Hello friends,
Wow! It’s been several weeks since I have last posted. Holy cow!
I have been doing a lot of traveling for work. I’ve spent most of the last three weeks in a hotel in Los Angeles.
I haven’t been doing a good job of keeping up with my posting, and particularly not with doing my weigh-in days. But I have been doing a fairly decent job of staying on top of my workouts.
Starting today, I’m back on track with my posting.
Thanks, Ross
So! Weigh-in day again! And gain, things are going well. As you can see from the read-out of the gym scale below, I’m down another 5.6 pounds! So in the last 2 weeks, that puts me down 10.6 pounds!
While I’m excited about the great reductions in the last couple of weeks, I am feeling nervous that maybe I’ve been losing a bit to fast to sustain it and do well in my training. My wife has been registering her concerns that I have been kind of grumpy around the house lately, and I attribute this to feeling hungry alot.
That being said, I know I am getting great training sessions in, and I’m filling myself with lots of great nutrition, if not a lot of calories.
So here is the recap for this weeks’ training:
Training Scheduled for the week:
Swimming 1.5 hours, Biking 5.25 hours, and Running 3 hours
Actual Training Performed:
Swimming 2 hours, Biking 6 hours, and Running 3 hours
It was a great week over all!
Hello everyone! Can I share some Ironman inspiration with you?
I found some pictures and video on the web that I have fallen in love with, because they reaffirm to me that my goals to lose 64 more pounds and finish the Redman are really doable.
Let me introduce you to IronAdam!
Adam is in his mid-thirties and lives in Colorado. In 2006 he signed up to participate in Ironman Florida and gave himself 39 weeks to train and lose 140.6 pounds, since that is the number of miles you cover in an Ironman race.
He pulled it off, lost the weight and finished in 15 hours and 55 minutes.
If he can do it, I can too.
Check out the video below for a bit more on Adam, and for a little Ironman inspiration.
Hey everyone!
Since today is Sunday again, it is another cleanse day.
I’m having some mixed emotions about having cleanse days on Sundays right now, since cleansing essentially involves not eating anything all day and night, while drinking lots of water and supplementing with a cleanse drink full of vitamins and minerals. Its really helpful, but since Sunday is my only day each week I am taking off from training, it would be nice not to be hungry all day.
Let me give you a little primer on why I am using cleansing as an approach to weight loss while training for an Ironman:
The basic idea behind cleansing is to help me flush toxins from my system that have built up in my body, and particularly in my fat cells. As I understand it, and really, I am not a doctor or anything like it, my liver is in charge of filtering out and dealing with all the various toxins I take into my body from the food I eat, the water I drink and bathe in, and the air I breathe. When I take in more toxin than my liver can attend to in any given day, it sends a signal to my body to create fat cells to wrap the toxin up in and store it away where it cannot hurt my cells so much, until my liver can get around to processing the toxins later on.
The problem there is, I am typically not very good at giving my liver a chance to catch up, because most days I just keep ingesting more toxins than my liver can handle, and so the cycle continues. Great, right?
Well, by taking a day off from eating, drinking lots of purified alkaline water and the cleanse formula I use, I give my liver a chance to get caught up on processing all the toxins it has stored away in my fat cells, and they get flushed out of my system. My body then realizes it doesn’t have so much work for those pesky fat cellys to do, and so it shrinks them, and voila! I lose weight!
It is a process that has worked very well for me in losing my first 50 pounds, and I feel confident that it will also help me to lose the next 64 pounds prior to the Redman in September.
It’s just not always fun to spend my whole Sunday hungry.
Thanks for checking in. You guys are great.
Hey Everybody! I’ve had a great week training and re-adjusting my diet. Today is my second weigh-in day, and I’m really excited!
As you may recall, last Saturday I took a picture of the read out of the scale at the gym, and I came in at 229.6 pounds. Well take a look at what the scale said today!
So as you can see, I have lost 6 pounds so far! Now I need only lose another 64. Totally doable.
As a first step to tracking my training, this week I swam for 2 hours, biked for 4 hours and ran for 2 hours. Since you guys and this blog are functioning as my accountability team, I’m planning to start doing a day by day record of my training, and maybe even my diet. What do you think?
Thanks for sharing the love. I’ll check in with you again soon.
I’ve been having a great week training and being in control of my diet. Enjoy the video, and learn a little more about who I am, why I am training for the Iron Triathlon, and why I am creating this videoblog. Thanks! Ross
Okay everyone! So today is Monday! Whoo-hoo! Everyone say hooray!
Yesterday’s cleanse went well, and I am ready to roll. Today is Swim Day, and so my workout this morning is supposed to be a 45 minute swim.
I’ve been planning to do my running and biking workouts on my treadmill and bike trainer in my basement, doing 2-a-day workouts, early in the morning and again at night after I have put my three kids to bed. But I can’t swim in my basement, so I have to go either to the gym or to the local rec-center.
Since I have a flexible work schedule in my business, and because the pools are typically pretty crowded between 5am and 8am, I am planning to do my swim workouts starting at about 8am, after I have got my kids off to school.
I am also intending to keep my nutrition very tight today, and begin to focus my mediation on getting my metabolism to speed up and help me drop a couple of pounds this week.
I’ll make a video tonight to re-cap how the day went. Thanks!
Since today is Sunday I am taking a day of rest, so no workout schedule for today. I am however using today as a cleanse day. This means I am not eating much today and drinking lots of water and liquid supplements to allow and encourage my liver to catch up on processing some of the toxins that I have unfortunately been storing up in my fat cells.
The good news is, cleansing on a regular basis is going to help me get from yesterday’s start weight of 229.6 pounds to my goal race weight of 160 pounds, and I believe it will help me do it in a safe, healthy and effective way. The less exciting news is, it means I will be rather hungry for most of today, and for most Sundays for the next 32 weeks.
Basically, to get from where I am not to where I want to be on race day, I need to release 70 pounds, or a little over 2 pounds a week. Its more weight than I had expected, but I still think it is doable. And really, when it all comes right down to it, it is what I think about it that is going to make all the difference.
