Feeling a little lazy

So I had a great Christmas. I got my oldest son a little bike, he was very happy. My other son is 3 months old, so he didn't really care what he got. My wife made our traditional Chocolate chip pancakes with peanut butter and syrup. It was awesome!

So on the workout front, I haven't worked out since Dec 23rd. I'm having a hard time keeping up with the weight lifting and the half marathon training. I'm thinking about doing one week Weights 3 days a week, and then alternate with one week of just cardio. I want to do both, but I just can't do them both at the same time.

I don't know.. What do you guys think?? Tomorrow morning I'm going to the gym. Not sure if I'm going to do weights or run, but I'm doing something.

Good night,
Chuck

Finally Friday

I'm going to do a backwards recap.

Today I was supposed to lift weights for my day 3 of weight traning. But overslept this morning. I might try to get this done tonight.

Yesterday I did 3.1 miles in 27:32.

The day before on Wednesday was my day 2 of Weights.

I did;

push press 50 lbs,
dumble press 45 each side,
dumbell raises 25 each arm
calf raises 270 lbs
side bends 2 sets of 15

On Tuesday I was supposed to run but wasn't able to get out of bed. I set the alarm for 5:30, and just was unable to leave my warm bed.

I'm hoping next week will be better, but it is Christmas week!

Hope everybody has a great christmas!

Chuck

Back from Week off

Today I got up early went to the gym. I ran only 1 mile. After that I did some weight lifting. This is what I did.

Power Cleans - 5 sets of very very small weight
Leg Press - 4 sets of 180lbs
Bench press - 4 sets of 70 lbs
Dips - 2 sets of 195lbs, this was a dip machine
crunches - 30 reps

I was supposed to also do calf raises but i forgot. maybe i will do those tomorrow.
Today is the fist day of my new workout plans. I have a weight lifting routine that I will be following 3 days a week. And the Hal Higdon half marathon I will be doing as well (this is to train for the 9 mile race on March 14th). Tomorrow I will run 3 miles. I'm actually pretty excited about the weight lifting. I can say that in the past, I was never really a fan of pumping iron. But I'm looking forward to sticking to the plan.

thanks,
Chuck

The final weigh in

Today was the final weigh in. I weighed in at 192.6lbs. my body fat % was 24.9 according to the scale. I won the weigh in. I took home about 38 bucks in cash. The one other guy who was going against me ended up losing 1.4 lbs for the whole 6 months.

I'm glad that I won. I lost 26.4 lbs total in 6 months. Like i said before I'm going to start doing more weight training along with running. ALso I want to start swimming once a week. I'm very happy with my progress. Thanks for the inpiration from my fellow bloggers.

I'm thinking about doing a 9 mile race in March. I will keep you posted on that.

thanks for reading,
Chuck

2 days till the Last Weigh in!!

Today I did 5.14 miles on the treadmill in 46 minutes. According to the machine I burned 756 calories. I'm also going to do a jump rope workout tonight. I'm going to keep this short.

Later,
Chuck

ran 3.10 miles in 28:40

I did a 5k this morning. I also did leg press 4 sets of 180lbs. And I did leg curls 3sets of 80lbs. Tomorrow I'm going to do weights for the upper body. I will probably also run at least 3 miles as well.

oh by the way, I'm considering signing up for the Portland Marathon next year its in October. Right near my birthday, what a birthday present that would be.

Later,
Chuck

I lost!!!

So yesterday after running 6.11 miles in the morning. At lunch I ran another 2.22 miles. It turns out my co-worker ran 6.50 miles yesterday and she beat me by 1.27 miles... I was bummed out to lose. I have never been good at losing. But I did 67 miles in November. I don't think I have ever ran that much in a single year. Anyways I'm feeling great about my progress!

Chuck