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Fitness Update 5/19

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This week has been good. I have gone for a long walk or to the gym almost every day this week. And I capped it off with a kayaking trip which I will blog about later, because Kayaking counts as hiking I think.

Diet wise it was a mixed bag. I took heated dinners to work every day. Chicken and rice/mashed potatoes and had a simple cereal and milk for my mid-day meal. Then on Friday I hit the food trucks and brought peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Also very tasty.

I think I spent too much money on food this week to supplement my meals with yogurt from the coffee shop or chips so I will be looking to curb that by visiting HEB before work one day this week and picking up some yogurt to have with my lunch.

Pokemon Go is going. Im not hitting anywhere near the 50km requested, but as I’ve said, I suspect that has more to do with the Garmin device not catching the treadmill steps. Maybe once I get an Apple Watch again it’ll pick up those steps and then everything will be good again.

Rainy Day Hike – Headwaters Sanctuary

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I forgot to blog about this hike. I am a few weeks behind on blogging hikes.

But I have been going on them. This started out as a trip with a friend of mine to obtain some breakfast tacos.

After tacos were consumed, we decided to go visit a local park. We watched the water flow through the San Antonio river, and I mentioned that not very far from where we were is the birth place of the San Antonio river.

This prompted a short journey up to the park to see the birthplace of the San Antonio river, actually pictured above. There is a creek that spring feeds, there are a few springs in this park and with that combined we have the river that has made San Antonio famous.

The park is called Headwaters Sanctuary and it has a wonderful nature trail that heads right into the shadow of Olmos Dam.

I had driver over Olmos Dam but had never been this close to it.

The water was roaring through it on this day because we had a ton of rain and flooding. I was amazed the trail took us this close to the dam. That is normally a very small creek that heads to the spring above.

Its a wonderful hike, through a pretty part of San Antonio. It was lush and green and you could forget you are in the city.

Fitness Update 5/6

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This week has been a tough week fitness wise. I had a lot of post work errands so I only was able to work out twice this week. And then Friday evening I drove up to Dallas for Texas Frightmare weekend. I want to say I was pretty successful at avoiding the bad foods while at a con.

I did have a few cokes while I was there. Especially on the drive as it was an easy source of caffeine to help keep me awake and alert.

This week I start my new schedule at work. Which means I get to the office early and can hit the gym before I start my work day.

I am not really sure what I am doing, so I am going to go back to basic running for a little bit, until I can figure out the fitness class schedule and work in what I can during the day.

Pokemon Go has been a big help in all of this, because every time I looked down during the week, I saw I was close to hatching an egg and would go for it.

Fitness Update 4/22

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Back at it with another health check in. I was excited to see I had lost some weight, that is always a good sign. I think a large part of that is just not drinking as many cokes. I am below my step goal, however we have been hitting the gym 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes.

This week we jump up to the 4 day a week schedule and then the program we are doing ends and I will have a lot of options. There are a couple of workout classes that will be available.

I am considering the crossfit program they offer just to quickly get things rolling and help me drop a few pounds but I am not 100% certain that is what I want.

Either way having access to a gym is excellent.

My Pokemon step goal has been lacking, but I will be able to get back on that once I get into a steady routine.

Fitness update 4/15/2019

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I have not done one of these in a while, but I never stopped walking. I cut back significantly as I got busier with OCA but I never stopped.

Now that things have calmed down I am back on the grind. There is a free Gym at my new job so I have been hitting that three times a week and lifting weights with some of my new coworkers. It will be easy to not skip the gym now as I will have to deal with heavy traffic for a few hours after work.

Or. I can step into the gym for an hour and burn some calories.

I am also going to start bringing my lunch more. I was doing so good with that during my time in OCA, but I fell off the bandwagon. I am going back on that.

Weekly Fitness Check-in 11/25/2018

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I really like Pokemon Go for its fitness aspect. It really has motivated me to work out more and more. For instance this week I walked 60km+ (close to 40 miles.) All because I wanted to hit the 50km goal and hatch a few eggs.

I have a handful of fitness goals that I have been working on, and I have been following a few different blogs on here, that have little check-ins so I think I will start having some check-ins also. My Goals are the following:

  • Lose 15 pounds
  • Be able to run a 5k straight 
  • Develop some core strength

To break this down, I have been working at losing weight. I was actually pretty successful at losing some weight, and then my birthday and the state fair happened and it all popped right back on, I also have been training with a URBNFit Exercise Ball to train at home. It seems a bit silly to start this up again right has some food heavy holidays are hitting, but I think it can be done. Honestly I just need to cut out the cokes.

I love walking. I can walk for ever. In fact thats what makes playing Pokemon Go and going hiking enjoyable activities. I can run maybe 50 feet (exaggerating) before I get winded and just sort of give up. I have walked two half marathons. I would like to run a half marathon, but I am going to start with just getting to a 5k. I want to run a 5k. Then Ill jump up to the 10k and then the half. But let’s get to the 5k first. 

Core strength. I have none. Walking has given my some well-toned calves, thighs and gluteus. I have no other muscle to speak of. I really have no strength above the waist. I can’t really do a sit-up, a pull-up or a push-up. I would really like to work on this, because having some tone to my upper body would really help with the whole lose weight thing.

I have two apps that are going to help me with this. C25k and SWORKIT. C25k is a running app and the name means “couch to 5k.” I have tried out the program before, but not finished it. So this time I think I will be finishing it. SWORKIT is a circuit training app that I can do in the off days when I am not doing the running. My goal is to at least do 15 minutes of SWORKIT or do the C25k running.

Let’s see how this goes. Also, my current weight is 197.4.