8 I can't breathe, so I stop. That's only 16 minutes and it kicks my ass.
adeon
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Yea thats what I do too.. but I mean when i'm just running at a steady pace, should I be upping the length of time that I'm running, or should I be upping my speed for the entire 25 minutes?
Trops
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Well, the way I do it is for the time that you are sprinting, you are really going as fast as you can for the thirty seconds. If that's your fastest, then you can't really increase the speed. At the end of 25 minutes (damn! 13 cycles) if you can keep going then I would do it. The thing is to keep the intensity up for each cycle. Don't think about keeping some in reserve for the next cycle. That's what the 90 seconds are for.
Trops
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Oh, and I tried to do this on a treadmill and failed miserably. I couldn't get the program to change speeds fast enough, so I was being dragged along going way too fast on my resting cycle. The eliptical machine I set the pace so it was easy to change up. Same with running on the road.
Trops
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Worest case situation, chased by fat!
Oh, I'm not afraid of fat. I know how to eat fat. I've had 40 years practice at that.
about2loseit
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. . . teach me to come in during the middle of a (very strange) discussion. Lol
Ya'll miss me?
Ya'll miss me?
Trops
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Bigguy
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And you are......
Ankebuzz
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Oooooo, you gonna pay for that!
Well, turns out after my official weekly weigh in last night, that next week's number for the challenge is a small gain of 1.3 pounds.
I attribute this to starting weight training and falling off the bus for about 3 out of 7 days.... thereby turning that extra food into heavier, leaner muscle
Plus I've lost a bit around my bum and thighs since I started running, according to my measuring tape
So all in all, this is not a setback, just a kickstart for my next, more successful week!
about2loseit
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You know you missed me like mad.
I bet you even cried.
Inconsolably.
For at least fifteen minutes.
about2loseit
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Plus I've lost a bit around my bum and thighs since I started running, according to my measuring tape
That is a gift in and of itself. Congrats!
*mumbles I wanna lose around my bum and thighs . . .*
Trops
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I thought that my Monday weigh in was a bit higher then it should have been, so I wasn't too worried about it. Sunday night was sushi with full sodium soy sauce, miso soup, the works. Also coming off midnight shift for the week, I'm always a bit behind in the weight loss. So this morning I was very glad to see the scale cooperating. 209.8 First time I saw that in a morning weigh in. Next Monday will show a good week.
adeon
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Yea my weight was up on Monday PROBABLY because I had this way too big dinner of brown rice, veggies, and a huge fillet of salmon Sunday... only realizing after I had almost finished devouring it that it was probably way too much food and I'd be paying for it on the scale the next day. Since Monday's 143.6, I'm down 2.2 to 141.4
I've lost some woot!! Unofficially of course
I've lost some woot!!
Unofficially of course 
thedarwinfish
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Congrats adeon. I'm up a couple points, but my body fat has been trending down so I'm okay with that. We'll see what happens between now and Monday.
Ankebuzz
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Damn, I really don't think I could weigh in more than once a week! All those ups and downs, what stress!
But I guess I know that some weeks my weight may be totally off at the exact time I'm weighing and that may be misleading. But as long as, over the weeks, I can see a downward trend, I'M HAPPY!
But I guess I know that some weeks my weight may be totally off at the exact time I'm weighing and that may be misleading. But as long as, over the weeks, I can see a downward trend, I'M HAPPY!
Bigguy
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I step on the scale a few times a week just to gauge progress. If i am 'high' for some reason I cannot figureI will kick things up a tiny notch.
It also works in the opposite way. For some reason I was feeling fat and blah yesterday and was sure I was at like 222- 224 or something. Stepped on the scale and was 219 after my workout. Mind you this is in no way an actual weight because of the time it was taken but it did reassure me a bit.
It also works in the opposite way. For some reason I was feeling fat and blah yesterday and was sure I was at like 222- 224 or something. Stepped on the scale and was 219 after my workout. Mind you this is in no way an actual weight because of the time it was taken but it did reassure me a bit.