Measurements coming up again in a week! I skipped two weeks of exercise since the last weigh-in 3 weeks ago so interested in what diet only and diet and exercise together did. I'm stuck at 200lbs but don't know if measurements are changing.
Started going to fitness classes two days ago.
I tried Turbo Kick Box on Tuesday and absolutely loved it, very high energy.
Then I did 24Lift, a 24 Hour Fitness gym class that uses barbells and hand weights and works the whole body. Absolutely loved it also.
I really want to do the Zumba and it's only offered twice a week and the Monday one is only half an hour and another one at 45 minutes (6 hours apart) so if I want an hour one the only day is Thursday, but there's a 24Lift 4 hours earlier and I enjoyed it so much I want to do it again. So thinking of going to both since I'm off today.
Here's what I did yesterday. It's important to note that there was pretty much no aerobic activity involved, just weights, which makes those numbers amazing. I'd think weight classes would have lower numbers than aerobics classes (and well they do I used to do 550 cals or so with the aerobics DVD but these numbers are not so far off from that AND I build muscle at the same time, I prefer it this way).
49 minutes (took time to put weights together, put them away, we have 1 hr in between the previous class and the next class)
457 cals
55% fat burned
Heart rate
Max 156
Average 127
Max 83%
Average 67%
Here's the food for yesterday:
Amount Description Protein Carbs Fat Cals
16.0 Servings Albertsons Skinless Boneless Chicken Breast 1oz 92.0 g 0.0 g 10.0 g 440.0 Cal
2.0 Items Eggs Hard Boiled 12.6 g 1.1 g 10.6 g 155.0 Cal
2.0 Servings Fresh & Easy Fat Free Milk 18.0 g 26.0 g 0.0 g 180.0 Cal
2.0 Servings Fresh & Easy Frozen Mixed Berries 10g sugar 2.0 g 30.0 g 0.0 g 140.0 Cal
2.0 Servings Oroweat Double Fiber Bread 6.0 g 32.0 g 4.0 g 140.0 Cal
2.0 Servings Uncle Ben's Rice 10.0 g 88.0 g 7.0 g 480.0 Cal
Total 140.6 g 177.1 g 31.6 g 1535.0 Cal
Total for all meals 140.6 g 177.1 g 31.6 g 1535.0 Cal
I burn about 2175 calories per 23 hours plus the 457 calories I burned at the gym, 2632 calories lost, 1535 calories in, is 1097 calories net loss which is just over 2 lbs a week.
Here's what it looks like:
Meal when I get home from overnight job: Eggs and 2 slices of bread.
After workout: Chicken and rice, had it at 10a, with smoothie
Went to bed, around 5p had chicken and rice.
Around 9ish had the other smoothie.
I'll probably have a serving of cheerios (100 calories) before I get home, so that'd make it 1635 calories. When I run out of chicken I'll get some more telapia, that was delicious. And I want to get more fish types and try them out.
Even if I add the 100 calories and eat the same as yesterday, that's still about 1000 calories lost, so I can add a serving of Cheerios and still lose the 2 lbs a week. And I would guess I burned more during Kickboxing. I plan to take my heart monitor from now on, I was just running right on time on Tuesday and didn't have time to grab it.
I'm extremely happy with the fitness classes. This is how a week would look:
Monday:
Turbo Kick Box
24S.E.T. - not right now, once I become more fit
Tuesday:
Core Central+Amp'd Abs (total 1 hour)
Wednesday:
24Lift
Cardio Dance Party
Thursday:
24Lift
Zuma
24Cycle - not right now, when I get more fit
Friday:
Power Sculpt
Advanced Step
Saturday:
Everlast Shadow Box/Amp'd Abs (1 hour total)
24Lift
Sunday:
Power Sculpt
24 Cycle - not right now, when I get more fit
On the days that have more than one class, I may do more than one depending on what I'm doing that day and whether I work or not (nights off Wednesday and Thursday). If I don't go to both I'll just alternate.
