Training Totals

RECAP: Life is getting the better of me these days in many respects. I’m working a ton, studying a ton, and haven’t had much time for the internet. I have however been working out. While I got my workouts in this week, I wasn’t able to do them all in the morning. That’s alright, life goes on, at least I hit the one month mark of working out everyday!

This is over a week late, but here are the training totals for the week ending on January 31st.

Summary

Work out streak: 31 days; (334 to go)

Average Weight – 188.5 (I think, I haven’t weighed myself in a minute)

Running Miles: 13 in 1:56:41 average pace: 8:59

Row Meters: 15,000 (9.3 miles) in 1:08:17

Bike Miles: 0

Swim Miles: .75 in 35:00

Body weight exercises and balance work: 1:15:00

Total exercise time: ~5:00

Weekly Data:

Monday – 100 push ups; 40 pull ups in 25:00

Tuesday – Ran 4 miles in 35:41

Wednesday – Swam .75 in 40:00

Thursday – Ran 4 in 35:48

Friday – Rowed 5,000 in 21:55

Saturday – Ran 5 in 45:22

Sunday – Rowed 10K in 46:22, 100 push ups in 10:00

Goals for Last Week:

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 13 miles – DONE

2. Wake up every morning and work out before work. – FAILED

3. Maintain total exercise at least four hours. – DONE

Goals for Next Week:

Not going to pretend to set goals for a week which already occurred.

Training Totals for the week of 1.24.10

RECAP: Well, better last than never, here is the recap of last week.

There were some highs and some lows this past week. I met my most of my goals this week. I worked out everyday; I made my miles; and I made my hours of exercise goals. In addtion, I hit a goal I wasn’t even really trying for, I did 100 push ups in a single sessions (broken into four sets of 25). I feel pretty good about that, and I’ll try to stay at that number for a while and work on my pull ups. Ideally, I’d like to be doing 100 push ups and 50 pull ups three times a week. So, lot of good news, but some set backs as well – I wasn’t able to incorporate cardio into every workout. Why? Timing.

Here is the problem: I am strictly limited in how much I can run, so if I want to do cardio, a lot of it has to be at the gym, but my gym closes at ten pm, and there are some nights when I am not home by then (I know, life sucks).

The Solution: I NEED to work out in the mornings, if I don’t get up and get to the gym in the morning, I am not going to be able to do cardio every day. Period. So, the main goal for this week is making sure I get up and workout before work every day. That’s not that hard, right? Well, we’ll see. Anyway, here are the numbers.

Summary

Work out streak: 24 days; (341 to go)

Average Weight – 188.5

Running Miles: 12 in 1:50:21 average pace: 9:12

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 45:02

Bike Miles: 6 in 30:00

Swim Miles: .75 in 35:00

Body weight exercises and balance work: 50:00

Total exercise time: ~4:50

Weekly Data:

Monday – Swam .75 in 35:00

Tuesday – Ran 4 miles in 36:54

Wednesday – 100 Push Ups!; 30 pull ups in 27:00

Thursday – Ran 4 in 36:05

Friday – 100 push ups!; 35 pull ups in 25:00

Saturday – Ran 4 in 37:22; Bike 6 in 30:00

Sunday – Rowed 10K in 45:02, various balance drills and random pull ups

Goals for Last Week:

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 12 miles DONE

2. Work out every day, with everyday having a cardio component, pull ups and pushups being supplementary this week – FAIL

3. Increase total exercise time to at least four hours – DONE

Goals for Next Week:

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 13 miles

2. Wake up every morning and work out before work.

3. Maintain total exercise at least four hours.

Training Totals 1/17/10

RECAP: I am really loving working out everyday. I already feel better and fitter, and while my times in everything are not yet improving, nor have I lost any weight, I expect those things to come soon. The problem, especially with the weightloss is that for a variety of reasons, I’ve been eating like shit. First because E (my fiancée) left for New York this weekend (we’ll be doing a long distance thing for the next six months) and so before she left, there were many parties and after she left, there has been too much beer. I gotta get that under control this week.  Anyway, this was kind of a down week for me emotionally, but a decent week on the workouts.

Here are the numbers.

Summary

Work out streak: 17 days; (348 to go)

Average Weight – 188.5

Running Miles: 11 in 1:38:15 average pace: 8:56

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 46:04

Bike Miles: Null

Swim Miles: .5 in 25:00

Body weight exercises and balance work: 45:00

Total exercise time: ~3:25

Weekly Data:

Monday –  30 Pull ups, 80 push ups in 20:00

Tuesday – Ran 4 miles in 37:01

Wednesday – Swam .5 in 25:00

Thursday – 25 pull ups, 80 push ups in 25:00

Friday – Ran 3 miles in 27:30

Saturday – Ran 4 in 33:44

Sunday – Rowed 10K in 46:04, various balance drills and random pull ups

Goals for Last Week:

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 11 miles – DONE

2. Work out everyday – DONE

3. Take progress photo – DONE

4. Increase total exercise time to at least four hours. – FAIL

Goals for Next Week

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 12 miles

2. Work out everyday, with everyday having a cardio component, pull ups and push ups being supplementary this week

3. Increase total exercise time to at least four hours

Training Totals 1/10/2010

RECAP: Well then, my first full week of working out of 2010, and it went basically as planned. I didn’t make it to the gym everyday, but I did work out everyday for at least twenty minutes, and really, it wasn’t all that hard. Here are the numbers.

