E-ratik Madman

4/25/16 workout 45 minutes 3 min walk/12 min run and then a cool down. Hit 3.58 miles! 4/26/16 workout P90X3 CVX workout. You gotta do something in a hotel room.

I'm grilling for my grandpa today and he is specifically asking for chicken livers, onions, and it all be wrapped in bacon and cooked on a grill. He is anemic and needs to raise his iron levels. I'm fine but want to reduce the carcinogens going into this. I'm thinking of using a toothpick and wrapping these in foil as they cook. Should that be enough for flavoring with bacon grease or should I add something. Never tried this before lol

I need a coffee as black as my soul. Sometimes with a teaspoon of heavy whipping cream lol. I started by going down the bulletproof coffee path and started pulling ingredients out of the mix from there.

I find a food journal helps a lot. Since you care about bodyfat and not scale weight, that is what I would track. Cheap calipers and a tape measure should be your guide. With how active you are I would actually go toward your high end of calories for a week and see how I feel. Or even do exactly what you are doing and add a small snack like cottage cheese and peanut butter to the end of your day. What I would not do is compare my food consumption to other people. If you ate 2200 calories for a week and lost bodyfat, would you still want to eat 1500 calories?

I mostly do evening workouts but when I can get a prebreakfast workout in I like to have a barebones protein shake. If I'm still tired before getting started, protein shake mixed with instant starbucks coffee mix. But I agree, eating something small at least 30 minutes prior to exercise really does help.

I don't know your macros but hitting at least 30g of protein a meal helps. Are you staying hydrated? I don't know your meal split but having 5 to 6 meals means an after dinner snack like cottage cheese and peanut butter to hold me over all night.

4/21/16 workout Squats, overhead press, and pullups. I hit 44 pullups over the course of the day yesterday. Going to go for 45 today. My race is 43 days and counting and I think grip strength is going to being really important besides the running/walking aspect in between obstacles. 2197 calories 200g protein.

4/20/16 Intervals on treadmill. 8 run/2 walk. This was tougher than normal. I let my kid jump on a mini tramp and talk to me instead of listening to music. Keeps me out of my head but the mantras I do to stay focused on the run I have more trouble doing. Calories at 2235 for the day

Well the scale is not the end all if you went from sedentary to 5 days a week. You just started working out last week. That means your joints and muscles could be retaining water. When you said did not do horrible, did it still track to 1700 a day? Since you just started though and using 2700 as your TDEE estimate, I would probably raise calories to closer to 2000 to 2200 to support your new routine and slowly reduce calories if you aren't losing weight after 1 or 2 weeks.

This is an off day from running. Attempted tomorrows Crossfit WOD. Thrusters. I made it to minute 6, not because I was gassed but I can't get my elbows up enough to hold the bar in a neutral front squat position and then launch it up. I think I need to work on this just for flexibility sake. Jumped ship to do 21 pullups. In between sets of 5 I did visualization to do 40 pullups because a single set of 40 pullups is one of my big fat goals. I got a ways to go in that regard. 2195 calories 194.5g of protein.

Hey Boussole, (Is that French?) Thanks! This first one I found is a 4 miler. I've done a 10k trail run before, but that is my entire history of running events. I started a training log on here and my goal is to post every workout. Hopefully if I'm messing up the training someone with more experience than me will chime in.

Love it. Are you tracking on an app or just through here as a journal?

Weight vest run/walk. 8 min jog / 2 min walk intervals for four rounds of 10. . I made it 3/4 of the way before the vest had to come off. By the 3rd repeat this week I would like to make it through the whole workout. Also hit 2200 calories and 200g of protein.

Have a couple goals and thought this would be a good place to get started. Currently trying to lose an additional 10 lbs of fat by June. Current 195.2. I'm on a basic diet plan. 150-200g of protein daily. Currently at 2200 calories a day. Right now main goal is prepping for an Obstacle Course Race on June 4. Don't quite know how to correctly prep but I'm training with a 20 lb weighted vest to run 4 miles. In between those I do either P90X3, Insanity, or a circuit training routine of pullups, bench press, and boxjumps. As I figure this out and do workouts, I'll post here!

Hey everyone, I've been lurking for a while and thought I would go ahead and say hello. I'm 34 and have a traveling IT job. So I live in airplanes, cars, hotels, and restaurant food. I play a lot of mobile games due to travel, mostly Hearthstone and Clash Royale. Although Overwatch comes out next month! For the past year and a half I've had a core focus on strength training using Max OT Training as my guidelines. Basically week over week progressive weights with a focus on a different body part 5 days a week. Fun stuff and progressed quite a bit. Major goal is to eventually go to a meet and top 3. But American Ninja Warrior has temporarily changed my view and I want to try my hand at doing obstacle course racing. So my focus has temporarily changed to trying to figure out how to maintain my lean muscle, lean out, and build endurance. I am heavy on mental competition but never anything physical. I signed up for an OCR on June 4 to light a fire and hope to keep doing them if I enjoy it. I figure if I keep lining up events, I won't drag on motivation. Ultimately, I just want to go on the American Ninja Warrior stage and be on TV. Even if I fall on the first obstacle, that would suck but I'd have a smile on my face. Anyways, I'm not much for meetups due to family issues and work load but I would like swap ideas with other people about effectively training for this. Also I know these two goals of powerlifting and ANW do not go hand in hand and is why my main focus is prepping for OCR right now.