Ok, at Mr Tibbs request I will begin this thread here. Personal history first.
Life long couch potato / computer nerd. In HS use to ride my bike about 20 miles out to my girlfriends (but once the police said I could have my license back I got back in my car till they took it again)
30 minute walks with my wife about the length of my endurance and at her pace I actually get some knee pain then.
Older brothers still call me porker. In the past 4 years have tried to get in shape and lose weight from 240 to 190 and back and forth. Fastest weight loss was this past summer went on Atkens got to 189.5 without any exercise. Well Im back at 230. Clearly this is not working. I have three girls all under 8 my Angles (Gee maybe I should change my user id to Charlie).
Need to get in better shape. I am a very arrogant person so in December started telling people I was going to do a sprint tri this fall. Public humility does not fit me well so know I have the motivation. (Gee a better longer life was not enough?)
So I got the 10yr old huffy off the ceilieng of the garage and road it a few times. Need to get it tuned up and some road wheels. This thing is a tank.
In December layed out a 3 mile coarse on the road and started to try and walk/jog it took me about 50 min. Had a HR monitor so hooked that up HR was about 130.
Well did that for 3 days but the Knee pain became a permanent thing, so I got out an old exercise bike and stopped the walking till I can take some weight of the knee.
Did not do much over the holidays but eat. Got back on the bike could go 30 - 1 hr dont remember hr.
Then one day I put in 1hr of hard work was feeling good but noticed an odd odor. Then a funny noise and it got hard to pedal then stopped. A few days latter I took it apart the tensioner pully had failed inside then melted. It was welded on and really not servicable so in the trash it went.
Brought up the old norditack. GOD I HATE THAT THING. It is alot more work. Well that kind of brings the workouts up to date. Done 2 days on the Norditrack 30 min one day and a am and pm 30 min work out the day before.
Trying also to keep a training log and a food consumption log.
I also have a tendency to spend money on toys then lose interest so I have already been looking at bikes/trainers/cloths ect... but think I will try another motivator which is I am only going to get the bare minimum to do this. So I will just put new wheels on the bike and tune it up. May get a suit to race in cause it sounds like that can really help in the swim. Will rust ride in my running shoes.
Well feel free to ask any questions or offer any advice.
Oh ya, my wife has been using the norditrack also and I asked her what setting shes been on she say's 3 and by the end of my work out Im sweating a little but not much. I use about 2 and am sweating profusely by the end. Man am I out of shape.
Ok, typing this has motivated me to hop on for a good 30 min oh lets try for an hr work out .
See ya all
UPdate did 35 min + 5 cool down. had a good 15 min with HR up at 155. Still amazed how much better I feel after the work out then before. If I could only jump in 5 min into it.
Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.
Life long couch potato / computer nerd. In HS use to ride my bike about 20 miles out to my girlfriends (but once the police said I could have my license back I got back in my car till they took it again)
30 minute walks with my wife about the length of my endurance and at her pace I actually get some knee pain then.
Older brothers still call me porker. In the past 4 years have tried to get in shape and lose weight from 240 to 190 and back and forth. Fastest weight loss was this past summer went on Atkens got to 189.5 without any exercise. Well Im back at 230. Clearly this is not working. I have three girls all under 8 my Angles (Gee maybe I should change my user id to Charlie).
Need to get in better shape. I am a very arrogant person so in December started telling people I was going to do a sprint tri this fall. Public humility does not fit me well so know I have the motivation. (Gee a better longer life was not enough?)
So I got the 10yr old huffy off the ceilieng of the garage and road it a few times. Need to get it tuned up and some road wheels. This thing is a tank.
In December layed out a 3 mile coarse on the road and started to try and walk/jog it took me about 50 min. Had a HR monitor so hooked that up HR was about 130.
Well did that for 3 days but the Knee pain became a permanent thing, so I got out an old exercise bike and stopped the walking till I can take some weight of the knee.
Did not do much over the holidays but eat. Got back on the bike could go 30 - 1 hr dont remember hr.
Then one day I put in 1hr of hard work was feeling good but noticed an odd odor. Then a funny noise and it got hard to pedal then stopped. A few days latter I took it apart the tensioner pully had failed inside then melted. It was welded on and really not servicable so in the trash it went.
Brought up the old norditack. GOD I HATE THAT THING. It is alot more work. Well that kind of brings the workouts up to date. Done 2 days on the Norditrack 30 min one day and a am and pm 30 min work out the day before.
Trying also to keep a training log and a food consumption log.
I also have a tendency to spend money on toys then lose interest so I have already been looking at bikes/trainers/cloths ect... but think I will try another motivator which is I am only going to get the bare minimum to do this. So I will just put new wheels on the bike and tune it up. May get a suit to race in cause it sounds like that can really help in the swim. Will rust ride in my running shoes.
Well feel free to ask any questions or offer any advice.
Oh ya, my wife has been using the norditrack also and I asked her what setting shes been on she say's 3 and by the end of my work out Im sweating a little but not much. I use about 2 and am sweating profusely by the end. Man am I out of shape.
Ok, typing this has motivated me to hop on for a good 30 min oh lets try for an hr work out .
See ya all
UPdate did 35 min + 5 cool down. had a good 15 min with HR up at 155. Still amazed how much better I feel after the work out then before. If I could only jump in 5 min into it.
Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.