Well I finally broke the 200 lb mark. I actually weighed in Thursday at 196 but was 198 today. Yesterday I couldn't get enough food! So I was glad to only be 198.
I know in my last post I said I was going to start doing more lifting but I lied. I did all cardio this week. The lifting for me is very tough without someone there to push me. However the cardio workouts were very good this week. I began taking a pre-workout drink and the days I took it I burnt about 100-125 more calories in my 60 minutes on the bike than days I don't take it. So it helps for sure.
As far as the training in the evenings I got 2 days in this week. The trainer had a Valentines date on Monday and on Friday him and one of his boxers took off for Youngstown, Ohio for a fight tonight. I do feel like I am starting to get more comfortable in a boxing stance. After 15 years of wrestling it is really hard to stay in a boxing stance. My punches seem to be getting better and with more force. Conditioning is getting better but I have a long ways to go. There is a lot of knowledge in my training group and I hope to learn as much as I can from them all.
By Friday my body was sore, tired and just about ready to give out on me, so I pampered myself by getting a 60 minute massage. Not really sure I have ever felt that good in my life. I will be going back for another one I am sure. I was going to take it easy for the weekend but woke up and felt the need to get a workout in so I just got back not to long ago from a good workout. Met with a personal trainer at the gym and we have an appointment for Monday. Hoping to get measured, body fat, all that good stuff as well as a little more precise plan on getting this 37 yo body to 170 and fighting condition.
Not sure I have mentioned this before but for any of you looking to lose some weight or just track what your eating---check out myfitnesspal.com or download the app on your Droid, Blackberry, or iPhone. I use the app on my Droid as well as the website when at home. Awesome and easy to use. Tracks your workouts, food, water.....you name it. Takes me less than 2 minutes to enter a meal and workout. The more you use it the quicker it is also as it remembers your meals. If you download it feel free to add me as a fitness pal. My user name is duck1973. One thing I have found out about all of this---it's not about eating LESS, it's about eating the right things. OK--so I had 1 of Dylan's Hershey bars yesterday that his Aunt Marcy sent him. However there are many things you can eat that crave those types of cravings. I changed my diet so much though that I wasn't getting enough calories. So myfitnesspal helps with that. I always know how many calories I am at for the day and what I have left after each meal and workout. Check it out for yourself.
I want to say thanks to those of you who text, call or message me on facebook with words of encouragement. It definitely has helped.
Well, it's time for me to go! Hoping everyone has a great and safe weekend.
Darren
AIPLD
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Need a new notch in the BELT!
Hello world! This past week went by pretty fast it seemed. Was my best weight loss week in a couple weeks which helped. By Tuesday of this week at the latest I should drop below the 200 lb mark! Weighed in at 200.8 this morning. Possible to be below 200 tomorrow but this is an off day from the gym so I am just taking it easy.
This week in the gym, I did weights 2 days. Got in a good chest and triceps workout and then a fairly good leg workout. I did at least an hour of cardio each day Monday-Friday. On Thursday I started training with the group at Genesis. They train in boxing and MMA. Between my workouts with them on Thursday and Friday my body was ready for the weekend and off days. I did not know you had so many muscles in your arm. I swear I have like 100 of them sore and tender. It is a good sore though. Everything I have learned is pretty basic so far but very interesting. Being able to punch a bag for 15-20 minutes solid really is a nice way to end an evening. Stress relief x10.
I really plan to focus a little more on weights this week during my morning workouts as I feel like my night training sessions give me a good amount of cardio. Probably will try this week to do about 30/70 split cardio/weights. Just want to keep the weight coming off like it is and turn what I can into muscle along the way. I also am going to do a lot more stretching. My 37 yo body just doesn't bend like it did 20 years ago, but it will in time.
Well, I must say I am having a lot of fun and enjoying getting my body back to a healthy state. It's not easy but it gets easier everyday. When you see the changes in your body as well as feeling the changes it does motivate you to keep going back. When the lbs start falling off then it makes it even easier. I know my next 30 lbs will be a big challenge but its the challenge I signed up for and one I fully intend to conquer.
OK, that's it. I hope you all had a great weekend, and hope your work week comes and goes so you can enjoy your next weekend with family and friends.
Til the next time,
Darren
AIPLD
This week in the gym, I did weights 2 days. Got in a good chest and triceps workout and then a fairly good leg workout. I did at least an hour of cardio each day Monday-Friday. On Thursday I started training with the group at Genesis. They train in boxing and MMA. Between my workouts with them on Thursday and Friday my body was ready for the weekend and off days. I did not know you had so many muscles in your arm. I swear I have like 100 of them sore and tender. It is a good sore though. Everything I have learned is pretty basic so far but very interesting. Being able to punch a bag for 15-20 minutes solid really is a nice way to end an evening. Stress relief x10.
