Breaking Through
350 My Everest My Sound Barrier
I have been heavier than 350 for a few years now. How many years I don’t really know, but it has been more than 3. Earlier this year I was down to 352 before falling off the wagon and shooting back up to 376. Now I am back down to 353.5 and I feel my body resisting my efforts to lose weight. That 350 barrier is my everest, my sound barrier.
Breaking through 350 is also a huge psychological barrier for me. Can I do it. I know that I can but there is an irrational fear telling me that I can’t. The terrible thing is that this won’t be my last barrier. There is the 325, the big 300, 275, 250, and 225. Right now there is nothing more important for me to accomplish than break that 350 barrier.
349 is probably out of my reach this week. It is my plan to force the issue. I will swim 5 days this week and walk 6 days plus my strength routine every other day. There will be an increase in my activity outside my workouts. TV watching will include squats and pushups every commercial. After I break 350 I will back off the effort a little bit.
January 23, 2008 at 7:55 am
Couple of suggestions: 1. Begin to think of your self imposed "barriers" as "trophies / conquests" instead. Barriers keeps that goal in a negative context. 2. I would incorporate weight training into my activities daily, rather than every other day and dump the push-up for every commercial program..here’s my two-fold reasoning. A. By doing push-ups at that frequency, you most likely are overtraining those muscles, therefore no muscle addition. B. By strength training a different muscle group each day, you will be adding muscle, and the more muscle you are carrying, the more calories you are burning at all times during the day. Just some thoughts and my friend, stay positive….anything you can dream up, can be accomplished!