Triple Threat Diary #1 from spiphywarfare on GodTube.
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Confession is a Good Thing
It was embarrassing, but today I’m thankful for my confession to you. Without it I would have not bothered to keep trying to meet my goal, because most likely no one would have remembered my declaration of not giving up without me reminding them.
It was a little difficult to get in exercise of any sort during the month of February. I set some personal goals to achieve before summer, and working out regularly and pushing myself will help get me there. So Monday I decided to get back trying to complete stinky week 4 day 1 of C25K doing the running intervals at 5mph. I did about as well as expected for someone who had a month off from regular exercise. In my frustration I told myself I have to get on the treadmill six days a week until I could do it. Tuesday I managed to walk. An entire one mile. In installments. Some days are like that I suppose.
Ah, Wednesday, my lovely, lovely Wednesday. I love you Wednesday. On Wednesday, I did it!
:::record scratch:::
Whaaaat? How? I had to do a little pushing through, but I was not feeling like I was going to die. I even checked to make sure I had pressed five and not four on the treadmill panel.
Had a little help from Toby Mac
When I finished the last running interval, I felt powerful, invincible, and like I could conquer anything.
Then this played during the cool down interval
It is not me who is powerful, invincible, and conqueror.
I never ever again want to see, hear, type, read “week 4 day 1.”
I will not be making any new running goals. I do want to run the City Lights 5k faster than I did last year– God willing. That shouldn’t be too hard as it was my first one, and I was slow as molasses at the North Pole. It may have been actually warmer at the North Pole that day. It was so cold the organizers asked if we were really going to run or did we just want our shirt.
This article was first published on March 13, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Fit Bonus # 9
You go on a three-hour hike and can carry your 60lb son the last twenty minutes on your back.
Yes, she did.
This article was first published on February 19, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Making Progress and Lunch
I want to keep working toward my goal of completing Week 4 Day 1 at 5mph (Confession). I knew it was a running day, but the conversation in my head went something like this:
me- It’s too cold outside to run
other me- but your treadmill is inside
me- I’m too tired to do it today
other me- exercising boosts your energy
me- I have too much on my mind
other me-turn up the music and forget your worries for thirty minutes
me-I don’t have time
other me- you’re playing Candy Crush!
me- ugh, I’m going
Completed Week 4 Day 1 with running intervals of 4.5mph! Thanks, other me.
Lunch was easy, yummy, filling- already cooked simply seasoned rotisserie chicken picked up from the store and an avocado sprinkled with sea salt
This article was first published on January 27, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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A Little Bit Faster
Completed C25K Week 4 Day 1 again with running intervals at 4.3 mph
Favorite running song today
This article was first published on January 24, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Confession
I gave up.
After publicly declaring I wouldn’t, I did.
After going through C25K with the running pace of 4mph (it was the best I could do), I decided that I would go through it again with a running pace of 5mph. I managed fine until Week 4 Day 1. I failed the first time, but didn’t get discouraged and admitted as such. I failed a second time and felt a little frustrated. I was hoping the third time would be a charm, but no.
My husband gently suggested that I go a little slower and work up to it. Hmph. That’s not how I wanted to do it, and why didn’t I think of that.
Fast forward to today. Feeling fiery darts from every direction for the last week with the last twenty-four hours being the worst, I needed a victory. I needed a personal, tangible victory. After almost a two-week hiatus from the treadmill and resisting the urge to just go to bed and hide under the covers, I decided to try it Derek’s way. Ah, small victory. I completed Week 4 Day 1 and will keep doing it until I reach my goal pace.
We all have our bad days, week, month, and sometimes even year. Don’t ever give up.
This article was first published on January 21, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Triple Threat 1
Training for the triple threat from spiphywarfare on GodTube.
Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win. Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. 1 Cor. 9:24&25
Elsewhere on this site I’ve noted that in December 2012, before this change occurred, I was winded after riding my bike about three city blocks. My better half wanted me to make a series of videos on my attempt to complete the Triple Threat so this is the first in a series of short videos to document that journey.
Why this verse? The key to health, spiritual and physical, is self-control. In all things. All the time.
This article was first published on January 12, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Changed
I sat in a seminar ten years ago and listened to a man, in his seventies, lecturing a bunch of men about change. He said, “When you’re done changing, you’re done.” That sentence has always stuck with me. It sums up our need for continual growth quite nicely.
I’ve been blessed to experience much change in the last year of my life. I located a picture from a vacation in 2012 and one from 2013. Sixty pounds later, I felt the need to share them here. This was not accomplished by following any doctor’s advice. It was not done by eating a diet that complied with the USDA, AHA or any other organization’s recommendations. It came about by sensible eating, some exercise, and self-discipline.
Thank God for giving me the vision to make this change. I couldn’t have managed it without the support of my family, especially my loving wife. I must thank Market Street United supermarkets as well. Their excellent offerings for healthy foods make eating right easy and affordable. Giant bicycles certainly deserves mention here as well. Quality equipment is just as important when exercising as it is when editing video, driving, or any other thing we do.
More importantly, never be afraid of change. Instead, be afraid of not changing. Be afraid of being done.
This article was first published on November 18, 2013 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Better than Meds
I often tell people that even during my sedentary years my wonderful wife insisted on making me eat well. I thank her regularly for that, as many of my peers are on multiple prescriptions at this stage. I attribute the fact that I am not to her efforts. It seems however, healthy lifestyle can benefit more than physical ailments. Dr. Mercola has an excellent article on the effects of exercise on mood disorders.
Some psychologists swear by exercise as a primary form of treatment for depression, anxiety and other mood disorders. Research has shown again and again that patients who follow regular exercise regimens see improvement in their mood — improvements comparable to that of those treated with medication.
… try viewing exercise as a daily tool to immediately enhance your frame of mind, reduce stress and feel happier. Exercise Can Be a Key Anti-Anxiety Treatment
The psalmist wrote that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” It’s a testament to the way we are made that exercising can have beneficial effects on our whole being, not just our bodies. Go run. Go ride. Go climb. Exerting yourself helps bring everything back into focus.
This article was first published on October 3, 2013 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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Looking back…
I know from experience and general observation that boys of sixty years ago at the age of fourteen and fifteen years could endure and accomplish more than most young ones of the present can accomplish at the age of twenty one years owing I presume to their constant outdoor exercise and the plain substantial food on which they lived in the early settlement of the county.
A Walk Through Marine by Ronald Loos
Ah, the recollections of a man at the end his time. The above quote was written by a man of about sixty years not too long before his death in a letter. He apparently observed a softening of people and attributed it to earlier generations having “constant outdoor exercise’” and a diet of “substantial” food. He wrote this circa 1875. The teens he referred to had not grown up eating cereals which had only been around for a decade or so. They’d grown up on high-fat breakfasts.
He probably had never heard the term nutrient dense but he identified its impact. Nutrient dense is when you get “most nutrients for the fewest amount of calories.” Those high-fat breakfasts of meat and eggs started their days right. Every calorie counted for them. Make every one count for you. No one can guarantee that you’ll be chasing down rabbit bare-handed like he claims teens did then but you will definitely feel better.
A few other quotes of interest from the letter:
The menu for the pioneers would be wild game, birds, fruit and berries.
On the other hand honey of wild bees was in abundance and sugar was made in February from the maple trees…..
The wheat raised in 1823 was very unhealthy, causing nausea and vomiting when eaten in any form.
This article was first published on September 21, 2013 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
