Making Excercise a Habit
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Monday 3/21
TDEE: 3,736 cals
Steps: 19,9530 -
Tuesday 3/22
TDEE: 3,383 cals
Steps: 15,1450 -
Wednesday 3/23
TDEE: 3,972 cals
Steps: 23,3610 -
Your step counts are very impressive. Obviously due to your career, but still great.0
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PlunderingSteelGorilla wrote: »Your step counts are very impressive. Obviously due to your career, but still great.
Thanks.
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One and a half hour late start due to overnight rain. Thought I'd squeeze in a workout before work.
F22 apps W8D2 complete.- 68 Push-ups (w/ bars),
- 121 Sit-ups,
- 80 Squats,
- 9 Full Squat, Bicep Curl, Shoulder Press with 30 lb Dumbbells (W2D2)
After a week and a half break, the push-ups and sit-ups were challenging.
FITBIT CHARGE HR STATS- 39 minutes total,
- 20 active minutes,
- 203 cals.
- 0 minutes in peak zone (>160 bpm),
- 0 minutes in cardio zone (130 - 160, peak HR 135 bpm),
- 27 minutes in fat burn zone (95 - 130),
- and the rest out of zone (<95 bpm).
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Another late start today. Can't mow with frost on the ground. Afraid I slept in an extra hour today rather than add an extra workout.
Thursday 3/24
TDEE: 3,872 cals
Steps: 20,5140 -
Friday 3/25
TDEE: 3,698 cals
Steps: 19,1770 -
Saturday 3/26
TDEE: 3,216 cals
Steps: 15,291
Better than I expected for a day off, just puttering around the house outside.0 -
Sunday 3/27
Easter
I took it as a rest day.
TDEE: 2,326 cals
Steps: 4,8420 -
Monday 3/28
TDEE: 3,812 cals
Steps: 23,4580 -
Tuesday 3/29
TDEE: 3,960 cals
Steps: 22,6890 -
How do you get so many step?0
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Steps?0
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@earlyriser420
Post-retirement job in commercial lawn maintenance.
Mowing with combination of zero-turn riders, walk-behinds, and push mowers. Then string trimmer and edger. Finally clean-up with backpack blowers. I'm foreman of a three man crew, but we rotate duties. 25 to 40 yards a day. Steps add up.
I'll post today's numbers in the morning. Won't be as high as we got rained out at 2 pm.0 -
Wednesday 3/30
Rain out at 2 pm. (We really needed the moisture.)
TDEE: 3,429 cals
Steps: 16,8840 -
Thursday 3/31
Made up for rain-out with a personal best.
TDEE: 4,213 cals
Steps: 25,8970 -
Nice! 40 yards per day seem like a lot. How many hours per day do you work in post-retirement?
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This time of year it can be dawn 'til dusk. Thursday I clocked in at 7 AM and Clocked out at 6:30 PM.Today I was home by 4 PM but we have a full day all ready planed for tomorrow.0
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Friday 4/1
TDEE: 3,331 cals
Steps: 18,6860 -
PlunderingSteelGorilla wrote: »Nice! 40 yards per day seem like a lot. How many hours per day do you work in post-retirement?
Also, a 40 yard day includes a bunch of duplexes and half duplexes. Postage stamp yards but I count a full duplex as two yards.0 -
Saturday 4/2
TDEE: 3,706 cals
Steps: 19,227
4 guys...
2 cubic yards of top soil (unloaded with shovels and spread).
3 tons of 1 inch river rock (unloaded with shovels and spread).
1 cubic yard of mulch (unloaded with pitchforks and spread).
and then I raised the canopies on three trees and hauled off the limbs with one helper.
After getting back to the shop and unloading the limbs onto our burn pile, I mowed our 4 acres. (By myself, off the clock. Joys of being a property owner.)
Decided the 50 cubic yards of composting yard waste can wait 'til next week for turning. It's past time for lunch and I'm toast.0 -
My resting heart rate is creeping up these last three weeks since growing season has started. From 58 bpm to 62 bpm.
Guessing that's a result of less deliberate cardio workouts(?). During of my current workdays, my heart rate rarely rises above fat burn (95-130).
On a brighter note, I've all most doubled my "Active Minutes" (see link below) from 300 minutes per week to over 750 minutes per week. This last week showed 965 active minutes for the week.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity/FitnessBasics/American-Heart-Association-Recommendations-for-Physical-Activity-in-Adults_UCM_307976_Article.jsp#.VwEToqQrKhc
With my current TDEE averaging 3500 plus calories, I've decided not to add any deliberate exercises for now. If I get a Saturday off I may work on the APFT 2 mile run or the F22 apps. Sunday will be my one rest day for the week.0 -
Sunday 4/3
My "rest" day. Finished the half-bath. Fought putting the ceiling light back together far longer than it should have taken. Rest of new lights went in fairly easily. Wife happy. Shoulders feeling the overhead work.
Then a trip to my Mom's and did an unexpected trim on her very large crepe myrtle... with small hand scissor-type hedge trimmers... brought it down to about 6 ft... after all that shoveling on Saturday. Shoulders are toast.
Skipped mowing my yard. Skipped grading my drive.
Some rest day.
TDEE: 3,181 cals
Steps: 7,550
Active Minutes: 1240 -
I am starting to think one of use does not know the meaning of post-retirement. Good lord I hope that one is you 1
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PlunderingSteelGorilla wrote: »I am starting to think one of use does not know the meaning of post-retirement. Good lord I hope that one is you
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Monday 4/4
TDEE: 4,022 cals
Steps: 25,618
Active Minutes: 1420 -
Tuesday 4/5
TDEE: 4,213 (ties previous PB)
Steps: 27,530 (new PB)
Active Minutes: 2010 -
Wednesday 4/7
Rained-out before we got to the first yard. Boss treated us to a second breakfast. When I got home, kept eating like I was still walk 25,000 steps instead of the 5,000 I actually did. Over my intake calories by 700.
Damage after yesterday's calorie over-run wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Scale this morning said I had actually dropped a couple of tenths. Weight trend is still showing a 1.4 lb loss for previous seven days.
TDEE: 2,417
Steps: 5,162
Active Minutes: 0
Typical rest day (except for the second breakfast).0 -
Thursday 4/7
TDEE: 4,312 (PB)
Steps: 26,297
Active Minutes: 153
Wind. 30 - 40 mph all day. Loving my 'new' grass bagger. Without it, I'd still be chewing my cud from eating grass all day.0
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