<p>Today’s workout</p>
<p>Warm Up
20 lunges
5 inchworms (with my excruciatingly tight hamstrings, this was torturous and looked super akward)
10 pass throughs
10 pull ups
20 air squats</p>
<p>Work Out
Farmers Walk with 2 20 lb. kettle balls 1 lap (270m) This was way too light and I ran most of it</p>
<p>10 rounds of:
5 pull ups (assisted with bands)
10 push ups
15 air squats</p>
<p>Farmers Walk with 20 35 lb. kettle balls 1 lap (this was hella heavy and very difficult. Felt like I was on some kind of surreal airport transition schlepping two heavy suitcases)</p>
<p>5 rounds of:</p>
<p>5 pull ups (assisted with bands)
10 push ups
15 air squats</p>
<p>Work out time: 35:14</p>
<p>In the end, as always, the push ups are what killed me off. I started to have to rest between single push ups on my knees.</p>
<p>mominva:</p>
<p>Here was the [original</a> happy face photo](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/oneyearanniversaryhappyface.jpg]original”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/oneyearanniversaryhappyface.jpg). This one was taken back in Feb on the 1 year anniversary of my diet/fitness kick, down 70 pounds at the time, which was my original pie-in-the-sky goal. I was modelling the pair of my biggest fatty jeans that I saved for posterity/motivation. Those were size 44 waist. I’m now wearing 33.</p>
<p>I’ve taken off another 20 pounds since then, with a nice assist from the New Rules of Lifting for Abs workouts.</p>
<p>Way, way cool!
DH has those jeans.
Would love to see one of your ‘happy face’ fitting in those jeans to show him it can be done.</p>
<p>Look at the necks in the two pictures - big difference.</p>
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<p>Yes. Neck and face is noticeably thinner. I’ve lost another 3 inches in the waist and about 2 inches in the chest between those two photos, but the biggest change was becoming more muscular. The first picture was taken six weeks into NROL4ABS, about the time I started to notice the impact of the weight lifting and core work. Credit to adidas. Like I mentioned, that particular cut of shirt suits me.</p>
<p>It’s pretty much a shock to me. The transformation over the last 16 months is pretty dramatic. I’m still getting used to it.</p>
<p>CJane:</p>
<p>That’s a pretty intense workout! Five sets of 10 pushups is tough. I sure wouldn’t feel bad about struggling to get through the last set on that one. A 270 m farmers walk with two 35 pound weights is pretty tough, too. My arms would be about to pop out of their sockets I bet that your whole upper body was tingling when you put those weights down.</p>
<p>I’ve been doing reverse inchworms, 3 days a week, for six months now. They kiled me at first. I had to stop and rest after each one. But, I think they may have done more good stuff to me than any other exercise. The hamstring stretching and the “walkout” position with the hands extended really start to have a good effect. I like to pause and hold those positions.</p>
<p>WOW, iDad. You DO look like the guy on the Perform catalogue! Great picture.</p>
<p>Jane- I’m convinced that you could benchpress me over your head and slam me to the ground. Your workouts are amazing. Beast!!</p>
<p>I don’t have much to say since I promised myself (in February) that I would not complain about the heat. Running is stupid, but I managed 5.3 miles this morning. The race-even though I didn’t feel like it was very fast- did not do my right hamstring/butt any favors. It isn’t terrible, but I know why my PT said not to do any fast running. I guess it is different muscles.</p>
<p>Wow, I had to go back and read the posts I missed. What an active bunch we are!</p>
<p>MOfWC, congrats on finishing the 5K in the top three 
I was initially planning to race the day before my birthday, but DH had other plans for us (I’m not complaining), so I registered for a different race, which is happening later in the summer, and will have to condition myself to run in hot weather. That’s why I run more than I probably should. Meanwhile, my friend is egging me on to run a full marathon later in the fall (not going to happen). </p>
<p>i-dad, what you’ve done is AWESOME. Just jaw-dropping awesome. Congrats!</p>
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<p>^^This is a typo, for sure, but Jane, you are a superhuman.</p>
<p>I did some real farmer’s walks last night carrying water in 2 5-gallon buckets to water the garden. Tomatoes do not like to be hosed with water from the top, so I combined the yardwork with my exercise. Plan a run tonight, but it is soooo hot right now I might have to wait until it cools off a bit.</p>
<p>^lol BB - typo, indeed. But it sure felt heavy! I like the real farmer’s walk you describe, because being able to do things in real life is really what it is all about. </p>
<p>amazing photo, idad</p>
<p>I hope that those buckets have comfortable handles!</p>
<p>BC, they are standard cat litter buckets. The handles have some plastic on them, so they are OK 
I’m so glad that cat litter no longer comes in buckets! We have a pile of these buckets from the good old days, and because Waste Management does not like them in the recycling bin, I use them for garden tasks until they break and then trash them.</p>
<p>Uh-oh, I will have to do some more farmer’s walks to night, because tomatoes do not like to be dry.</p>
<p>IDad - very impressive.</p>
<p>Now my next goal for you is to drop the ol (formerly) fat guy sobriquet. First of all, the parenthetical “formerly” still leaves you with ol’ fat guy. I know it won’t be easy, but at some point you are going to have to just acknowledge that you are one fit dude. No need to apologize or explain, and while it may be inspiring to some, most people who are 90 pounds overweight can’t fathom losing that much weight, so it doesn’t even sound real to them. </p>
<p>Congrats, IDad - you have accomplished so much. And by the way, how do you do the picture thing? We could use that over on the dressing young thread when we are trying to decide what to wear!! LOL!</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy to overlay something using Microsoft Paint.</p>
<p>BB–I read that in addition to weight training, gardening/yard work (especially weeding, digging, moving dirt around,etc.) will help prevent osteoporosis. Keep working on those tomatoes.</p>
<p>I-Dad: photos are really telling. You look like a new person. I hadn’t seen them before.</p>
<p>I’m still on vaction. Managing to do fast walking and spinning (found a class). Discovered a DVD from Rebook that goes along with a core board that’s in the summer house–must have been the former owners. Some of it is pretty challenging.</p>
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<p>I don’t know. The US government says I’m still fat. Still in the overweight BMI category. Although, thank goodness for small favors, at least Michele Obama’s charts don’t call me obese anymore!</p>
<p>And I’m still an ol’ (formerly) fat guy when I’m doing those little 2 minute jogging intervals…</p>
<p>Here’s a [photo</a> of the (not formerly) ol’ fat guy](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/Fatguy.jpg]photo”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/Fatguy.jpg). This was pretty close to my heaviest, about six months before I started on this diet and fitness kick. I was up near 250 in this photo.</p>
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<p>Okay, you need to make the time-series image and update it regularly. I’m going to add a picture a month. I think that I’m due to add one in a week or two. I’ll probably post every other month.</p>
<p>Did you burn the clothes?</p>
<p>The pictures are cool - makes it easier to visualize posters, even without faces. On MoWC, I noticed sunglasses in right pocket, monster Garmin on left wrist and ankle brace on left foot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I need to figure out how to post the picture without it linking to my whole Photobucket stuff. Hints???</p>
<p>No ankle brace. That’s the little strap that the timing chip attaches to. Sunglasses were for post-race (I don’t run in them) and yes- Monster Garmin!</p>
<p>Use imageshack - you can upload pictures without an account.</p>
<p>I wonder if I’m going to see one of those ankle thingies this year. I don’t like poking holes in my tech shirts with safety pins.</p>
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