Some good news…
Sunday, January 11th, 2009I’ve just started calorie counting since last Sunday (Jan 4th 2009) to loose BF %, I have hit a hurdle and was feeling depressed lol and giving up, you can read it here http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113266331
About the same time I took up walking to burn off extra calories, on Thursday (8th) I did this 1st loop in my area, it’s a 4.7km/3 mile loop. The 1st time I did it at a medium to brisk walk and did it in 49 min. I was using that as a benchmark as the next time I planned on jogging as much as I could (which wouldn’t be far as I’m not fit) but the idea is, any time I knock off 49 mins I must have therefor jogged that distance. My goal is to jog the whole loop.
The next day I did and my time was 43 mins, so I must have jogged 6 mins lol
I thought before doing it that my lack of fitness would be what would first give in, but it was my lower legs that gave way 1st, the front part, the shin area. They felt like lead sinkers after a few seconds of jogging, so I jogged 10sec then walked a min, then jogged, then walked etc, etc,
Surprisingly my lack of fitness wasn’t an issue the 1st time, it was the lack of conditioning in my legs. And by the time I got 3/4 way home my legs were feeling kind of fine.
The next time I went on the loop, Today the 11th, I was surprised it wasn’t my legs that gave up 1st, this time it was my lack of fitness, I found my legs felt better this time and what was stopping me was shortness of breath lol
But again, 3/4 the way home my fitness started to feel better.
I did this loop in 41 mins, so thats 8 minutes I jogged.
It will be interesting to see if I can do it even faster the next time, I feel I can.
The moral of this story, as 1 area of my BF% reduction program has hit a snag (The calorie counting bit) I am seeing gains and improvements in another area, exercise. So I am feeling confident…
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