Day 1109 Slugged my way today

Hey, it happens. Yeah, it happens when you go from a 25 hour rest to a 18 hour rest and you go from 8 hours sleep to 4 and one half hours sleep. When you wake up a little fuzzy. So, today fuzzy was not himself was he? Okay, old fuzzy burned 1348 calories in an hour and so doing halted the current streak of a burn of at least 1400 calories in an hour at 16 days. Bummer!

This is the lowest total I have posted in an hour since Day 1049. On that day I posted a 1347.

Oh well, I still love it. I am determined to beat 1348+++ tomorrow !

Day eleven ten! Bring it on!

Day 1108 After a good full day - I slept -

I love to expend energy.Physical energy. There is a great feeling when your body is in constant motion.The flow that goes through the body is unreal. My perspective is one from being in a current state where my body is in good cardiovascular shape.

After I did my workout yesterday, I worked for about nine hours. During that time I was in constant motion.I am very thankful that I had the energy to move about so easily.

As I worked I did not feel tired at all. When I got home I ate and rested and then slept. The amount of sleep I got was probably equal to the amount of sleep I have got in a long time.

So now, its off to the gym on this mild cloudy forty eight degree Sunday morning. Outside the grass is starting to over take the snow. It is funny about a month ago a lot of people would have not predicted the grass to be this visible around here.

The classic concept of "as it seems" rings true once again. The concept reminds us that it is never as bad as it seems and it is never as good as it seems. The reality is that we all must make our own judgement as to what it really is that we are seeing. We all have our own paradigms of how everything is.

Life rolls on we are all here by the grace of God. I am indeed psyched to take another hack at breaking 1433++ today. This will be my second attempt,as for the last two days I burned 1433 calories in the hour.

Lets go!

Time ran out on our hero to post yesterday so, I am here to report that, the burn was 1454 in the hour!

Day 1107 As we ready for day twenty six .....

Yep, this is Day 26 of working without a day off. My previous record of days in a row is 33 days. I did that when I worked from May 31st to July 3rd 2010. So where do we go from here?

We start sorting out what we have done we talk about the working everyday streaks and we revisit the the two a days and the three a day.

Which reminds me I have done 1121 workouts in the last 1107 days. I have been working seven days a week since May 20th 2010. That is a total of 287 days of which I have missed about twenty days due to days off and business closing and bad weather.

Let sets up on average a 14 to 20 day work week. Yep its go, go, go for me!

As I explained before my job is either bringing freight to the floor at a home improvement store which I do full time or waiting on tables or bar tending in the restaurant I work at on weekends.

When you slice it up there is very little sitting around for this guy!

Today, I tied yesterday's total for calories burned in sixty minutes. Amazing same exact total.

The readout read 1433.

Now, we are on to Day 1108. I'm thinking about doing two hours tomorrow. Who knows? Stay tuned!

Day 1106 Now, we start getting into warmer weather

Have we made it through the winter? We have not hit Saint Patti's Day yet. The mounds of snow are now give way to sightings of the hidden grass. Ah, our old friend grass. Tell me how have you been? As I figured, I got a good six hours of sleep last night. Had a slow start and got on the machine at 455 am.

After some waking up I was able to get the burn number to 725 in the first 30 minutes. I then settled for a 1433 burn for the entire 60 minutes. I did 655 crunches and stretched and was done feeling awesome.

I have arrived at a conclusion on the amount of actual calories burned. I agree of course that the machine read out cannot possibly be accurate. One of the reasons it is inaccurate is because the amount beats per minute. The machine has my heart rate reading of 205 when I am about 40 minutes into the workout.There is no way my heart is beating at that pace. Maybe it is beating only 70 percent of that. However, that is still at a high rate. That would be around 150 beats per minute.

Keeping in mind that the machine is set on manual and is on the highest resistance which is 100 % and the incline is at its steepest which is 10. However, there is a chart that gages your category of heart rate and it does leave room for beyond 170 beats per minute.