I really plan to focus a little more on weights this week during my morning workouts as I feel like my night training sessions give me a good amount of cardio. Probably will try this week to do about 30/70 split cardio/weights. Just want to keep the weight coming off like it is and turn what I can into muscle along the way. I also am going to do a lot more stretching. My 37 yo body just doesn't bend like it did 20 years ago, but it will in time.
Well, I must say I am having a lot of fun and enjoying getting my body back to a healthy state. It's not easy but it gets easier everyday. When you see the changes in your body as well as feeling the changes it does motivate you to keep going back. When the lbs start falling off then it makes it even easier. I know my next 30 lbs will be a big challenge but its the challenge I signed up for and one I fully intend to conquer.
OK, that's it. I hope you all had a great weekend, and hope your work week comes and goes so you can enjoy your next weekend with family and friends.
Til the next time,
Darren
AIPLD
Thursday, February 10, 2011
So you say, WHY?
Well this is a little later than I had told you all but here it all is. May surprise some of you, some of you say I saw it, and others may say told you so. What you read here is why I want to lose 46 pounds and go inside a cage and duke it out with someone til I win, lose or draw.
A few reasons but bottom line---I have an anger and pain in me I haven't been able to get rid of for quite some time. Almost 20 years I guess. Yep, I bottle stuff up. It goes clear back to May of 1991 when we lost my Grandpa Albertson. Grandpa was not only ONE of the greatest men in my life, but he was a hunting partner, a buddy, and someone who I just enjoyed being with on the farm, in the timber, or on him and Grandma's deck listening to his stories. I hadn't dealt with death really before that with someone whom I was close to. And to this day I still don't understand why he was taken in the way he was. To watch someone you love and look up to be in so much pain when you can't do anything for them is horrible. To see the look in his eyes and the look in my fathers still tears my insides to shreds. I have never been good with words in those situations and never said the words I wished I would have before it was to late. Grandpa, I love and miss you.
2nd and way less important is since my last high school wrestling match I have had a hunger to compete and make up for what I left there on the mats. I had the chance, the opportunity, and a coach and brother who pushed me to be the best I could but I left some in me. I didn't give everything I had. I let them down and myself. Funny how I just found an article last Friday night saying 1992 was the 2nd time in 15 years that no wrestler went to state. That was my year. That was the year I could have made it. But I didn't push myself to do what I had to do to make it. Brett Dixon from St. Joe Lafayette was my first lost at the sectional tournament and Danny McReynolds from Moberly put me out of the tournament and my hopes of ever wrestling a match on the Hearnes Center floor was gone. Just like that. For all those years my parents carted us across the state for meets, duals, practices, camps and just like that it was all over. I know I had more and for some reason just didn't 'Bring it'. I'm in no way saying I would have been a State Champion, what I'm saying if I never even gave myself the chance. I never even gave myself a chance to wrestle one match inside the Hearnes Center. I have held that inside for nearly 20 years as well. When you know you had more and didn't bring it it eats at you. Every day, every time I think about wrestling, every time I think of competing.
3rd and final reason---I have done some crazy, CRAZY things in my 37 years of living and I would venture to guess I'm not done with the crazy stuff, but one day when Dylan ask me what the craziest thing I ever done was I would like to say I went inside a cage so that someone could try and beat me up. I really think that is a more appropriate story for him than some of the others I could tell. I'm sure his Uncle Denny and Derek and Aunt Marcy will keep him up to speed on some of the others anyway.
So yes after reading all the above I may be crazy but that's fine if that's the way you feel. What I say to that is when I walk inside to fight that fight for the first time, I'm bringing 20 years of pain, anger, hurt, determination, pride and HEART with me. When I walk out win, lose, draw, head bashed in or whatever I want to be able to say 'I brought it and left it in the cage'.
Well if that don't make sense to you, I'm sorry. I'm not an English major nor a writer. Hopefully though now you kinda understand my WHY.
