Making Excercise a Habit
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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
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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
LOL!0 -
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 -
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
