<p>As far as the Garmins I find most of the varsity boys and girls have their own. College definitely.</p>
<p>AlterG session tonight. 70% weight. 7 miles total. One 4 mile stretch @5:00 pace (20 minutes). Really like the feeling of knowing the legs can go faster (hopefully) when I’m at the real or reduced weight.</p>
For college I guess it’s similar to purchasing another textbook. For a high school student, added costs can be the make or break of whether or not a kid gets to do the sport (same for other activities, of course).
<p>Super humid with heavy thunderstorms and tornado watches but still managed to sneak in a 2 mile run. I finally feel like I’m running instead of doing the sabaray shuffle.</p>
<p>Extreme weight loss round #2 starts today.</p>
<p>In round #1, I lost 55 lb in two stages, reaching the low in this past Feb. As of today, I am about 20 lb above that low.</p>
<p>Signed up for myplate to track food intakes, signed up for full marathon training starting early July, and will start insanity tomorrow. Basically, less food and extreme exercises hopefully = 25 lb loss in two months. </p>
<p>Will be posting my weight whenever possible everyday for all the monitor. Please give me some cheers when it goes the right way and some support when it goes the wrong way. TIA.</p>
<p>Back in the gym
Row intervals, Pilates/core
kb swings
Romanian deadlifts
snatches
front squats
OH presses
lunges</p>
<p>If it’s Monday, it’s the basement.</p>
<p>Good solid workout. I pressed the TRX/Jungle Gym fallouts a little harder. Closer to the floor, holding the extension longer. Definitely some shaking shoulders. Two sets of eight. Great core exercise.</p>
<p>The only step up in weight was kicking the push presses up to 2 x 35lb DBs. That is all I can handle. Three sets of 8.</p>
<p>Squats with a single DB (35lb) at the shoulder were great. 10 reps per side. 3 sets. I am definitely gaining some strength/endurance in the legs – maybe from these high rep sets, maybe from hiking.</p>
<p>Single leg deadlifts (35lb DB) were great, too. Sixty of them, thirty per leg.</p>
<p>I’m cautious with weights 'cause I don’t want to do myself damage. The stability ball, however, bwahahahahaha. I just can’t seem to get enough of that thing lately! What kind of a warped human am I?</p>
<p>Dad II, glad to hear you set yourself up to do the food tracking. It seems like many people find that very helpful.</p>
<p>We will cheer you on Dad II!
Food tracking is the way to go.</p>
<p>Wow. Garminization of the collegiate runners… 
A part of me thinks it is a good idea, while the other part thinks it is not such a great idea (besides the cost). Runners are mostly motivated intrinsically, do they really need that extra prodding? A track or XC meet is not like a take-home exam where one can cheat - if you did not do your “homework”, you do not do well. I remember how the big kiddo would wake at 5 am (when it was still dark outside!) during our vacations in Maui and go for her multi-mile run. Of course, I performed the role of the alarm clock and stayed up worried about her while she was gone :eek: She really wanted to set a 5K PR and that’s what drove her to run all that crazy mileage and do the other exercises.</p>
<p>Deborah, I’m having a date with my Bosu ball tonight. 
I hope to get it done before Mr B shows up with his camera to record any YouTube worthy fails.</p>
<p>Yay, Dad II! Another member of the cheer squad here rooting for you.</p>
<p>thank you, thank you.</p>
<p>food tracking is very problematic. There is just not enough Asian food items on the list. Also, it is not easy to judge how much one serving is for some of the vegs we eat. Any tips?</p>
<p>Ran 4 miles in the rain today.</p>
<p>I believe that you can set up custom items. If not, then I just look for something close or go with the base ingredients.</p>
<p>1 mile run, pullups, dips, adductors, abductors and flys. I have some more weights to do in the basement tonight.</p>
<p>Bunsen- Most of the coaches want the runners to have Garmins to keep them from going TOO hard on the easier runs. Track and CC teams get competitive and every run turns into a race. As one of my son’s dear coaches used to say “It’s not who wins the workout!” That was all pre-Garmin. He had a Kenyan teammate and the kid could NOT run slowly. They had to assign someone to almost hold onto his shirt when they were doing track intervals to keep him at an appropriate pace (for him), especially when he was coming back from injury. </p>
<p>Go DadII. Be realistic, though.<br>
Deborah- good work with the stability ball.
Jane- you are an animal!</p>
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<p>The insanity program says about 1000 Cal per work out. That will be about 6000 cal per week. If my first day of full Food tracking is close enough, I am taking about 1,700 cal per day, ~ 300 short of average. In total, that will be about 8000 cal per week which is a little over 2 lbs per week. Once I start the marathon training, there will be more calories burnt. </p>
<p>Beside, a lot of these 20 lbs, I think, is water weights. I will probably lose 5 lb in the first week.</p>
<p>Regarding the Garmin, I am for the main part completely dependent on it. Especially when I was training.
It was utterly ridiculous-- for a sport that really just requires a pair of decent shoes , it required a whole lot more for me:
right kind of sock
right running short/capri etc. dependent on weather
right kind of running bra
cap or at least ponytail holder
ipod and headphones that worked for running
fuel belt or water bottle
and kind of like if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it…
If my Garmin didn’t record it, did I even run? ;)</p>
<p>Heaven forbid the Garmin didn’t pick up satellite! A frequent occurence with moisture on trees. Have waited up to a half hour before starting to run.</p>
<p>In the case of my running and that of all my RunningAhead friends, if we don’t get it logged on RunningAhead (syncs with Garmin) it doesn’t count!</p>
<p>My reason to track is for me, and my outdoor runs are usually on the same routes so I’ve got a pretty good estimate at this point of both distance and speed.* The hilly park I change up enough that it’s a guesstimate, and if I run with a friend somewhere I don’t usually go, then who knows! Have to ballpark it on those.</p>
<p>I save my more precise obsessing for the treadmill.</p>
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<p>I just about wore out my stability ball, especially doing iPod nazi’s programs. It’s a great piece of home exercise gear.</p>
<p>For going heavy on the weights, the single arm rows are a good place to start, as long as you are supporting your back with your free hand on a bench or chair. Some of the arm stuff you are doing – the lateral raises, the flys, the bicep curls, and so forth – don’t lend themselves to heavy weights. They are isolating muscles and the weight is working at the end of a long lever (your arm).</p>
<p>I retired lateral arm raises. Yay!</p>
<p>IDad, my circuit trainer guy (former Marine) is big on “scaption” arm raises for me? Start with hands at sides, lift to middle, then lift out.</p>