Summary

Work out streak: 10 days; (355 to go)

Average Weight – 188.5

Running Miles: 10 in 1:31:25 average pace: 9:09

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 45:49

Bike Miles: Null

Swim Miles: .5 in 25:00

Body weight exercises and balance work: 40:00

Total exercise time: ~3:20

Weekly Data:

Monday –  Ran 3 miles in 27:00

Tuesday – Swam .5 miles in 25:00

Wednesday – 20 pulls ups, 60 push ups, various balance drills in 20:00

Thursday – Ran 3 in 27:27

Friday – 25 pull ups, 75 push ups, various balance drills in 20:00

Saturday – Ran 4 in 36:58

Sunday – Rowed 10K in 45:49

Goals for Last Week:

1. Increase mileage to a sad, but reasonable 10 miles – DONE

2. Work out everyday – DONE

3. Take monthly progress photo – FAIL

Goals for Next Week

1. Increase mileage to pathetic, but necessarily reasonable 11 miles

2. Work out everyday

3. Take progress photo

4. Increase total exercise time to at least four hours.

Naked Runner

Some guy went for a nude run near the Whitehouse last night. D.C. police report that “He was apprehended, naked though he was,” Wiley said. I wonder how far he got… more here.

Fitness goals for the year

They say you should set outlandish goals for yourself, that will power isn’t what we think it is and that small manageable changes are a better bet than big insane goals. Well, whatever, I like insane goals, and here they are:

1. Work out every day of the year for at least twenty minutes.

2. Run at least one marathon.

3. Set a new PR at the marathon, the 5K, and the five mile distance, at least. All of my PRs are currently so pathetic, this shouldn’t  be hard.

4. Lose at least ten, but hopefully closer to twenty, pounds. For this, I am going to go by the weight I was on Jan 1, 190 pounds.

5. Remember that getting good at running is going to take time, and that it isn’t something I can rush. When I rush my mileage, I get hurt, when I take my time and build the mileage slowly, I get faster and strong.

Training Totals 12/28/09 – 1/3/2010

RECAP: I swear to god, I am going to get back in the habit of writing these updates every week. This week saw the beginning of my plan to work out, every day, for a year. This is going to be a tricky balancing act, I need some of these workouts to be hard enough to push my fitness level, and others to be easy enough to allow for recovery. Right now, the plan is to have the running workouts be the hardest, with the swimming and rowing used as a sort of active recovery. We’ll see how that goes. Here’s the week

Summary

Average Weight – 189

Running Miles: 6 in 57:37

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 46:43

Bike Miles: 8 miles in 30:00

Swim Miles: .5 in 30:00

Total exercise time: ~2:43

Weekly Data:

Monday –  Rode 8 miles on stationary bike in 30 minutes

Tuesday – Off

Wednesday – Ran 3 miles in 28:16

Thursday – Off

Friday – Day 1 of 365 – Ran 3 miles in 27:37

Saturday – Swam ~.5 miles in open water in 30:00

Sunday – Rowed 10K in 46:43

Goals for Next Week:

1. Increase mileage to a sad, but reasonable 10 miles

2. Work out everyday

3. Take monthly progress photo

Other Random Notes:

1. If you didn’t see it, I am now tweeting about my daily workouts if that kind of thing interests you.

2. I have a plan to post progress photos on here as well, I hope to post the photo for January tomorrow… if I can convince E to take a photo of me for this harebrained project.

My Active Year

Someone sent me a list of things you shouldn’t tweet. Number three on the list is “Your workouts”. Well, whatever. This year, I am trying to take my exercise regime up a notch and plan to work out every day. I know most people think this is a bad idea, that the body needs rest, blah blah blah, but when I went through a period in law school in which I worked out every day for a month, I felt great.

Some notes on this project:

1. Obviously, some days will be harder than others. I plan on keeping running at the center of my fitness, and will be using rowing and swimming as active recovery days.

2.  I think, having finally, really given my foot some rest that I have put my tendinitis problems behind me.  In order to keep my foot healthy, I’ll be sticking to a strict 10 percent increase that means that for the next month or two, I’ll be swimming and rowing a lot, but those sports will diminish as the year goes one.

Anyway, if this for some unknown reason sounds like it would be of interest to you, feel free to follow me on twitter. I’ll also be updating this more with training totals, before and after photos and other fun stuff. 

Training Totals: 12-14-09

Still here, still running. The tendinitis in my foot has proven to be a more annoying injury that I had originally thought and I have had to keep my running to a minimum as of late. Regardless, I do want to get back into the habit of writing here, at least tracking my weekly totals. Which were very, very sad this week.

RECAP: Long days at work; rainy weather; whatever, I suck.

Weekly Data:

Average Weight – 188

Running Miles: 6 miles in 54:43

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 47:58

Total exercise time: ~2 hours

Goals for Next Week:

1. Increase mileage back to a sad, but reasonable 11 miles

2. Increase row total to at least 30,000 meters

Training Totals – 11-08-09

RECAP: I had a week of serious ups and downs. I had some bad news which means I will have almost no time to post here for a while, and some very good news – I got engaged. Both of these meant that I didn’t have the time to work out as much as I would have liked, and frankly, I won’t have the time to work out as much as I would like from now until March. Life sucks. Anyway, reworked plans are to try and keep up my steady progression of mileage and basically forget the rest. I will still row some, but not as much as I had wanted and weight lifting is for now out the window.

Weekly Data:

Average Weight – 188

Running Miles: 8 miles in 1:12:05 hours

Row Meters: 10,000 (6.2 miles) in 47:57

Total exercise time: ~2 hours

Review of Last Week’s Goals:

1. Increase mileage by ~10% to 14.5 – FAILED

2. Increase row total to 20,000 meters – FAILED

3. Do body weight work three days – FAILED

4. Keep to schedule regarding limited alcohol consumption – FAILED

Goals for Next Week:

1. Increase mileage to 14.5

2. Maintain paleo diet