Dance the night away....

Dance the night away...well, almost.

I attended a small wedding ( a friend of my wife's), had some food and when the music started...I felt like dancing of course. It took a little nudging to get my wife on the dance floor and she would not go out unless others joined the fray. After recruiting a few volunteers we all went to the dance floor. I ended up dancing with my wife and about ten other ladies (made a double line). We all dance about four songs and had a lot of fun.

Did not count the calories but felt pretty good after jumping and sliding a little bit. In any case it all adds up to my caloric consumption at the end of the day and had lots of fun doing it. Next week, it's another party. So I'm ready! This time it should be more than ten minutes. I could go for about two hours, that sounds about right!

New Beginning

I recently bought the book New Rules of Lifting (http://www.alwyncosgrove.blogspot.com/). I started on the program about three weeks ago. This will be my fourth week (recovery week). Next week I start what is called a fat loss program. Lots of Squats and Deadlifts ( I like that). My only concern is how long the each workout will take.

There are six groups of exercises per workout at three sets of fifteen reps. I'll see how long the first workout takes and figure something out. I only have a limited time for lunch so I may split the workouts. Have to experiment.

I did manage to loose some of the weight I gained after the LA Marathon so that's encouraging. I'm really beginning to question the whole high carb thing to prepare for Marathons. In the last couple of years every time I've done the pre-carb loading it has been horrible for me. It seems I lean more towards protein than carbs but only slightly.

So here we go. This morning I ran for about fourty minutes on the mill. Slow while I watched a nice mellow music DVD. I have a wedding to go later today so I know I'm dancing (even if it's by myself) yeah!

After this years LA Marathon, I’ve been on a plateau. Well that’s not accurate, I actually gained a few pounds. It was either four or six. I’m down again (two pounds) after starting my weight lifting program and cut back a little on the running. It has been kind of slow so starting today (Monday 20, 2007), my new program goes into effect. I tried doing cardio prior to eating breakfast and it just did not work form me. It made me hungrier than ever. So if I have something light to eat before working out early in the morning I feel better (protein, carb mix is better for me).

So my workout went like this.

First the feeding. Half a banana with a 20 oz whey and water mix.

20 minutes of jogging at a very slow pace to get my heart rate up.

Then the real deal.

Squats. 2 Sets of 15 with 2x45s (135lbs).

Lunges 2 Sets of 15 each leg so that came out to 60 lunges holding 25 lb plates.

Single Arm rows (bent elbow) 2 Sets of 15 with 10lbs.

Pushups 2 Sets of 15 (my shoulder still bothers me a little so I’ll have to work on this).

Swiss ball crunches 2 Sets of 15 (that was easy).

Walked for about five minutes to cool off

Had an oatmeal, almond, banana, 1/3 cup milk, ½ cup blueberries breakfast after that.

Active rest tomorrow (5/21/2007). ,maybe some hoops, and hit the weights again on Wednesday the 22^nd.

This will go on for about three weeks before I hit my new fat loss program.

Taken from the book: The New Rules of Lifting.

If anything, I will not be bored for a while. According to my hear rate monitor the whole thing used about 650 calories. Onward