So do they make you stay up on a cold mountain top every night? I could see that burning some calories.
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So do they make you stay up on a cold mountain top every night? I could see that burning some calories.
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I'd be dead.YellowKing wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:54 pm First Spartan class kicked my ass, but it was fun. It helped that I had some people I knew, and that the trainers are super nice. While they didn't coddle the newbies, they were always encouraging even when we lagging at the back of the pack. It was easily the most strenuous workout I've ever done, and this was considered a rather "light" day.
However, you're guaranteed not to get bored. The constant shake-up of stuff to do was what I liked most about it, and at times it felt less like a workout and more like playing on an obstacle course.
To give you some idea, here was today's workout:
Warmup:
1 lap around building
20 jumping jacks
20 squats
Circuit 1 (x2)
Hurdles
Box Climb
Army crawl
Fence crawl (climb around perimeter of fence without touching ground - required crazy grip strength)
20 pound medicine ball carry
Sandbag flips x5
Circuit 2 (x2)
200 meters rowing machine
Spool climb (get up on one of those big fiber optic cable spools and back down)
Traverse short rock wall
Kettle bell pull (pull 20 pound kettle bells to the height of the wall)
60 pound medicine ball carry
Circuit 3 (x2)
Lunges
20 hand-release push ups
Leap frogs
Sit ups
Crab crawl
5 burpees
1 lap around the building
Circuit 4 (x1)
Kettle bell carry (one each hand) - full circuit of parking lot
5 burpees
Bucket carry (kettle bell in a bucket) - full circuit of parking lot
5 burpees
Viper carry (bit heavy pipe thing on one shoulder) - full circuit of parking lot
5 burpees
Repeat x1
Circuit 5 (x2)
50 calories on any gym machine
10 pull-ups (or 30 second hang if like me, you can't do pull ups)
Rope climb (or if you can't climb a rope, like me, rope pull)
If you'd told me before today I could get through even 50% of that, I'd say you were being extremely generous. The peer pressure and trainer encouragement makes all the difference. I can't wait to see the changes after a year of it.
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
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Pretty scary to think that what I weigh now would make two high school versions of me.
I'll add a big +1 to that realization!YellowKing wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:38 pm And the realization hit me that going into this thing I had been comparing myself to other people - I'm the slowest one, the weakest one, the new guy, etc. When who I really should be comparing myself to is...myself.
A lightbulb went off there, and suddenly all that self-doubt kind of went away. I just started knocking it out because I wasn't trying to prove anything to these Spartan veterans. I was trying to prove something to my old self. My old self wouldn't even go to the class because those workouts were impossible. And he wouldn't climb a rope because he didn't have the strength. And he certainly wouldn't be carrying a sandbag for a block around the building.
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
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01/20 = 222.5
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
03/03 = 220.5
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01/27 = 220.6
01/20 = 222.5
01/13 = 228.2
01/06 = 234.6
As a general rule it is true that if you eat vastly fewer calories than you burn, you’ll get slimmer (and if you consume far more, you’ll get fatter). But the myriad faddy diets flogged to us each year belie the simplicity of the formula that Camacho was given. The calorie as a scientific measurement is not in dispute. But calculating the exact calorific content of food is far harder than the confidently precise numbers displayed on food packets suggest. Two items of food with identical calorific values may be digested in very different ways. Each body processes calories differently. Even for a single individual, the time of day that you eat matters. The more we probe, the more we realise that tallying calories will do little to help us control our weight or even maintain a healthy diet: the beguiling simplicity of counting calories in and calories out is dangerously flawed.
I generally trend this way and have good results when I go low-carb but it is hard to maintain day-to-day in certain situations. I do recommend it in stints though. When I go back to increasing consumption of complex carb foods I actually cheat up protein which is counter-intuitive but think it stops the insulin swings that cause carb binges.MindToyGames wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:47 am I joined the low-carb train in the past year, going from 302 to 243 as of yesterday. Mainly moving to 2 meals a day, slashing sugar and fast food around 70%, and just eating cleaner overall. I really feel much better!
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2019 Goal = 220-225 lbs
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02/03 = 222.8
01/27 = 220.6
01/20 = 222.5
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01/08 191.9
01/01 192.7
Oh, FFS.Skipping breakfast was significantly associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular-related death, especially stroke-related death, in the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday.
Breakfasts that keep you fuller longer
After a person's age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, diet, lifestyle, body mass index and disease status were taken into account, the study found that those who never had breakfast had a 87% higher risk of cardiovascular mortality compared with people who had breakfast every day, said Dr. Wei Bao, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and senior author of the study.
"Breakfast is traditionally believed as the most or at least one of the most important meals of the day, but there are not much data available to say 'yes' or 'no' to this belief. Our paper is among the ones that provide evidence to support long-term benefits," Bao said.