lirason13

Annndd...Now I've been sick an entire week. Suffice to say approximately nothing has been accomplished. I'm honestly considering just scrapping the running bit for jumping rope, something I've also been looking at doing.

Sunday: Surprise all day long sword event. Lots of exercise, though none of what I planned. For food I had a handful of pretzels and some soup. Monday: Martial arts night. 4 hours of hard exercise. Good times. For food: oatmeal for breakfast, baked sweet potato for lunch, spinach tortellini soup for dinner. Woke up the next morning starving. Tues: Sick. This is pretty much how my goals go right here. I'm currently debating on running, but I might just walk a bit. I don't want to go the entire week w/o starting running though. For food: Pasta, due largely to sickness and starveness.

Blarg. OK posting this the day before a street faire wasn't a good idea. Whoops.

Hello! I discovered this place back in April. I made a few posts, wandered off to Candy Mountain. But I'm back! Main Quest: Run 3x week. I'm going to be restarting Couch to 5k for about the 10th time. Running is boring as anything to me, but I feel it's important to build endurance. I'd like to perhaps run some 5k charity runs at some point. Side Quests: - Practice at fencing 30min/day. My neighbors are going to love me with all the lunges and wall bangs. Long swords aren't apartment sized. - Eat decently. I'm not even going to pretend to count calories. I'm just going to focus on eating stuff that didn't come from a box. - Hula hoop. I figure I should add some variety to my sideshow routine. Did I mention I also play the whistle? - Work on my Coursera specializations. I need a better job, and besides, it's interesting. Motivation: Not sucking, having more endurance, losing weight so my joints don't hurt as bad, hot chocolate. Long Term goals: - Losing inches off of my waist (I have no idea how I'm this active and still have weight to lose) - Parkour (See also: Sideshow.) - Archery - Be stronger for my joints. - Be stronger so I can hit more things with swords. - Biking the London-Edinburgh-London

Sorry about 10 minutes after posting this, things got crazy. Right now I want functional strength and endurance. I've always been at least somewhat athletic, but over the last year or two really let myself get much much weaker. Between fencing and crappy joints I really need to build up strength and endurance. Another thing is that I'm a bit over weight 20-30lbs, and I can't seem to get it off, though eating more is helping. The third thing is that I would like to be able to run more than 2 minutes without my calves aching. I think that can probably be rolled back into strength, however because I think it's largely because me muscles are too weak. It's more of a strain feeling if that makes sense. I haven't lifted in years, and I have never done it very seriously. I don't really have access to equipment, though over a month or two I can maybe get a weight set, so that might be something to keep in mind. Right now I've been working with bodyweight stuff. I've also just been doing the same thing Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Tuesday I generally take off since it's sandwiched between the two classes on Monday and Wendsday. Edit: I guess part of the question is that it seems like I'm doing alot, around 45 minutes+ every day and I'm not really getting anywhere. Except sore. I'm definately getting sore.

I've been working on a workout plan for a while, but I was hoping for some advice. Considerations that I'm stumbling over include 2 fencing classes per week for around 4 hours each. I'm not working out the entire time I'm there, but over all it's quite the workout. Another consideration is that I badly sprained my knee at the start of December, it's much better, but still feels weak at times. Currently I'm doing a slightly modified Beginner's body-weight workout. I've modified to where instead of walking lunges, I'm doing some fencing footwork. I also do some fencing drills, and usually do around 10-15 minutes of hula hooping a day. Basically I'm just doing whatever, and I'm wondering if it's at all efficient, because I don't really feel like I'm making any progress. Another stumbling block is the days with classes. I had always heard that you shouldn't do the same thing everyday, but trying to schedule something every other day around the classes is proving challenging. I was hoping for some advice to streamline things, for scheduling things or maybe suggested exercises. Thanks, Lirason

I have a few weights, and I'm currently working on getting to where I can do pull ups. I've done C25K in the past, but I've fallen out of running when I sprained my knee. My real question is how to balance 2 big blocks of time/exercise with the rest of the week. I'm having trouble working cardio/strength every other day when 2 days of the week are already taken. That brings me to the question of how to streamline a routine, and possibly still include some running, some strength and some variety. Currently I'm doing the same thing everyday.

I've been working on a workout plan for a while, but I was hoping for some advice. Currently goals are: Building functional strength. I do historical fencing, and would like to increase my over all strength. Also, I would just like to get the nebulous 'in shape' category.Building endurance. I'm getting stronger, but I can't run for shit. I would like to where I can at least run a mile or two without feeling like I'm going to die. Considerations that I'm stumbling over include 2 fencing classes per week for around 4 hours each. I'm not working out the entire time I'm there, but over all it's quite the workout. Another consideration is that I badly sprained my knee at the start of December, it's much better, but still feels weak at times. Currently I'm doing a slightly modified Beginner's body-weight workout. Basically instead of walking lunges, I'm doing some fencing footwork. I also do some fencing drills, and usually do around 10-15 minutes of hula hooping a day. Basically I'm just doing whatever, and I'm wondering if it's at all efficient, because I don't really feel like I'm making any progress. Another stumbling block is the days with classes. I had always heard that you shouldn't do the same thing everyday, but trying to schedule something every other day around the classes is proving challenging. I was hoping for some advice to streamline things, for scheduling things or maybe suggested exercises. Thanks much

I don't really snack at all during the day, actually. I just included the extra calories due to a co-worker's cookies of dubious origin. And I typically only eat 2 meals a day. I'm trying to increase it, but I think it's going to take time. I'm trying to do eat earlier in the day and later at night to try and get in more food, as well as increasing the number of meals I'm eating. I'm never really hungry, so that's a bit of a problem. Thanks for all of your advice! I can't believe that you can eat 2lbs of meat a day! Sorry but that's amazing to me. I'm going to need to put in a lot of work for my diet, right now it's a bit carb heavy because I have no idea what to eat as I increase calories. I'll grab some Larabars come payday, they sound good. I'm taking your advice and increasing things slowly, yesterday I was actually hungry a bit. I don't know if I'm just used to ignoring it or what, but it was a bit novel. Thanks for all of your advice!

So I think my diet needs an over haul. About me: Female30y/o5'4"180 Exercise: For reference I try and work out 6 days a week, with one off day. 2x/wk I have about 5 hours of western martial arts per day, for a total of 10hr/wk. On the other days I usually do some variation of this: 2x rep: Beginner Body weight Fitness. On a side note, I'm kinda stuck on this.30 each of fencing lunges: left diagonal; straight left foot leading; straight right foot leading; right diagonal4x rep of long sword drills. I also do about 10-15 minutes of hula hooping mid-morning as a pick me up. Diet: According to just about everything I'm reading I might be under eating. Today I ate around 1400 calories, and I feel like a stuffed tick. I'm seeing people on here eating 3000 calories and 1/g protein per lb/bodyweight. According to the dandy BMR calculator my BMR is: 1620 and my calories needs are between 2511 - 2794. Typical daily food: 1c Steel cut oats made with water and coconut milk 1c apple juice 2 egg omelette with .25-.5 spinach, a dash of milk, and a pat of butter for the pan. 1 cup chocolate milk (recent addition as of the weekend) I also added in around 300 calories of things that fell into my mouth. Questions: If I'm under eating by this much, how am I still overweight? I have about 30lbs to go. What should I be eating? I know 'LOL food' is the obvious answer here, but I feel like a stuffed tick after 1400 calories. Also, I'm broke and prefer to not eat much meat. Can someone give me a better idea of what my target calories should be?Thanks much!