"Don't you believe it"
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Saturday – free day; Sunday – lower body; Today – cardio. I wasn’t able to run because all of the treadmills at the Y were taken up by walkers. >:( Come on people – that’s what the walking track is for. Anyway:
Weight: 196.5 (no change)
Body fat: 26% (no change)
Workout: Cardio – elliptical
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14% done.
Oops – I forgot to update yesterday. The short version: upper body work out, so-so diet. Today was another running day… went much better than Tuesday. I’d *like* to be ready to run in a 5K race next month, but since all of my running has only been on a treadmill so far, I doubt I’ll be ready… road running is a completely different beast.
Weight: 196.5
Body fat: 26%
Workout: 28 minutes; 2 miles
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Man… I just wasn’t feeling it today. Got 7.5 hours of sleep and still had to force myself out of bed. Then once I started running, I had to *force* myself to finish… blah.
Another thing about the body fat – I am suspicious that my scale is *way* off. I was looking through some “before and after” pictures, and people listed with 28% body fat looked much fatter than myself. I mean, I definitely need to drop a few pounds, but my stomach doesn’t hang over my belt like the other people who had BF% in the high 20s.
Weight: 197.5 (down .5)
Body fat: 27% (same)
Workout: Run – 28 minutes; 2 miles
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I’m going to stop tracking what I eat, because it’s a pain in the neck to update this blog after every meal 🙂 I’m not sure why I bother with body fat either – the scale I use is very inaccurate (probably a 4-5% margin of error), and is only useful for a very broad estimate. I need skin calipers if I’m going to do any kind of useful measurements.
Lower body workout today – this is hard stuff… I have neglected my legs for the most part when weight training in the past, so I feel like a complete wimp doing 150 pound leg presses! But hopefully it’ll pay off. I really like doing weights in the morning… everyone else is on the treadmills and stairmasters, so I have the heavy stuff all to myself.
Weight: 198 (down 3)
Body fat: 27% (up 1)
Workout: Weights – lower body