Welcome to the first update of Fuel. This past week has been quite the experience and I am excited to share what I have accomplished so far. Below are pictures of my daily food and exercise logs. As you may have noticed from seeing these logs, I did not do anything on Monday. I woke up Monday morning feeling sick so I decided it wasn't the best idea to exercise while I wasn't feeling the best. Today (2/22/17) was planned to be my break day but since I'm feeling better, I'm going to work out today and call Monday my unexpected break day. I also called off cardio on Tuesday because of how I am feeling. For reference in these logs, if there is not a drink logged, I drank water. My food choices for this seldom change because I just have a very consistent eating plan. I have probably ate the same lunch for a few years now. I feel that my food choices are fine for now as I have yet to have issues with them. Exercising throughout the week has honestly made me feel quite well. It's finally something in my daily routine where I can just pop in some headphones and just go at it. Physically, I haven't noticed too much of a change other than getting sore and my arms swelling up after a few reps. With strength exercises, it feels like I'm actually producing results and getting somewhere. With cardio however, I haven't really done that much so I can't really determine how effective I find it. When the weather starts to warm up, I can take my running outside. But for now, I have to settle for the treadmill. The warm up setting is shown above. Warm up is really only used for what you think it would be used for. Staying at this section for 10 seconds is a good way to start the workout. The fat burn setting is best used as a second warm up. It is a moderate walking speed and yields minimal sweat when cranked up to the end of the section. The Aerobic setting is the sweet spot. Half way into the setting is the best spot and yields a mildly fast jog. I find this is where I spend a lot of my cardio time. This section above is the Performance zone. After studying the dynamics of the treadmill, I have found that the performance speed is an unsafe; it can seem quite daunting, if you will. My room has a slanted ceiling and if I cannot keep up with the speed of the treadmill, I will fly into the ceiling. So for fast running, I plan on only taking that outside.
Next week I plan on working more with different exercise materials and equipment to vary my workout. I hope the weather will be kind to me and not be as cold as this week. I also hope to also get over how I am feeling with allergies so I can improve my workout time.
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Matthew Barker
2/26/2017 07:45:11 pm
Love the detail in this post, though I wonder if you could consolidate your individual logs onto an Excel document or something and upload it instead of multiple pictures of the logs kept on paper.
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