I’ve been doing really well with my exercise regimen, but have been falling down a bit on eating. I do much better when I don’t have to eat with other people. Social eating at parties is really had for me to resist. 
Still running 5x a week.
Weight loss is painfully slow; I’m @ 98kg
Today I ran an organised 10k in 56:11 (last year was 1:02:28)
All in all I’m happy with my progress this year.
Sounds like you guys are doing great!
I am not going to meet the goal I set for Memorial Day, but I’ve still been eating better in the last couple weeks than I was before, so I’m not too bummed. I’m getting better at not giving in to my cravings right away. Also, I got a food scale, and the novelty hasn’t worn off yet. I weighed the lettuce for my salad the other day, just out of curiosity. Hopefully this will help me track my intake better.
A bump, because my horn demands to be tooted:
The weight loss continues. I’m down close to 30 pounds from when I got my FitBit in late April, probably close to 70 overall from early March. I’m not within sight of anything resembling a “goal weight”, but the progress is making me believe it’s possible. I’m walking and moving, and smoking my wife and kid (who also have FitBits). And this despite going on a week-long vacation at the beginning of June and eating at the Cheesecake Factory; I came home and got right back on that horse.
I’m hurting less. I’m swelling less. I get antsy when I sit still for too long or don’t hit my step goals. All of this, I believe, is good.
Excellent, Max! Walking is underrated as a compliment to health and weight loss, but it’s an excellent, low impact exercise. Hiking is particularly fun for me, and being in nature has been linked to improvements for people who are depressed.
I am in week 4 with my personal trainer. I got to flip my first tire on Monday! It’s amazing how fast my strength is improving, and so far only minor injuries. Since I was fit once in the past, I’m much better at recognizing potential injuries and laying off when I need to.
Nutrition has been so-so, but I’m down 3 pounds. I’m not super conscious about weight right now, more just wanting to master the fitness habit.
Well I was a good boy this week. A lot of depression about the Political situation, work, and life stress and I let the last 6 months get wasted with a return to bad habits after 18 months of decent progress. Far too little walking and far too much drinking and smoking.
But last week I forced myself to walk at least 10000 steps a day. And now I’m finishing up a 4 day weekend where I made it a priority, and hit 25000 every day, and only had 4 beers total(compared to my last long weekend that is massive improvement).
Now to make sure I keep it up during the hot sweaty season.
Good for you on making 10,000 steps a day wolfman! I think I said this earlier in the thread, but IKEAs and shopping malls are great for air-conditioned walking. I’m glad to hear you’ve restarted with a trainer, Spice Weasel. Is this one making you backwards down steps like the last one?
My weight’s been slowly sliding up since I got home from vacation (I did fine *on *vacation, go figure) so I need to start paying attention again. I’ve been eating way too many refined carbs recently which makes me fat and farty. No more cake for me.
About the first of the year, I started going to the gym twice a day, five days a week. Well, mostly. Usually cardio in the morning, then resistance and cardio in the evening. I got down to 195 and really hit a wall- I built muscle and endurance, but wasn’t losing weight.
Then, about a month ago, I was in a motorcycle accident. Broke three ribs and shattered my collarbone in three places, and as a result I’ve only made it to the gym a handful of times (and have only done cardio on those days). However, I’m now down to 187- only two pounds over my goal weight.
I’m finally getting back to the point where I can more regularly exercise, but it’s going to be a long time 'til I can get back into weightlifting.
Glad I found this thread, cause fitness is huge for me right now and need a place to post my goals and progress. 34 year old male.
Summer Goals: San Francisco Marathon in 3ish weeks. Just want to beat five hours and complete. But beyond that I’m doing Tuesday night marathon training class (with a 3 month planned exercise plan) combined with a month long early morning bootcamp involving cycling, yoga, and kettlebell / resistance band exercises. The camp is Monday Wednesday Friday for July.
