I have been here before. The
beginning, the grand plans, the joining up for this and signing up
for that and buying the special what not. What has done me in in the
past is impatience. Wouldn't it be great to get diet and
exercise results at the same rate (and with the same ease) as you
gain weight and go to pot?
Becoming a BFG was soooo easy, even
wonderful. I love food, and movies and food and doing nothing, and
did I mention food?
I always want to be further along in
the plan than I am. My mind can see the end so I want it now,
without the work. It's all this effort and work getting in the way.
I have trouble with waiting, and with applying myself over time toward a goal. I can visualize the end result so completely that it seems already achieved. I want to be there NOW!
That's what happened last time. In
2008 I pushed too hard, I had not even run a 5k yet but decided to
tackle an outdoor 10k and blew out both knees. Awful experience,
almost enough to put one off exercise altogether.
Since then I've been sedentary to say
the least. I needed a plan to get from the couch to a first
milestone on my way to the Iron Man 70.3. So I did a Google search
for from the couch to running a 5K and found the site.... wait for
it.... Couchto5k.com or C25K. It has training plans, advice support
links to runs... everything to get me from C25K. I love America, it
gave me everything I needed to gain it (all you can eat buffets, $10
delivery pizza deals, discounts on ice cream with my Kroger card) and
everything I need to lose it. 'merica man whooo hoooo!
America the land of weight loss
opportunity.
It's like the planets have aligned, the
sun is shining and the choir sings. It's like the world wants me to
do this. It's overwhelming. I feel like a poker player getting
“hit with the deck” I feel blessed.
I didn't realize all the help available
online for BFG's. Training plans, diet logs tied into calorie counts
for every restaurant and brand name food product in America, support
groups, programs that upload info from your smart phone's GPS to your
training log. How can one not succeed?
Of course I'm a guy without a decent
401K but have all the tech toys of couch potato-hood. A smart phone
with an unlimited data plan, an Android Tablet with the same, high
speed internet at home and work and everywhere I go, Netflix,
HuluPlus and the secret media available only to the digital denizens
of the Pirate Bay. So I can catch up on Downton Abbey or watch the
latest episode of House of Lies while on the treadmill.
Oh it gets better.... see I drop my
wife off at work in the morning at 6:30am. Her employee parking lot
it like a half mile from her area of the hospital and saving her a
schlep in the cold by dropping her off at the door is the least I can
do. But where I drop her off is also a few yards from the best gym
in my city. And because of her employment I can join, cheap. So I'm
already at the gym EVERY DAY at 6:30am, no excuses.
I made it to the gym today and took it slow. Walked for 25 minutes on the treadmill and did a 15 elliptical session. The rule of thumb is to warm up 30sec for every year old that’s 24 minutes for me. So in a week or two my cardio may last as long as my warm up. But not today and I'm ok with that.
So gonna work up to a 5k from a sitting
start. It should take about 8 weeks and I should be about 30lbs
lighter by then as well.
Here's the link for the plan
www.couchto5k.com
In November I'll need to start
triathlon training in earnest and we'll tap BeginnerTriathlete.com
but lets not get ahead of ourselves.
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