Fitness Challenge!

**biblemonkey** · 8th July 11, 01:38 PM

After just a few weeks doing insanity I have taken 36 seconds off my best 3.5 mi! I think this is the best shape I have ever been in!

How are you guys doing? Haven't heard anything since you posted your goals. Any progress is good progress.

Hugh

**cruiser348** · 8th July 11, 02:15 PM

i am now within one inch of my waist size goal, down 25lbs from where I started. Actually pretty happy with where I am physically so not sure I'm concerned with much else. Though, I am looking at joining a local volunteer fire dept so we'll see what happens as I go through my training.

**gary meakin** · 8th July 11, 06:23 PM

You two are doing great.
Keep it up.
I'm still doing the daily stuff but these last 10 lbs are harder to shed than the first 20.
I know the problem, I just need to conquer it.
Too many cookouts and too much ice cream

**biblemonkey** · 11th July 11, 04:58 AM

Nice, guys! Mmmmm Ice cream and cookouts...ahem...ok I'm back. Yeah those are tough. Last ten though!

**cryerelizabeth** · 11th July 11, 05:40 AM

I think joining this thread is a good idea. Should have joined earlier.

Here is my goal:
For me to join the National Guard I need to get down to 30% body fat. Since it's body fat that I need to lose, I don't have to worry too much on how much I weight, rather, I need to worry more about how big my hips and waist are.

right now I am at 43% body fat with a total weight of 210 lbs for a 5'6 body frame. I'm starting to get a little worried about it cuz my recruiter told me that the latest I can join before I lost my GA Military Scholarship is late August. Even though I have been doing some P90X (i only have the dvd workouts, not the whole package), it has been really slow going, and I can't afford to lose this scholarship.

this is me
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/..._5225281_o.jpg
im the one on the left

**biblemonkey** · 11th July 11, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by cryerelizabeth

I think joining this thread is a good idea. Should have joined earlier.

Here is my goal:
For me to join the National Guard I need to get down to 30% body fat. Since it's body fat that I need to lose, I don't have to worry too much on how much I weight, rather, I need to worry more about how big my hips and waist are.

right now I am at 43% body fat with a total weight of 210 lbs for a 5'6 body frame. I'm starting to get a little worried about it cuz my recruiter told me that the latest I can join before I lost my GA Military Scholarship is late August. Even though I have been doing some P90X (i only have the dvd workouts, not the whole package), it has been really slow going, and I can't afford to lose this scholarship.

this is me
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/..._5225281_o.jpg
im the one on the left

I have done P-90X and the nutrition plan is a very important part of it. I would try to get your hands on a copy. As I have been told numerous times before, "If you are not eating right you are wasting your time working out." You have to eat a VERY specific way depending on nutritional and fitness goals.

Good luck!

Hugh

**Reverend Graham** · 11th July 11, 07:34 AM

I'm in, just finished 1st ( in the over 55 age group ) in a Triple Ironman.

So, my next target is a Deca Ironman in the UK in 2012, I used to do the marathon section in a pink TuTu ( difficult to swim and bike in one ) so I'm thinking of doing the last marathon in the Deca in my Leather kilt, if any of you guys in the UK fancy crewing/helping, give me a shout.

Rev G

**Joshua** · 11th July 11, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by biblemonkey

I have done P-90X and the nutrition plan is a very important part of it. I would try to get your hands on a copy. As I have been told numerous times before, "If you are not eating right you are wasting your time working out." You have to eat a VERY specific way depending on nutritional and fitness goals.

Good luck!

Hugh

"Strength is made in the gym. Abs are made in the Kitchen."

BTW - I'm up to 7 miles, 3x weekly on my bike. My wife is now onboard with the Paleo diet (although I had to make some concessions and I'm no longer on the "zero carb" paleo schtick), there will be less "cheat food" in the house so my diet MUST improve. Additionally, I'm going back to the gym and performing some mild yoga (mostly as prehab for an old wrist injury and a current bout with Plantar Faciitis ).

I now have a masters weight for height (42lbs), a couple stones, and plan on getting a little throwing crew together on sunday afternoons if this damn rain would let up.

**Droid** · 11th July 11, 08:54 AM

I got sick a couple weeks ago. I got two fevers each about a week apart, so that kinda put a halt on my workouts. I'll be jumping back into things today after work.

**tripleblessed** · 11th July 11, 11:12 AM

I will interject here that a lot of fad diet info is easily available, complete with faux science to boost book sales. Proceed with caution. Short term weight gain is possible, certainly, but long-term over-consumption of animal protein and suppression of complex carbohydrates is a virtual recipe for cancer. Plus, your brain cannot operate w/o fuel, and that's built from the carbs.

I will grant you that it's theoretically possible to transmute anything into what you need, but it's a lot of work and few are equipped with the necessary info and focus. Easier to eat properly. It's actually easier to live w/o food than to transmute everything.