Monday, April 19, 2010
19 April 2010 (Monday - Day 4)
Today I did a bunch of situps, pushups and crunches. Didn't work out too long. Just about 40mins. I think I have to up the intensity a little. An hour later, I didn't feel too tired. So the next time will be more reps.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
17 April 2010 (Saturday - Day 3)
Got swamped at work for the last 3 days and had to work late. So I finally got an opportunity to run today. I did 5.2km in 32 mins; which is a bit slow for my standards. Will be looking to improve on that and push the time to 45mins (about 7.5km) per run.
Monday, April 12, 2010
12 April 2010 (Monday - Day 2)
Today was not according to plan because I decided to cycle to my exercise area and got carried away. I ended up cycling another 15 mins out giving me a total cycle time of 50 mins (25 up + 25 down). But I also managed to do 40 mins of pushups and situps in between. 1 hr 30 mins of working out is too long; but the over-cycling part will not happen again. So I will be trying to keep it to 1 hour in the subsequent sessions.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
11 April 2010 (Sunday - Day 1)
This is a blog to track my progress to getting a ripped body. This is it's primary purpose. The secondary purpose is to enable a means to keep to my schedule in achieving this goal.
I was overweight at 85kg and managed to reduce that to 79kg by eating healthy and swimming 4-5 days a week. In my opinion, running is a dangerous way for obese people to reduce weight. A minimum of 30mins of running is needed to see a reduction in weight; and 30mins of an impact sport such as running for an obese person will surely cause knee, ankle and back injuries. After a few shin splints due to running, I switched to swimming (no impact) which helped me to reduce my weight in 2 months painlessly. Now that I am down to 79kg, I am switching to running and increasing strength to get a ripped body. I would like to lose a little more weight, but losing weight is not my goal right now. Getting a ripped body is....I think in my journey towards that goal, I would lose a lot of weight and so am not worried about it.
The plan is to work out 5-6 days a week alternating running 45mins on one day and cardio exercises the next day. So if all goes according to plan, I will be posting on the days that I do my workouts; which should be 5-6 days a week. I will note that I might not be able to workout on some days due to working late at office and on those days, there will be no post. So today to start off, I ran 23mins non-stop. It's not great, but it's a start...
I was overweight at 85kg and managed to reduce that to 79kg by eating healthy and swimming 4-5 days a week. In my opinion, running is a dangerous way for obese people to reduce weight. A minimum of 30mins of running is needed to see a reduction in weight; and 30mins of an impact sport such as running for an obese person will surely cause knee, ankle and back injuries. After a few shin splints due to running, I switched to swimming (no impact) which helped me to reduce my weight in 2 months painlessly. Now that I am down to 79kg, I am switching to running and increasing strength to get a ripped body. I would like to lose a little more weight, but losing weight is not my goal right now. Getting a ripped body is....I think in my journey towards that goal, I would lose a lot of weight and so am not worried about it.
The plan is to work out 5-6 days a week alternating running 45mins on one day and cardio exercises the next day. So if all goes according to plan, I will be posting on the days that I do my workouts; which should be 5-6 days a week. I will note that I might not be able to workout on some days due to working late at office and on those days, there will be no post. So today to start off, I ran 23mins non-stop. It's not great, but it's a start...
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