Danger! If you’ve ever wondered why those New Year’s resolutions to get more fit don’t last much more than a month at the most, this might be why. This type of complacency occurs about a month after the start of a fitness journey. Quite a bit of progress has been made but the stress caused by adding fitness into an already packed schedule is also setting in. Due to this, people sometimes become content enough…
Valentines Day! Now that I think about it, nearly every month of the year has some national holiday or another. Aside aside, this month was AMAZING. I say this for a variety of reasons; My cardio amount per day increased, my weights increased, and I dove headfirst into the realm of nutrition. Starting with the cardio, I increased my daily amount from 30 minutes of rowing to 45 minutes of rowing. One question I know…
The New Year!!! With the new year comes new beginnings for most (even if those new beginnings only last a week or two). For me, however, I had already started, and was pretty far into, my New Year’s resolution. On the recommendation of a friend of mine, however, I decided to update the goal I had written on those post-it notes four months earlier. The new goal read: “Weigh 160 pounds by spring break.” Much…
I’m thinking once every two weeks is a good frequency for these so I’m going to continue with that. This week I’ll be talking about the second type of complacency I’ve encountered during my journey. It rears its ugly head about a week after the first one. This feeling of complacency occurs about a week after a fitness journey has been started. During this time, some progress has been made but, most of all, you…
Christmas! As much as I love the holidays, they certainly don’t do my weight loss any favors. That being said, I was still able to lose this month through a combination of the reduced caloric intake I established last month and increases to the amount of weight I lifted and the amount of cardio I did. My regimen changed a little during the jolly month. I increased the amount of cardio I did from 20…