In August I’m attempting my first Spartan with associated training, and then in October /November I’ll be doing my Yoga 200hour training.
I’m in love with all this stuff, it’s been a long road to find that these things are really a passion for me. And to find I can actually do it has been like a rebirth for me. As a kid I was so not into any form of exercise. But I love all these things. And I think more and more I’d like to teach fitness as a side job for fun.
Here’s something that amazed me today, I did a lowered V-Sit in yoga class with no shaking, I honestly thought my muscles in my core were somewhat messed up from a Fall I had two years ago. But today, no shakes…after three years. It’s probably all the yoga combined with the abdominal work in race training. I’m so thankful for all this. I still get hard on myself, but I’m so inspired to keep getting better.
Which Spartan are you doing? Sprint, Super, or Beast?
I did my first Sprint last February. I found the obstacles challenging, but not too bad (you need some upper-body strength for many of them), but the running was difficult for me.
Sprint. I’m the opposite, good at running, but building stronger upper body.
Work on your pullups (and Burpees, of course…)
I couldn’t do the rope climb (I haven’t climbed a rope in 40 years…). I got about half way and failed. I actually went out and bought a “battle rope” to hang in my backyard for training.
The bucket carry and sandbag carry were hard (and you see lots of people cheating on the bucket carry), but I completed them.
There was one particular obstacle at the end - an angled wall that has a variety of hand-holds that needs to be traversed by hand-strenght alone - that I got just over half-way and then lost my grip. Watch the Youtube video about how to tackle it.
Actually, watching the Youtube videos is helpful for all the obstacles - some of them have way more technique than one might expect. Having the correct technique compensates for not being as strong.
I am adding some routines at the gym specifically with the Spartan in mind. I have started to do pullups using the rope grip looped around a handhold, but not resting my hands on the knots - using grip strength alone to hold my weight. I’m also doing some one-handed hangs and abs, trying to increase the about of time I can hold by bodyweight with one hand. Not at all easy…
Thank you, I need this motivation. Summer has just started. I’ve been doing my Tuesday run club, (which has been majorly badass…the dude makes us do all kinds of work and pushes us hard). And morning bootcamps with yoga thrown in. The bootcamps have been a mix of kettlebell, plank exercises (ab wheels) resistance bands (presses) sledgehammer, street style workouts. I need to do Burpees and pullups, which I can do at home (I have a pull up bar). Rope climb! Shia! I need to get on that!
So I had to share two exciting bits of fitness news for me.
Yesterday ran 34km at 6:30 pace. A PB for me and my last long run before the San Francisco Marathon. I was excited it went well.
I was going to jog the 10km race the next day at an easy pace, but couldn’t resist competing. I ended up finishin 24/126. My time was 50:30. Another PB, the day after a huge long run. Feels so good to be breaking though my limits. For so many years I was stuck and now I’m getting better again.
Anyways, I’ll crack a beer tonight in celebration 
That’s impressive…I’ll crack one for you!
I made some minor progress today.
I was able to do one (count them!) decent triceps dip with 100 lbs. on the dip belt.
Excellent work!
Boot Camp started up again this morning. I noticed on Saturday I was having issues keeping up (Pound followed by Body Pump) so I think I’m going to just do Pound right now while Boot Camp is going on.
Glad to hear so many of you are keeping up on your plans!
OK to bump this, I hope. Last Tuesday I made the 10x100s in the DBBP. That’s a lifetime PR for me - not just “in the last thirty years”.
Now I am taking a deload week. Then - I have never made arms a priority, just a couple of sets of curls at the end of a workout and hardly any triceps work besides presses. I want to add a half inch to my arms. They’re not bad, but they are sort of skinny compared to the rest of me.
Regards,
Shodan
I reached my goal of 80kg (176 lbs) in June, and have since been working on weight training and building muscle, while keeping my body weight at or around 80. I may try and get down to 75kg starting from September after the summer holiday, but I’m not decided on it.