Making Excercise a Habit
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Friday 4/8
TDEE: 4,022
Steps: 25,697
Active Minutes: 1860 -
Saturday 4/9
Equipment breakdown. Spent nearly two hours before lunch loading and then dropping off for service a rider that a front main caster broke off during my mow, then on to the shop to get the other rider so I could finish mowing a large school campus. It shows in my numbers.
TDEE: 3,610 cals
Steps: 23,002
Active Minutes: 156
Picked up the first rider with its shiny new main caster on the way back to the shop at the end of the day so good to go on Monday.0 -
Sunday 4/10
Light drizzle in morning. Finally got moving after lunch (OK, 3:30 pm). Trip to my Mom's and then serviced my personal mower (a 15 year old Kabota B series tractor I inherited from my Dad) (couldn't find an oil filter so still need to change oil) greased and installed belly mowing deck. Fought drive shaft far longer then should have. (What? the collar slides in? I could of sworn it slid out!) Finished mowing using headlights.
Still did not get drive graded.
TDEE: 3,275 cals
Steps: 12,227
Active Minutes: 1840 -
Monday 4/11
Rain-out. Rain cleared off by noon but yards too spongy to mow. Spent day doing maintenance on equipment.
TDEE: 3,109 cals
Steps: 10,778
Active minutes: 32
Cherry on top of slow day - forgot to take FitBit off charger and put it back on after shower. Lost all my sleep data last night. [grrr]0 -
Tuesday 4/12
Made up for Monday's rain out.
TDEE: 4,640 cals (PB)
Steps: 35,086 (PB)
Active Minutes: 312 (PB)0 -
Wednesday 4/13
TDEE: 4,221 cals
Steps: 27,363
Active Minutes: 1760 -
Thursday 4/14
TDEE: 3,964
Steps: 25,256
Active Minutes: 168
Tweaked back lifting a tub of grass clippings from bagger into truck. Wasn't that heavy as tub was just over half full so not sure whats up with that. Guess that's why there are OTC NSAIDs. Go naproxen!!!0 -
Friday 4/15
TDEE: 4,040 cals
Steps: 28,174
Active Minutes: 233
Back is better, but still mutterin'. Get through today without doin' anythin' totally stupid and then I have a whole 24 hour rest day on Sunday.0 -
Saturday 4/16
TDEE: 3,586 cals
Steps: 22,495
Active Minutes: 167
Back improved much throughout the day. Just slightly tight by end of day. NSAID monkey is now off my back as of Sat. night. Rest day all day today (except for mowing my own lawn, turning the compost heap at the shop with a skidsteer, troubleshooting a company truck with dead battery but smokes when hooked to battery charger,...)0 -
Sunday 4/17
TDEE: 3,183 cals
Steps: 13,374
Active Minutes: 880 -
Monday 4/18
TDEE: 4,457 cals
Steps: 33,635
Active Minutes: 234
Other crew lost reverse in their truck so had to scramble at end of day to get that smoking truck with dead battery running while their broken truck is in transmission shop get a rebuilt tranny. Dead battery took charge from trickle charger I put on Sunday and started with no issues. Don't know what caused smoking issue. Will have to see if it will start again this morning.0 -
Tuesday 4/19
TDEE: 4,216 cals
Steps: 25,925
Active Minutes: 166
Smoking truck started again with no issues. They made it through the day using the backup truck with my trailer while my larger truck took the heavy equipment trailer loaded with my mowing equipment. Worked OK but behind by end of day. That extra minute to unstrap mower and pull out two ramps and then another minute to reload adds up after 30 yards (2 minutes per yard x 30 yards = one hour behind). Got back to the shop at 7:30 pm. 11 hour 30 minute day.
Broken tranny replaced in other crew's main truck so situation back to normal.
