JCC 2023 Fitness Goals

Last year accomplishments:

• Dropped from 200 pounds to 165 pounds
• Restarted swim lessons after a one-year hiatus
  
• Went backpacking for the first time
  
• Began to get into whitewater kayaking

This year's goals:

• Get down to my target weight of 145 pounds
• Continue swim lessons to the point of being comfortable swimming laps without assistive equipment or my instructor in the water
• Find an actual workout regimen that works for me and that I can sustain (I've reached the conclusion that it will need to be something I can do at home in the living room)
  
• Do at least a short day hike once or twice each month in a variety of parks, along with at least two overnight backpacking trips
  
• Build my kayaking skills and do at least five river runs

 

Off to a good start. Because I had to spend 4 hours at the vet and there was nothing to do I just passed around so it’s possible I could get my second day of 56k steps already.

 

This year I hope to get back on some sort of exercise schedule. I would like to lose some weight and focus on eating healthier overall. I want to get back into running as well once the weather is better. One of my goals is to run a half marathon. The most I have ever ran was a 10k a few years ago.

 

Anyway. Second day of the year was 67k steps. My goal this month is to get 5 days of 56k or more steps since then all I will need is 1 day per month after to reach my goal

 

How do you get so many steps? I consider 20,000 steps to be an extremely active day for me. I can't imagine 56,000 steps in one day.

 

Oh it is.

I get so many steps because me and my family got a treadmill months back. Now when I am playing video games or what have you I can do that while walking. It makes such a difference. Also mostly doing nothing but walking for most of the day. It helps that I don’t have basically anything to do for the next week or two cause winter break.

 

I will swim more. A lot more.

My other fitness goal is to never enter a gym.

 

Yeah, I'm not a fan of gyms either. As for swimming, I'd love to, but the lake is frozen now, so it will be a few months.

 

Nothing an ice pick and a 7mm dry suit can’t fix!

 

Another 60k steps for me. Got a 3 mile run in there as well

 

30k steps for me today. I know I’ll be able to get a lot of steps on this semester as I don’t have hard classes. I might as well only have 2 classes as history classes are a breeze for me. Anyway I want to build up some steps for my 20k average goal as this summer. I will have an internship. So who knows how much time I will have for walking.

 

Repped 405 for 5 sets of 5. Light. Felt good. Explosive. Back felt like a slab of ****ing iron.

Once I completed my entire back workouts and dodged the New Year’s resolutions gym punks, ran a mile while having a convo faster than I’ve ran in months.

I’m feeling animalistic. Barbaric. An absolute terror.

 

As an aside. I had gotten up to 3.8 miles per hour for my “relaxing” treadmill walks before Christmas break. But just 11 days off the treadmill set me back to doing 3.2 miles per hour if I didn’t want my legs to kill me at the end of the day.

it goes to show just how fast muscles can change. Or maybe my muscles suck

 

When I can chew again, definitely rethinking the diet (Less processed food).

Will start stretching again.

While the weather is decent I am walking and reclaiming that. Still haven’t walked home from the bank, but it will happen at some point.

Working on staying positive, it can be a moment-by-moment thing here.

 

Or maybe you walked 50k+ steps per day three days in a row and your legs are fatigued?

Loving my gym membership. Had a wonderful spin class yesterday, every time I go, I get a little braver with the settings and burn a few more calories. Plus, my legs are getting stronger, love it! On these dark winter mornings, the treadmill at the gym gives me a safe lighted temperature-controlled place to run. I seriously don't understand all the hostility towards gyms.

 

Ugh sorry about the above post. This is what I meant to quote. @Jedi Knight Fett I really think your legs were just tired from several days of crushing your goal. A day of taking it easy or two will probably get you back to where you were.

 

I saw that above post and was wicked confused. But I don’t think it’s the reasons my legs hurt. As it only happens around step 40k and it happened on the first of January as well. No. I do think it’s because of how fast I walk and or how much I run on the treadmill. Sure doing it 3 days in a row also doesn’t help. But I don’t think it’s the majority of the cause.

 

Okay 4th marathon of the year. Also over 8 hours on the treadmill. I actually went to a gym with a friend for a couple of hours. So that was fun

 

I did my longest run in over a year this morning. It was 12 miles at a talking pace, finally got back with my running friends after the holidays and being nice last week by not passing my cold on to them. It felt really good, but I imagine my legs will be tired later today or tomorrow.

 

Also I figured it out. It’s definitely more the speed than the number of steps. I did almost all of my treadmill time at 3.2 miles per hour and even after 8 hours my legs only slightly hurt.

also again it seems the gym I go to for strength training. Lifting weights and what have you. Has just the most wacky clients. Or just insane.

 

LOL, Yeah I never visit the half of the gym with all the weights. I stick to the cardio machines and a little area with mats and free weights for us non committed to being muscle people. Nothing wrong with getting muscles, I'm just a cardio person. There are some trainers at my gym who I think push people too hard, but I just don't think it's any of my business. I did the exercise at home thing for the pandemic and I missed my gym. I missed having the machines and a place to go. I push myself harder at the gym. I see the same smiling faces every morning. It's my happy place.

 

I only go to the gym once a week

 

I go 6 days a week, but I don’t go for the smiling faces. Only the pain.

 

...and the gain, amirite?