Signing out,
D
AIPLD
A few reasons but bottom line---I have an anger and pain in me I haven't been able to get rid of for quite some time. Almost 20 years I guess. Yep, I bottle stuff up. It goes clear back to May of 1991 when we lost my Grandpa Albertson. Grandpa was not only ONE of the greatest men in my life, but he was a hunting partner, a buddy, and someone who I just enjoyed being with on the farm, in the timber, or on him and Grandma's deck listening to his stories. I hadn't dealt with death really before that with someone whom I was close to. And to this day I still don't understand why he was taken in the way he was. To watch someone you love and look up to be in so much pain when you can't do anything for them is horrible. To see the look in his eyes and the look in my fathers still tears my insides to shreds. I have never been good with words in those situations and never said the words I wished I would have before it was to late. Grandpa, I love and miss you.
2nd and way less important is since my last high school wrestling match I have had a hunger to compete and make up for what I left there on the mats. I had the chance, the opportunity, and a coach and brother who pushed me to be the best I could but I left some in me. I didn't give everything I had. I let them down and myself. Funny how I just found an article last Friday night saying 1992 was the 2nd time in 15 years that no wrestler went to state. That was my year. That was the year I could have made it. But I didn't push myself to do what I had to do to make it. Brett Dixon from St. Joe Lafayette was my first lost at the sectional tournament and Danny McReynolds from Moberly put me out of the tournament and my hopes of ever wrestling a match on the Hearnes Center floor was gone. Just like that. For all those years my parents carted us across the state for meets, duals, practices, camps and just like that it was all over. I know I had more and for some reason just didn't 'Bring it'. I'm in no way saying I would have been a State Champion, what I'm saying if I never even gave myself the chance. I never even gave myself a chance to wrestle one match inside the Hearnes Center. I have held that inside for nearly 20 years as well. When you know you had more and didn't bring it it eats at you. Every day, every time I think about wrestling, every time I think of competing.
3rd and final reason---I have done some crazy, CRAZY things in my 37 years of living and I would venture to guess I'm not done with the crazy stuff, but one day when Dylan ask me what the craziest thing I ever done was I would like to say I went inside a cage so that someone could try and beat me up. I really think that is a more appropriate story for him than some of the others I could tell. I'm sure his Uncle Denny and Derek and Aunt Marcy will keep him up to speed on some of the others anyway.
So yes after reading all the above I may be crazy but that's fine if that's the way you feel. What I say to that is when I walk inside to fight that fight for the first time, I'm bringing 20 years of pain, anger, hurt, determination, pride and HEART with me. When I walk out win, lose, draw, head bashed in or whatever I want to be able to say 'I brought it and left it in the cage'.
Well if that don't make sense to you, I'm sorry. I'm not an English major nor a writer. Hopefully though now you kinda understand my WHY.
Signing out,
D
AIPLD
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Hello from Hutchinson!
Hello everyone! Hope this Saturday evening finds you all safe and someplace warm. I'm headed out for a night on the town in the big city. Wichita here I come.
This week was a struggle as my weight was kinda stagnant. I pushed through and finally knocked a couple pounds off. We are getting really close to ordering those shoes!!! With school out several days, Chris wasn't able to meet up with me but I didn't let that stop me. I only did weights 2 days this week but lots of cardio. Still doing a minimum of 1 hour each day, but most days getting in at least 2 hours of cardio total.
I am starting to see a difference in the gut! The legs are starting to trim up a bit also. And finally I think the tanning bed is starting to change my skin from BRIGHT WHITE to a somewhat BRIGHT RED or maybe TAN.
I have began using an app on my phone called 'myfitnesspal'. It allows you to track everything you eat and drink as well as all exercise. I really like it as I had no idea what I was taking in, in calories before. It was obviously a lot. Try it out!!
So with about 33% of my weight loss goal complete---I push on. I am sure it will only get harder but I am determined.
Well, thats all I got for now.
AIPLD
Darren
This week was a struggle as my weight was kinda stagnant. I pushed through and finally knocked a couple pounds off. We are getting really close to ordering those shoes!!! With school out several days, Chris wasn't able to meet up with me but I didn't let that stop me. I only did weights 2 days this week but lots of cardio. Still doing a minimum of 1 hour each day, but most days getting in at least 2 hours of cardio total.
I am starting to see a difference in the gut! The legs are starting to trim up a bit also. And finally I think the tanning bed is starting to change my skin from BRIGHT WHITE to a somewhat BRIGHT RED or maybe TAN.
I have began using an app on my phone called 'myfitnesspal'. It allows you to track everything you eat and drink as well as all exercise. I really like it as I had no idea what I was taking in, in calories before. It was obviously a lot. Try it out!!
So with about 33% of my weight loss goal complete---I push on. I am sure it will only get harder but I am determined.
Well, thats all I got for now.
AIPLD
Darren
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