Been pushing hard to get ahead before forecast rains hit. So far... not a serious drop.0 -
Wednesday 4/20
TDEE: 4,454 cals
Steps: 23,925
Active Minutes: 217
The morning was miserable. Somewhere between heavy mist and light rain (misty showers?). Just enough to keep us off the upper-end lawns (million dollar plus homes). (Baggers don't work very well with wet grass.) Ran the route backwards (hard to do backing up a trailer, right? [lol]). I mean last yard first, first yard last of course. ;-) Sun came out sometime after lunch and life is good again.0 -
Thursday 4/21
TDEE: 3,639 cals
Steps: 17,915
Active Minutes: 72
Numbers say it was an easy day... back wants to punch numbers in the face.1 -
Friday 4/22
TDEE: 4,679 cals (PB)
Steps: 32,289
Active Minutes: 303
Numbers and back are in agreement again.0 -
Saturday 4/23
TDEE: 3,993 cals
Steps: 22,576
Active Minutes: 216
Just odd jobs. Shoveled some topsoil, laid some sod, planted some monkey grasses, forked some mulch, trimmed some shrubs. Mowed the shop with help from boss.
Off by 5 pm. [heaven]0 -
Sunday 4/24
TDEE: 3,174 cals
Steps: 12.660
Active Minutes: 118
Light chores around house and some maintenance at shop. Also last choir concert for daughter in High School (she doesn't have time in her schedule for her senior year).0 -
Monday 4/25
A good day full of personal bests.
TDEE: 4,967 cals (PB)
Steps: 37,117 (PB)
Active Minutes: 371 (PB)
MFP was really slow syncing with my FitBit yesterday, so while I thought I was only leaving 300 cals on the plate, this morning it says I left nearly 1,700 cals on the plate. [grr] Guess I need to start watching it closer.
That's too many calories to leave (and I really wanted that A&W Cream Soda! ... not to mention a Skinny Pirate).1 -
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LOL0
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Tuesday 4/26
TDEE: 4,296 cals
Steps: 29,390
Active Minutes: 2310 -
Wednesday 4/27
TDEE: 4,488 cals
Steps: 30,983
Active Minutes: 283
Hour and half late start due to overnight rain, but went in at regular time (7 AM) to do maintenance. Returned to shop by 7:30 PM.
Long day of mowing and ended the day 4 hours behind with five yards still on the list. All most every yard was a double or triple cut to get rid of the long grass clippings from the first cut and, even then, some heavier growing yards still needed blown (with back-pack blowers) before passing muster.0 -
I feel ya. My fingers are getting sore from tapping keys all day. What a work out...
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I try to get my family involved, whether working out in the living room doing Zumba, or walking a few miles. I try my best to go something outside of my walking at work! Getting others involved!2
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Thursday 4/28
TDEE: 4,029 cals
Steps: 27,437
Active Minutes: 177
Full day. 7 am to 8 pm but mowing caught up. Two big institutional mows and one residential today to end week, call it 8 hours.
Looking at rain coming in around lunch time today. Still have a list of maintenance items to work on if rained out. Hopefully we can mow around the scattered showers and get Saturday off. Been nearly two months of 12 hour days, 6 days a week.0 -
Friday 4/29
TDEE: 3,495 cals
Steps: 20,344
Active Minutes: 103
Rain came earlier than expected yesterday. Turned back to shop before getting to first mow. Worked on maintenance list until noon. On mowers in afternoon until 5:30 pm. Numbers show it.
Will be working around scattered showers again today. Full day. Finish the mowing list and then odd jobs.0 -
Saturday 4/30
TDEE: 4,099 cals
Steps: 29,481
Active Minutes: 2500 -
Sunday 5/1
TDEE: 3,347 cals
Steps: 15,078
Active Minutes: 165
Not so lazy rest day.
My 21 yr son came over around 9 AM and we worked on his backyard forge for a couple of hours before heading for my in-laws to celebrate my father-in-law's 81st b-day. Stopped at shop after lunch to load half a yard of augmented topsoil (50% topsoil, 50% compost), then home to mow and string trim my own lawn. Next stop was my mom's to fill in yard depressions from an old rotting stump in the front yard (took most of that half yard). Cleaned her gutters and trimmed a couple of small limbs off a dogwood for her before heading home. Re-arranged my liquor cabinet and found an unopened bottle of 12 yr old scotch and another unopened bottle of silver patron.
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Monday 5/2
TDEE: 4,584 cals
Steps: 34,934
Active Minutes: 2460
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