To decide on a rate of calories burned per hour is basically a 70% total of my estimated heart rate. I would say that my burn is actually 1000 in an hour. Heck, I feel awesome and that is the net out. Also, by burning more today than yesterday is an awesome feeling.

So, now we head to Day 1107- Cool! I'm ready lets have at it!

Day 1105 A blast of cold air to remind us it is still winter

I was able to get going earlier this morning despite less sleep than the night before. Whenever I can burn more calories than the day before and do it on less rest I call that a sweep. It is a sweep because I won in two categories, calories burned in an hour and getting less rest. I realize it a sort of weird way to win at anything but it helps to keep me focused.

By earlier I mean I was out of bed at 349 am. I usually get up at 410 am.So, with my 21 minute head start I was able to get the work out started at 438 am. Oh yeah!

The arc trainer read 1426 calories burned at the sixty minute mark. Who knows? Did I really burn that many calories in an hour? All I know is when I was done with the machine there was a huge puddle of water. The water I imagine was sweat and it took a huge chunk of paper towels to wipe up. My concern is not so much how much calories I burned it is how I feel. And I feel great!

After all this time you would think I would get bored. I am not bored just the opposite I am inspired. I suppose to fully understand my inspiration you need to have worked out everyday for more than three years. Whenever I attempt to beat yesterday's total I always remind myself how many days in a row without a day off I have been doing this.

Tomorrow is Day 1106, when need to break 1427++ - I'm ready!

Day 1104 As the feeling of accomplishment continues to wash over me....

I felt great as we burned 1421 calories within the hour and finish by doing about 550 crunches. Folks the human body is remarkable. I give all praise to God when we consider that I have now been to my work 22 consecutive days and of course have worked out every day since.

My last day off was Super Bowl Sunday. Heck, I feel good and refreshed. The weather is turning a little warmer and soon it will be daylight savings time.

I hope all is finding their way to establish a great work out plan because I believe there is non of us that would benefit from being healthier!

Here comes 1105, right down the pike! Beat 1422++++! C'mon now!

Day 1103 The time is right and the feeling is right!

We all go at our own pace. Some say experience is the best teacher.Then others retort,"but, the price is too high!"Well either way something gets taught.Today after I slept for about seven hours which is more than I normally do. I got on the machine at 444 am. I suppose if I was back in my running days I would have hit the streets around that time. Back when I ran I wore no reflective gear no real running shoes. Nope, just my basketball sneakers and gleam to run for awhile.

As I recall, I had made a decision to start eating less and running. This was back in February of 1982. I had received my degree from the university and was starting my second sales job. My body had blown up and I had been watching the movie Rocky. Understand this, cable TV had just come out and so had HBO. When HBO first started its programming they would repeat the same movies over and over. So Rocky was the movie of the month.

I am sure that movie has inspired many people to get in shape. Well, it inspired me. I dropped about 35 to 40 pounds. I felt fantastic. Time went on and I gained more responsibilities and the weight came back on a little and I hurt my knee.

I had my knee operated on and rehabilitated it by swimming and using the Life cycle training bike.Before long more responsibilities came and I was off the bike and into the fat suit again.

Folks let me say this the fat suit is no fun! I got my doctor's attention with my poor health. Then .... WHAM! LIKE A TWO BY FOUR TO THE HEAD IT HIT ME**** WAKE UP YOU FAT HORSE!

Then I started eating and working out. All this occurred in 1997. I was working out on the life cycle for about 5 to seven days a week and was eating okay. Then my Doctor said I had to watch my cholesterol. I said, "man after all this hard work I still am not in tip top shape?"

That is when I took a very good look at my diet and decide to challenge myself in everything.

Diet and exercise I decide to cut out anything that looks like it has cholesterol and I decided not to stop working out.

So, here we are Day 1103 where I burned a good 1410 calories today in the hour.

Day 1104 is knocking on the door- lets knock it down with a 1411+++!

Come on!